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[-] polycrome@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Did you know if you leave potato's out in the sun they turn green and create a neurotoxin called solanine? If ingested it can cause illness, nerve damage, even death!

In WWII women forced to cook for Nazis would put green potatos in the soldiers soup and could kill or disable a whole unit if done right. And the symptoms are very similar to regular food poisoning so it often was just overlooked as just spoiled food.

And if green potato's start to rot the gas is also lethal, so some rotten potato's hidden in an enclosed space like a bedroom can do the job too.

Know your history.

[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That can all be treated with Ivermectin and Zinc. Best regards - Robert Kennedy Jr.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

I've heard an Epstein Salt Bath is also particularly invigorating

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago

That seriously sounds like some torture method

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

*potatoes, Mr. Quayle.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 1 points 2 weeks ago

Out with one-day blinding stew, in with solanine shitting soup!

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 2 weeks ago

I pity The Onion's writers.

[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Time to start reporting sane news instead

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"US President has an uneventful Thursday and doesn't crash the world economy".

[-] tflyghtz@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago
[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

Make America Great Depression Again

[-] Gexilla@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dying potatoes

There’s an Irish famine joke in here somewhere.

SpoilerToo soon?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

All I have is a modified Irish joke:
How many eggs does it take to kill a democracy?

Spoilernone

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

There are no potatoes in your Irish Famine joke.

[-] dota__2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

this spoiler system is awkward
you mean coming soon

edit: need assistance with spoilers

[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Spoilers work like this:

shown texthidden text

You need the word "spoiler" after the first colons and the colons have to be at the start of the lines.

inspirational advicemake today your bitch

[-] dota__2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] MudMan@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Do people not use chocolate eggs for this? Is anybody still boiling actual chicken eggs?

More importantly, do I care? Is this news?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the heads-up.
I'm gonna boil chocolate eggs this year, like a normal person.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why would you dye a chocolate egg?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

A thin layer of colored chocolate?

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

You don't dye them, you buy them wrapped in colorful paper.

Not that anybody bothers with an egg hunt anymore over here, people just give these to kids directly now. Sometimes they're chocolate bunnies instead because everybody knows who the real star is and chocolate tastes better than boiled eggs.

[-] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Where are you that you don't do Easter egg hunts anymore? They're still pretty popular in my part of the Midwest US. Hell, it's not even a religious thing anymore haha

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not in the US. I haven't done an Easter egg hunt in my life. "Easter eggs" have always been a chocolate treat. The thing I remember most from Easter as a child was the big fair that set up camp in town, and by extension the food I remember the most are caramel apples and candy floss. My grandma would make meringue pies and yes, there were some chocolate eggs and bunnies changing hands when other relatives came over.

And lots of pork.

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

We always dyed real eggs and hunted a mix of the real eggs and the plastic ones with candy in them.

[-] Duranie@leminal.space 3 points 2 weeks ago

When I was growing up I never connected that we always had a special "breakfast for dinner" the night before Easter. What was happening is that my parents would carefully crack one end of a dozen eggs to preserve the majority of the shell, and wash them. After lightly baking the empty shells to make sure they were dry/sanitary, my dad would fill them with a candy mix (M&Ms, Skittles, peanuts, mints) then seal the egg with royal icing and dry. These eggs would be hidden in random places throughout the house. Little kid me never questioned the arrival of the eggs, but enjoyed smashing the shell and spilling the candy out.

By the time I had kids, the best I could muster is plastic shells we would fill with candy and toys. My kids still had fun and I just reused the shells year after year.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

That is extremely cute but also the exact reason people just buy the chocolate ones these days.

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The whole point of Easter eggs is they are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, with further symbolism being found in the hard shell of the egg symbolizing the sealed Tomb of Christ—the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead. Dyeing potatoes is not Christian tradition.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

neither is dying eggs. it's a coopted pagan tradition, hence the easter bunny. it's all just a bunch of fertility symbols. what denomination teaches the dyed red stuff?

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bunny is not Easter tradition. I don't know what is it. Eggs are. At least in Ortodox Christianity, don't know in other versions.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

cool! i don't have that much exposure to orthodox traditions. it reads like in orthodoxy the fertility symbol of the egg was recontextualized to represent Jesus tomb with the shell representing marble. the pictures are interesting, too. at first when you mentioned orthodoxy i imagined elaborate designs, but no. they're a deep dark red. i suggest others look them up because it's interesting seeing the differences in traditions.

in catholic and protestant descended easter egg traditions the most common colors for the eggs to be are blue, yellow, pink, purple, and green. these are springtime colors and in pagan traditions represented the potential for new life. the fact that we still do things like easter egg hunts and have a mystical magical bunny that brings children candy is a result of that the catholic church learned early on that if you strip pagans of their favorite traditions at first contact they get violent and angry because giving candy to children is fun and nice

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're right, essentially all so called Christian holidays and traditions are just rebranded older traditions from other religions. People were far more amenable to converting to or at least tolerating Christianity if they could continue their existing holidays and traditions largely unchanged, so Christian churches came up with various explanations for why those holidays were now Christian. It's why for instance Christmas is in December suspiciously close to the winter solstice despite all evidence pointing to Jesus being born at a different time of the year. Sometimes they don't even bother with trying to pretend like with Christmas trees and the Easter bunny (also the name Easter).

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

In the US, which this story is about, the Easter Bunny is as traditional as Santa Claus

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's not Christian, it was appropriated from other cultures/religions.

Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox - a very pagan way of calculating things.

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Compared to the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church calculates Easter differently.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like some people are going to hell then.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

So.. you're saying its blasphemy and we can burn or stone the potato dying people right?

/s

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ha ha ha ha. Of course not. I was just stating a fact, it turns out that it's something that offends Americans.

[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not even sorry to laugh out loud at the title.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Seems that expensive potatoes are next.

[-] NeilBru@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Tradition is anchor of civilization. And civilization is madness.

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