{"id":891,"date":"2011-10-12T23:37:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T05:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2011-10-12T23:37:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T05:37:40","slug":"you-cant-spell-diet-without-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"You can’t spell ‘diet’ without ‘die’"},"content":{"rendered":"

… or something like that. I enjoy watching Man vs. Food<\/a><\/em> and Bizarre Foods<\/a>.<\/em> I wouldn’t participate in any of the food challenges in the first show (although, thirty or so years ago, I might have), nor would I eat some of the things Andrew Zimmern does.<\/p>\n

Thus, my discomfort with the following news stories:<\/p>\n

Two people were taken to a hospital<\/a> after competing in a restaurant’s spicy chilli (sic) challenge – one of them twice.<\/p>\n

An Australian man ate two garden slugs on a dare<\/a>. I imagine he thought they were probably similar to escargot. He’s been in the hospital for a month so far as a result, but they do<\/em> expect him to live.<\/p>\n

Related articles, without the potential for immediate death, include:<\/p>\n

A British TV chef has stated that eating pork is the moral equivalent of eating puppies<\/a>. I’m not sure that I disagree with him, but I will state that I find most puppies to be cuter than most piglets, which is probably why I have qualms about eating dog meat that I don’t have with eating pork. Then again, I’ll eat rabbit, even after having had rabbits as household pets.<\/p>\n

And, some scientists are claiming that many plants, including such things as potatoes, ought to be classified as carnivorous plants<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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