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[w0nderwall]

Haha, Reminds me of the time my friend tried a black dragon roll for the first time and thought it was good,.. until he found out that he just ate eel and almost threw up then was pissed at me and his gf for the rest of the afternoon for "getting him out of his comfort zone"

 

More sushi for the rest of us. 

 

Real talk, I got super mad at my -ex whenever he tried to introduce me to new foods that I thought were "gross". EW SEAFOOD EW SUSHI, etc.

 

.. now I love seafood and sushi.

[pancakeface]

Theres this phenomenon I guess you could call it called the last pig. What happens is, when pigs are in a pen waiting to be led away to be 'processed' there is inevitably a 'last pig' and not always, but very often they completely flip out. I wont pull out a soap box or a chalk board for you but I'll link you an article about it. It's pretty sad.

 

I'm conflicted about raising our own meat. Jay and I want to homestead. I want chickens for eggs but I wouldnt have any issue processing roosters or mean drama hens. I've been taken out hunting and I insisted on learning how to skin the deer and would make myself watch up close the butchering of a pig if we decided to raise one for slaughter. But I have little girls to think about too. The blogs I follow brag about how they are raising their kids aware of where their food comes from and that they dont flinch away from that aspect. But then you have Athayade bring up very valid feelings. I don't want to shatter their hearts omg.

 

I suspect the blogs brag about it to add to the idea of "you can make it a teaching experience" and "equip your kids for the future" but I think it's just phrasing it nicely when they are desensitizing children to the tragedy of it.

My cousins hadpet chickens, and while they never really thought much about eating the eggs or occasional chicken...it did not go well when they realized the significance of those meals.

[Tailwind]

Haha, Reminds me of the time my friend tried a black dragon roll for the first time and thought it was good,.. until he found out that he just ate eel and almost threw up then was pissed at me and his gf for the rest of the afternoon for "getting him out of his comfort zone"

 

I'll never understand that. If someone eats something and they liked it, and it's not against their religion/views nor are they allergic to it, then why the heck does it matter what it was? 

[danibanani]

Haha, Reminds me of the time my friend tried a black dragon roll for the first time and thought it was good,.. until he found out that he just ate eel and almost threw up then was pissed at me and his gf for the rest of the afternoon for "getting him out of his comfort zone"

 

More sushi for the rest of us. 

 

I'll try anything at least once, and a lot of my friends talk about sushi all the time so I figured I might as well try it, it didn't taste bad but the texture of it was just disgusting. I've eaten shrimp before, and it was really really good! It just has to be cooked a certain way and I've only ever found one way that I enjoyed it, it had all this sauce and butter and garlic.

[sprockets]

@blue told me this was an Asian thing

 

Specifically with tequila? or alcohol in general? because I can have beer, vodka, rum wine etc without turning red, just not tequila. 

[NapisaurusRex]

Theres this phenomenon I guess you could call it called the last pig. What happens is, when pigs are in a pen waiting to be led away to be 'processed' there is inevitably a 'last pig' and not always, but very often they completely flip out. I wont pull out a soap box or a chalk board for you but I'll link you an article about it. It's pretty sad.

I'm conflicted about raising our own meat. Jay and I want to homestead. I want chickens for eggs but I wouldnt have any issue processing roosters or mean drama hens. I've been taken out hunting and I insisted on learning how to skin the deer and would make myself watch up close the butchering of a pig if we decided to raise one for slaughter. But I have little girls to think about too. The blogs I follow brag about how they are raising their kids aware of where their food comes from and that they dont flinch away from that aspect. But then you have Athayade bring up very valid feelings. I don't want to shatter their hearts omg.

It just depends on your kids, I guess. My kid sobs when we watch history vids with war and crucifixion and has zero issue with the hunting/fishing aspect of food. Food is worth the rest of it to her.

[danibanani]

I suspect the blogs brag about it to add to the idea of "you can make it a teaching experience" and "equip your kids for the future" but I think it's just phrasing it nicely when they are desensitizing children to the tragedy of it.

