Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.
I used to eat the skins until my kidney stone went to the lab. No more skins or spinach for me. :-( Kidney stone pain is an amazingly-effective incentive for dietary change.
I was a bartender for a bit.
It’s normal for coworkers to complain about picky/annoying guests.
A coworker came up to me:
Me: Was he… Old?
Me: kidney stones. That mans probably had a few, and he’s done with em. Give him a sidecar of fresh lemon juice (something we had on hand), you’ll make his day.
What does lemon do to kidney stones?
My guess is it helps dissolve them?
A quick bit of research shows that citric acid prevents kidney stones from forming, actually.
I assumed it was common knowledge but yeah, y’all. If you wanna avoid kidney stones, lemon juice is the ticket.
Spinach causes kidney stones? Ru roh
Spinach is oxalate rich, and oxalates are the main cause of kidney stones https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/5-steps-for-preventing-kidney-stones-201310046721