Couch 218: Northern Minnesota 2050

That struck me funny! Why is that weird? Thats what my dad used to do: "im gonna eat an apple, you want some?" He would sit at his place at the table with a knife and the fruit. No plate. But i guess thats exactly why its not weird to me, you said exactly what my dad used to say. That IS funny.

You n me both!

Yeah i was worried when i saw the repeated "...escence".

Musk sticks dont taste like urinal cake smells, they are divine. I do like snow peas if thats what snap peas are? I do like carrots. I gues inmade a sweeping statement. I dont eat a wide variety of fruits and veges and i will generally goorge on things a once pr twice a year. I will eat salads or my version of salads for a fortnight every ocouple of months. It just so happens i havent eaten a piece of fruit in about 18 months. I get quite the lecture from my gp but i very rarely get sick and seem healthy enough so she doesnt push it too hard.

Pears are gritty thanks for pointing that out i struggle with what exactly it is i dont like about them and they taste funny. All beries are out. Mangoes make my mouth tingle unpleasantly. When i was parenting i ate vegies but reluctantly and never gave myself big serves. I think since being on my own and being poor i cut down on veges because they expensive except for potatoes.

The mouth tingle can be oral allergy syndrome. Do you have any pollen allergies, like grass or trees? There are some fruits that cross-react and can make your mouth itch (only if they're raw). I've had that issue with some fruits, including apples.

That's funny! Thanks for sharing.


I keep having good intentions and buying plums, then not eating them (or maybe eating just one). I've been doing this produce service called Hungry Harvest, where it's items that were either overstocked or too unattractive for stores, so it's a lot cheaper. Plus home delivery. And the guinea pigs like it!

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Fruits bother me too! Bananas give me mouth tingling and a horrible stomach ache. Apples, pears and peaches make my teeth feel like they've been acid-etched. Berries are gritty from the seeds. Cantaloupe tastes bad. I like watermelon with or without salt, and citrus fruits.

Vegetables I don't care for are the ones people usually like, such as corn, carrots, peas, tomatoes (technically a fruit I guess), and celery. I do eat a lot of broccoli and cauliflower haha.

I acknowledge my weirdness.

I don't like cantaloupe, watermelon, etc. I love strawberries and blueberries but cannot abide the gritty, seedy berries. I do love grapes, oranges, cherries, pineapple, apples... not a fan of bananas much.

Watermelon and blackberries are amongst my absolute favorites. Pineapple and kiwi I have to be careful not to eat too much - pineapple gives me canker sores and kiwi causes my mouth to itch. I still eat them -but in more moderation than most other fruit. My dogs love banana and we often share one in the morning as a mid morning snack -one bite for me and I hand each of them a piece. It takes us awhile to finish one in that fashion.

Yeah i have to be careful not to get pineapple juices all over my face or else i will break out in weird hives.

I wanna try one of those misshapen fruit & veg delivery thingies.

I love all veg, except mustard greens. And most fruit. Well I love nearly all fruit, but some doesn't like me would be more accurate. Fresh pineapple, nope--canned is fine. Don't know why. Papaya makes me deathly ill. Melons are ok in small amounts. Adore berries. Love mangoes. Figs and lychees when I can find them, oh yes! And persimmons of all kinds! Pears in winter, otherwise I can't keep them from rotting overnight, either. Bananas when they're not under ripe, not over ripe; yeah, that means @ half are great. Stone fruit, yes! Except I once had a real peach direct from Georgia, and compared to that, the ones I can get here aren't worth buying. I found a new farm stand last week, and I'm going to try their peaches. I keep trying.

Fkm! Thanks! So im not caught in some weird time-space pear-ripening continuum!

I had the absolute oddest dream I have had in a while - it woke me up even. In it, a friend and I went to do something unusual and something specifically designed for an emotional response ( the thing is unusual in almost every way and not something I would ever consider in real life - super woowoo goo) and my friend and the person I hired both said it happened and I couldn't remember anything about it at all. Like there was a space of a couple of hours just missing for me. And then the person hired wrote me and said it had been hard for her because I displayed no emotion but since I could not remember the engagement, I couldn't confirm or deny or explain. Then I woke up.

Sounds like pear ripening is just a metaphor.*

*Would count as an insight from a therapist.

i hate legal-ese that when i read it, i understand one thing and when h reads it, he understands something completely different. why can't they just say what they mean? We're gonna have to consult with a real estate attorney.

What does that even mean? If true on the insight part - no wonder I never understood the point of therapy or anything those people said as having any relevance or meaning at all.

Because it is fun. But really the best reason I know (this is not the only reason of course) is because certain words and phrases mean specific things that have already been hammered out legally speaking and they keep being used because they are already understood in the law should a dispute arise.
Also because it is fun to write like that. There are at various times movements to not use legalese - and in some places it does better than other places.

To a therapist, everything’s a metaphor.

Unless you compare them to the dentist. Then you’re being hostile.

ETA: also legalese keeps lawyers employed.

Just like psychobabble and labelling keeps therapists off the streets. Can you imagine a bunch of them in vans down by the river? Who would protect the innocent people down on their luck from them?

The scary thing here is that I wrote “kind of like psychobabble keeps therapists employed” in my ETA but then deleted it out of an abundance of caution.

While we're on the fruit topic, I actually ate a plum today instead of something less healthy, and it was pretty good!

Spinoff of the SNL sketch perhaps? Not that anyone could match Chris Farley in that role.

"Well la-dee-frickin' da"

You ate a whole piece of fruit!

Altho a plum really only counts as a third. An italian plum counts as like a tenth! The best are dinosaur eggs - so juicy!