Nicotine and trans fats are also not necessary nutrients and salt is necessary. Further more, for those of us who sweat a lot, we need more salt than than the FDA suggests, because news flash, those RDAs are rough guidelines that don’t take in individual needs and habits. I’m a runner and if I don’t have my home…

They may not be sweet, but avocados are the best fruit in the known universe, and pairs quite nicely with grapefruit in salad with a chili-lime dressing.

After repeatedly holding up checks to windows to trace over her signature I got to the point where I could forge my mom's handwriting and even she couldn't tell the difference. I think that from 6th grade on my schools may have never seen my mother's actual writing.

Beyond the health implications, what I really hate about this is the passing on of a dysfunctional relationship with food. Children should not have to worry about detoxing. Security and routine are so important to the development of humans, disrupting a child's eating habits, even if done on a schedule, is NOT normal…

This seems inevitable, what with us making this world into an overheated toxic sludge pond all. The gross and/or aggressive species will thrive under such conditions.

Yes. I'm firmly on the side of having a smaller portion rather than having some reduced calorie nonsense. Flavor wins every time in my world.

Yes. There was something sooo wrong with the vanilla stuff, I just it tasted kind of vegetableish, but the others were gross too.

It is supposed to be a picture of "ice milk". I can't figure out why it won't post. Sorry.

Anybody remember this crap?

Homemade banana pudding made with banana caramel is truly awesome, and I want to eat it all the time, but the fake stuff? I just can't with it.

I used to work in a fine dining restaurant, they steamed the vegetables in the microwave always. There was never a complaint from our stuffy clientele, although had they known I'm sure they would have made their particular rich person's face of disdain for not going through the most painstaking process for them.

Indeed. I am supposed to virtuously bake my frozen vegetables? Oh right, the virtuous thing is to buy them fresh and locally even in the winter and early spring when there are no crops where I live, and unfrozen produce in the store actually has a lower nutritional content than the frozen. I see.

I am firmly on Team Psychonaut, and Team Alcohol seems mostly(there are exceptions!) against us, and they have the vast majority of goons on their side. I'll leave you with the words of T. McKenna, that you probably already know.

DMT is the hallucinogen in Ayahuasca, Ayahuasca contains an MAOI found in the cappi vine that makes the DMT last longer. I bitched about them not putting mescaline(or plants that contain it) on the list.

What? You are not planning on matching Salvia up against anything in the legal drug category? Also, you forgot mescaline. While I don't expect the list to be exhaustive, it should reflect the reality of what people are using. Right now, I bet there are more people high on mescaline in the U.S. than krokodil, but then,…

I thought you might enjoy this.

I'm sure you are picky about something, I'm picky about fruit and the form it comes in. Maybe you're just less of a spoiled brat than me.

I want to nominate the hippy version of Fruit By the Foot, Fruit Leathers. They are overly sweet, practically unchewable(like leather!), and gaggy combinations of dried fruit paste. Dried fruit is already a kind of iffy proposition, I can tolerate it and mainly use it on hiking trips to prevent constipation, but…

It is my understanding that the application of antibiotics in intensive animal farming facilities is far and away the leading cause of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Not that you should not be careful about taking your full rx and stuff like that, but that the agribussinesses bear most of the responsiblity…