• @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        that just reminds me of a shitty intelligent design meme where all the foods look like the organ they say they’re good for.

        My new proposed man diet is bananas, cucumbers, mushrooms, and animal dicks. Manliest of diets.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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          27 months ago

          The Doctrine of Signs, haha good memories.

          Just as an aside: It has its roots in the ancient greek philosophers and was considered for centuries to be the pinnacle of rational thought. I mean, it wasn’t, but for literally more than a thousand years it has been a form of mental masturbation amongst the oldschool academic elite.

          Got a lot of shelf fungus prescribed as ear medication lol

  • @haunte@leminal.space
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    587 months ago

    Real men aren’t afraid to eat oranges or take vitamin C. Real men eat whatever the hell they want, not what they think will impress the other boys.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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        07 months ago

        And for the longest time, mac and cheese was a luxury dish, and lobster was considered prisoner food.

        It’s kind of amusing to see the eating trends of the wealthy.

        At one point peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were rich food too, because they were able to afford the berries to make jam, or had land to grow them.

        Nowadays it is some of the cheapest lunch you can make.

        I think meat is going that route now, and in 15-20 years the only people who will be able to afford real meat will be the wealthy.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      That’s not super accurate, there were still public lands for hunting and chickens and goats were eaten regularly by non-nobles.

      That said, it wasn’t common to have meat at every meal.

      Also: feast days, and there were a fucktonne of them (more than the pitiful handful we get nowadays) and were almost always catered lavishly by their local lord as a show of wealth.

      I’m not saying life was ‘better’ then, just that we have a lot of misconceptions about historic periods, usually influenced by movies and other entertainment media.

    • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      97 months ago

      TBH it’s not impossible to derive necessary vitamins from raw herbivore livers, as many early humans assuredly did when crops were scarce.

      He’s just a pussy.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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        27 months ago

        Livers were prized parts of the animal for hunts, we knew the value of organ meat before.

        Just now everyone is like ‘ick, organ meat’…

        That said, I don’t know if I trust modern livers, they are the toxin dump of the body and while I’d happily eat liver before the industrial revolution, I’m not sure its safe to eat now considering how we treat our farmlands.

        • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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          47 months ago

          Yeah I’m not suggesting anybody get parasites to prove how manly they are, but clearly the guy didn’t even know the basics of nutrition.

          • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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            Most people don’t bother looking into it other than what they read on blogs or see on youtube. There’s a LOT of nutritional misinfo going around. Thats what happens when social media values reach and clout over accuracy and meaning.

      • @Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
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        You think early humans ate raw livers for vitamin C? Sounds unlikely. We are omnivores, and except for rare exceptions (I.e. on the Northpole) plant material is more abundant than animals.

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          Yes, sufficient Vitamin C is in raw liver.

          Before the age of human agriculture we were endurance hunters. Don’t believe me? Go survive off of random unidentified plants for a while. (Don’t actually, you’ll be dead in a month tops).

          • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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            That’s discounting the cultural plant knowledge that those hunter gatherers had.

            100k years of ‘Don’t eat that, it kill Grog remember?’ can lead up to a pretty extensive safe list of wild plants as well as a bunch of useful healing herbs.

            We’ve long since forgotten most of it, having not needed it since agriculture.

  • 10_0
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    97 months ago

    Balanced diet isn’t manly, you know what is, being swept up by internet trends, and things on the internet are real.
    Just look at the manly Liver King! His manly skin is a red manly skin, you gotta be a man!

  • @Sbauer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    On one hand it’s stupid to sabotage your health to appear more masculine. On the other hand casually bringing up that you have contracted a pirate illness in conversation does sound pretty damn masculine.

  • Steal Wool
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    127 months ago

    What kinda fragile masculinity can’t handle a bit o’ scurvy?

  • Fugtig Fisk
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    447 months ago

    It seems like many in here dont realise that you can be gay and masculine at the same time.