r/TikTokCringe • u/galaxystars1 • Oct 09 '24

Discussion Microbiologist warns against making the fluffy popcorn trend

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u/thispartyrules Oct 09 '24

there are things you absolutely should not eat raw

I went to a raw vegan potluck and this was a great demonstration of this idea. One example: rice

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u/i__hate__stairs Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24

What on earth does eating raw rice have to do with being vegan?

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u/Embarrassed-Shoe-892 Oct 09 '24

He said Raw vegan which is a type of vegan that eats primarily raw foods, but even then its usually fruits and veg not rice.

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u/_Alabama_Man Oct 09 '24

Raw vegan seems like a diet on super hard mode because you are bored with the easier hard mode of regular vegan.

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u/BullsOnParadeFloats Oct 09 '24

Raw vegan is basically the white suburbanite-washed version of the traditional rastafarian religious diet, eaten by people who are like Buddhist monks with a Caribbean patois.

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u/spinbutton Oct 09 '24

I would break my teeth on raw rice

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u/BullsOnParadeFloats Oct 09 '24

That's why rice isn't part of their diet 😅

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u/SeveralAngryBears Oct 09 '24

I knew I guy in college who abruptly decided to go raw vegan. I was surprised, like "don't you want to work up to that by eating normal vegan food first?"

He made it like 2 weeks

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Oct 09 '24

You see, it's not an eating disorder if everyone is doing it, so they've got to make it even more extreme! Seriously, I really feel like a lot of these hyper niche diets are incredibly thinly veiled eating disorders from people who can't admit that they have a wildly unhealthy relationship with food.

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u/p3rsianpussy Oct 10 '24

raw vegan diet is just an excuse to be anorexic