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Kale should be added to that list of dirty words because not every one is a health nut, and being constantly reminded of the presence of what is new school law

Kale should be added to that list of dirty words because not every one is a health nut, and being constantly reminded of the presence of what is new school law and order but in the extreme psychological warfare is just as nasty if not worse.

opan 4y ago
Wendy's puts kale on one of their chicken sandwiches. Is it really a health nut thing? Seems similar to lettuce.
- danachow 4y ago
  Yes it was traditionally a pro health fad food - and this is precisely one the reasons Wendy’s is marketing it. That and it still has a little panache as being more “upscale” than iceberg. In the 00sKFC tried to market their chicken as a pro health Atkins type food with none other than Jason Alexander. That one was so bad that even the fucking ad industry criticized it. Marketing the unhealthiest of fast food as somewhat healthy is not a new thing.
  - kube-system 4y ago
    … “traditional” as in 20 years ago. Before that, it was mostly used as decoration, in the US.
  - hjkffghjkghjl 4y ago
    KFC was considered healthy by the uneducated long before that. Growing up in the late 80s, early 90s, I remember my family and my friends' families treating KFC as the healthy fast food option. It really wasn't until the Double Down era that the absurdity of KFC was apparent to everyone.
bradknowles 4y ago
Kale is also high in Oxalate. If you have had kidney stones, you care about this. It's not as high as Spinach or Almonds, but it's still in the top ten. So, maybe they need to be sued by someone who has had kidney stones, before they reconsider that idea, or at least required to put a huge warning on that item?
- Terry_Roll 4y ago
  The phosphorus in iceberg lettuce will help dissolve kidney stones.
  - genewitch 4y ago
    if you have a bunch of lettuce (like iceberg or whatever) and do an extraction - i'm not sure what type other than distillate - the resulting compound is narcotic. You can go online or to a drug store and buy wild lettuce and/or lettuce extract and take it for pain or inflammation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactucarium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactucarium
    - Terry_Roll 4y ago
      Wild Lettuce is much stronger and you can find it growing around the place because most people only know it as being a weed! LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_virosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_virosa https://www.erowid.org/plants/lactuca/lactuca.shtml https://www.erowid.org/plants/lactuca/lactuca.shtml https://www.captain-planet.net/natures-strongest-painkiller-is-more-effective-than-morphine-and-is-likely-to-grow-in-your-garden/ https://www.captain-planet.net/natures-strongest-painkiller-... Most plants that we class as food have been domesticated to avoid some of the wild experiences that might get documented on Erowid.org but in the past were explained away as religious experiences and documented as such.
      - genewitch 4y ago
        I take wild lettuce, and tumeric with black pepper fairly often. in 1998 or so there were "tobacco-less" cigarettes that my partner at the time bought me to try, i think they're probably used as props on movie sets and for people who want to look "smoker cool" without the whole cancer and emphysema aspects - these were 100% wild lettuce, and smelled like what, at the time, i assumed was marijuana. I've since discovered that more people around that area were smoking catnip/wild lettuce than weed, since they're different, and it's not really that subtle. Plants, and how our gut bacteria interact with them - or not - are one of the most interesting things i can think of.

opan 4y ago

Wendy's puts kale on one of their chicken sandwiches. Is it really a health nut thing? Seems similar to lettuce.

danachow 4y ago
Yes it was traditionally a pro health fad food - and this is precisely one the reasons Wendy’s is marketing it. That and it still has a little panache as being more “upscale” than iceberg. In the 00sKFC tried to market their chicken as a pro health Atkins type food with none other than Jason Alexander. That one was so bad that even the fucking ad industry criticized it. Marketing the unhealthiest of fast food as somewhat healthy is not a new thing.
- kube-system 4y ago
  … “traditional” as in 20 years ago. Before that, it was mostly used as decoration, in the US.
- hjkffghjkghjl 4y ago
  KFC was considered healthy by the uneducated long before that. Growing up in the late 80s, early 90s, I remember my family and my friends' families treating KFC as the healthy fast food option. It really wasn't until the Double Down era that the absurdity of KFC was apparent to everyone.

bradknowles 4y ago

Kale is also high in Oxalate. If you have had kidney stones, you care about this. It's not as high as Spinach or Almonds, but it's still in the top ten. So, maybe they need to be sued by someone who has had kidney stones, before they reconsider that idea, or at least required to put a huge warning on that item?

Terry_Roll 4y ago
The phosphorus in iceberg lettuce will help dissolve kidney stones.
- genewitch 4y ago
  if you have a bunch of lettuce (like iceberg or whatever) and do an extraction - i'm not sure what type other than distillate - the resulting compound is narcotic. You can go online or to a drug store and buy wild lettuce and/or lettuce extract and take it for pain or inflammation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactucarium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactucarium
  - Terry_Roll 4y ago
    Wild Lettuce is much stronger and you can find it growing around the place because most people only know it as being a weed! LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_virosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_virosa https://www.erowid.org/plants/lactuca/lactuca.shtml https://www.erowid.org/plants/lactuca/lactuca.shtml https://www.captain-planet.net/natures-strongest-painkiller-is-more-effective-than-morphine-and-is-likely-to-grow-in-your-garden/ https://www.captain-planet.net/natures-strongest-painkiller-... Most plants that we class as food have been domesticated to avoid some of the wild experiences that might get documented on Erowid.org but in the past were explained away as religious experiences and documented as such.
    - genewitch 4y ago
      I take wild lettuce, and tumeric with black pepper fairly often. in 1998 or so there were "tobacco-less" cigarettes that my partner at the time bought me to try, i think they're probably used as props on movie sets and for people who want to look "smoker cool" without the whole cancer and emphysema aspects - these were 100% wild lettuce, and smelled like what, at the time, i assumed was marijuana. I've since discovered that more people around that area were smoking catnip/wild lettuce than weed, since they're different, and it's not really that subtle. Plants, and how our gut bacteria interact with them - or not - are one of the most interesting things i can think of.