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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Much as I love spicy foods/hot sauce, this weapons grade shit is just silly.

  I once signed a waiver to purchase a spicy chicken sandwich and will never do so again.

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  • sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had the same sandwich (Dave’s Hot Chicken reaper sandwich). I assumed it was just a marketing stunt. After one bite I had to go back and get a milkshake so I could sip it between bites to finish the damn sandwich.

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh was it made with Dave’s Hot Sauce? I had a customer bring in his own Ultimate Insanity hot sauce to use in a Prairie Fire shot (tequila+hot sauce). Shit looked ROUGH. He let me keep the hot sauce after though and it became one of my partner’s favourites.

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I find it hard to understand how a potentially hazardous to health food item is even allowed.

    What is this obcession with ever increasing level of spice in food, lately?

    Because at some point it all the flavour just goes away, replaced by a hefty dose of pain.

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Spice will give you an approximation of a “runner’s high” without the tedious mucking about of exercise. There is, of course, an upper limit which too many products tip past.

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    • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It can be fun to safely experience sensory extremes. Many people get an endorphin/dopamine rush from it.

      Other than some gut irritation it’s not a significant hazard. Like yeah keep it safely stored from sensitive people and poets also it’s probably not the best road trip snack or whatever. Certainly less dangerous than alcohol, fireworks, cigarettes or texting while driving.

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because it’s fun. Live a little.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      in the past i thought eating spicy food made me look cool and manly, but then i realised i’m missing out on the flavour of foods and understood i was being silly. so now i mostly stick to mild foods, with the occasional spicy food for varity’s sake but only if i can actually taste the flavour of said food through the spice

      but that’s just me

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      self inflicted pain with no scars or prema damage, as long as it’s below pepper spray.

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    • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I realize I’m a special case, but my nose is essentially non-functional—I don’t smell food. While my sense of taste is more sensitive than your average person, I suspect I still miss out on some kinds of flavour. I believe my impairment is why I am drawn towards strong tastes like cheeses or, indeed, extremely spicy food. They’re the “only” flavours that I really experience strongly.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My mouth is broken and I love really spicy stuff. Like, still haven’t met someone in person who likes things as spicy as I like them.

    FYI to the Flaming Anus chocolate bar: it’s advertising hype BS. Like most hot sauces yelling out some high scoville number. All that big “2.2 million scoville” on the packaging here is actually just referencing that it has Carolina reaper pepper in the chocolate, and that those peppers can be up to 2.2 million scoville.

    But the peppers are dead last on the ingredient list. Each bar has very little in it. If I ate a Carolina reaper pepper rated over 2 million even I would hate it and it would burn and I’d feel like my insides wanted to die. But the chocolate bar here is just a spicy little snack.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A guy after my own heart. Do you like vinegar based hot sauces? If not, which sauces do you go for? I’ve struggled for years to find decent sauces and have only found Melinda’s and my own sauces to tolerate.

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not the guy you responded to, but I also love hot sauce. I usually stock franks, yellowbird’s red jalapeño sauce (forget the name), and cholula or Valentina if I don’t feel like paying for it. I also had this really awesome green hot sauce from El Pato brand, but I haven’t ever seen it again. Hopefully someday!

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Vinegar tends to be too forward. I go for the stuff you’ll find in a Mexican market or “ethnic” aisle of a grocery store. Peppers being an ingredient higher than most others beyond water catch my eye. Melinda’s is alright, though I’ve seen them branch out quite a bit from their more humble beginnings.

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    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t like vinegary too much (or smoke/fermented flavor etc), I like El Yucateco Red*.

      Though it is a bit expensive for a tiny bottle. So I made a few big bottles trying my own spin* from garden habaneros (orange) and liked how it turned out.

      * I see the key ingredients: distilled white vinegar, citric acid, xantham gum

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    • Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, a fellow Melinda’s enjoyer! I love they’re Ghost Pepper sauce in particular (though it’s fairly mild for a Ghost Pepper sauce). My only complaint with Melinda’s, is that they consistently use too much carrot in their sauces. But otherwise they’re really great!

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• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  iirc mice don’t have the same response to capsaicin as humans - they can taste it, and don’t particularly like the taste, but it doesn’t cause them pain like it does in humans?

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sure birds are immune as well as Steve-O, can’t say for sure of rodents.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From a tiny amount of reading (and a complete lack of a biology degree…) it’s that the rodent taste buds just react differently to the capsaicin, so it doesn’t hit the sodium channels in the pain receptor ‘stack’ in the same way as it does in humans.

      I think.

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  • proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is interesting. A popular squirrel deterrent for bird feeders is to put spicy stuff on the seed. I’ve been trying that lately and the squirrels have completely left my bird feeder alone. So there must be something rodents don’t like — unless squirrels are just built different?

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Squirrels just need to nut up.

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  • ftbd@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought all mammals responded to capsaicin

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    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seeing the videos of goats just casually chomping through the carolina reapers, I would bet there are differences in species.

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    • DampCanary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You thought right, at least based on this research:

      capsaicin as a rodent aversion agent

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume so. I have had critters gorging on my ghosts and reapers in the garden. Losing an entire plant overnight was the last straw so I have webbing up now, but they were clearly unaffected.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lost a plant with peppers on it? I wonder what OG was eating that.

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  • DampCanary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By this researcher they do feel the “pain” from it:

    capsaicin as a rodent aversion agent

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Am I just missing where they claim that? From the conclusion:

      Altering the palatability of this feed to rodents through the addition of capsaicin may greatly enhance traditional methods of increasing poison bait acceptance on poultry operations

      That they avoid taste has nothing to do with the ‘pain’ experienced as a result of consuming it - in the preceding section they discuss other strategies to increase bait acceptance, including adding rodenticide to preferred bait foods. That rodents do not like the taste isn’t really in question, that they have a pain response to consuming it is.

