a girl i know told me how a guy she knows once moved out from his parents, ate nothing but fries and meatballs for HALF A YEAR, and got scurvy. imagine the doctor’s face when this guy shows up with like his gums bleeding and the doc has to fucking say DUDE…. THATS SCURVY…. in this day and age
this is turning into a “how a person i know got scurvy” thread and im so here for this, please share your scurvy stories if you have any
the other day someone posted pics from the reddit page r/zerocarbs where these fools only ate meat and 0 vegetables or fruits and all the posts were about various symptoms of scurvy. i died when one literally read ‘i don’t want to start the vitamin C debate again but’
THE VITAMIN C DEBATE
My mother told me all about scurvy when I was five and trying to resist eating pumpkin and let me tell you it’s been 35 years and I still get nervous if I go for two days without eating a green vegetable.
I told my own little picky eater about scurvy, rickets etc and now one of her most frequently requested lunch items is baby spinach, closely followed by carrots.
I’m not saying everyone should mildly traumatize their children to make them understand that vegetables are vital to ongoing possession of your teeth and organs, but.. no, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Go for it.
some guys i used to know went on a boys only road trip. they decided they were only going to eat things they could cook on the engine block of the car.
two of them got scurvy. one of them drank so much jagermeister + red bull that he temporarily lost the ability to see in colour.
Look. Just…even if you can’t stand the taste or texture of fruits and vegetables, there is a solution. V8 has a wide range of fruit/vegetable blends that are not just tomato juice. It is the ONLY WAY I have gotten Youngest Podling to consume fruits and vegetables since he was 2. Okay? 8 years of so much V8.
Liquid vegetables and fruits are still vegetables and fruits.
At my last job I worked with a retired naval officer. He told me about 3 idiotic young sailors who got permission to live off base in a share apartment and went several months eating little but meat pies, various forms of potato, and beer.
Yes, they got scurvy. They got ripped into by their CO who was very embarrassed that his sailors had gotten SCURVY and was a butt of multiple jokes about it. The three idiots were dragged back to the dorms and forbidden from living off base and also assigned to kitchen duty for the foreseeable future, presumably to teach them how to cook something containing a vegetable.
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