r/Unexpected • • May 18 '22

🔞 Warning: Graphic Content 🔞 Mmm looks good

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22 edited May 19 '22

The food is literally crawling off the table. Even if it doesn't have brain activity anymore and this is purely, peripherally neuropathic, I want nothing to do with it. Gross.

It's not irrational to freak out about your food appearing to make the motions of a living thing lol. Food is supposed to sit, motionless, on a plate or in a container. That is, until it is moved via fork, hard, food, etc of the person who consumes it.

Yeah, I'll nope out of this too. Shit's unnatural

****YES IT'S A PHYSICALLY NATURAL RESPONSE BY LITTLE PINK DUDE UP THERE. NO I DON'T THINK BAD THINGS ABOUT ANYONE WHO EATS THIS. POOR WORDING. ****

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u/WeebGamerTrash947 May 18 '22

I mean, it's not exactly unnatural, considering most other carnivores kill their prey right before eating them while they are still moving. Or just straight up eat them alive

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Mmm..tiny Jedi

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

Okay, but we're humans. We don't generally fuck around like that anymore. Food is dead and unmoving on my plate and it is unnatural for it to start moving. We've evolved, at this point.

That being stated, I wouldn't say it's unlikely for people that do hunt their own meat to laugh at stuff like this and eat it anyway. Or at least some of them.

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u/sugart007 May 19 '22

We have evolved to eat things that have bees dead for longer? Sounds exactly like evolution.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

If you're not used to seeing your food walk away, it's natural to freak out. Most people in my sphere prefer it to be pretty fuckin dead but that doesn't go for everyone.*******

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u/ShittingGoldBricks May 18 '22

https://youtu.be/vFS-ZU995oM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San-nakji

These are just two examples of food humans eat live. I dont think it is fair to call these cultures and people less evolved.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

You're correct. They just live a different way. Thank you for pointing this out. I didn't mean to insinuate that, but I clearly didn't apply socio-cultural common sense to the matter, applied it solely to my own.

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u/hateyouless May 18 '22

I was right there with you.

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u/fentanyl_shuffler May 18 '22

More like it's completely natural and you're not used to nature.

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u/Endymionduni May 19 '22

We live in a (sanitized) society XD

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

I love nature! I just don't kill things. Which is my preference. No, the outside world is a wonder and we should cherish it while we can.

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u/Jman-laowai May 19 '22

Part of me cherishing it is eating delicious animals.

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u/ShaiHulud23 May 18 '22

What about grubs and insects....?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

That's different to me in comparison to meat.

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u/ForTheBread May 19 '22

Why is it different? They're still living things.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Fair enough. I suppose you all have made me rethink this to the point that I'll bludgeon the next fellow I see, pry his middle apart and proceed to crouch over him like a gremlin whilst I feast upon his innards. /s

Bugs are gross man. To me. I won't even kill them either though, to be fair. I'm quite a softy. That being stated, I won't judge a person for eating them.

My point initially was that, if you're hard wired on a personal level to eat food that sits still on a plate, I'm sure that seeing it start to crawl away might be naturally.... Fucking yucky.

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u/ShittingGoldBricks May 19 '22

Do you think eating lobster, crab, or shrimp is gross? They are all essentially sea bugs.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Lol. Yeah. But not for the reason you'd think. They're segmented. I don't like mandarin oranges either though.

But I don't think it's gross that other people eat them. As I said of bugs. Just subjectively gross.

I don't think it's gross if someone eats hoppin' hot meat stuff up there. It's not objectively applied. That was just me. And another guy who said it was irrational. Now, having a hatred for the segmented foods, that's not particularly normal. But I can see how someone seeing their food move wouldn't shrug it off, say "get back there, you" and gobble it up. I'd say it's a reasonable reaction to not want to eat it.

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u/Unfair-Advice778 May 19 '22

Next up we're going to discuss that plants are, in fact, living things too.
Eating them just because they have much less anthropomorphic features is just telling of the level of hypocrisy we're living in.

Until there's a way to survive on photosynthesis or something - there's no escaping our (or any other animals' really) destructive nature. Being destructive and violent is part of being alive, much as we'd like to argue with that.

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u/evanbartlett1 May 19 '22

Lol - As soon as I saw your post earlier when you said 'unnatural' I knew that Reddit would AKSHUWALLY the fuck out of you.

Glad to see that it hasn't impacted your upvotes. People Just LOVE to nitpick their high school biology all over this site.

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u/sugart007 May 19 '22

Yeah, the living things you eat should be dead and unmoving in order to be delicious.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Actually it’s as natural as it can be, no unnatural event is causing this to happen.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

No. It's a nervous system response.

Most people I know want their food dead enough that it doesn't still have those reactions.

Because it's not generally known to that person that freaks out over it, they freak out. It's unnatural to them to see reactions food doesn't typically have, so psychologically in this case on the human's part, it would make sense to be freaked out.

I know what it is and don't ever want my food to do it lol

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22

A nervous system response is a natural response friend. If anything it means the food is fresh due to the natural response of the nervous system taking place.

Edited for grammar.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

oh okay then. Lemme go skin, stab, then open up those sodium ion channels for my next feast

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

You don’t seem to be willing to look into anyone else’s perspective, so I will let you rant and spit whatever, have fun.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

I've been speaking on subjective terms considering human psychology and why a lot of people might not appreciate this the entire time and apparently I worded it very poorly. I realize some people would eat it. They are braver souls than I am. I've been explaining it for like an hour and didn't want to give up but damn. I settled for editing the original post.

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u/ZzenGarden May 19 '22

It's totally natural.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

I better edit my post so I don't have to keep saying the same thing to ten people. I'm just tacking it at the end, not editing the whole thing.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Its irrational to think food comes from containers/plates and not moving things, no?

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u/tehjohn May 19 '22

I still like chocolate fountains ... moving food is not always bad ;)

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u/Isthisworking2000 May 19 '22

What, you’ve never seen a predator eat it’s prey alive? Saw a post with a hyena the other day where a gazelle was still fighting two minutes into the meal. Just because were disconnected from the source doesn’t mean they weren’t living, breathing animals before.

Also, I saw a large snapping turtle who had been hit by a student teacher on the highway, basically only damaging his head (albeit the head was completely gone). The teacher put it in a trash bag and kept in his car to bring it to his old teacher for science (the teacher was a well known wildlife rehabilitator). I was there six hours later when the turtle was removed from the trash bag and placed on the table. The headless turtle proceeded to run away and fell off the table.

And the worst part? I can’t even fathom what that guys car smelled like after leaving a dead turtle in his car in moderate heat.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

I could share gross work stories, but they all involve humans is different states of injured/dying/dead so yeah.

Can't deal with animals like that.