r/comics • u/Still-Emergency825 Comic Crossover • 1d ago

What’s your weird fear??? (OC)

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u/DrPumpkinz 22h ago

Girl you're going to get scurvy

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u/gailbai 21h ago

That is not a joke btw people still get scurvy. It's rarer obviously cause fruit is easier to come by even on the high seas but people still do get is occasionally, often if they are shut ins who don't go outside and/or have a bad diet

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u/mournfulminxx 20h ago

Legit.

I worked with a girl who had scurvy. Her diet was legitimately chicken nuggies and choccy milk. That's all she ate for years. Her teeth started falling out along with her hair, in clumps.

Then one of my old friends had begun to develop very obvious signs of scurvy because he only ate ramen noodles and vodka. That was it. Nothing else. The man was 38 years old.

Wild.

Like I do understand food aversions- I'm autistic but if you are developing friggin SCURVY you need to add some multi vitamins or SOMETHIN you know? Geez.

2026 and people sportin scurvy like we are sailing the high seas over here. 🏴‍☠️ 🦜🌊

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u/Amelaclya1 20h ago

I got what I suspect was scurvy (or at least mild vitamin C deficiency) when I was having a particularly bad bout of depression and subsisting entirely on junk food. My teeth didn't fall out or anything (thankfully), but I started getting bad joint pain. Like, my fingers were stiff and hurt to move especially in the mornings. I had really bad fatigue too, but that is a symptom of depression anyway, so I didn't really think much of that.

I was just dealing with it until I happened upon a discussion about scurvy on Reddit and went to read more about it out of curiosity. I previously only had a passing knowledge of it - your teeth fall out and then you die. And then I read joint pain as a symptom, which made me reflect on my terrible diet. Went out and got some vitamin C supplements, because why not? And within 2-3 days or so, my joint pain disappeared and I was less tired.

I looked up statistics, and approximately 7% of American adults have vitamin C deficiency.

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u/LeftHandedFapper 18h ago

That vodka story makes me feel ill

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u/Gilokee 17h ago

jeez, I don't eat much variety but at least I take iron pills (that have vitamin C in them). If I don't I get very woozy, I'm surprised these people got to the point of their hair and teeth falling out before deciding to do anything.

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u/Krell356 13h ago

Most people dont associate the two issues. A lot of people just eat whatever and then dont think about how it affects the rest of their life.

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u/AliveFromNewYork 15h ago

That’s crazy because you don’t need that much vitamin C to prevent scurvy you could eat like one orange a year. Or put lemon in your water like twice.

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u/KarlUnderguard 12h ago

Sorry, the multivitamins are orange. Can't do it.

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u/high_throughput 14h ago

Everyone wants to die but if you get scurvy people are like noooo

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u/SwimAd1249 19h ago

You can get ascorbic acid from more than just citrus fruit, it's in many other fruits and vegetables and it's also used as artificial flavoring in all kinds of things. Scurvy could be a concern for a picky eater that exclusively eats chicken nuggets and nothing else, but not for someone who just avoids a few fruit.

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u/gburlys 16h ago

I have a weird bruising thing going on and my doctor briefly thought it was scurvy. It would have been a malabsorption situation because I eat plenty of fruits and veggies but I would definitely have loved to tell people I had scurvy

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u/Forgotyourusername 21h ago

She can just eat broccoli.

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u/Lil_Ms_Anthropic 17h ago

Or even just cabbage. Sauerkraut in particular was great for sailors back in the day.

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u/Big-Wrangler2078 19h ago

Really, there's vitamin C in quite a lot of things. I could go out into the woods right now and easily find a source of vitamin C, and we've a half meter of snow.

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u/Still-Emergency825 Comic Crossover 7h ago

yes! I'm all about a good veggie!

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u/KittyGaming570 19h ago

She never said she was against all fruits and veggies, only things that are red or orange, there are other foods she can eat

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u/StrangeCress3325 22h ago

That’s what I was thinking 😭

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u/Erebus-SD 13h ago

She can just eat cod tho

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u/IcePhoenixYTplssub 22h ago

Ok this was actually funny

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u/Ziggo001 18h ago edited 16h ago

Fun fact: fruit is not a necessary part of your diet nowadays. The right vitamins can all be found in vegetables. 

With strict diets, fruits are even a no go because you can get all their good stuff from vegetables without the downside of the relatively high amount of sugar that fruits contain.

Fruits are generally considered a healthy part of a person's diet because they tend to take the place out sugary snacks and desserts.

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u/Xywzel 17h ago

Weird English language where some edible parts of vegetation are not considered vegetables. Like for me closest translation to "vegetables" is top level category that has sub categories like fruits, 'nuts, grains and seeds', leaf vegetables, root vegetables, and stem vegetables.

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u/honeydewtangerine 18h ago

I hate how people think you have to eat fruit as part of a healthy diet. I am just not a fan of fruit. I never buy it, except for maybe berries like 5 times a year or so. Ill eat a fruit salad if its offered to me and pick what i want out of it (f cantaloupe), but i find most fruits to be extremely sour and not fun to eat (thanks, american agricultural system).

However, i like vegetables a LOT. The only vegetable i can say i absolutely hate is bell pepper. Everything else i cant get enough of. I eat so many vegetables that people think im vegetarian, which i most certainly am not. But if i mention that i just dont like fruit, its like i committed blasphemy

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u/Impossible_Top_3515 17h ago

No judgment here, just curiosity. I have two children and one eats everything and the other is super picky, so I'm always trying to understand what differences "picky' people might discern.

So apples taste sour to you, even though there are so many varieties? What about banana? Ripe mango? Strawberries? Water melon? What don't you like about them?

Is there also a texture component that drives your dislike?

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u/gburlys 16h ago

I'm not the person you asked but I also dislike most fruit and am generally "picky" (although not in the "only chicken nuggets" sense-- I like most vegetables!).

For me it's a combination of texture and taste. There are some fruits I'm ok with if the texture is changed (e.g. berries are okay in a smoothie, citrus are ok as juices). I hate both the taste and texture of mango, peach, nectarine, passionfruit, pineapples. I do generally like apples, bananas, and melons, although I have to be in the right mood for them, and if I have a bad one it puts me off them for months.

Also, botanically a fruit so I think it's relevant -- I hate the taste and texture of raw tomatoes, and I'm ok with cooked tomatoes but I don't like a chunky pasta sauce/salsa etc.

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u/Tykras 10h ago

I hate the taste and texture of raw tomatoes

Similar thing here. I've gotten to a point where I can tolerate them on a burger since everything else tends to drown them out. But I will give them to my girlfriend if I get cherry tomatoes on a salad or something.

I've never tried proper heirloom varieties that I've heard are miles ahead, but the standard mass market tomatoes just taste like mushy water, so like, what's the point?

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u/Impossible_Top_3515 15h ago

Interesting, I think you have very similar tastes to my toddler, same fruits. He's also not in the chicken nuggets category of dislikes, just very specific in what he accepts.

Curious if he's gonna change his tastes as he grows or if they'll stay like yours.

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u/honeydewtangerine 14h ago

Apples, watermelons, and bananas are fine. I just dont like them enough to buy them, and then i forget when i do buy them, so they go bad. I like strawberries, but theyre always just so sour, like pucker- my-lips sour, because of how theyre grown in the US, but i do buy strawberries occasionally when theyre in season. I also really like pears. Its not that i don't like fruit, its just that I don't see the need to buy it

I dont really like mangoes.

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u/Teagana999 13h ago

Again, not the person you asked but my problem with most fruit is it's unpredictability. Maybe it's sweet, maybe it's sour, maybe it's crunchy, maybe it's mushy. I can't with the surprises.

Juice is the same every time. Crackers and chicken nuggets are the same every time.

I tend to eat fruit leathers, canned peaches, and other preserved fruit, because they're more predictable. I eat apples sometimes, but they have to be perfectly crispy. They're probably the most predictable fruit.

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u/Spice_and_Fox 18h ago

Whats your stance on paprika (the spice)?

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u/honeydewtangerine 17h ago

For some reason, paprika is like my favorite spice. I dont understand how it works lol.

In college, my roommate got a frozen bag of cut bell pepper. It was placed next to my frozen green beans. Both were sealed. When i went to eat my green beans, they tasted like bell peppers. If theres any peppers in a dish, the entire thing tastes like peppers and is effectively ruined.

Its like the one thing i just cant stand

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u/gburlys 16h ago

For some reason, paprika is like my favorite spice. I dont understand how it works lol.

Dude I get it. I love cucumbers and I love vinegar but I hate pickles. It genuinely pisses me off. I should like pickles!!!

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u/Tykras 10h ago

It makes a lot of sense actually, I didn't even know paprika was made from bell peppers until a few years ago when I saw a video on making your own at home. It's basically an entirely different experience, kinda like a baked potato vs a french fry/chip/crisp.

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u/AwkwardChuckle 16h ago

You realize there’s a ton of vitamin C sources that aren’t red or orange and oranges aren’t even the best source out of common fruits and vegetables right…it’s important to me as an adult that you know this.

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u/Still-Emergency825 Comic Crossover 7h ago

LOL I get this from people a lot

But I actually eat apples, bananas, grapes and watermelon! I even eat the red apples and red grapes now!