I'm old enough to have a now-adult son who was dumb enough to try it. Although, at the time, I didn't know what he was up to, so I just told him "it's not sweet, the only reason you think it sweet is because it's always mixed with sugar." Fortunately, he didn't take much of it.
Yeah that kid is probably 45 today. By the way I love that he's never been cropped out of the meme through god knows how many iterations because his facial expression is the real punchline of the image: Clearly trolling and barely concealing the fact.
It blows my mind that cinnamon trees are a real thing. I can go walk through a cinnamon forest!? Wtf, how is that real? That's some CandyLand/Narnia shit.
It's not sawdust. Some might be derived from wood but it's just cellulose and does not contain lignin, which is what differentiates wood from other plant matter. Chemically, it's basically the same as any other plant starch.
Sawdust has a lot more in it than just cellulose. The meme is a joke, but it's closer to reality than calling cellulose powder derived from wood pulp "sawdust".
Sawdust isn't just cellulose. Wood is a matrix of cellulose fibers bound together by a tougher compound called lignin. While lignin isn't particularly toxic, you wouldn't want to eat it.
Fun fact, a lot of the process of making paper is for removing the lignin, only the cellulose is useful for making paper. And grasses like bamboo have a higher ratio of cellulose to lignin, so it's better for making paper
Oh its been worse. But at the moment its become down to potato and lettuce. Its all part of her Mastcell related to EDS. Ten years ago when she was in High School basically the only only thing she could and did eat was plain chicken and plain eggs. At this point, with medications, she can mostly eat normal, aside from the potato and lettuce.
Depending on where it came from, and what wood, I wouldn't be surprized if it was outright healthy. Tons of fiber, plus dietary sources of lignans are rare.
It's actually used a lot in food, along with other agricultural waste materials. You'll find it listed in ingredients as cellulose. It's processed to hell and indigestible, so it doesn't really do much nutritionally beyond adding a bit of dietary fiber.
It's not really that weird, root beer used to be made using sassafras bark and yeah that's toxic in large amounts too.
Also fun fact, you can eat the inner bark of most pine trees, particularly white pines. It doesn't taste great but it could easily be a source of food in an emergency.
It wasn't until recently that I learned how bad cinnamon was for you. Saw that the max you should consume per day is 1-2 teaspoons. Not tablespoons. I was eating a whole thing of cinnamon powder a week just cuz I like it. I've stopped doing that.
111 Comments
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 385 pts · 123d
Every dust is sawdust after you see it.
neatchee@piefed.social · 164 pts · 123d
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 123d
We gotta crime seen here!
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 123d
Daaad! š
0ops@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 123d
Boooooooooo
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 122d
If you witnessed a toothed cutting implement in action, you saw a saw saw.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 123d
Officially the most upvoted comment I've ever seen within a day of posting. Winner winner chicken dinner!
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
... ... Fuck you.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
We are all sawdust on this Blessed day
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d
I saw dust and then I clooose myyy eyyyyesss
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 83 pts · 123d
All bark
Photonic@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 123d
Oh Iām old enough to remember the cinnamon challengeā¦ it definitely has a bite
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 28 pts · 123d
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 123d
Link (that isnāt Chinese or Zuckerberg spyware)?
TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 122d
https://www.tumblr.com/badassdemonsword/669331946168582144/this-gif-is-like-almost-biblical-as-if-hes
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 121d
YouDaRealMVP.jpg
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 6 pts · 123d
Did you mean to respond to me?
/gen
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 122d
no my sons name is also tomenzgg
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 121d
Maybe? Yesterday was a lifetime ago. :-)
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 123d
I mean I don't think you have to be that old to remember the cinnamon challenge. It took off in popularity in the early 2010 so about 10-15 years ago.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 123d
I'm old enough to have a now-adult son who was dumb enough to try it. Although, at the time, I didn't know what he was up to, so I just told him "it's not sweet, the only reason you think it sweet is because it's always mixed with sugar." Fortunately, he didn't take much of it.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 123d
No bite
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 123d
If sawdust made my yeasted enriched dough taste awesome I'd be putting it on there too.
BC_viper@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 123d
Have you tried? Maybe its delicious
rImITywR@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 123d
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -10 pts · 123d
I do t know if 00ās potato quality
Or AI slop
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today · 28 pts · 123d
That meme is likely older than you are
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 122d
Yeah that kid is probably 45 today. By the way I love that he's never been cropped out of the meme through god knows how many iterations because his facial expression is the real punchline of the image: Clearly trolling and barely concealing the fact.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 121d
Yeah, nice try.
