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Trauma

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About a year ago, my grandpa experienced wondrous symptoms. So he went to the hospital. The doctor wasn't sure what was wrong with him at first, so he had to stay for multiple days. After much discussing about possible causes, it turns out he'd eaten a piece of some random game that another family member brought along, and that he'd let thaw and then had refrozen it. That allowed the doctors to treat him successfully on, I believe, day 3.
After leaving the hospital, he still wasn't sure of the cause though — and you can't just throw away perfectly good meat!; so he ate another piece of the defrosted game and, no surprise, went to hospital again. This time around, the diagnosis was a lot easier though.
- I read this thinking a piece of game meant like a board game piece for the whole thing and was so baffled 😅 finally got it
- TWICE?!?!
  
  You can't eat bad meat all at once, it's lethal.
  
  For context: This is Germany, A&E is ~free.
- In context I now know you mean game as in hunted game, I was wondering why your grandpa was melting and eating Monopoly pieces
  
  ProZD
- Reminds me of the bad krabby patty from SpongeBob.
- I'm sure it was a GBA cartridge.
  
  All this because I don't know at all what kind of animal it was.
- wondrous symptoms
  ?

If you eat the entire apple, an apple tree will grow in your stomach
- Right beside the gum tree.
- And out your ass.
  
  Only if the sun shines there, which we all know it does

I honestly don’t understand why people don’t eat the core. It’s the same but a little more chunky. Why do so many people let perfectly edible and tasty food go to waste.
- Because it's barely edible and not tasty...
- The seeds contain cyanide.
  
  Smoke some cigarettes. The smoke will suffocate the bacteria in your stomach.
  
  a very small amount. The seeds are not harmful to eat.
  
  That's bad
- I ate the core at school but the teachers made me stop because "the seeds are poisonous!"
  
  The seeds actually contain cyanide. Eating a single apple core doesn't have enough to kill you, but if you fill a 4oz cup with apple seeds and eat them in one sitting, you're cooked.
- The seed cases taste like plastic
  
  How do you know how plastic taste?

one time a kid in elementary school ate an apple and its core in front of me and i asked how he did it and all he said was "im russian"

Well at least others will assume you have a big dick
- His name was Gelding.
  
  They still have big dicks

Sadly my granddad was only an average depression survivor.
- We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
  
  But on the plus side you get to fuck Helena Bonham Carter.
  Well, someone does. It's all the same to her.

In this thread: cyanide and depression

Don't eat the apple seeds. Their content can turn into cyanide during digestion.
- You would need to eat a lot of seeds, estimated over 150, to do harm.
  https://curejoy.com/content/are-apple-seeds-poisonous/ https://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/20/fact-check-apple-seeds-have-cyanide-but-not-enough-kill/3359754001/
  
  Kill and Do Harm are not exactly the same. My vote is toss the apple core into a field unless apples are not native or present there.
- nah
- How else am I supposed to built up a tolerance for cyanide if I don't microdose insignificant amounts daily?
- No thanks. I eat the whole apple daily.
  
  Same.
  
  So do I - apples generally have very few seeds. I don't eat the stem though.

My grandmother lived through the hunger winter and she remained adamant about not wasting any food. Those things have a big impact.

Apple seeds contain very small amounts of cyanide. Eating an occasional apple core won't kill you but too many apple seeds in a short amount of time will. I think this is why we instinctively avoid eating apple cores.
- TL;DR: this is simply not true in practice
  To be at risk of cyanide poisoning from apple seeds, you would need to consume a significant amount of crushed seeds, with estimates ranging from 150 to several thousand. The exact number depends on the apple variety. Apple seeds contain amygdalin, a compound that can release cyanide. The cyanide content is around 700 milligrams of hydrogen cyanide per apple seed. A lethal dose of cyanide is approximately 50-300 milligrams. Therefore, you would have to eat roughly 1,000 apple seeds to reach a lethal dose. Some calculations suggest that consuming slightly more than 250,000 seeds would be fatal. Eating 29-38 apple cores, assuming each apple has 6-8 seeds, could cause serious harm. You'd have to eat upwards of 20 apples in one sitting and chew all the seeds to be affected.

I started eating the core for gut health. Won’t lecture you - google it if you like.

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