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7 Retarded Food Myths the Internet Thinks Are True

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  • Sublex, on 11/21/2008, -45/+248Come on.

    Nobody really believes those, right?

    (Well, apart from those 9-11 conspiracy nuts--those guys believe in anything)
    • macweirdo42, on 11/21/2008, -1/+115People are morons when it comes to science. You use some big words, throw in an unsubstantiated anecdotal story or two, and you can get them to believe anything. Throw in something about a conspiracy to explain why they haven't heard about it, and you're gold.
      • coyote1284, on 11/21/2008, -18/+26Especially if you call your presentation "An Inconvenient Truth".

        /I keed
      • Notasheeple, on 11/21/2008, -70/+11I love how when anyone questions perceived reality, you dorks just say
        " 9/11 idiots rahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh "
        You guys are desperate to perpetuate your little bubbles.
      • Scriabin, on 11/21/2008, -3/+19That reminds me of that time that guy wrote a PhD thesis just using a bunch of intelligent sounding gibberish, and ended up getting a PhD in Physics.
      • sexybobo, on 11/21/2008, -3/+108@Notasheeple
        Should we ban Dihydrogen monoxide?
        Dihydrogen monoxide
        * is called "hydroxyl acid", the substance is the major component of acid rain.
        * contributes to the "greenhouse effect".
        * may cause severe burns.
        * contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
        * accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
        * may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
        * has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
        Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:

        * as an industrial solvent and coolant.
        * in nuclear power plants.
        * in the production of styrofoam.
        * as a fire retardant.
        * in many forms of cruel animal research.
        * in the distribution of pesticides. After washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
        * as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
      • oninbonin, on 11/21/2008, -7/+21You mean H20? ***** man, BAN THAT *****!
      • saltydawkins, on 11/21/2008, -10/+11@sexybobo - Dugg for the Penn & Teller reference.
      • Arramol, on 11/21/2008, -5/+31Yes, onin, we must ban H20! Beware of molecules consisting of 20 hydrogen atoms!

        Also, just for the record, the dihydrogen monoxide "scare" has been around way longer than Penn & Teller.
      • Yondelldude, on 11/21/2008, -0/+17Dihydrogen monoxide killed Jeff Buckley, look it up!
      • elevatedms, on 11/21/2008, -2/+7@Notasheeple

        So basically you're saying, "Why can't everybody be right?" Perceived reality is the reality in which all humans operate, sheeples and nonsheeples alike. Unfortunately, this means that some things are going to be false. You can't make them true, no matter how much DMT you do.

        There's a difference between hypothesizing what it would be like to break the veil of perceived reality as limited by our senses, and making ***** up about Twinkies.
      • Notasheeple, on 11/21/2008, -7/+3I could care less about the list. I think it's quite ridiculous anyway.
        I was merely pointing out that not everyone has to be a conspiracy theorist because they don't agree with the dumbed down masses of idiot mouth breathers that are quick to deny anything that is contrary to what they have heard their whole lives.
        Smart ass.
      • 808ethan, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Works the same with religion, only then there's no way to prove it's *****.
      • Layne, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1While we're at it, let's ban hydrogen hydroxide! That stuff is just as bad, if not worse!
      • coyote1284, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1@salty
        FYI "Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide" has been around well before "*****!" My high school chemistry teacher sprung that on us back in 1996 and it was her chemistry teacher that showed it to her class.
    • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+13People don't understand science and don't' have the wherewithal to look stuff up. Remember that video of some guy mixing up a random solutions and then reaching in and pulling marbles out of it. That got how many diggs? Despite every other post in the thread proclaiming it to be a really bad fake.

      That video did exactly why MacWeirdo implied, use big words, show a stupid demo, and sucker in dozens into digging it and believing the BS.
    • Rothbardosaurus, on 11/21/2008, -26/+20They even believe that what the government tells you might not be true. Freaks.
      • mrspurs16, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Why Digg him down? Do people not detect sarcasm on the internet or something?
    • RobotBuddha, on 11/21/2008, -1/+5This became popular only 20 minutes ago, and there's already four or five people insisting their pet myth is correct.
    • Betaflame, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7I dunno where the margarine one came from but my step-dad believes it and to this day won't eat it.
      • LoganT, on 11/21/2008, -4/+7Plastic or not, no one should eat margarine.
      • bencefeher, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3I almost spilled my coffee when I saw the "Turkey Poison" crossed out with margarine.
    • dsmx, on 11/21/2008, -11/+41To be fair to those 9/11 conspiracy nuts there is a lot of info that was covered up and when there's an absence of information people make stuff up to fill in the blanks.
      • SilverStandard, on 11/21/2008, -13/+7Apparently, there is a cover up, but no conspiracy. Good work, sleuth.
    • ltethe, on 11/21/2008, -0/+21My parents do... I think they believe all of these. I believed them through my entire childhood, then I decided to learn something...

      You know how disappointing it is to learn that your parents are dumb as rocks? Or at least hanging on the gullible chain?

      :-/
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+8That is why I want to try as hard as possible never to lie to my children or make them believe anything I am not sure about. Not sure who successful I'll be. I always thought it undermined my parents authority when they give you advice you find out is blatantly wrong. Like forcing me to take cough syrup to prevent a cold or insisting my reduced stamina and frequent illnesses was due to drinking cold drinks during supper (It was alpha thalasemia). But I may be more reactionary because I am the child of immigrants who came from a separate culture with very separate behaviors.
      • lisaawesome, on 11/21/2008, -1/+11My dad is like that. I think I was around 8 when I realized he was full of ***** about getting sick from having wet hair out in the cold. After that I knew never to trust anything he said. Just recently he informed me that Jesse Jackson actually killed MLK Jr. That man taught me so much. Like never trust the information someone is giving you.
      • br0ck, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3Your dad was right according to these British researchers: http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/11/14/cold.chill/
      • Avaseal, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2ya well at least your dad didn't tell you not to shake more than twice or it would fall off!
      • lisaawesome, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Avaseal, I'm kinda glad my dad never told me not to shake it twice. That would be really weird since I don't have a dick.
    • SuperWinner, on 11/21/2008, -18/+9dugg for ridiculing troofers
    • Sroek, on 11/21/2008, -8/+8The mindless masses have always ridiculed the intelligent few. It has even become a motif.
      • opticwind, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2And let me guess where you place yourself....
    • raskali, on 11/21/2008, -1/+9The bigger story here of course is that the internet can think!
    • bagboyrebel, on 11/21/2008, -0/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_h ...
      • reaperhatch, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1yeah because if some people make one silly decision all others are bad. Yes people aren't able to make their own decisions therfore eat this *****.
        Hey guys I'm going to let you in on a little secret so you can feel superior to others. I made this silly little social project where I asked a few hippies their opinion on this one *****. Oh man this shows people can't tell what is dangerous. This stuff is so easily repeatable remember dihydrogen monoxide. post it! its just within your attention span, unlike all these laboratory reports. Don't listen to conspiracy theorys they are crazy crazy crazy. we know what is good for you, now buy our ***** and be happy hahaha lets all circle jerk our way into the stew pot.
    • wrobson, on 11/21/2008, -11/+21If you are calling all 9/11 skeptics nutty because they are people that don't believe either story as there is not enough evidence on either end. Then you my friend need a reality check...because if you follow the money, HEY it leads back to the exact same families and people that have some how been involved in financing and supplying weapons for many wars in the last 100 years.

