Lol well Asians have A lot of stereotypical traditions about setting different diets if you’re sick and such. Like no cold foods when you’re sick, no duck or chicken skin, it’s bc lots of Asian believe in the yin and Yang of food so diets change according to body condition. Western ppl don’t really follow these things all that much. XD so I get lectured for eating the wrong things when my body condition changes. XD;;

@Michiru Thanks!

@Tam: I'll look in to it.

@Hotarla: Folk remedies and cultural remedies can be interesting to say the least.

For me, if I could keep it down, I ate whatever I wanted. Though there have been times when I'd be so sick, I'd miss meals cause I barely wanted to eat anything.

I'm still trying to figure out how my kid is mine. I sucked at school and I got bored with it easily. If it wasn't for the fact that my parents wouldn't let me, I probably would have dropped out of high school. But my daughter...she has a 3.5 gpa! HOW?! lol My mom says she probably inherited her intellegence from my grandfather, (Mom's dad). I don't even push her she's just good. I swear she got the good genes. lol

Yeah Asians have so many different “remedies” and superstitions. Like stuff passed on from their parents that don’t actually have any scientific proof. XD;;

Hotarla wrote: ↑May 13th, '25, 04:38 no duck or chicken skin,

AHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOO! That's just a carefully concealed way of bullying someone into getting better. No good stuff til you do. O.O

...Was that an okay joke?

Death Candy: That's kind of my thing. If I don't know for sure it'll make me sick, I eat it. Sometimes I'll eat it even if I know it'll give me a tummy ache. Or if I know it's a bad idea. I mean... supper was a bag of lentil based sour cream and onion rings chips on the train, and then several spoonfuls of halva taken right out of the container when I got home. o.O I gotta be good tomorrow. ...Maybe. I bought a lot of lovely things in the International food aisle at Walmart.

Lol that might be true haha. XD
Also, according to the cooking of yin and Yang, certain foods can’t be eaten together. Whether there’s actual scientific proof, I have no idea. XD

Well, I know some foods, when mixed, make pretty catastrophic results with some stomachs. XD And drinking something really sour after milk would give anyone horrid smelling burps, I think.

One of my favourite snacks as a kid was cornbread in a bowl of milk with dill pickles on the side. Never really bothered my stomach, but, I have a weird stomach.

There's validity to "no cold foods when sick". Hot foods and their steam are more likely to help loosen congestion, and capsaicin in spicy foods also combats congestion and is rumoured to boost your immune system. I have no patience for congestion, so a lot of times when I'm sick I'll just walk around with a bottle of hot pepper flakes and nom them directly. I can't do antihistamines, they just give me a splitting headache.

Wow, just eating spicy flakes raw. XD I don’t think I’ve ever done that before.

Desperate times call for desperate measures! XD

Apparently lol. XD I like spicy but not that kind of spicy. XD