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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Please do not the slugs.

Parasites! Death!

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

how else does one become secretary of health tho

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have to be a parasite for that, not have a parasite.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

So he's a twofer?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't what the slugs?

Eat? Fondle? Give words of encouragement?

Fuck. It's always fuck.

[–] Skanky@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring...

Banana slug.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

I hate you so much.

Banana slug mucus makes your tongue go numb, and they aren't half bad when cooked/cleaned properly! (I went to a living history camp as a kid)

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Their flavour is probably based on the Gros Michel variety of bananas, which was mostly wiped out by a blight in the 1950s. Most bananas these days are the Cavendish variety, which doesn't taste the same.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 17 points 2 days ago

Did you peel it first?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not ripe yet. Sure, the green is gone, but the brown spots haven't started to show up yet.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

Gross! Everyone knows bananananananananas are best when there's still a bit of green.

[–] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 2 points 2 days ago

Needs more spiders

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are these the ones that produce epic levels of mucus as defense? I saw a video once of a frog try to eat one of those and it eventually gave up after its mouth was so full of mucus it couldn't swallow

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

it was a snake, the slime from the slug clogged the snakes mouth.

What about with rice?

[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Mmm now i got rat lungworm 😋

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Hrm, but not 1/10? Good to know... 😋

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Banana [slug] for scale.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle 1 points 2 days ago

Sludge Life reference

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago