• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      tbf when I was young and single and would go out 4 times a week I was the skiniest I’ve ever been

  • FackCurs@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Replace the egg by a croissant, add a cigarette after each meal. Become condescending. Move to France. Blend in.

    • probably2high@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Imagine that being your fuel for every day. Oh, and while you’re at it, wrangle one or more small [animal-like] children all day, keep the entire house clean, and dinner better be ready when I get home–it’s been a hard day at work. And stop being such a bitch, eh?

      The booze was less of a diet aid and more of an anti-psychotic, I assume.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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            27 days ago

            Did the cia invent crack? I was under the impression the cia was just selling huge amounts of cocaine to the inner cities and it was the ingenuity of the drug dealers that invented it

            • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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              26 days ago

              I would believe either. But the fact is the CIA dumped loads of illegal substances on poor communities and may it may not have dropped a recipe or two along the way because someone in power may have wanted a reason to start a war on poor people of color.

              That’s what I heard, at least.

  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Not a veggie in sight, so your whole digestive motility was based on alcoholic diarrhea. (Been there…)

    So fashionable to shit yourself in public in white dresses.

    • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
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      27 days ago

      Also nothing but protein and a smidge of fat. The only carbs you get is the little bit of sugar in the wine, but considering it recommends dry wine that’s not much. I bet you’d have the worst headache of your life by day three.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      OK that’s hilarious and also it puts a bit of a contextual spin on mid century misogyny. Every description of the mental and emotional effects of that diet reminded me of how all that was the stereotype of young professional women in the 70s

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      27 days ago

      I laughed way too hard at this.

      I love wine, but it is a depressant, and without a more normal amount of food to help blunt the effects of alcohol, I think I was experiencing a little bit of that “sad drunk girl crying in the bathroom” syndrome many of us observed (or experienced, no judgment!) in college.

  • rivan@lemm.eeEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Unspoken component of this diet was an array of experimental opioids and uppers that were handed out to housewives like tic-tacs.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Unlike now, when the target demographic for pharmaceutical stimulants is mainly children.

        • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          27 days ago

          Which is wild considering the spice trades of the… (according to the internet, prehistory through modernity, so that’s a thing…)

          I have to assume that 1950s housewives were so thoroughly drugged up that they couldn’t tell the difference…

          I know that they made everything in jello/aspic because gelatin was formerly a luxury, like sugar and basically any spices, so they went a bit batshit when they got cheap access…

          • Mayor Poopington@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            27 days ago

            I’ve been watching Sandwiches of History on YT lately, and noticing how much anchovy paste he goes through. I’m certain that 100 years ago, people were smoking so many cigarettes they had no sense of tastes except for the strongest concentrates.

            • Drusas@fedia.io
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              26 days ago

              Anchovy paste makes sense, much like using soy sauce or fish sauce or miso paste or even tomato paste does. You just don’t use a ton of it. It doesn’t necessarily taste fishy, but it adds a lot of umami and salt. It improves most soups, for example.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        27 days ago

        Because it’s harder to digest! The point is, you use more calories digesting a hard boiled egg than you get from it. Or so the theory was at the time.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          27 days ago

          Well that’s just fucking nonsense. At least the celery myth starts on the premise that celery has 15 calories a serving instead of an egg, a food literally packed with all the calories and protein you need to make a baby chicken.