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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

About a year ago, my grandpa experienced wondrous symptoms. So he went to the hospital. The doctor wasn't sure what was wrong with him at first, so he had to stay for multiple days. After much discussing about possible causes, it turns out he'd eaten a piece of some random game that another family member brought along, and that he'd let thaw and then had refrozen it. That allowed the doctors to treat him successfully on, I believe, day 3.

After leaving the hospital, he still wasn't sure of the cause though — and you can't just throw away perfectly good meat!; so he ate another piece of the defrosted game and, no surprise, went to hospital again. This time around, the diagnosis was a lot easier though.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago

I read this thinking a piece of game meant like a board game piece for the whole thing and was so baffled 😅 finally got it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

You can't eat bad meat all at once, it's lethal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

For context: This is Germany, A&E is ~free.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In context I now know you mean game as in hunted game, I was wondering why your grandpa was melting and eating Monopoly pieces

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of the bad krabby patty from SpongeBob.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure it was a GBA cartridge.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

All this because I don't know at all what kind of animal it was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

wondrous symptoms

?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you eat the entire apple, an apple tree will grow in your stomach

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Right beside the gum tree.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Only if the sun shines there, which we all know it does

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I honestly don’t understand why people don’t eat the core. It’s the same but a little more chunky. Why do so many people let perfectly edible and tasty food go to waste.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago

Because it's barely edible and not tasty...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The seeds contain cyanide.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Smoke some cigarettes. The smoke will suffocate the bacteria in your stomach.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Cyanide isn't a bacteria

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

a very small amount. The seeds are not harmful to eat.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I ate the core at school but the teachers made me stop because "the seeds are poisonous!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The seeds actually contain cyanide. Eating a single apple core doesn't have enough to kill you, but if you fill a 4oz cup with apple seeds and eat them in one sitting, you're cooked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Very true. However, that fact didn't stop them from taking away my apple core.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

one time a kid in elementary school ate an apple and its core in front of me and i asked how he did it and all he said was "im russian"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well at least others will assume you have a big dick

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

They still have big dicks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sadly my granddad was only an average depression survivor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

In this thread: cyanide and depression

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Don't eat the apple seeds. Their content can turn into cyanide during digestion.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Kill and Do Harm are not exactly the same. My vote is toss the apple core into a field unless apples are not native or present there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Apple seeds dont typically grow in to apple trees with actually tasty fruit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

We've also spent a lot of time and effort genetically modifying apple trees to get more, tasty, feuit, and less seeds.

Just compare a modern banana to a wild banana.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

How else am I supposed to built up a tolerance for cyanide if I don't microdose insignificant amounts daily?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No thanks. I eat the whole apple daily.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

So do I - apples generally have very few seeds. I don't eat the stem though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My grandmother lived through the hunger winter and she remained adamant about not wasting any food. Those things have a big impact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apple seeds contain very small amounts of cyanide. Eating an occasional apple core won't kill you but too many apple seeds in a short amount of time will. I think this is why we instinctively avoid eating apple cores.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

TL;DR: this is simply not true in practice

To be at risk of cyanide poisoning from apple seeds, you would need to consume a significant amount of crushed seeds, with estimates ranging from 150 to several thousand. The exact number depends on the apple variety. Apple seeds contain amygdalin, a compound that can release cyanide. The cyanide content is around 700 milligrams of hydrogen cyanide per apple seed. A lethal dose of cyanide is approximately 50-300 milligrams. Therefore, you would have to eat roughly 1,000 apple seeds to reach a lethal dose. Some calculations suggest that consuming slightly more than 250,000 seeds would be fatal. Eating 29-38 apple cores, assuming each apple has 6-8 seeds, could cause serious harm. You'd have to eat upwards of 20 apples in one sitting and chew all the seeds to be affected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I started eating the core for gut health. Won’t lecture you - google it if you like.

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