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[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 85 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Paradachshund 53 points 1 month 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

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 month ago

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

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 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

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)
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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the bad krabby patty from SpongeBob.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure it was a GBA cartridge.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

wondrous symptoms

?

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

Right beside the gum tree.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month 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.

[–] wombledomble@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago

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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The seeds contain cyanide.

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Cyanide isn't a bacteria

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 7 points 4 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.

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

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[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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"

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well at least others will assume you have a big dick

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

They still have big dicks

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sadly my granddad was only an average depression survivor.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 4 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.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

But on the plus side you get to fuck Helena Bonham Carter.

Well, someone does. It's all the same to her.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago

In this thread: cyanide and depression

[–] lath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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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[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No thanks. I eat the whole apple daily.

[–] don@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago
[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 3 points 4 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.

[–] spicystraw@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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.

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