A small cross section of a tube steak, obviously

I don’t know anyone dumb enough to find out. That is viscerally unpleasant to imagine doing. It’s some of the most sensitive tissue on your body and you’re supposed to sit directly over water that was boiling a few minutes ago?

Sometimes I just want to vomit forever. That’s so malignantly perverse

Yes, though you mostly need to watch out for raw/green potatoes, and most cases of potato poisoning are not fatal.

I think most of the nightshades can be poisonous/deadly in some way- eggplants can be bitter enough to upset your stomach if you don’t prepare them right, tomatoes are just a mutation away from being poisonous, and peanuts are highly allergenic. AFAIK, only one person has died from capsaicin, but he had a heart condition. That one will still definitely fuck your digestive system up though.

I generally use the DOI, but I did not realize that you could just type in a paywalled url. That might explain it, thanks!

I was super proud of myself last month, because I saw the leaves of a potato plant for the first time and my first thought was that it looked like tobacco. Turns out, tobacco’s also a nightshade!

Botany is fucking weird, but especially nightshades: staple carbs, deadly poisons, fucked up psychotropics, nicotine, capsaicin, a bunch of semisweet edible berries (from physalis to tomatoes to eggplants), and of course, peanuts.

They’re fucking monocots, so way the hell removed (like onions). But none of these plants even share a family, order is the closest it gets.

They’re as closely related as a human and a lemur.

The Spanish just got confused between the names batata and papa and called them similar names. Yams are even further away from both sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Sorry

If the goddamn early shift would learn to sweep the floor or clean up after breakfast, maybe I’d have time to close :)

I have tried it, but also not had any luck. I am looking for research, but it’s still a really narrow field, tbh. Even in Germany, I think there are only a handful of DaF/aZ postgrad programs.

That’s a great song for my students! I teach German, not French, but a LOT of my students have trouble distinguishing between the following (emboldened) vowels: tomber la chemise. This makes the difference between them really clear and will probably help sensitize them to the vowels :)

Also it’s fun to listen to.

“Downright Mendelian” is the type of comment I get too rarely

You calling it elvanse makes me suspect you have access to maultaschen. Bürger vegan maultaschen (Typ 1) have macronutrients in the proportion suggested by nutritionists; taste good raw, sautéed, or in soup; cost <€2,50; and keep very well. Other varieties are possibly similar, but I don’t know if they can be eaten raw or how they keep.

Plus, they’re a good base for taking elvanse.

I don’t know if it’s just my field or if I’m searching wrong, but I get almost nothing when I look for papers about German grammar and language instruction. Is this mostly for more mainstream/hard science papers?

He was probably not intending to have two bodies’ worth of water displacement.

Why the fuck are they doubling down after 14 doctors found foul play unlikely?

Isn’t everyone a better off Ted fan? Some people just don’t know it yet.

Actually, I just realized that I have only seen Portia de Rossi in two things and they were both fucking killer. Maybe I should watch ally mcbeal…

I’ve just run a spoon under the hottest possible tap water. It’s hot enough to work and it’s not hot enough to actually burn you

I generally want to have sex with my husband after reading erotica. You know, because it’s arousing. How did this not occur to them?