Grrl Power #1452 – Meat ugly
Honestly if Sydney had gotten an 11-alarm Indian dish like atomic lamb korma, her body might not have even noticed the meat. I like a little spice when I get Indian, or a little heat on my Thai Fried Rice or Pad See Ew, but honestly, it’s easy to cross a point where the heat gets to the point where you can’t really tell what you’re eating. Is it lamb korma or chicken korma? There’s usually a slight texture difference, but if the flavor is so overwhelming, that gets to be the only difference.
I’m sure there are tales of de-vegetarianizing out there. It’s probably best if done gradually. Sydney will have it relatively easy since fish and eggs and cheese are still a part of her diet. I imagine a vegan diving straight into a juicy burger would experience maximum distress. I’ve been on various diets in my life, including some very low fat ones, and I can tell you, 4-6 weeks of low fat followed by a cheat day starting with a big plate of bacon leads to… well, not-half-measures on the toilet.
Personally my favorite “diet” was busting my ass in the gym during my thirties, but I’ve fucked up my shoulders badly enough now that I can’t do about half the exercises I used to. I miss military press. :/
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Sidney made a mis-steak playing a high steak game.
You really gonna steak it all on these puns?
That’s OK, if it doesn’t work out, it’ll be a PRIME opportunity for some good RIBbing…
Steak puns are a rare medium, but this one was well done.
How about Cloneibalism? You clone some of your own organs, then eat them.
‘You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world!’
I remember Mt. Diablo.
In a comic book universe, that can have some repercussions. Others might do it, but Sidney is too savvy to even attempt that.
Love how the orb tracks are rotating.
Hearing you with the shoulder. I slipped on a wet walkway several months ago while dressed for a funeral and carrying a plate of food for the family of the deceased. Through some amazing body contortions I managed to both save the food and escape with only a small spot of mud on my slacks. Fortunately for everyone else, it happened in front of a doorbell camera so everyone got to laugh at me “break dancing”. Unfortunately for me, I sprained my left wrist and did something to my right shoulder during the process. Also unfortunately I’m too old and both are taking forever to heal. Military press is a no-go right now.
“Love how the orb tracks are rotating.” And still not keeping up.
Wore down my rotator cuffs carrying heavy multi-buy offers in handled bags. I’m a couple of days into a fibre and colour free diet for the week. My goodness that’s a shock to the system.
Sorry Dave, but your body will definitely notice when you make a radical change in diet, no matter what your mouth notices. It is, of course, different for everyone.
Gut bacteria revolting is a thing. To be fair though, the head Sydney is about to demolish has endured far more potent emissions fromher Grakz binge in #686
Heck it doesn’t even have to be due to gut bacteria not cooperating. If your body isn’t properly regulating bile production, changes in diet composition can lead one to becoming, ahem, a “Salad Shooter”.
Sydney is missing enzymes to process meat. Her stomach simply can’t process meat. No amount of spices will fix this. She needs an enzymes transfusion. Hopefully, space meds can do this in a less gross way that what we can do now on Earth.
Or she uses the method human babies use and kisses Frix.
The gut flora used to process all kinds of things including meat is inherited from parents through bodily contact.
I’m assuming here human bodies can maintain woof gut flora otherwise she might need assistance from Dabbler(she has sufficient access to human gut flora) or medical help.
I’m sure Dabbler would be glad to assist. (Or did you mean some kind of technomagical thing and not the kissing thing?)
Maybe she got a little of Maxima’s mercury.
When I was at college, a bunch of us went out for pizza. I’d ordered one with chili on it – which, to my mind, meant that there were bits of chili sprinkled on the top.
Nope.
Whole strips of fresh chili, to the extent the pizza looked mostly green.
I don’t mind a bit of spice, but I much prefer flavour. As it was, I was gagging because I couldn’t get the damn thing down my neck.
What I’m saying is that Sydney has essentially duplicated my mad dash to the toilet…
There is just something hilarious about a huge guy daintily holding a small cup.
Ah shame she went for the steak. Not saying it’s hot or good, but my mudbug boil has enough heat and flavor to make an East Tejas bayou living boy cry from joy and because the steam hits harder than weapons grade pepper spray. (Free hint, never stick ones face into the steam coming from the pot. Seriously DON’T!)
Thirty-something is the magical age. You mostly have your stuff together, like basics of getting by on your own should no longer be a mystery and be on some sort of career path, but unless you made horrible life-style decisions or got cursed by the genetics fairy your body is able to do everything you could want it to do.
The one way I got blessed by the genetics fairy was I seem to be aging slower than most people, and was able to stretch that magical time out into my 40’s.
Now…. Now there’s no chance I’d be able to do incline press with so much weight it’s scary or sport a six-pack without chemical assistance, and I rather like my kidneys and liver more than I’d like bulging biceps.
