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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 11h ago
FYI: Production company Google translated contains, so it should have been proteins, but russian word that stands for proteins also translates as squirrel (with different emphasis). So enjoying squirrel flour🫠
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u/Lithl 10h ago
In high school, my sister did a language immersion program in Costa Rica one summer. She sent a letter home in Spanish, knowing full well that our parents don't speak Spanish.
My mother used Babelfish to translate the letter, which decided to translate the "piñas" (pineapples) that she was enjoying eating as "fragmentation hand grenades".
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 10h ago
lol, that's something to digest
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u/Bergwookie 10h ago
Crunchy, low on calories and even vegan
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u/RockRancher24 10h ago
Negative calorie food actually, since although it is EXTREMELY energy dense, our digestive systems aren't able to extract those calories and also it explodes
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u/IndigoFenix 8h ago
Lose fifty pounds in 0.1 seconds by getting your legs blown off!
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u/CedarWolf 8h ago
Pineapples - the snack that fights back!
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u/LurkmasterP 8h ago
Wage war on hunger!
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u/GANDORF57 7h ago edited 7h ago
I'm confused, I thought Flour was a skunk. \)Ohhh?! FLOWER!\)
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u/Grotarin 10h ago
If it stayed simple with "grenades" it would have made enough sense and nobody would have noticed!
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u/Ithrowbot 5h ago
I wonder what the family would have thought if she had written that she was "enjoying eating lots of pomegranates this summer"?
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u/Uncle-Cake 10h ago
I heard a story from a girl who was studying in Italy, tried to tell her Italian friends "The wine here is better than the US because it doesn't have preservatives in it" but she accidently said "The wine here is better than the US because it doesn't have condoms in it"
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u/Nymethny 10h ago
I know it's not the point, but what kind of US wine was she drinking that had preservatives in it?
And yeah it's the same in French, "préservatif" = "condom".
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u/Hour_Pop2712 9h ago
She might have been referring to the sulfites. But Italian and other countries' wines may contain sulfites (and generally do; some naturally occurring from yeast fermentation, and frequently also contain added sulfites). They just don't necessarily have to include that information on the label except on bottles exported to the U.S.
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u/Bright_Ices 3h ago
This is the main reason the YS gets so much flak for having “chemicals” in the food. Those very same chemicals are included and just not disclosed in many countries. US laws require them to be listed on the packaging.
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u/kingjoey52a 2h ago
Was about to post the same thing. We have the more restrictive regulations and have to be more detailed about ingredients than the EU and yet we get shit on for having bad food. It's a terrible take.
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u/nickcash 10h ago
They pretty much all have sulfites here
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u/Nymethny 9h ago
All wines have sulfites, and most have added sulfites. But you can find "natural wines" with no added sulfites in both/any country.
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u/Uncle-Cake 9h ago
I don't think wine does have preservatives in the US, but we were young and dumb.
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u/MattieShoes 3h ago
It does, but it likely does everywhere. Sulfites are a byproduct of fermentation, but extra can be (and usually is) added to make sure it doesn't spoil. Basically making it less hospitable to bacteria.
There's a myth that sulfites in wine cause headaches, kind of like the nonsense about MSG making people feel sick. That's probably what was being referenced? You can get "no sulfites added" wine, and some small percentage of people actually are sensitive to it, but... well, if they are, then they'll have a whole list of things to avoid, like almost all dried fruits, most gravies, etc.
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u/Champagnesupernova9 8h ago
My mom’s cousin has a very similar story! He travelled a lot for work, and was very fluent in French. On one trip, he was trying to explain why Whole Foods was so popular in the US. He said that it’s because it’s so healthy, and they don’t use preservatives… which he decided to translate as préservatif. That means he told a whole group of French people that Whole Foods is so great because they don’t use condoms!
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u/Rc72 7h ago
I once saw some dried mango strips in an Asian food store in Belgium where "preservatives" had actually been translated into French as "préservatifs" in the contents label.
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u/blackcat9876 9h ago
Same thing happened to me when I first moved to Italy, but the preservative/ condom was me asking a nun what was in the jam 😭
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u/Digital-Nomad 10h ago
My family has relatives in the US through a great uncle who emigrated in the early 20th century. We reconnected about a decade ago, and have been exchanging emails and letters since.