      Conspiracy - A secret plot which involves a group of 10 or more people.

      there are nut jobs on all sides of any story. There are nut jobs that think Osama did it, there are nut jobs that think Bush did it...there are nut jobs that think lizards did it...
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -9/+1How do you follow the money? If their so good at their conspiracy wouldn't the money trail be the first thing they hide? Let me ask you, can you tell me how a company like toyota, honda, GM, Ford, or Dupont funds it's growth? I tried for academic reasons and found great difficulty finding their money trail and they aren't even trying particularly hard to hide it.
      • bagboyrebel, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4@kingmanic
        follow the money means look at who has something to gain from this.
      • heyuguuuuys, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1@ kingmanic

        they all fund their growth through, um, sales...
      • TheSkunkMonkey, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Whew! For a minute there I thought me and my 8 buddies would get in trouble for starting a conspiracy. Glad to know we came in under the mark.
    • lukas88, on 11/21/2008, -5/+6MSG can cross the blood brain barrier, that is enough to make me not want to eat it.

      It has basically no nutritional value and is only included in foods that need to mask their poor quality.
      • Mordisquitos, on 11/21/2008, -0/+13So can dihydrogen monoxide. Fear it.
      • fnnkybutt, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7No way... dihydrogen monoxide? I've been putting it in my kids' baths! I hope it doesn't cause any lasting harm.
      • SadMartigan, on 11/25/2008, -1/+3I get bad headaches and hives from MSG, but I don't fear it, I'm just allergic.
    • Matt88, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5We've got plenty of ***** in my office that believe every ***** story they get by email.

      The worst part is that they send it around to everyone else thinking that they are doing the right thing.

      I usually send them an email back with links to sites that debunks whatever ***** they are disseminating.
    • Dev23, on 11/21/2008, -17/+8"(Well, apart from those 9-11 conspiracy nuts--those guys believe in anything)"

      ... seriously... why won't people like you die already?
      • KingPsyz, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2because there's still people like you left to kill?
    • MazdaEric, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4Just when I thought I would go one day without reading any 9/11 references :P
    • ChrisLondon, on 11/21/2008, -2/+1Around 10 years ago I worked in sales. One day my boss was rushed to hospital. It turned out his excessive Coco-Cola drinking had led to a lovely hole his stomach. He was told that if he didn't stop drinking coke immediately, he could die. Saying that, he used to get through around 20 cans a day! It scared me for a while. It's still just about the only thing I drink now though, apart from beer of course.
      • EtherGnat, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Hell, too much of anything can kill you. You can die from drinking too much water (although it's really, really hard). Everything in moderation.
      • macweirdo42, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1@EtherGnat
        It can't be that hard, if that idiot woman in the radio contest for the Wii managed to do it.
    • DaCnDKrN, on 11/21/2008, -10/+1***** YOU MAN MY FRIEND DIED IN 9/11
      • fnnkybutt, on 11/21/2008, -1/+5From drinking a coke?
      • xXIrsotehkewlXx, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5*cough*

        You people have ***** issues. Take a look at yourself. I have ***** had it with twinkie influence on the ***** internet. You really think making fun of random food products is a ***** joke? do you? BURN IN HELL, *****. Don't tell me where the ***** line is, because if you don't know, you have probably corssed it many times in the past, and will again in the future.

        Bringing up memories of soda corrosion to a comment thread based on a story about a A CRACKED STORY? ***** low. I wish reporting inappropriate content actually did something these days, but in the actuality, it won't change much. The same ***** will always come back, poking at jokes, and relying on the other sick ***** to digg them up.
        That's it digg, I'm starting to give up. It is going to take some ***** dynamite samaritans to drag this ***** back up to the good site it used to be. For all you ***** digging these guys up, I seriously question your humanity. This is not the time of the place to make jokes about this kind of material, and you know that. You ***** know it.


        (( on the other hand, if anyone gets this, They deserve a cookie.))
    • louiemantia, on 11/22/2008, -3/+4The myth about the conspiracy nuts is totally false. They're not tasty.
    • mrspurs16, on 11/22/2008, -1/+2Conspiracy NUTS! NUTS, AS IN FOOD, JUST LIKE THE ARTICLE! PUN! No?

      ...Oh
    • RadiatedAnt, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1yeah, just dont try the 9/11 honeyroasted nuts, you won't forgive yourself
    • aeosocial, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1you didn't do your homework in school did you?

      If you did, you'd realize you're a moron and they are conspiracy FACTS not theories.

      Dumbass.
      • opticwind, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2...

        "Jimmy, did you finish doing your homework?"

        "Yes mam! I cross-referenced all Bush contacts with the Taliban sympathizers and found a suprisingly high ratio of similarities."

        What homework in school teaches you about 9/11 conspiracy "facts"?
      • aeosocial, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1you are financially unsuccessful arent you...

        You need to give what I wrote a charitable read.

        Typical sheep behavior - go back and watch TV.
    • kilrizzy, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!!!
  • BoonTobias, on 11/21/2008, -53/+8cracked has been using retarted in every title lately, and this article wasn't very funny at all
    • macweirdo42, on 11/21/2008, -0/+43Retarted?
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -3/+27cut him some slack, he's "special".
      • cawpin, on 11/21/2008, -3/+5Otherwise known as ....
      • doctechnical, on 11/21/2008, -1/+19My computer is broke! I'm retarting it now!
      • Chassit, on 11/21/2008, -1/+5It's an especially lame mistake since the word is spelled out right there for him.
      • anononon, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5Short bus just arrived.
      • jitterbits, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12Retarted: The process of recreating something using nothing but tiny pies
      • specialK16, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1@kingmanic:

        HEY!
      • sauronsmatrix, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1yes.
    • jawshoeuh, on 11/21/2008, -4/+3it 'cracked' me up. you get it? cracked!
    • superflyy, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3that was ***** lame
    • Tichondrius74, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1Are you retarded? The article was hilarious.
  • techobo, on 11/21/2008, -5/+42I once had a can of coke that had the 1992 world series scores and logos on it. I was 11, and it was one of my most prized possessions. I put it on a shelf, and there it sat for about 8 years.

    Realizing later that this commemorative can probably wouldn't impress any girls, I decided to replace it with something else, but noticed I couldn't lift it up. It was stuck to the shelf! It took me a while, but was able peel it off.

    The coke had somehow eaten through the bottom of the can and leaked syrup onto the shelf, thus gluing it in place. I don't know what really happened, but the last time I checked my stomach
    • Harabeck, on 11/21/2008, -0/+45Any slightly acidic substance can eat through a thin sheet of aluminum in 8 years. As said in the article, orange juice is more acidic.

