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


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

 

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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.

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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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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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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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