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Gwyneth's avatar

Good morning your Geekiness.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Gooten Hobben Nobbin mein Frau.

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Mahwah Azet's avatar

…”So, that satisfied my pocket-protector, buck-toothed, glasses-taped-in-the-middle geekiness, except that I would like to know either the thermal or heat-induced chemical interactions of what breaks down the gylcoalkaloid, but that’s for another day.”

I woke up today seeing a message from Grin Reaper. GR squired a Chemistry book ( €80 for €15 on eBay ) with more that 1100pgs. I sent you pictures contents page, let me know if anything there tickles your 🧠 .

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I didn't see anything specific to tickle my... was that a pink carnation?

I was looking for anything on chemical attraction of the opposite sex for covalent bonding but it wasn't in the contents. Maybe organic chemistry has to do with gardening?

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artermix's avatar

All solanine foods I love are forbidden in my blood type diet.....i used to ead fried eggplants and fried peppers. Man do they taste good in a sandwitch?

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

This foray into fried madness showed me how and why the human ape with possibly pure dumb luck arrived at FRIED GREEN TOMATOES probably one of the most disgusting things passing the cakehole in the history of mankind outside of durian and limburger.

I liked the taste of fried green peppers on toast when I was a kid but got extremely ill right after. There's a smugness among those who are aware of the blood type diet but don't have severe or any reaction to foods on their AVOID list at all. They brag that the AVOIDS don't bother them which I take as an insult to me (their showing the size of their penises - both genders) because my previous chemical allergies had spread to foods and it makes the whole world a toxic waste dump; but also an intellectual insult because 3/4ths of the way through D'Adamo's book he says that the agglutination by the lectins causes microclots that can take out the kidneys and the heart silently.

So smug ignorance has never set well with me so I wish them all happy stenting and dialysis.

But, eggplant, my dear...

Have you ever considered psychological counseling? Or is there such a thing as culiinary counseling?

I always thought that if something from the store tasted awful then if I could grow it in the garden then it might be better. In many cases that was true. Howeverrr...I grew eggplant (pretty fruit) but no matter what you did to it even soaking it it still tasted like fried green tomatoes so I questioned either the tastebuds or sanity of those who consumed it.

Now, if there is a secret from the Land of Sardines that you are aware of, then for the sake of science, geekhood, and my concern for your tastebuds and mental health please lettuce know if there is a way to un-yuckify it!

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artermix's avatar

"D'Adamo's book he says that the agglutination by the lectins causes microclots that can take out the kidneys and the heart silently"

This.

Because I rather to prevent that intervene. Because no fucking cures to fix kidneys. I guess their high tech clusterfuck cannot provide us with new kidneys just useless geo location that seems limited underwater anyway.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Wait! are you saying that the way to avoid the hollow cost is to live under the sea and breathe helium to sound like alvin and the chipmunks?

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artermix's avatar

Possibly yes.....water gives life and washes away life too. But it looks like a commercial aicraft is always difficult to relocate in the www (world wide water).

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artermix's avatar

Eggplants are very sardinian. There are several varieties. Eggplants sometimes are bitter....they should be sweet. Peeled and fried they make an exccellent meat like substitute imo.

I m glad i like everything. I never had side effects from eggplants. However as I said.....if these have lectins and could microclots...no problem for me to eliminate them. Glad I like everything (minus tripe and calf brains) . Coconut is something that send me in a food coma.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

You cuddah pushed me over with one of those white baby eggplants: "they should be sweet".

I didn't that that was possible.

I never peeled them either. The heathnuts always tell you that the skins hold a lot of nutrients.

You always had good sense and self control so in the Vulcan tradition of Talmudic hand signs: Live long and Prosper.

Hell... if we prospered I wouldn't care about the living long....

COCONUT!!!!???

Tell us here or you can email me about this cococoma.

In his first edition he just restricted DRIED coconut flesh due to high mold content. It had nothing to do with lectins.

I was told in his next edition he went full metal jacket psycho on NO ONE SHOULD TOUCH COCONUT.

I don't know how you break that to asian and polynesian cultures whose lives are centered around that tree.

I updated only my ICD-999 book once due to a radioactive decay math error, but haven't issued new editions of anything that I've written/rote. Not much to have a psychotic break about when things stay broken.

So how did coconut go from: Avoid the pink, yellow, white, black and brown spots of fungi to NO ONE SHOULD EAT THE DRUPE?

What happened between then and then to cause such a radical departure?

I have no problem with coconut monoculture.

I've know since the 1980s that coconuts host a "double-virus" but then all plants host viruses some of which might be satellite helpers for Hepatitis for gossakes. So where do you draw the line before the spaceship is completed?

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artermix's avatar

The eggplant below is not available here usually. Very sweet too. I grew the regular ones. Water type effects their bitterness for the black/purple ones.

There are also japanese varieties.

https://today-media.eataly.net/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/e/melanzane-viola-tonde_7620.jpg

Coconut oil sends me in a food coma. It is either effecting candida levels or else. I love coconut. But the fatigue i get from it......not willing to deal with that. You and talked about this.

It took me a while to pinpoint that coconut was doing this.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

This is why we did the series on cures that are not cures.

There are hysterical claims that coconut oil is antifungal.

Here's the rub (you can use coconut oil to massage with... wait...) FATS IN THE BLOOD INCREASE THE DWELL TIME OF BLOOD GLUCOSE THAT CAN FEED A SYSTEMIC YEAST INFECTION.

No one knows nothin'.

We know something: that no one knows nothin'.

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