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So this begs the mildly racist question, do Japanese people fart? Can they light their farts on fire? Maybe not if the seaweed in the diet kills off methane pro
by eloff 9y ago
So this begs the mildly racist question, do Japanese people fart? Can they light their farts on fire? Maybe not if the seaweed in the diet kills off methane producing bacteria.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoHow is that racist? Just being only relevant to one race doesn't make it racist.
- connorelsea 9y agoits a stereotype. not only japanese people eat seaweed
- jiggunjer 9y agoNo, stereotyping would apply some assumptions to an individual based on his group. This on the other hand is a plausible statistical claim. Some stereotypes are based on loud minorities, but others manifest due to the it being true on a statistically meaningful scale. I think it is safe to say on average Japanese have more seaweed in their diet. So if I met a random Japanese person and assume they eat seaweed, then I am stereotyping, but it is rational and informed stereotyping, nothing rude about it.
- mirimir 9y agoUmmm, humans aren't ruminants ;)
- askvictor 9y agoAlso, cows burp (not fart) methane.
- HillaryBriss 9y agoi don't have an answer to your question. but Cooks Illustrated reports that adding kelp to beans makes the beans easier to cook: https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6385-flavoring-dried-beans-with-seaweed https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6385-flavoring-drie...
- himom 9y agoThat’s cool. Ty.
- askvictor 9y agoNot just cook, apparently the enzymes in kelp assist in digestion of the beans. Which also causes less farts (bean farts are due to indigestible proteins? Fibre? passing to the intestine and fermenting by the bacteria there). So I wonder if this is a similar mechanism.
- okonomiyaki3000 9y agoMy kids love nori but they still fart.