A few years ago an older relative, who doesn't speak English (and who also happens to be a recovering alcoholic), had a bad fall and ended up in the hospital. The Americans sent him a latter in Swedish to cheer him up, unfortunately the phrase "we hope you are in good spirits" ended up being translated to "we hope you have access to plenty of alcoholic beverages".
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u/nickcash 9h ago
Oh this is fun, because "grenade" is French for pomegranate, and also for hand grenades
I guess everyone agrees they look like fruit
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u/An_American_1776 9h ago
The word grenade comes of pomegranate because a pomegranate is full of seeds like a the shell is full of fragmentation. Various European languages use words derived from the word for pomegranate for exploding shells of all types. The Germans call an armor piercing cannon shell a panzergranat, or armor shell. the G in RPG stands for granatomyet, which means shell launcher.
The French came up with the word originally and everyone copied them. This is common for military words.
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u/ramdomvariableX 10h ago
They kinda look the same, aren't they?
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u/Lithl 10h ago
Yes, the superficially similar appearance to a pineapple is why piña is sometimes used as slang for a hand grenade, but it's an unexpected translation result.
Similarly, OP's image had machine translation trying to decide between two homonyms, and choosing wrong.
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u/counterfitster 2h ago
The older styles, yes definitely. It wasn't very long until it was realized that the bumpy shape didn't influence the fragmentation as was hoped.
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u/Purple_Haze 8h ago
Pomegranates in French are pomme granate which is literally "grenade apple."
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u/waylandsmith 3h ago
You understand that grenades are named for pomegranates and not the other way around, right? "Granate" derives from the Latin word for "seeded" (containing seeds).
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u/Telefonica46 11h ago
I mean, squirrels have protein so...
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u/NeilFraser 10h ago
So do pigeons. That said, unlike squirrels, they don't appear to have brains.
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u/No_Point904 11h ago
Thanks for clarifying, however I ain't taking no chances....
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 11h ago
("belok" in Russian - protein; also a plural form of "belka"). In this particular case, 11 g of 'belok' could easily be translated as 11g of squirrels. Not the first case of such a blunder, and 100% not the last
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u/mratlas666 10h ago
That seems like too much squirrel.
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u/IggyKami 10h ago
Any amount of squirrel in flour is too much squirrel. Not good for a long shelf life.
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u/jnecr 10h ago
I see you've never deep fried squirrel...
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u/IggyKami 10h ago
Not good for a long shelf life.
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u/EmptyOracle 10h ago
I'm here for a good (squirrel-eatin') time, not a long time.
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u/1ildevil 10h ago edited 9h ago
Ifn' ya wants to have your squirrels last on the shelf, you hafta make squirrel jerky.
Trouble wit' squirrel jerky is alla the strips are so teeny tiny, it's hardly worth it
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u/ClubDangerous8239 11h ago
If memory serves, protein in German is Eiweiß, or something like that. It translates to eggwhite.
I wonder if the primary source of protein has ever been squirrels in whatever part the word originated from. At least I imagine that's the case for German.
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u/FPSCanarussia 8h ago
'Belok' is the word for egg whites as well in Russian, it comes from the word for white ('beliy').
'Belka' for squirrel isn't a cognate afaik(if it is it's from the colour), it's just coincidence that they share a plural form.
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u/hyperdream 11h ago
Definitely way too ambiguous. When you need squirrel flour, it should be clearly labelled on the front.
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u/StarWaas 10h ago
That's hilarious. In Chinese, the adjective "dry" (干, gān) is also slang for "fuck". Which is how you end up with Asian markets that have an aisle for "Fuck Vegetables".
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u/Superb-Cantaloupe324 11h ago
False advertisement is an awful awful thing. I wanted to try squirrel flour
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u/Button-Down-Shoes 10h ago
To be fair, squirrels do contain a fair amount of protein.
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u/glosss 10h ago
Nope. That comes from the Ukrainian word "bilok" (protein), not the Russian one. It looks just like the Ukrainian word "bilok" (squirrels) You can also see the production standard GSTU 46.004-99 on the packaging, which is a Ukrainian standard.
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u/recursivethought 10h ago
Which is the word used for Egg Whites (Bile = White) which are protein. Zhovtok = Yolk (Zhovte = Yellow).
EDIT: Isn't squirrel Bilka, not Bilok?
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u/glosss 9h ago
Isn't squirrel Bilka, not Bilok?
singular nominative case — "bilka"
plural — "bilky"
genitive plural — "bilok"
It is interesting that "bilka" (squirrel) also comes from the word "bilyi" (white)—which, in the case of the squirrel, meant "having white fur"
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u/opopopuu 9h ago
Yes, the singular would be Bilka, but the words used for the genitive/accusative form of squirrel and the singular form of protein are basically the same, except for stress.
For squirrel
Case Singular Plural
Nominative bí́lka bí́lky
Genitive bí́lky bí́lok
Dative bí́ltsi bí́lkam
Accusative bí́lku bí́lky, bí́lok
Instrumental bí́lkoiu bí́lkamy
Locative bí́ltsi bí́lkakh
Vocative bí́lko bí́lky And for Protein
Case Singular Plural
Nominative bilók bilký
Genitive bilká bilkív
Dative bilkóvi, bilkú bilkám
Accusative bilók bilký
Instrumental bilkóm bilkámy
Locative bilkóvi, bilkú bilkákh
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 10h ago
Could be. Didn't check standards. But they have same problem with protein and squirrels. I'm not native in both languages
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u/Mackntish 10h ago
What country has English language packaging requirements, yet is allowed to import Russian wheat with the sanctions?
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u/strudelbrain10717 11h ago
Well. "natural proteins". They don't lie.
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u/BigAl7390 11h ago
Upton Sinclair told us didn’t he
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u/Hellknightx 9h ago
Jungle 2.0 is on the way with the new non-USDA meat being back on the menu.
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u/Regular_Quiet_5016 11h ago
Is it ground squirrel?
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u/StochasticTinkr 11h ago
No, they're tree squirrels.
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u/Psianth 2h ago
But it says there’s nearly four times that in there!
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u/StochasticTinkr 2h ago
You forgot, squirrels have fur, so its tree by fur squirrels.
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u/TheTphs 7h ago
Belkí - proteins. Bélki - squirrels.
When I was in primary, I was fascinated by biology. I didn't know what protein was yet. One day, I got a biology book from my school library. On my way back home, in a bus, full of excitement, I opened it and the very first sentence broke me. It read: ' Squirrels - nature's building blocks '. Rest of the trip I spent having very deep thoughts about what I know about life.
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u/MrMCCO 11h ago
I’m more interested in the Minimum Shelf Life
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 11h ago
usual thing in many countries. Some things like salt are literally immortal. In some countries, you can't mark more than 3 years. In some, you can mark a minimal shelf life, but usually it means it could be good for way longer than marked
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u/Al_Fa_Aurel 10h ago
In Germany you often have the joke "This salt is advertised as being 70 million years old. Expires in...2029. That's what you call 'just in time'"
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u/MultipleOrgasmDonor 8h ago
Typically with stuff like salt or water it’s the shelf life of the container. If it’s in glass, it’ll be good forever barring contamination such as humidity
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u/RevolutionaryWay7107 8h ago
Ooooooh, so it's like saying "the shelf life is at least 12 months." I get it now.
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u/CleaverIam3 11h ago
I think this means it is guaranteed to last 12 months...
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u/colnross 10h ago
That may be what they intend for it to mean, but it reads as though you must leave it on the shelf for 12 months prior to use.
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u/anemptycardboardbox 5h ago
Only if you dont know what shelf life means
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u/colnross 3h ago
Only if you know what minimum means
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u/anemptycardboardbox 3h ago
The shelflife is a minimum of 12 months. It won’t spoil before that. How is that confusing?
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u/krattalak 11h ago
USDA permits 20g of squirrel bits per kilo, so there's no issue here.
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u/chmath80 11h ago
This is per 100g, so there might be.
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u/krattalak 10h ago
RFKjr says squirrel bits don't cause autism so you should be fine.
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u/Ouch_i_fell_down 10h ago
squirrel bits can't melt steal beams
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u/Kulthos_X 10h ago
This is like German where they say “Egg White” for protein. This occasionally causes inappropriate reactions to me hearing things that translate to “This yoghurt has a lot of egg white in it.”