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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I never understood sweets with spiciness added. It just ruins the whole experience for me. Spicy on savoury foods is fine but not on primarily sweet ones.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dunno. I like my chili flavoured candy.

    Beside, wasn’t chocolate traditionally eaten with chili by the natives? Or was it a spicy coco drink…?

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Chocolate isn’t sweet, it’s bitter. You have to add a lot of sugar to get the sweet chocolate we’re familiar with. The Mayan and Aztec versions of hot chocolate were more like a spicy coffee than the sweet drink we have now.

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    • EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll occasionally make up coffee in the morning with chocolate, cinnamon, and a few shakes of cayenne pepper. Coffee shop I went to once did the same thing, called it an Aztec Mocha. Very good.

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    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Chili flavored? ewww. Cinnamon flavored? Oh yeah! Turn that spicy up!

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  • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s amazing how all humans are different.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A lot of Asian foods are spicy/sweet; it is great.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but are they spicy sweets/desserts?

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agree with slight exception: Pineapple, Jalapeno, Pepperoni on pizza. Just the right amount of sweet, spicy, and salty on the savory base. Shit slaps.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That could work. But it is as I said not primarily meant tobe sweet.

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    • halferect@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Add goat cheese to that and it’s the best pizza

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  • Ifera@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, thst is very subjective. I love tamarind and pepper candy, vanilla ice cream with spicy chips, and honey plus roasted chillies marinade for pork.

    And I say this as someone who is not into spicy food, there are a few combinations out there, where the sweet and spicy mix actually work great for a snack.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good for you.

      I do like spicy food in fact but spicy sweets were always offputing to me.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve tried a few mild chilli chocolates and they’ve been pretty good. Not too sweet though, actual chocolates.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This variety is for the challenge of it, not the enjoyment of eating it.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well this one is but many are not.

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  • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sweetness increases your tolerance for heat. The Scoville unit basically tells you how much sugar water it takes to mask the spiciness.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What?

      Scoville is exactly how much water it takes to neutralize the capsaicin until you can’t detect it.

      Which as different people have different tolerance it’s really not a precise method, and prone to mixed results for individuals.

      It has nothing to do with sugar. Most people find sugar intensifies capsaicin

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• RattlerSix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not eating any food that advertises what it will do to your asshole. We’re adults here, you can just say it’s hot. You don’t have to say “We are very proud of the way our product will absolutely Sept 11th the hole you shit from.” It’s not necessary to bring my asshole into this.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    well 9/11 was an inside job

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    • NutWrench@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Caused by gut flora

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok but what about a soothing breeze anus chocolate bar?

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Citrus kiss

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Might be more of a Deepwater Horizon situation?

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s how California fires get started.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When the first spasms hit.
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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why does that look like Mickey is busting a nut?

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  … that might actually be a … rather inhumane, but ‘effective’ form of pest control for mice.

  I… did not know that anyone made fucking ghost pepper grade chocolate, but yeah, that would lure in and then potentiall kill, if not seriously injure or at least dissuade mice.

  Its like sugar + borax for ants and such, sheesh.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No one does. It isn’t a 2.2 million shu chocolate bar. It just has a very small amount of Carolina reaper pepper as an ingredient in the bar. Most of those hot sauces with goofy names are the same way. “Satan’s lBunghole made with 6,000,000 pepper extract” Yeah. Made with like a drop of extract so the sauce is more like 200,000 scoville.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    dissuade “fuck this shit I am moving from this house”

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• Sprinklelicious@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of those things you buy but never to actually eat. I remember my brother bought me a beer that was made using yeast originally cultured from beard hairs belonging to the master Brewmaster (I believe rouge brewery made it). Could never bring myself to drink it. Sat in my shelf for years as more of a keep sake.

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah… this is worse than my sister buying me candy with ants…

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  • Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beard beer! Yeah, rogue was definitely playing with things at the time (remember voodoo donut?). Gotta keep in mind this brewer had been brewing in a yeast laden environment for many years.

    I feel like I remember reading white labs sampled it and found it was a combo of several of their strains.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And then there’s the polish beer, made from yeast culture from a couple of models kootchies.

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  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s fucking disgusting. Are they valuable? I pull one of those of my bath drain every couple of years if he ever needs another one.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those bars are fine to eat, though. Spicy chocolate tastes good and the 2.2 million advertising is BS. They contain a tiny amount of pepper from 2 million+ scoville Carolina reaper peppers. Diluted down as the last ingredient in the chocolate bar makes it way, way, lower.

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• JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reminds me of the time I lost an entire day to the fucking One Chip Challenge.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m the “spicy guy” of my circle of people I know, so I always get brought in the challenge things and hottest x to try. Had the gummies and jerky, and beer, and all sorts of things. The chip has been the only one that I’d actually say was hot. Mouth was fine, but it made my stomach hurt for like 10 minutes.

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• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some products like this should be required to have dangerous chemical signs on them.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think that the mouse would have understood them.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s advertising bs. The chocolate isn’t that hot. It isn’t 2.2 million scoville. It had a tiny amount of 2.2 million scoville pepper mixed into the chocolate. That pepper is dead last on the ingredients list. You’d have a harder time eating half a habanero.

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• JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dogs and cats can’t taste capsaicin, can mice?

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, do mice like chocolate? Can they eat chocolate? Or is this one of those the-dog-will-shit-itself-to-death things?

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• cannon_annon88@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, that mouse is dead.

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• racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  WTH is this pic?

  Who holds a chocolate bar like that?

  Who would have such a piece of finger nail?

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• Chisav@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The thumb. No person would hold that like that. And look at Nutrition facts.

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• Chisav@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ai still has trouble with hands.

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