Hmmm, yes, the consequences of actions.
Any radical change in diet like this should be accompanied by probiotics appropriate for that meal. That is not necessarily sufficient, as probiotics work with enzymes, but it’s certainly helpful to only have *some* of the GI problems. I feel like this is probably something that Frix should have known about, but maybe he suggested and Sydney rejected his advice and charged straight ahead because Sydney.
Actual GI problems generally do not happen that fast, although they do tend to happen quicker for more pure experiences. The only time I can recall when I’ve had them happen while I was still eating was bacterial rather than due to my lack of enzymes and appropriate gut bacteria.
Back when I had a gall bladder there were certain meals, usually consisting of too much meat and fat that could launch them selves through me in under two hours.
Over the last few days, I have been seeing AI-generated YouTube videos showing The Boys’ Homelander getting curb-stomped by various high-tier superheroes, such as She-Hulk, Ghost Rider, Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel), Shazam (the other Captain Marvel), Superman, and Supergirl. That got me thinking about how an encounter between ArcSwat and the Seven would go. In general, we have a highly organized team that trains together, respects and trusts each other, that communicates, and coordinates with a mission to police people with extraordinary abilities, easily takes down and arrests a bunch of bullies that hate each other, that have never faced real opposition, and that tend to try to just overwhelm any opposition with sheer power.
Arc-Swat would get deputized by the FBI of the The Boys world, get 7 arrest warrants and related court documents and serve them at Vought offices in New York. The Seven try to intimidate Archon and fail. A series of short fights ended with the Seven arrested and additionally charged with Resisting Arrest. The previously unstoppable are finally stopped and are off to the jail that had already been prepared for them.
And Sydney would go on a live rant on how the Seven is a lame copy of supers.
Last time Neil deGrasse Tyson unfriended her.
I de-vegetarianized. One definitely does not move on to prime rib in the first week. Chicken, pork, hamburger. It’s worth the wait though.
Actually, Sydney’s gut is probably okay with animal protein because she commonly eats (dead) fish. It’s the fat that’s gonna mess with her innards. That and—hmm. I wonder if the Cuisine Forge 6000 also reproduces the hormones in beef? That would be … interesting.
I’m sure Sydney’s gut problems don’t even need to be a physical reaction to her eating meat, it could just as easily a subconscious mental reaction.
I come from hunting and meat-raising people, but have eaten mainly ovo-lacto vegetarian since my early 20s. It’s not a religious thing. I will eat seafood if circumstances call for it (though I never much liked most seafood anyhow), and I don’t freak out if I get something from a buffet that turns out to be made with chicken, etc.
Inadvertently eating chicken or a small amount of beef never upset my digestion, though it seems awfully rich when your system isn’t used to it.
Pork, however . . . .
I live in an area with many local potato chip brands. About half of them use lard for frying. Learned early on that if I got a sandwich with a side of chips for lunch, and it turned out the chips were fried in lard, I’d have a bad afternoon. I only buy chips as a side, because they have absolutely no positive nutritional value, and I WILL eat them all if they’re in front of me–but I am real careful about the frying medium.
Once I got an order of broccoli with hot garlic sauce from a Chinese carryout that my brother liked. The next day, I had a lot of digestive distress (no barfing, so I didn’t suspect food poisoning). There was no obvious pork in it, but suspect the sauce had lard or was cooked with pork that was used for another dish, or something.
Heh, yesterday I carved up a whole Ribeye slab and got about twenty one pound steaks. That’s around forty full meals for me and wifey with fixings. I’ll put a steak fresh off my grill against any high end steakhouse out there. Would a Veggy really have a ‘ralphing’ reaction to a beef steak as long as she’s eating side dishes with it. Mashed ‘taters, green beans and in Sydney’s case a scoop of fiery chili.
I just remembered this reddit post about diarrhea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5ou3s3/eli5_if_it_takes_two_days_for_food_to_eventually/dcmnlpm/?context=3
I know what you mean about age and injury, since 1975, I was body-building in school, by the next year, I switched to martial arts because I was over-muscled. It’s bad when you have no neck and can’t make a fist. When I had my car accident in 1983, I have to give it all up, the injuries were that bad. between the 2 crushed vertebra, the dislocations of the hip, shoulder, and collar bone I couldn’t do a proper curl much less training. Oh I tried, that’s when I found out that my shoulder and hip would easily re-dislocate… NOT fun. I had to learn how to reset my shoulder myself rather than run to the hospital every time.
Yeah, fake or not, her mind and body wasn’t ready for that cut, a beef stew would have been a better choice, I always add hot sauce to mine anyway ;) Her “issue” right now could be a mental reaction, “Oh no! I ate someone cute!” could be first and foremost in the back of her mind. I just hope for her sake she tries again.