      I once had a can of deck sealer get eaten through and leak all over a bunch of stuff in my garage. It reacted weird with plastic on my extension cables making them brittle and shrink so that the cable is now all twisted.
    • wompninja, on 11/21/2008, -1/+16I used to work at a vending company in High school. I did an experiment on this very subject. It only takes coke a year past the expiration date to eat through the aluminum, I have seen it happen numerous times. It has to be original coke though nothing else will do it.
      • lisaawesome, on 11/21/2008, -0/+10Can't you clean pennies by leaving them in some Coke? I've never tried but but now I'm tempted to see it in action.
      • EvilFerret, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6Yes you can....they come out looking brand new. Of course, why would you want to clean pennies?
      • craigyjack, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Try putting some hot sauce on some nasty pennies, that works better and only takes a few mins. The hot sauce eats everything and makes those pennies shine (and smell like hot peppers).
      • Battlecry, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Ketchup works too.
      • TheMidnight, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7@craigyjack:

        That and the idiots who chew on coins will be in for a big surprise.
      • RevoltPuppy, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2More than just original Coke will do it. I had a collection of those commemorative Star Wars Pepsi cans, and by the time I graduated high school, they were all empty.
      • innocentsinner, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2@TheMidnight
        Don't forget those who make asspennies.
    • coyote1284, on 11/21/2008, -0/+76Finish the story!
      • rescu911, on 11/21/2008, -0/+38He can't. At the very exact moment he was writing it, the coke ate through his stomach and he died!
      • TheMidnight, on 11/21/2008, -1/+9And yet he could still hit submit.
      • KingPsyz, on 11/22/2008, -0/+11his head fell on the enter key
    • smoger, on 11/21/2008, -0/+9awww man... that means the Star Wars Episode 1 Pepsi cans at my dad's house are probably done for :(
      • elmundio87, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12pepsi =/= coke

        you could still be safe ^^
      • ChromaVita, on 11/21/2008, -1/+15Oh no! Your memorabilia for that quality movie is ruined!
      • Ramenhood, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Ah yes, brings back memories. I collected 2/3 of them, including the 'rare' ones and had them on my self. I one day realized my Anakin can had nothing in it, yet it was unopened. I said screw it, and shook all of them up and threw them on the pavement. If you have not done this, it is really fun.
      • onionoino, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1ha i had a few of those and one of them leaked on my shelf and got on a lot of my stuff, i was upset
      • TheKappa, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Yep! Mine started leaking all over in 2004 or 2005. I emptied them all out and washed them. You should do the same.
      • Syphon8, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1@Ramenhood

        THAT brings back memories: One day three friends and I were walking home from school and passed a convenience store going out of business; they had about 100 cans of vernors and pepsi past expiry that they were giving away. We shook them all and threw em to the ground.
    • BruceAnderson, on 11/21/2008, -0/+21This is why collectors open and drain the cans before storing them. Acid is acid. Even a weak solution will have an effect after a long time. Now if you want to see something a bit more fast-acting, try putting a small square of aluminum foil in a bowl of bleach for a week and see what you get.
      • sexybobo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4I have a can of Pepsi from the 70's it is still in great shape.
      • BruceAnderson, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7I wonder if that's an old steel can? Steel is a lot more resistant to corrosion than aluminum. It's also heavier and more expensive, which is why it isn't used anymore.
    • WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/21/2008, -2/+34He died
    • netneutrality, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5If coke can corrode aluminum cans, what happens to the metal? Does it end up in the drink... or..?
      • BruceAnderson, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7Well, the byproducts of the reaction are, yes. It's not like there are little flakes of aluminum floating around in old Coke cans. And to be clear: we're talking about an extraordinarily slow process here. Canned Coke you buy in the store isn't dangerous. And old Coke (anything past the expiration date) tastes like crap anyway, so you wouldn't want to drink that anyway.
      • molochi, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1That is the subject of chain email attributing aluminum in coke to Alzheimer's and/or Parkinson's..

      • atezun, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2It gets used up in the reaction.
      • Elranzer, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1All tin cans these days are lined with a thin layer of plastic. This is modeled after how our stomachs are lined with mucus, and is why our stomachs (like the soda cans) are not corroded by the soda.
    • diskoh, on 11/21/2008, -3/+19I have a 1979 Coke bottle. It's glass though so nothing has happened.

      I don't know what that adds to the thread. Write it in your diaries, I guess?
      • fishshogun, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7I have a 1944 Coke bottle. It too is glass with no problems.
      • Hobbes24, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4i have a 1981 glass in my closet too

        don't have to worry though, acid doesn't eat glass.
      • fnnkybutt, on 11/21/2008, -0/+11When I was a kid, I had glasses that looked like they were made from coke bottles.
      • AmICoolNow, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1I have a 2008 Coke can in my room.
      • StenL, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Hobbes24, fluoric acid does react with glass.
    • JeddHampton, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12The difference is that the can acts as a closed system. Carbonic Acid (or carbonated water) finds an equilibrium within the system. The acid breaks apart and becomes water and carbon dioxide. In the can, this increases pressure, so that carbon dioxide and water combine to reform carbonic acid. If the can wasn't sealed, the carbon dioxide instead would release into the air, and soon enough, there would be no acid left.

      This is also why soda goes flat.
    • Paulmeirense, on 11/21/2008, -3/+2Go Jays Go!
      • techobo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2haha nice! Man, after the back to back, they were never the same.
      • nydwarf, on 11/21/2008, -3/+1***** the Blue Jays!
      • Paulmeirense, on 11/25/2008, -1/+0***** the Expos too!
    • theonlybradever, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2@technobo,
      i used to have one of those cans too!

      last time i remember seeing it was around '99, and it was still in good shape.
      • techobo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Good on you dude. Mine had to get tossed. It was pretty gross.

        I don't remember where I got it from though. Was it given out at the Dome? Or was it in stores.
      • theonlybradever, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1they gave them out at the Dome, and there were special packaged 6-packs i believe.

        it's been a long time since the glory years.
    • jetcombo15, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Don't leave us hanging.
    • robotvsmonkey, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2"last time I checked my stomach..." what?

      awww
    • beesaretasty, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7I've been storing plenty of gastric acid in my stomach for years now and I seem to be fine...
    • Rowan187, on 11/21/2008, -1/+6Oh no, he just accidentally a can of soda :O
    • catiealaska, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2and then he found five dollars.
  • LeonidasStokely, on 11/21/2008, -1/+318 - Cheetos count as nourishment
    • Harabeck, on 11/21/2008, -7/+3Theyre mostly air, in a physics lab we would freeze them in liquid nitrogen and then eat them, theres no harm because there just isnt much there.
    • Kumah, on 11/21/2008, -1/+6holy ***** *****.
      I eat those things all the time when I'm low on food. Now what should I eat?
    • SuperWinner, on 11/21/2008, -6/+2Ok cracked is getting a little desperate for topics now..
    • fnnkybutt, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Cheeto residue can be used as eyeshadow in a pinch.
      • KingPsyz, on 11/22/2008, -1/+2if you want to look like an orange eyed whore, yeah totally...
  • Monsemaster, on 11/21/2008, -3/+60Dugg for "they could replace the filling in Ding Dongs with baboon semen"
    • WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/21/2008, -1/+27My ding dong's full of baboon semen.
      • macsox, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4I don't even know what that means, but I laughed.