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 123d
Tastes good atop of arabica bean soup and foamed lactase.
edit: grammatical correct word to use here was "lactation" or "lactose product".
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 123d
I'd say it's more of a tea than a soup. Unless you leave the grinds in.
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 123d
They're the same picture.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
Compromise and call it a broth.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 123d
I also like a bit of beaver scent gland juice added in.
T156@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 123d
Isn't that the thing that digests milk, but not milk? You can buy little lactase pills at the pharmacy.
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 123d
Opps. You are correct.
Lactase, is an enzyme that helps break down lactose into its component parts for digestion. (Wiki)
I guess I was trying to use the verb form "lactate" for a science-y term for milk.
xep@discuss.online · 2 pts · 121d
Lactate is lactic acid.
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 121d
Cool. I didn't know that. I looked it up.
I'm in deep with my error. I should make a edit note in my original comment, just in case anyone has come this far. Thanks.
xep@discuss.online · 2 pts · 120d
Didn't mean to sound like I was piling on, just wanted to let you know.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
hell yeah. i also make a damn fine snickerdoodle ice cream
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 122d
It blows my mind that cinnamon trees are a real thing. I can go walk through a cinnamon forest!? Wtf, how is that real? That's some CandyLand/Narnia shit.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 122d
I always wondered how a cinnamon forest would smell.
uenticx@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 122d
Like chicken, of course.
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 122d
Much like all forests
LongDickJonsson@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 122d
Everything is toxic in large amounts, even water
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 122d
Because our water is basically all dihydrogen monoxide at this point. We're so fucked.
denaggels@feddit.org · 13 pts · 122d
Our water is becoming increasingly less dihydrogen monoxide and more micro plastics. Thats why we're fucked
modus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 122d
Consume too much? Dead.
Inhale too much? Dead.
Go too deep into it? Dead.
We really should be regulating the stuff.
wallabra@lemmy.eco.br · 3 pts · 122d
Elite ball knowledge
tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 122d
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 122d
What did the Jamaican priest say to the thief stealing from the church?
(In Jamaican accent) "You're a cinna mon"
Hue hue hue
JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 123d
Well, actually... it's ground into a powder, rather than the byproduct of sawing. I don't think it counts.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 122d
I will saw my cinnamon sticks just to prove you wrong.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org · 10 pts · 122d
"Goddamnit Margret, don't ask, someone was wrong on the Internet."
Hupf@feddit.org · 6 pts · 122d
Duty Calls
pseudo@jlai.lu · 17 pts · 122d
As a forager I don't see anything wrong with eating a tree... As long I'm 200% sure what kind tree I'm eating.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
Ever eat bamboo? Delicious
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 122d
Bamboo is grass.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 121d
Then what are palm trees? Checkmate.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 122d
I have and I hated it. But I think I didn't know how to prepare it.
Elechicken@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 123d
But is it known to cause cancer in the state of California?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 123d
Everything is known to cause cancer to the state of California.
notabot@piefed.social · 10 pts · 123d
I think California is known to cause cancer in the state of California, you can bet cinnamon is too.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 1 pts · 123d
California is the cancer
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 123d
Pay attention to how often you see "cellulose" as a listed ingredient. That's also usually processed wood pulp.
That cheap powdery parmesan often found in pizza places? Also sawdust.
It gets extra funny when you see cellulose listed on something with artificial cinnamon flavoring.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 123d
It's not sawdust. Some might be derived from wood but it's just cellulose and does not contain lignin, which is what differentiates wood from other plant matter. Chemically, it's basically the same as any other plant starch.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 122d
and its fiber, which helps push the other shit you eat through your guts
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 15 pts · 123d
If your pizza places have sawdust in their parmesan, change nation.
Master@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 123d
Fire Nation does not use sawdust in their parmesan!
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 123d
Sawdust has a lot more in it than just cellulose. The meme is a joke, but it's closer to reality than calling cellulose powder derived from wood pulp "sawdust".
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 122d
its also poor mans cocaine, as well as nutmeg.
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 122d
Instructions unclear. I just sprinkled cocaine on my rice pudding.
Hupf@feddit.org · 14 pts · 122d
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 122d
Ah, right, the nutmeg cookies of auntie, with far too much nutmeg. Eat two and you'll get funny.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 122d
Nutmeg is incredibly unpleasant for drug purposes, ask me how I know
Broken_Orange_Juice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
You can get high off of them?? Or is it just that they're good for snorting?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 121d
its possible i heard, but you likely will aspirate the powder causing lung issues. same with cinnamon.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 122d
Shredded cheese has cellulose (basically sawdust). Itās added to keep the cheese from sticking together. Or thatās my understanding.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 122d
It's actually potato starch.
