Almost every jar of pickles claims a serving of pickles has zero calories. Now clearly, this is incorrect and the result of exploiting some ridiculous FDA loophole, since anyone knows that cucumbers provide calories.

So let’s say you’re in a situation where you lose all access to food, but you’ve got effectively unlimited access to pickles – like, you’re trapped inside a recently abandoned pickle warehouse.

Could you conceivably eat enough pickles to survive for a month? Two months? Or would your body just shut down from all the sodium and acid?

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        11 months ago

        If you’ve had a stomach flu of that variety, it totally is.

        I’ve had a flu so bad I barfed every ~ 30 minutes for over 12 hours.

        By the end my throat was on fire

        • ArxCyberwolf
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          Stomach acid is also why people with some eating disorders like bulimia have badly eroded teeth. The acid from throwing up constantly eats away at your teeth.

        • @thawed_caveman
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          211 months ago

          But in this situation you can drink water and wash it down, preventing acid damage to your eusophagus. The author of this greentext can’t get water into their intestines.

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            11 months ago

            Did I say I was trying to solve for greentext’s situation?

            My comment is clearly related to vomiting

    • @OrderedChaos
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      It’s a much shorter distance from stomach to mouth.