        Actually, I guess it means that you're a baboon. A male baboon.
      • digggggggggg, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7My hovercraft is full of eels.
    • Zomgondo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+8And "come on, you didn't think they were ***** celery stalks"
    • FeloniusMonkey, on 11/21/2008, -0/+9"Have you noticed how all of these rumors seem to assume there's just nobody at all looking out for food safety? They make it sound like they could replace the filling in Ding Dongs with baboon semen and we'd have no defense if not for the dedicated email forwarders of the world. "

      Friggin' awesome quote! (I Dugg it for this reason as well)
    • Scrappy1850, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1you wouldnt mind?
    • CrushThemTorg, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4The picture really brought that one home.
  • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -1/+26Phosphoric acid does affect bone density but not because it's corrosive. They think it's because the phosphoric acid binds to diatary calcium and prevents it from being absorbed. So if you drink any juice or soda that uses phosphoric acid as a "tarting agent" then drink more milk to diminish the effect.

    They use phosphoric acid to give a drink some tartness. It's a industrially produced chemical which is cheaper then the alternative tart acids like citric acid.
    • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14citation:
      http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/84/4/936
      http://www.springerlink.com/content/y012d1cx94wal2 ...
      http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/74/3/343
    • BadseedJR, on 11/21/2008, -12/+2You have done exactly what this article was making fun of. Congratulations.
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14Except I backed it up with dietary studies from academic institutions and I'm not propagating myths but instead relating the factual evidence that phosphoric acid affects bone density. Look up my citations, look over the science and facts in my statement and then come back to make a snarky remark if I'm wrong.
      • oninbonin, on 11/21/2008, -0/+0Snarky Remark and the Funked up Bunch.
      • BadseedJR, on 11/21/2008, -8/+2You cited it well after I commented.
      • ToddSchishler, on 11/21/2008, -0/+11Um, Badseed. Time stamps.
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6To be fair, he could have started his comment before he could see my citations. I decided to cite after the fact to avoid getting lumped in with all the crazies proclaiming aspartame causes vamprism.
      • BadseedJR, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Yes, I read the article, then commented. Had I seen the citations, I would have looked less like an idiot by not commenting.
    • orp2000, on 11/22/2008, -0/+0Oxalic acid in chocolate seems to behave in a similar way in the body, blocking calcium absorption. So that theory may have some validity. So don't drink chocolate milk to balance it.
  • NewandImproved, on 11/21/2008, -19/+8My nephew died after eating retarded food.
    • jitterbits, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Maybe it wasn't the food that was retarded?
  • bralynn, on 11/21/2008, -3/+247"Get the paddles, he's having a cancer!"
    • slvrbullet87, on 11/21/2008, -1/+53Its not Lupus
      • sinisterouge, on 11/21/2008, -0/+35its never lupus
      • singularityv, on 11/21/2008, -0/+8That's why I hide my drugs in the Lupus textbook.
      • acitcratnA, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Someone explain this meme please.

        Every time I read it I feel left out.
        I could become lonely, depressed, and eventually suicidal!

        =(
      • sinisterouge, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3@ acitcratnA

        its from the show House, every episode they always say that whatever illness their patient has isn't lupus
    • TriplePlay2425, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6I stopped reading the article and immediately came back here to Digg it because of that line.

      Although it's still an amusing article and worth digging.
    • jdhammer, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Win.
  • MoralThreat, on 11/21/2008, -1/+45Dugg for rapeseed.
    • LogicBomB, on 11/21/2008, -3/+15Is that what they tell abuse victims? "You have his rapeseed in you"

      Sorry :(
      • AyaJulia, on 11/21/2008, -7/+2If you have to apologize directly after making the joke, you probably shouldn't have made it.

        Real rape victims are everywhere. Your joke and others like it are very, very upsetting to at least some of us, if not all of us.
    • KarlH, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7So it's from rapeseed we get rape oil? I thought it had something to do with "Drill, baby, drill!!"
    • ChromaVita, on 11/21/2008, -5/+3Raped for duggseed.
    • elmuerte17, on 11/21/2008, -2/+1rapeseed is what only americans call canola.
  • AgentMull, on 11/21/2008, -1/+38Damn rape seeds always getting hopped up on Jager.
    • dondara, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3Jager will do that to you. It's the wormwood.
    • sampanc, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Thank the Canadians for the lube they produced. ;-)
  • neuroelectron2, on 11/21/2008, -18/+5MSG is some nasty stuff. You have to be careful because some Chinese food restaurants put way too much of it in their dishes. The ***** part is most will tell you there is no MSG in their food. That maybe because they use a MSG base in their sauces and they just don't know or it maybe because they are lairs. I wouldn't say the MSG myths are retarded when they go on to say that there is some truth to the rumors. Also, the FDA is a government agency. Need I say more?

    From the article:

    Now, to be fair, it does appear that some people do have a sensitivity to MSG and may feel like ***** for a few hours after eating a lot of it. And you will eat a lot of it. Another side effect is obesity, because MSG actually stimulates the appetite (or blocks the brain chemicals that tell you to stop eating). So, like Coca-Cola, it won't kill you but will force you to buy bigger pants.
    • shannon9166, on 11/21/2008, -2/+2Not everyone is affected the same by MSG. If I accidentally eat MSG it keeps me awake all night, but I don't get a headache. People need to learn their own individual reactions to some of these foods -- just to help keep themselves healthier and happier.
    • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6You can also find a ***** ton of the stuff in many processed foods like canned soup, chips, crackers, soup mixes etc. . .

      I not sure what you are implying about Chinese food joints but most will be upfront when asked and will make efforts to not use it if asked. I know because I've run 2 of them. Your innuendo is not completely unjustified as I can believe some will lie but you can clearly taste it. I can at least.

      As well in my experience with people who claim to have a sensitivity to it, it's likely mostly a mental reaction as every person I know who claims a sensitivity can devour a bag of MSG laden (certain brands in Canada have MSG) with "monosodium glutamate" as a ingredient or eat instance noodle or certain soup bases just fine. The FDA does certainly have a track record of ignoring research evidence as with Bisphenol A, but I haven't run across a similar negative study on MSG.
      • josephbloseph, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1MSG laden makes me think Madison Square Garden. Personally, I can eat MSG laden Doritos, but this one time I was cooking up some food with a ***** of various chinese sauces I felt like crap, but when I cooked a similar dish while cutting back significantly on the sauces with MSG I felt fine. I agree that with many people it's probably just in their head, but I wouldn't be surprised if too much of the stuff might cause *some* problems.
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Given how peoples metabolisms vary I am sure some of it is legitimate. Given the fact many only experience it when eating Chinese food I think that's more likely to be psychosomatic.
      • neuroelectron2, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1notice I said "some Chinese restaurants" I said exactly what I'm "implying" so quit trying to pull the racist card with your assumptions . I've asked two personally and both said they did not use MSG but both dishes tasted like Doritos and gave me a headache for hours.

        I have a very fast metabolism so as a result I feel the effects of food soon after I eat them. sugar and MSG make me feel like ***** and vegetables and complex starches give me an energy boost and make me feel full and happy, thus I'm always looking for a quality Chinese restaurant.
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2neuroelectron2: It may be other glutamate. People sensitive to MSG usually are also sensitive to other glutamate compounds. I'm not sure which would be used in Chinese food but the ones you asked may have been lying/misinformed but also may have been other glutamate compounds.

        Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein are sometimes part of soy sauce which is used liberally in most Chinese foods.
      • neuroelectron2, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2kingmanic: I think you may be correct. I will have to test myself with soy sauce or some other source of HVP and see how my body handles it.
      • otros, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1@neuron: Well, if you asked in two separated instances, then, sure. That's clearly a big enough poll.
    • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2PS. There are studies that link MSG to higher BMI, so while it likely doesn't kill you it will make you fat if you consume it regularly. This is likely liked to it's appetite modifying traits. . I know when I have a lot of it I get really thirsty and want more food shortly after.
      • Qwijibo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1MSG is predominant in Chinese food. I don't see that many fat Chinese people. So this can't be true. You're not telling me the ***** we call Chinese food here isn't what they eat over there are you?

        /s
    • DonJuanAussi, on 11/21/2008, -3/+3The author of the "article" (It wasn't funny) obviously did not research his subject. On the subject of MSG, there are many governments around the world that call MSG a carsonagen, and limit or ban its use.

      I also used to have a friend send me boxes of twinkies from USA (they stopped selling them in my market)... and I would ration them out for 18 months... and they never tasted any worse with time.
      • kingmanic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2I'm not sure about you, but I find Twinkies taste disgusting no matter the vintage. Like oily, oversweet sponge cake filled with margarine.
      • daronicus, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Virtually everything is carcinogenic if you put enough of it in your body. The key is knowing when that threshold is. For example (a non-carcinogenic example, but similar theory), iron can kill you if you have too much, but try and pull it out of your diet, and you will die of anemia.
    • tdclark23, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Before semiconductors, MSG was the most profitable invention of the 20th Century. It allows meat to be canned and still maintain some taste, promoting the canned food industry. It created the entire smorgasbord food industry of food that sits out for a while before it is eaten, buffet-style. It was synthesized from the Kombo seaweed that the Chinese have used for centuries to improve the flavor of food.

      The Chinese restaurant help may be telling the truth that there is no MSG in the food, but there are other things that either contain MSG or duplicate its actions. Kombo Extract, Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP), Autolyzed Yeast, and even the simple "Natural Flavoring" can be used to indicate (or hide) the presence of MSG in food. About the only foods that never contain MSG are candy and ice cream.

      I used to suffer from migraine headaches four or five time a year. Then I found a book that mentioned how some people were susceptible to migraine caused by monosodium glutamate and I began watching what I ate. I found that many of the foods I liked contained MSG. When I began to watch it and limit it I stopped having migraines. I can now eat a bit of it without getting sick, but I avoid eating the tons of the stuff I used to get.
    • Elranzer, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4MSG is in all fast food.

      McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, White Castle, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut, etc. I'm not sure about the more "natural" fast food places like Subway that make the food fresh in front of you, but all corporate factory food is loaded with MSG. It's what makes you secretly addicted to their food.

      Avoiding Chinese food to avoid MSG is not wise. In fact, the Chinese use a lot less than the fast food corporations do.
      • ShoggothDreams, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Many Asian countries ban US fast food chains, most notably KFC, for having "toxic levels" of MSG according to their laws.
  • jumpjet701, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3I'm pretty avid about a Red Bull here and there. I wish there were some more information on long term side effects.
    • penguinofspades, on 11/21/2008, -0/+9in 5 years, we will be the case studies for the long term side effects. drink up!
    • Bitties, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1How avid? Daily?
    • ajde, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2You're looking to a Cracked article for solid health information?
    • jumpjet701, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1ajde,

      no, just a comment. pull your head out of your ass.
  • Kravin, on 11/21/2008, -0/+13The yellow no. 5 in mountain dew makes your genitals shrink!!!
    • andypop481, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12i remember hearing that in gradeschool whenever i had a mountain dew. Snickers from kids all around. they weren't snickering the next day though....the next day when....
      • WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/21/2008, -0/+18WHEN WHAT?
      • breckinshire, on 11/21/2008, -0/+10He died.
      • sexybobo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7He starts to black out when he tries to remember what he did the next day.
        If you have played L4D the next day the school looked like the basement of that house in Blood harvest.
      • Cornfedhusker, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Don't leave me hanging, I might have a cancer!
    • irvin666, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1I think I know how that came to be. We heard of that myth before, and we were trying to scare our friend that it will shrink your balls. My friend said what in mountain dew would shrink your balls. We didn't know what it was either, so we looked at the last ingredient and boom, yellow number 5.
    • helenkupo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1yellow number five yellow number five yellow number five yellow number fiiiiive.
    • TheNyquilKid, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1My dentist did say Mt. Dew causes a weird kind of cavity though. They formed in a different location than most cavities. When he saw my brother had one he asked him if he drank alot of Mt. Dew which he did. I thought it was kind of weird.
  • Halsfield, on 11/21/2008, -5/+25"7 Retarded Food Myths" title fixed.

    Some of the "myth" portions of these seemed like they were written by the onion. If people are really believing that someone's wife's arm became rotten from the inside out simply by being touched with canola oil from a knife they are literally retarded, not just a saying used to mean someone is very stupid.

    I've heard of a couple of these but some were just impossible to believe the "internet" as a whole has fallen for.
    • Stormwern, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Indeed, ok if it had been remotely popular myths, but it sounds like 99.999% of 'the internet' have never even heard of any of these.
    • Suricou, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4As I read it, the myth is claiming that ingesting canola for a long period weakened and shrunk the skin so severely that even the gentle brush of the butter knife was enough to cause it to tear open.

      It's still *****, but not quite so blatent.
    • maroon1872, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1iz digg inturnet?
  • censormagnet, on 11/21/2008, -15/+1stick to the funny cracked

    the people who watch for food safety (you know the ones you said we assumed dont exist) actually DO say MSG is unsafe

    at least you didnt have the nerve to put aspartame on the list, not going to touch that one are you
    • penguinofspades, on 11/21/2008, -2/+1i wouldn't touch it either, i choose life
    • slvrbullet87, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/msg.html

      From the FDA

      " Injections of glutamate in laboratory animals have resulted in damage to nerve cells in the brain. Consumption of glutamate in food, however, does not cause this effect."
  • Tawney, on 11/21/2008, -1/+8It's amazing what some people believe.
    • Elranzer, on 11/21/2008, -3/+16"Jesus died for your sins, and three days later arose from the dead."
      • lisaawesome, on 11/21/2008, -1/+8Shoot if we're going down this route let's start with some magical invisible being who can get a human woman pregnant with himself.
      • VictoriaMaria, on 11/22/2008, -2/+3I realize it's amusing to poke fun at religion for some, but I'm here to read comments about an article dealing with food myths, not find my faith made fun of. Thanks.
    • fhornplayer, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6"People want your ideologies shoved in their faces."
  • Jack9, on 11/21/2008, -8/+3"Heart attack" is a general term that covers a number of conditions further clouding the issue. The cold water giving you a heart attack has lots of supporting evidence. Cold liquids pass the aorta which can inadvertently cause a dystolic tachycardia (when coupled with stress and/or high activity). This is precisely what caused my heart attack at 32.
    • WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/21/2008, -3/+12Work out more
      • Jack9, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1I was coming home from my personal training 3 times a week for years. That's specifically, not a factor.
    • uncleosbert, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14no, they're rebutting something specific:
      http://foodasmedicine.blogspot.com/2007/02/cold-wa ...

