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Most Dangerous Foods: A Loaded Question, and Several Scholars' Responses

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Alex

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This scholar says it's pizza -- specifically, the cheese on top of a pizza fresh out of an 800°F oven, the dangerous yet seductive spawn of napalm and lava.

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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heidih

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As a scientist I find these articles somewhere between ridiculous and dangerous. What a mess. Some factual basis but hello context?? But I could just be a grumpy pants...

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gfweb

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15 minutes ago, heidih said:

As a scientist I find these articles somewhere between ridiculous and dangerous. What a mess. Some factual basis but hello context?? But I could just be a grumpy pants...

 

I'm with you. Just clickbait is all it is.

KennethT

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I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but many years ago, there was a tv show in the US showing a guy eating a bicycle - he first cut it up i(even the tires!) into very small pieces (like the size of a medication capsule) and then proceeded to swallow it piece by piece.

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liuzhou

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8 minutes ago, KennethT said:

I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but many years ago, there was a tv show in the US showing a guy eating a bicycle - he first cut it up i(even the tires!) into very small pieces (like the size of a medication capsule) and then proceeded to swallow it piece by piece.

 

I'm fairly certain I've been to restaurants where he worked!

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Most dangerous food -- fresh corn on the cob, just-removed from the pot and slathered in butter. Pizza cheese cannot hold a candle to the burns this can inflict on the roof of your mouth.

 

It helps if you, like I am, are a fool for the taste of fresh, buttered corn on the cob.

 

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liuzhou

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3 minutes ago, kayb said:

Most dangerous food -- fresh corn on the cob, just-removed from the pot and slathered in butter. Pizza cheese cannot hold a candle to the burns this can inflict on the roof of your mouth.

 

It helps if you, like I am, are a fool for the taste of fresh, buttered corn on the cob.

 

 

NO! NO! NO! Corn on or off the cob does not qualify as food.

Dangerous, yes.

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

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