My cousins hadpet chickens, and while they never really thought much about eating the eggs or occasional chicken...it did not go well when they realized the significance of those meals.

 

That was like my dad. He wanted us to know where out meat came from, I stopped eating meat for the longest time, even the thought of eating it made me physically sick. I think I didn't eat meat from the time I was 7-8 until I got pregnant, then I craved meat all the time.

[pancakeface]

Real talk, I got super mad at my -ex whenever he tried to introduce me to new foods that I thought were "gross". EW SEAFOOD EW SUSHI, etc.

 

.. now I love seafood and sushi.

 

Same here with okra.Now I love okra

[NapisaurusRex]

Specifically with tequila? or alcohol in general? because I can have beer, vodka, rum wine etc without turning red, just not tequila.

I think it tequila? I turn red when I have margaritas and that's when he told me about the Asian thing.

[sprockets]

Real talk, I got super mad at my -ex whenever he tried to introduce me to new foods that I thought were "gross". EW SEAFOOD EW SUSHI, etc.

 

.. now I love seafood and sushi.

 

But the thing was he agreed to try something new because he got "upset" that we never tried to introduce him to things like sushi or pho before (which he later found out that he loved). 

 

Growing up in an asian household meant that you eat what's on the table no matter how gross it looked or else you just don't eat. "Oh these chicken feet have claws?" "Why does this fruit (durian) smell so funny?"

 

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[pancakeface]

@blue told me this was an Asian thing

 

Idk about tequila but I've heard all kinds of things. Redness in asians from alcohol seems to be quite a thing. I know someone who can't drink red wine from Chile but Australian, french and italian wines are ok. I also know someone who can drink wine but not beer.

[danibanani]

It just depends on your kids, I guess. My kid sobs when we watch history vids with war and crucifixion and has zero issue with the hunting/fishing aspect of food. Food is worth the rest of it to her.

 

My oldest is really good with things like that. We watch discovery channel a lot and when she watches animals die, she just asks and I'll tell her what it means, and she's really good about understanding, and when we eat chicken now she asks if it's just like the chickens she watched hatch in her classroom incubator. I'll tell her that yes, its just like those chickens and she'll ask a couple more questions but she's really good about it and will still eat the meat. She's a lot better with it than I was.

[sprockets]

 

I think it tequila? I turn red when I have margaritas and that's when he told me about the Asian thing.

 

I wonder if it's specifically gold tequila or if it's white too. Guess I'll have to experiment one day. 

 

Idk about tequila but I've heard all kinds of things. Redness in asians from alcohol seems to be quite a thing. I know someone who can't drink red wine from Chile but Australian, french and italian wines are ok. I also know someone who can drink wine but not beer.

 

I heard we turn red because some of us don't have the right enzyme to digest it properly but that would suggest that some alcohols have more than just an -OH functional group that makes it harder to digest. 

[pancakeface]

But the thing was he agreed to try something new because he got "upset" that we never tried to introduce him to things like sushi or pho before (which he later found out that he loved). 

 

Growing up in an asian household meant that you eat what's on the table no matter how gross it looked or else you just don't eat. "Oh these chicken feet have claws?" "Why does this fruit (durian) smell so funny?"

 

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Not sure why he would ask to be introduced to new food if he has such strict boundaries about what he won't eat.

Definitely true about eating in asian household. The only edit I have is that sometimes not eating isn't even an option, you will eat it whether you like it or not.

 

Also, OFFENDED. @Durian

 

Edit: Omg, we actually have a member named durian

Edited by argonate, 13 June 2015 - 08:05 PM.

[blue]

@blue told me this was an Asian thing

Mmhmm @sprockets it's alcohol in general. I've had it ever since I started drinking in my teen, but some of my other friends have gotten it some 8-10 years after.

https://en.wikipedia..._flush_reaction

[danibanani]

I get the redness too from drinking, in every picture of me drunk, I look sunburned.