      it doesn't say that cold water will cause a heart attack because it affects the temperature of the aorta as it passes, it says the water will congeal the fats you've consumed and those will go to your heart. or something. it's pretty darn vague.

      i can't find a single reference to what you're talking about. i can find this article citing some evidence that chilled air in the trachea can cool the blood enough to prolong a vegetative state, but that only seems to apply to people hooked up to respirators.
      http://www.lifenews.com/bio1687.html

      and i can find that almost any exposure to ice water will usually raise your heart rate ( tachycardia just means "racing heart"). but you don't have to drink it... it has nothing to do with the proximity of the water to the aorta.
      http://www.steadyhealth.com/irregular_heart_beats_ ...
      http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1193833 ...
      • wolfing, on 11/21/2008, -2/+2What is true is that drinking cold water (or cold anything) after a meal can slow your digestive process. The stomach needs to put itself at a high temperature to do the digestion, and drinking cold water will lower that temperature which could give you an indigestion and/or severe stomach pain. Again, it all depends on many factors. If you're in a hot climate, the stomach will quickly 'heat up' to compensate, or if you just had a cup of cold liquid. But if the temperature outside your body is already cool, and/or you drink a lot of cold liquid and combine that with maybe some ice cream as dessert, you can be on your way to a lot of hurt.
      • uncleosbert, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2@wolfing

        if you're already freezing i think you have bigger problems than just slow digestion.

        "Research has shown that cold water passes through the stomach faster and is therefore sent to the intestines for quicker absorption. During and after exercise, you want to rapidly replace fluids lost due to sweat, so cold water and cold sports drinks are preferred. "
        http://walking.about.com/od/fluids/f/coldwatermyth ...

        warming up cold food also burns calories, for anyone trying to lose weight.
        http://health.howstuffworks.com/question447.htm
      • Jack9, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Anything cold entering the digestive tract is irrelevant. Temperature of ingestibles affects the back of the heart as it descends through the trachea (I've had multiple Trans esophagial echos [TEEs]) which is the closest view you can get of the back of the heart (structurally) and precedes an invasive angiogram in most cases.
      • uncleosbert, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1jack9, your trachea is your windpipe.
  • ExRe, on 11/21/2008, -7/+21I guess it's believable that some are stupid enough to believe that crap.

    I mean, there are people who think Africa is a country and you can see Russia from Alaska.
    • acidked, on 11/21/2008, -2/+3its kind of ironic that you mentioned it, since it was a hoax: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/ ...
    • IAmTheGuy, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4And there are some people that think "potato" is spelled "potatoe." Can we just let the whole Sarah Palin thing go?
      • macweirdo42, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1We haven't let the Dan Quail thing go, have we?
    • sloonark, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2You do know that you *can* see Russia from some obscure Alaskan island?
      • darlingt, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1But not from her house in Wasilla, as she claimed.
      • sloonark, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1As incompetent as Palin is, she never claimed that she could see Russia from her house. That was Tina Fey.
    • opticwind, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Yeah, dude, I'm not saying Palin is smart but that whole "Africa is a country" thing was a hoax by a liberal blogger poising as a McCain adviser. NYT broke the story.
  • sfrench, on 11/21/2008, -15/+10Biggest food myth: "Sweet potatoes are good"
    • Hockey37, on 11/21/2008, -1/+16If by "myth" you mean "truth", then yes.
    • Elranzer, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Sweet Potatoes (yams) are one of the super foods of the planet. Probably not far behind the tomato (the #1 healthiest food evar), salmon and soy beans.
      • Thepirateking, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2I loathe the term "Super Food" To me it sounds like something that battles evil food villians with strange powers, when the truth is, it's just plain old food. Sure it's good for you, but lots of things are. Though I imagine if you decided to live on a diet of your "super foods" only, you'd likely be pretty unhealthy.
      • FireXtol, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3You forgot Kale(the true number 1). Algae, seaweed, and on and on and on. Some people have soy bean allergies.. and lots of soy is genetically modified. Meat is not necessary.
  • freezerburn666, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2haha!
  • davidkeithjones, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Wow, check out the link for the rapeseed source. The message board is full of people "learning."

    LMAO
  • vipersxt10, on 11/21/2008, -9/+6The cold water giving you a heart attack isn't really a myth. I've learned in my EMT class that you never give water, especially cold water, to a patient who may be in cardiac arrest, or having cardiac issues.
    • nbcaffeine, on 11/21/2008, -6/+8You learning in EMT class doesn't make it true.
      • Jack9, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1Except that becoming and EMT requires you to LEGALLY aid people under medical duress to the best of your ability and according to your training. EMT classes are not a joke, it's as serious as medical school. How you got modded up is beyond me.
    • Chassit, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12This was about drinking cold water after eating. Buried since you couldn't be bothered to RTFA.
    • NathanielJ, on 11/21/2008, -0/+10That has nothing to do with the cold water thing mentioned in the article. The claim in the chain e-mail in the article was that cold water after a meal would cause heart attacks because it would cause the fats in your food to harden in your intestines, which is clearly false.
    • ShoeSh1ne, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4I'd hate for you to treat me seeing as you apparently can't read.
    • vipersxt10, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3Yes actually I can read, I wasn't posting about the article itself, but another comment on the page. I was unable to read the actual article until just now because I was at school and cracked is blocked by bess (***** bess). So your right I did not RTFA. The claim that drinking cold water after a meal would cause heart attacks because it would cause the fats in your food to harden in your intestines, is obviously false and very misleading. Cold water does in fact require the body to work harder in the digestion process then room temperature water would though.
    • chedabob, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2http://www.notmilk.com/forum/1012.html

      Any truth in this?
  • Domitri, on 11/21/2008, -0/+70After eating some Pop Rocks and soda, my stomach exploded...


    but I got better.
  • MuadDave, on 11/21/2008, -2/+7The one about canola oil is slightly true. Canola is derived from plants that were bred intentionally to produce a low erucic acid oil (selective breeding = old-school genetic engineering, I suppose). Regular rapeseed oil is high in erucic acid, which is unpalatable and may be implicated in heart damage. Canola stands for "Canadian oil, low acid". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola
    • Suricou, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Rape today uses new-school genetic engineering too. Resistance to herbicide, for easier weed control.

      Completly harmless to the consumer, though.
    • anononon, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3YOU GONNA GET RAPED!
  • doctechnical, on 11/21/2008, -4/+4My favorite food-based bizarro rumor came from grade school, where I heard that the kid who played "Mikey" in the Life Cereal commercial had eaten like ten packs of Pop-Rocks and chugged a bottle of Coke, then his stomach exploded.

    Which would have been pretty cool, if true.
  • KaiUno, on 11/21/2008, -1/+508. Sperm isn't food!