Sawdust isn't just cellulose. Wood is a matrix of cellulose fibers bound together by a tougher compound called lignin. While lignin isn't particularly toxic, you wouldn't want to eat it.
Fun fact, a lot of the process of making paper is for removing the lignin, only the cellulose is useful for making paper. And grasses like bamboo have a higher ratio of cellulose to lignin, so it's better for making paper
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 6 pts · 122d
Its not always potato starch though.
I mostly know this because my daughter is allergic to potatos so we have to only get certain brands of cheese.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 122d
This might be the worse allergy I can think of. I didnāt know anyone had this allergy. I am so very sorry to hear this.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 5 pts · 122d
Oh its been worse. But at the moment its become down to potato and lettuce. Its all part of her Mastcell related to EDS. Ten years ago when she was in High School basically the only only thing she could and did eat was plain chicken and plain eggs. At this point, with medications, she can mostly eat normal, aside from the potato and lettuce.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 121d
Iām glad that you got it under control! Iām still sorry she doesnāt get to enjoy potatoes.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 122d
Wow, so trees are made from potatoes, that's wild. Mother nature, you crazy!
snooggums@piefed.world · 3 pts · 122d
Lignin my balls
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 122d
Potato sawdust. Haha. I knew it wasnāt sawdust like trees but it was a dusty material made from plant but I didnāt know what kind.
Thanks! Thatās pretty cool
benny@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 123d
There are also studies saying it can help regulate blood sugar.
i_love_FFT@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 122d
::: spoiler controversial comment Yeah, cause those cinnamon flavored sweets are disgusting! :::
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 123d
Also, explosive if blown into an aerosolized powder
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 123d
Many many things will explode in an aerosolized powder. Even a box of cornflakes.
Venat0r@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
I imagine things that aren't explosive in that form are probably not good for your lungs (I'm imagining asbestos) š
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 122d
Makes a damn good insecticide
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
and prosthetic testicle, or prosthesticle
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 123d
This is why the cinnamon challenge is so difficult.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 122d
A bit of instant coffee in the bottom of a bowl.
Add 120g of frozen blueberries.
Add a sprinkling of roasted cashews.
Add some whole milk. (Or, heavy cream if you're feeling thin that day.)
Top with a generous poof of cinnamon powder, and a tiny bit of sugar.
Stir and enjoy.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 123d
Does that mean sawdust isn't unhealthy to eat?
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 25 pts · 123d
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 123d
Depending on where it came from, and what wood, I wouldn't be surprized if it was outright healthy. Tons of fiber, plus dietary sources of lignans are rare.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 123d
It's actually used a lot in food, along with other agricultural waste materials. You'll find it listed in ingredients as cellulose. It's processed to hell and indigestible, so it doesn't really do much nutritionally beyond adding a bit of dietary fiber.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 122d
Dietary fiber is a lot. That's like the main thing missing from everyone's diets these days.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 123d
Lignan balls
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 123d
Not healthy =/= unhealthy
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 122d
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 120d
It's not really that weird, root beer used to be made using sassafras bark and yeah that's toxic in large amounts too.
Also fun fact, you can eat the inner bark of most pine trees, particularly white pines. It doesn't taste great but it could easily be a source of food in an emergency.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
SillyDude@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 123d
It wasn't until recently that I learned how bad cinnamon was for you. Saw that the max you should consume per day is 1-2 teaspoons. Not tablespoons. I was eating a whole thing of cinnamon powder a week just cuz I like it. I've stopped doing that.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 123d
This is cassia bark (what most sell as cinnamon) but not Ceylon (has 250x less) so if you have ātrueā cinnamon then youāre fine
Edit: Coumarin, had to google cuz hell if I remember that shit. Bad for liver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumarin
Under toxicity, 2nd paragraph
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 122d
And dont forget your dose of heavy metals!
Mnem667@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 123d
I... what?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 123d
1-2 teaspoons is a crazy amount to be fair
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 123d
This is so inherently incorrect it's incredible.
I've literally soaked multiple cinnamon sticks for fancy ass coffee. I've ground multiple sticks for meals.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 122d
Doesn't Ceylon Cinnamon have negligible amounts of coumarin compared to Cassia?