[Boggart]

Already have the award but I'll take any excuse to spam

[w0nderwall]

But the thing was he agreed to try something new because he got "upset" that we never tried to introduce him to things like sushi or pho before (which he later found out that he loved). 

 

Growing up in an asian household meant that you eat what's on the table no matter how gross it looked or else you just don't eat. "Oh these chicken feet have claws?" "Why does this fruit (durian) smell so funny?"

 

Relevant

 

My mother is from Poland but is the same way with food. She grew up super poor .. like Polish ghetto poor. So to her, every meal was a blessing and you ate every single thing that got put in front of you.

 

It's amazing that I grew up a picky eater. I'm trying to change it now but after nearly 3 decades, it's incredibly difficult.

[sprockets]

Mmhmm @sprockets it's alcohol in general. I've had it ever since I started drinking in my teen, but some of my other friends have gotten it some 8-10 years after.

https://en.wikipedia..._flush_reaction

 

Huh so we have the gene to metabolize it, just that some of us have a less efficient version of the gene. And perhaps it was positively selected in the past was because people with this less efficient method of metabolizing alcohol were less likely to develop alcoholism and thus able to pass on their genetics onto future generations. But who knows really. 

[pancakeface]

Mmhmm @sprockets it's alcohol in general. I've had it ever since I started drinking in my teen, but some of my other friends have gotten it some 8-10 years after.

https://en.wikipedia..._flush_reaction

 

 

 

I heard we turn red because some of us don't have the right enzyme to digest it properly but that would suggest that some alcohols have more than just an -OH functional group that makes it harder to digest. 

 

Asian flush has to be the worst name for it. Also increased risk of esophageal cancer makes me glad I don't drink then.

Edited by argonate, 13 June 2015 - 08:11 PM.

[blue]

Asian flush has to be the worst name for it. Also increased risk of esophageal cancer makes me glad I don't drink then.

I call it the Asian glow and it doesn't matter when I drink and go out somebody always has to say, 'Dude, you're so red!'.

Never fails.

[pancakeface]

My mother is from Poland but is the same way with food. She grew up super poor .. like Polish ghetto poor. So to her, every meal was a blessing and you ate every single thing that got put in front of you.

 

It's amazing that I grew up a picky eater. I'm trying to change it now but after nearly 3 decades, it's incredibly difficult.

 

Same for my parents. despite their attempts to be nice but also strict, I was a remarkably picky eater. I didn't like a lot of things and I might have had serious issues because I wasn't just stubbornly refusing to eat food which wasn't chicken nuggets, I would eat certain things which made me uncomfortable and then I would gag a lot and eventually retch. A lot. Thankfully I grew out of it and I'm quite easygoing with what I eat now.

[sprockets]

I get the redness too from drinking, in every picture of me drunk, I look sunburned.

 

 

I call it the Asian glow and it doesn't matter when I drink and go out somebody always has to say, 'Dude, you're so red!'.

Never fails.

 

How much does it take to turn red? Is it even after a single sip? 1 drink? 2? My cousin for instance is like a thermometer when she drinks and as she gets more drunk the larger a portion of her body is red.

[Unmata]

It just depends on your kids, I guess. My kid sobs when we watch history vids with war and crucifixion and has zero issue with the hunting/fishing aspect of food. Food is worth the rest of it to her.

Thats reassuring. My 3 year old made the connection with chickens, eggs and her food but seems okay with it. We have whole roast chickens twice a month and she's right in there grabbing a leg and telling me "mom, this chicken is delicious." Or grabbing eggs from the fridge and pretending they are "baby chickies" before helping me crack them into a bowl. 

 

mind you, she's never lived with or played with chickens so thats different

Edited by 0ryx, 13 June 2015 - 08:21 PM.

[pancakeface]

I call it the Asian glow and it doesn't matter when I drink and go out somebody always has to say, 'Dude, you're so red!'.

Never fails.

 

Is it a uniform red like lobster or is it a splotchy measley red?

My ears turn red easily even without alcohol, sometimes just a mosquito bite will set it off and good grief it burns.