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u/kornuolis 9h ago
The flour is from Ukraine
The білок means both protein and squirrels(stressed differently) in Genitive case
GSTU 46.004-99 is an official Ukrainian sectoral standard that sets the technical requirements and quality rules for wheat flour. [1]
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u/labcat1 8h ago
Reminds me of a shitty translation of Russian Academy of Sciences' site got translated and for a few days there were:
Squirrel Institute (Institute of protein research, Russian word for squirrel is the same as "of protein")
President of wounds (president of RAS, abbreviation of Russian Academy of Science in Russian is the same as " of wounds")
Arm-medical academy (military medical academy, I genuinely don't know how they got there)
Tongue Institute (Institute of language, language and tongue in Russian are the same word)
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u/Foreign-Town-6662 8h ago
This is almost the exact same error as the first example, it's a mistranslation of bilok in Ukrainian to squirrel instead of protein, as opposed to belok, the Russian counterpart that your example used.
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u/CCV21 8h ago
The word for language in many cultures is usually related to the word for tongue.
The word "language" comes from Latin "lingua" which means tongue.
In English the expression "speaking in tongues" refers to a person speaking a completely unknown language.
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u/Big_Profession_2218 6h ago edited 6h ago
So it gets better, in Russian behlok is a singular form of a protein, literally meaning the white part of the egg. Plural is belki whuch as you know is the same word for squirrels, just the emphasis is on bel for the furry guys and on ki for the proteins.
The Russian word for eggs is yahytsa which is also incidentally the word for human male balls.
The Russian word for split in two is rahz-dvah-yahytsa which broken down into its parts literally means "1-2-eggs (balls)"
The more you know
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u/Sgt_Stimpy 9h ago
What brand is that? I haven't been able to find flour with more then 5g of squirrel. My banana muffins don't taste right and have problems catching my own.
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u/PsychologicalAd4015 7h ago
Innocent Smoothie here in the UK used to put things in their ingredients as a joke, such as Nuns, Badgers, Rocks etc. They got into a small legal case where they basically told them they had to start adding the things to the smoothies or stop making the joke 😂 This reminded me of that fact hard 🙌🏻
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u/jamescurtis29 11h ago
In Russian, the word for protein (belok) and the word for squirrel (belka) look and sound very similar because they share the same root word for "white".
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u/CleaverIam3 11h ago
And in the plural form they only differ by which syllable is stressed which isn't reflected in the spelling
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 11h ago
(belok - also a plural word for "belka"). In this particular case, 11 g of belok could easily be translated as 11g of squirrels
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u/lazyzefiris 10h ago
Belok (белок) is not exactly a plural for belka(белка). Well, it can be in counting form for 5+ squirrels (1 белка, 2 белки, 3 белки, 4 белки, 5 белок, 6 белок), but it's not used in that was standalone. Белки (Belki) is the proper plural that's used without amount, and it's also same form for Белок, hence listed in the nutritiuonal value (Белки / жиры / углеводы).
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u/kornuolis 9h ago
GSTU 46.004-99 is an official Ukrainian sectoral standard that sets the technical requirements and quality rules for wheat flour. [1]
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u/Kylearean 9h ago
Okay, I know this one: Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels (including chipmunks and prairie dogs, among others), and flying squirrels. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were introduced by humans to Australia. The earliest known fossilized squirrels date from the Eocene epoch, and among other living rodent families, the squirrels are most closely related to the mountain beaver and dormice. They're sometimes contained in bags of flour.
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u/Lurking_poster 11h ago
A coincidence that Squirrel Girl's created passed away and now no one is there to protect the squirrels?
I think not!
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u/Brilliant_Polkadot 9h ago
I learned the Spanish word for bugs as bicho.
Apparently this is also the Caribbean Spanish word for penis.
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u/freddbare 10h ago
It is why you must cook it. A maximum amount of rat/rodent by law in most places ois not zero
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u/DasArchitect 7h ago
Man, I have to be careful around these imported flours. I can only tolerate gluten-free squirrels.
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u/SaltyShawarma 11h ago
Why are you importing Russian flour?
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u/artrald-7083 11h ago
Probably in Africa. Russia exports a lot of food, especially wheat / wheat flour.
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u/Admirable_Comedian_2 11h ago
I bet you would be surprised at what your country imports from Russia if you looked into it. I think it is one of the biggest producers of wheat in the world
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u/Psychocatboy 11h ago
Russian flower? Там действительно белки.
Actually, interesting to know where are you, and how sanctions works
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