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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.

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was a bartender for a bit.

It's normal for coworkers to complain about picky/annoying guests.

A coworker came up to me:

Jfc guy said he wanted a lot of lemon with his Pepsi, I gave him 3, he said he wants like a whole lemon worth of slices wtf

Me: Was he... Old?

Yeah...?

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.

[-] sblanziko@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

What does lemon do to kidney stones?

[-] pedro@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

My guess is it helps dissolve them?

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 11 points 1 year ago

A quick bit of research shows that citric acid prevents kidney stones from forming, actually.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I assumed it was common knowledge but yeah, y'all. If you wanna avoid kidney stones, lemon juice is the ticket.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm gonna go chug one of those lemon juice bottles

[-] sblanziko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, maybe, if you put kidney stones directly in lemon juice, but kidneys filter blood, not the content of our stomach. Maybe it makes the blood more acidic...? Not a doctor but I doubt it can be that effective

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Below this comment is Harvard medical school contradicting you and saying that citric acid is effective in preventing kidney stones. Do you stand by your uneducated guess?

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol I love that people are in here assuming I just pulled lemon juice helping kidney stones out of thin air. It is good to be skeptical, but not without doing your due diligence. Google is both user friendly and effective.

Y'all, you just got educated by a bartender. Remember that the next time you assume you're better than your waitstaff. (Not you, person I'm replying to, but the armchair naysayers).

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