• @[email protected]
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    456 months ago

    This reminds me of the story at the guy who posted that peanut butter tasted spicy to him.

    Yeah, he had a light allergy to peanuts.

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      286 months ago

      I’ve told this story a lot on Lemmy so if you’ve seen it, just ignore it.

      I found out I have oral allergy syndrome when I started getting into making smoothies. I said to my best friend (an autistic gentleman), “I love the potassium and macros on bananas but I just don’t get how yall get past the burning.”

      He looks me full in the face and says, “No one burns. Bananas don’t burn. They don’t burn anyone.”

      And that is how I found out I’m allergic.

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        206 months ago

        Threads where people find out they’re allergic to something or colorblind are my favorite. I’m always amazed that people can live their whole lives just accepting something because they don’t know any different and haven’t talked to anyone about it.

        Seeing someone go “wait, strawberries aren’t spicy??” or “you guys are joking right? those images look the same!” always makes my day.

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          176 months ago

          This one can be attributed to my Dad (who died before I found out). He gave me a banana when I was little, and I said, “I don’t like how these burn.”

          He said, “Oh, that’s normal. Eat it anyway. It’s good for you.”

          …so we know what side of the family I got it from.

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          46 months ago

          When I finally learned what an astigmatism was I said “oh shit I just thought that’s how eyes processed light.”

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          36 months ago

          I’ve got a reverse one for you then! I have a friend who’s allergic to a ton of things, and we were eating roasted pineapple at a potluck. She said, ‘I love pineapple even though I’m allergic to it! The burning isn’t too bad.’ And I was all like, ‘it does that to everyone; those are the digestive enzymes in the pineapple.’ She was amazed that she’d found a fruit she wasn’t allergic to lol.

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              36 months ago

              Pineapple hits with a one-two punch. Raphides, sharp microscopic crystals of calcium oxilate, scratch the mouth, causing micro-abrasions, while Bromelain breaks down the proteins of the mucus lining the cheeks and tongue. Together they allow the acid of the pineapple to more effectively attack the mouth, giving that traditional stinging sensation.

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      16 months ago

      Back when I first ate sushi, my mom always ordered spider rolls. I’d eat them, get an itchy mouth, but assume it was the Wasabi. Then I got braver and ordered other stuff and even with Wasabi, itch gone.

      I already knew I was allergic to shrimp and lobster, but crab had always been fine. Spider crabs and blue crabs are in fact not fine for me. Other shellfish is interesting:

      Can I eat…
      Clams? No.
      Oysters? Yes.
      Mussels? Yes.
      Scallops? Yes.
      Conch? Yes.
      Crabs? Maybe.
      Lobster? No.
      Fish? Yes.
      Shrimp? No.

      So I have a shellfish allergy that doesn’t always trigger. It always triggers with what it does trigger though.