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30°C? *laughs in American*

"Bucket of Vodka?" Have we found the English version of "mere gallon of ice cream?"

Btw, I think nobody is really claiming you will be completely immune to sunburn from avoiding PUFAs. It's just a pretty drastic reduction for most people. I used to burn SUPER easily. The first afternoon in the sun after a long winter would usually mean painful deep pink to red burns, including days of peeling and barely being able to fall asleep from pain.

Now, it's either absolutely nothing or, like you describe, a mild pinkness that doesn't really hurt and goes away after a day. I actually had that this spring when I went into real sun for the first time. Since then I haven't managed to produce any sunburn.

So it might just be a 85% resistance or something like that, and if you survive the first extreme exposure for the year, you're used to it enough to never get something serious the rest of the summer.

> "Dog is hungry. God is watching."

Haha, was he a Turk? They do love pets & God.

> They are absolutely delicious in the way that food made from real things always seems mysteriously to be

I have noticed this too. My latest fascination, now that I can eat crabs, have been Walker brand "shortbread" cookies.

Progress is a lie; the 5-ingredient foods made like Grandma did taste WAY better. And what about that shelf life? If they managed to ship this shortened bread to the New World and have it sit on the shelf in the "Exotic Food" aisle until I buy it, the shelf life cannot be THAT bad. Are they cheaper? Maybe by the pound, but I'd much rather eat 200 grammometers of Scottish shortbread than an Imperial ton of caragenan, matrodexrin, corn starch, and hydrogenated vegetable oil (soy, corn, sunflower, canola, ..) in the form of a cookie-adjacent Orio.

So why the heck are we eating any of this industrial food simulacra shit?! Never forget what they took from us.

> commercial sour cream or crème fraîche either (ingredients cream, lactobacilli)

This must be some cultural issue. Many times, the American commercial sour cream will also contain whey powder, skim milk powder, 3 emulsifiers, mono- and diglycerides..

I think it's related to that "Dog hungry, God is watching" thing. Many Americans don't seem to believe that God is, in fact, watching them. So they do shit that one would not tell their mother about. Imagine you go home on Sunday or you're at the silver gates and you say "Oh, I replaced the natural ingredients in sour cream with dehydrated skim milk powder and whey isolate and carrageenan to save 2c per gallon and improve profit margins."

On the "boring diet" not being all that boring, I think exciting was a psy op. If you actually eat a delicious & nutritious meal, you can eat it every day and it's great every day. That's what it evolved to be like, ain't no stone age man importing agavas and cod and cassava all over the place cause he was bored by his food.

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