    This author thinks differently: http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=495621 ...
    • iamdan1, on 11/21/2008, -0/+27Dear god why?????
      • KaiUno, on 11/21/2008, -0/+8Haven't you seen the man-made oysters? Didn't they just look delicious? *slurp* ... *burp*... now that's good semen!

        Sorry about this, when I got that link today it was so disturbing to me I just had to share.
      • lisaawesome, on 11/21/2008, -0/+9Jesus ***** christ. It is one thing to suck dick. It is an entirely different thing to ***** cook and eat semen. That flan thingy pictured made me throw up. I really don't want to eat anything now.
      • Ashur420, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3lol
    • vietnamerican, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7well sperm isn't much of a food, but semen is. Semen contains proteins and other sugars and sperm cells. Average of each ejaculate is 3-5ml of fluid and contains roughly 5-7 calories.
      • jitterbits, on 11/21/2008, -1/+7That's not even enough for a decent snack!

        You would need a bukkake buffet just to dent your hunger.
    • Hobbes24, on 11/21/2008, -0/+20HOW IS THIS NOT ON THE FRONT PAGE OF DIGG!?!?!?!?!?
    • Ludwig, on 11/21/2008, -0/+8Thank you, Digg. I've just purchased this book as a holiday gift.
    • whataSAMF, on 11/28/2008, -0/+8that just looks like normal food, but with sperm on it.
    • anononon, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6No ***** way dude!!
    • maroon1872, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7alright sweetie grab the kids, time to make another fantastic limp biscuit casserole to bring to the PTA potluck!
    • homerang, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3That book has some of the greatest reviews ever.
  • twrife, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Rape seed doesn't taste all that good.
    • Bitties, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6Chloroform smells better than rape seeds taste, trust me.
    • Rocketbird, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2That's because you've been on the wrong end.
  • Lloydinator, on 11/21/2008, -8/+3Actually, the rumor in number 7 is partially right. Coke does have an acid, which is made by the pressurizing of carbon dioxide into water. It's called 'carbonic acid' (H2CO3), but you will instead see 'carbonated water' on the bottle.
    • Balanced, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12That's why they say "Yes, Coke does contain an acid." in the article.
    • Kravin, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0Then they also said that orange juice has acids in it, and even more than Coke does.
  • JamesMatt, on 11/21/2008, -0/+208. Guinness turns your ***** black............ ohhh wait.........
    • familynight, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Night Train makes your ***** look like tar. It's vile stuff.
    • FireXtol, on 11/21/2008, -3/+2It was probably the anal rape after you passed out that turned your ***** black, due to bloody stool.
  • SwordofKahless, on 11/21/2008, -6/+5The Canola oil name is derived from "Canadian Oil". It is in fact part of the rapeseed family and genetically modified to be less toxic for human consumption. Some people are more sensitive to it then others especially if you take too much of it. Using it may or may not better your cholesterol and out weigh the negative health benefits.

    If they are going to blast some ridiculous website that equates it with actually being used in rape of a person then they should list the site and the quotation. They should also remove the actual facts about Canola rather than mislead that the facts quoted are not true.

    Either some stupid kid put the article together or they have some connection or investor relations to Canadian Oil. Buried for this and being a lame list.
  • godfly, on 11/21/2008, -8/+7Just a comment on #5. MSG Burns Your Brain Cells

    I grew up in a secluded island in the Philippines. Houses in my remote province usually have a bucket by the entrance door where we put our left over meals. This buckets will then be collected by pig farmers at night and will feed the left-overs to the pigs. I know, yuck, but it's for real. Anyway, stray dogs sometimes do eat the stuff in the bucket before it was collected and if that happens, your entrance will be messed up big time with smelley foodstuff. It is common knowledge to the villagers that if you would like to poison a particular stray dog in your area, just pour about 3ounces of MSG into that bucket, let the dog eat it and give it a few hours and you can have dog stew for dinner.
    • noumuon, on 11/21/2008, -2/+6consuming 3 ounces isn't really a measure of whether or not the amount of msg in food is in any way harmful... -_-
    • Chassit, on 11/21/2008, -1/+10You would eat something that you killed with poison?!?
    • kimbja98, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4"You would eat something that you killed with poison?!?"

      Guess the poster didn't think that through...though MSG makes things oh so tasty:)
    • anononon, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Does the MSG tenderize the dog meat?
    • FireXtol, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2You'd probably gut the dog first. So unless you can eat an entire dog.... Ahh, ***** it, you diggers are morons.
    • elmuerte17, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Do you normally put three ounces of MSG on your food?
  • arixmedia, on 11/21/2008, -1/+8
  • bruleboy, on 11/21/2008, -3/+2i love how in the MSG part they say that it makes tou brain cells and neurons fire faster and make them burn out and die. hell. does anyone know how fast they fire? its like, uber fast. like faster then the speed, of, well, EVERYTHING. our cells fire crazy fast. i dont see how they could go any faster, lol
    • JeddHampton, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Would you be super smart for that short period of time?
    • bruleboy, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2what?
    • vietnamerican, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2the way that neurons communicate is through electrochemical. That means that using a substance such as dopamine, they'll regulate how the electricity will flow between each neurons. I think the article is slightly inaccurate because the neurons doesn't actually fire faster, they'll fire more. Also, neurons are fast, but not faster than everything. It's as fast as electricity will flow through a wire.
  • diggdong, on 11/21/2008, -2/+6umm, google studies on Excessive Glutamate. Just because people don't get headaches from eating it doesn't mean it's not doing damage.
    • helenkupo, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3I get headaches from eating it. And stomach aches. And I can't stop! Damn you MSG!!!
    • elmuerte17, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Keyword: excessive. Try eating twelve pounds of carrots in one sitting and see how you feel. Hell, wasn't there a woman who died from drinking an excessive amount of water in some radio contest to win a Wii?
  • bundwallah, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5The Twinkie one always caught my attention. I used to work at a grocery store as a kid. One Christmas we pulled two skids worth of "Swiss Rolls" and put them on sale. Funny thing is, we had to move a whole bunch of other skids to get to them. They were at the back. Apparently. These are what remained ; from the previous Christmas!!!! I thought is was BS. The night manager swore they were left over. He opened a box up, unpacked a roll split it in half to show me the cream was the same consistency through out. He the proceeded to hand the rest out. We ate them and they tasted fine. So maybe there's some truth to the Twinkies shelf life as well?
    • elmuerte17, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2It seems plausible... I've eaten military MRE's that were packaged eight years before. Mind you everything was vacuum-sealed and who knows what preservatives were in there. Of course, your manager was probably just yanking your chains.
  • narcofiche, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14I heard the Twinkie rumor as a kid and I still have the actual Twinkie in the wrapper inside the kitchen drawer of my mom's house. That was back in 1990, so we have one more year left until I publish my findings.
    • justanotherday, on 11/21/2008, -3/+1If you leave them for 25 years the filling turns into liquor.
    • jitterbits, on 11/21/2008, -0/+14Meet you here in 12 months!
  • SNUFF, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Dugg for Jagermeister!
  • daschupa, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Aaaaand at the end of the article, an ad to lose 53 pounds in 12 weeks using a "new berry from the Amazon Rainforest called Acai" which doesn't work and is crap for your body.
  • sharkd, on 11/21/2008, -8/+4BONUS MYTH: The Hindenburg exploded because it was filled with hydrogen gas.

    This rumor states that the Zepplin Hindenburg exploded over Lakehurst, NJ because it used hydrogen gas for buoyancy, rather than the inert, non-flammable helium, which faced an embargo against its sale to Nazi Germany.

    The Facts

    The Hindenburg's canvas envelope (the skin covering the blimp's frame and interior gas compartments) was doped with with iron oxide and cellulose acetate butyrate impregnated with aluminium powder, key components of both solid rocket fuel and thermite, both of which, ironically, have a tendency to burn when ignited.

    Furthermore, witnesses on the ground reported an orange fireball as the Zepplin burned, a flame color closely associated with the combustion of the doping agents, whereas hydrogen burns invisibly or with a slightly blue flame.
  • NoLibertarians, on 11/21/2008, -2/+7It's just the 911 "truthers" moving on to the food industry with their never ending Paranoia..
  • MrFunStuff, on 11/21/2008, -3/+11Some, not all of this ***** is propaganda. MSG is a excitotoxin just look at the definition of Excitotoxicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity on wikipedia or google it "excitotoxicity is the pathological process by which nerve cells are damaged and killed by Glutamate and similar substances" "killed by Glutamate" And what is the most common form of msg in our food monosodium Glutamate
    Here is a Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock on devastating health effects of excitotoxins.
    http://www.naturalnews.com/020550.html
    Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. (born November 1945) is a boardcertified neurosurgeon and health practitioner
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Blaylock

    Sorry to say the FDA(Food and Drug Administration) really don't care if something unhealthy get released in our food, if it will affect the profits of big chemical industry and the public keeps believes ***** like this.
    • druranium, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4I agree, It's a rather naive position to say "oh don't worry, think, question...the FDA is keeping us safe"
      Who are you people who have this unwavering blind faith in our government? And no, I am not a paranoid tinfoiler.
    • ShoggothDreams, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4Other cases in point:
      Transfats
      Aspartame

      Both are deemed safe by the FDA despite all available evidence.
    • FireXtol, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Don't forget marijuana. It's a myth that is does anything beneficial. Like cures certain types of cancer. Or causes munchies. Nope. And it also kills brain cells. Mhmmm. Nuerogenesis? Nah...!
    • Propethic, on 11/22/2008, -2/+2If it was so bad, why is i still in so many things? Why isn't it banned by now?

      Oh wait you're a conspiracy crazy hippy
    • active1x0, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4"Sorry to say the FDA(Food and Drug Administration) really don't care if something unhealthy get released in our food, if it will affect the profits of big chemical industry and the public keeps believes ***** like this."

      WHO THE HELL IS DIGGING YOU UP
      • graeh, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2you are surprised that an article mocking insane conspiracy nuts on the internet has attracted insane conspiracy nuts to defend their insane conspiracies? :D]
  • Br3ach, on 11/21/2008, -3/+4Yikes, I had no idea we had so many PHDs in neuroscience, biology, and chemistry on Digg.
  • ShoeSh1ne, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1I hear that margarine ***** all the time.
  • cowbellthunder, on 11/21/2008, -0/+12Number 8: The tryptophan in turkey makes you tired on thanksgiving.

    The Facts: you would need to eat more than 100 turkeys to feel the dosage of tryptophan. People are tired from feasting on copious amounts of starchy foods.
    • elmuerte17, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Mmmmm, starchy thanksgiving food... dammit now you done gone and got me all hungry!
  • ahawks, on 11/21/2008, -3/+12Guys its true, Coke totally my entire stomach!
  • Sneezyx, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3What about the one where microwaved water is bad for you (or rather, for plants, and, by extension, I assume, humans)? (http://www.execonn.com/sf/) A coworker warned me about that after I told her I heat water for tea by nuking it.

    Pure ***** (http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp ...
    • ziggotron, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Water can become superheated (heated over 100 degrees Celsius) if you heat it in the microwave. If you put something like tea, for example into superheated water it will literally explode with boiling water and steam.

      I guess that's where that myth comes from..
      • elmuerte17, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3no, people think the microwaves give the water cancer or something stupid like that. and obviously have no idea how a microwave actually works...
      • sggrissom, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1But it's extremely rare, you'd have to have a very pure crystal like glass. It's unlikely you'll see it more than once in your life, and probably not even that (at least not accidentally).
  • IamDexx, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Rape oil....Ha!
  • MrFunStuff, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4The role of excitotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease: implications for therapy.
    Doble, A
    Neuroscience Dept. Rhŏne-Poulenc Rorer S.A., Antony, France.

    IBIDS(international Bibliographic information on dietary supplements)
    http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=d ...

    What is the IBIDS Database?
    A collaboration between two government agencies: the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC), The National Agricultural Library (NAL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

    Excitotoxin are real. Their is tons of info on them writing by Doc's and researchers alike you just have to look.
  • irvin666, on 11/21/2008, -1/+5Seriously, what is wrong with genetically engineered food? I think people make up these retarded things just for the sake of rebellion.
    • MrFunStuff, on 11/21/2008, -2/+3there is alot
      http://alucidspoonful.blogspot.com/2008/03/french- ...
      Take corn for one example GMO corn contains a gene that produces its own insecticide, requiring less external pesticides, and it needs less water. But it has not been selected for taste; it cannot be eaten before being processed into high fructose corn syrup or animal feed. French scientists are hesitant to allow these seeds to be planted in French soil because of fear that it could disrupt other ecosystems, affecting the growth of other plants and the insects that ravage them.

      "There are many unknowns concerning GMOs. Along with the safeguard clause issued to the European Commission was scientific evidence concluding that resistance could occur in insects like caterpillars and corn borers, which are particularly problematic for corn plants, resulting in more vigilant pests."

      In Mexico, birthplace of corn, Segundino is a corn farmer in Oaxaca. He laments over the second conquest of his land, the one after the Spanish one. This time the likes of Monsanto are on the attack. Mexico signed into NAFTA and that means cheap, subsidized US corn (40% of which is transgenic) invades. Native types of corn, he says, require no herbicides and fertilizers. The industrial kind from America requires the toxins. If Monsanto and their like succeed in their conquest of Mexico, farmers like Segundino will be cut off from a tradition of corn planting thousands of years old. They will then be totally dependent on multinationals to make tortillas.

      In Paraguay, farm activist Jorge Galeano describes the “green desert” whereby a monocrop GMO like corn replaces a once biologically diverse area of corn, manioc, trees and other plants—enough to sustain a family. Today, however, farmers are losing their livelihoods with the GMO invasion. Seventy percent of the country’s farms are in the hands of 2% of the population. Foreigners control 75% of soybean production. The future looks bleak for many traditional farmers who end up in urban slums, some of whom search rubbish bins for food.
    • FireXtol, on 11/21/2008, -2/+2It's not natural. Why don't you just eat plastic?
      • otros, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1because tastes like plastic. Kids eat Play Duh and it's ok.
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