Subject: I am concerned about the food I eat.

I purposefully try to keep my US RDA of "A" double/triple or so, through diet w/numerous sources beta carotene.

So since it's C40H56, it can pick up stray (undesirable) ions?

Welllllllll.......................C40H56 doesn't tell me much about (reactivity with) ions, but biochemical reactions don't really 'work' like that - meaning not based just on an empirical formula.  It's all about the structure, context, solubility stuff, etc., etc.  That said..................since A is oil-soluble and not water-soluble, it's very possible to get too much.  And people do; it's kinda dangerous.  But *generally speaking* that's peeps taking really bigger doses than 2x or 3x RDA via supplements.  But maybe not *much* more.  From memory, it's not that hard to get an excess.  There's some crazy, wacky, absurd 'health' claims out there from hucksters.  I am not an expert on A, but think one has to go beyond 2x or 3x to get into a dangerous zone - but you can research that.  I'm not sure 2x or 3x is better than 1x.  Just not sure it would be.  That one's outside my range of expertise.  But it's definitely one of those things where a good diet with the usual carotenes involved should give you as much as you need. 

I've heard the same, but I'm merely talking natural beta carotene ingestion...I'm not eating the liver of a bear.

Then you should likely be just fine.  I *have* heard of people OD'ing by drinking massive amounts of carrot juice daily, and such as that.  One's skin begins to turn orange.  One supposes that the donald has his coloring from 'other sources'.

Fat soluble, for sure. 

That structure likely won’t dissolve much in water. It also will not likely scavenge inorganic ions (e.g., dissolved metals) but may interact with long chain fatty acids. 

It's "C" that does what you talk of there I think, Buzz...mop up heavy metal...like I have a lot more of in me now likely, since I can't shake my addiction to surimi.

Although I am not a biochemist (more of a geochemist), I believe I am solid ground in saying that these particular carbons are so hydrophobic that their interactions with dissolved constituents will be near zero. 

A google search of, “Can beta carotene scavenge metals in the body?” will reveal the mechanisms by which beta carotene functions (antioxidant). 

I am tempted to write a 'dissertation' on these things, but won't.  I may come back and write something as brief as practical; or if by chance can find a copy of other guides I've written in the past, post that.  Do *not* stay tuned.

I searched "surimi" on the USDA website, but there were no hits.

It'll be fun later on at the supermarket, baked and perusing the cereal aisle, like a fourth grader with a $20 bill.

I don’t plan my menus nearly that well. 

The focaccia bread I made last month was good but I ended up so sick I will never make focaccia again.

Bummer. Not much in focaccia to give you food poisoning unless it had gotten moldy before you ate it. 

Food poisoning is very high on the OMG I'm Sick scale. 

I chose Froot Loops.

Excellent choice. Always high on my list 😜

Other favorites: Sugar Pops, Trix, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. 

Also enjoying plethora of super-foods, all at government expense .

Old recipe: 

Sounds like an excellent recipe! A good Old Fashioned is my favorite mixed drink. 

Making it at home, I have been happy only with this variant:

- 2 oz Irish whiskey (Bushmills or Jameson)

- 1 tsp Smiths Old Fashioned mix

- 1 tsp of the Marischino cherry liquid

- 1 or 2 cherries 

This minimizes the amount of sugar in the drink, but is still rich in flavor. I don’t like burying the flavor of the liquor in sweetness, etc. It has a somewhat different flavor than the standard fare.

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NOTE: Some are avid that the best Old Fashioneds use the best bourbons. I disagree. You don’t want to use trash, but I prefer the best to be served neat , enjoying the full taste of every sip.

My Old Fashion is pretty much the same except I use Louis XIII.

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I see a Cracker Barrel ad for what ma made us back in the summer days: foil-wrapped dinners...some call them "hobo" dinners...they were delicious...

Sliced cucumber, dressed with ginger tamarind zest...

Delicious steamed Brussel Sprouts with generous salt and butter...

I refuse to eat brussels sprouts unless absolutely necessary. When a guest at someone's home, I will choke them down, but my god those bitter mini cabbages are disgusting. 

Try putting pimento cheese on them. Next time you need to throw up.

My mother made corned beef hash. She called it just "hash".

This is about 8 ounces of Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia non-dairy ice cream. This is 12 hours after the ice cream was dumped out. It didn’t melt, and the vast array of critters (squirrels, raccoons, porcupines, seagulls, etc) gave it a hard pass. 

Just in case y'all don't know this 🌽 

Peel back the corn husk

Remove silk

Butter the corn

Put back the husk

Tie off the end with a strip of husk

Microwave 3 minutes 

I just did that with an ear of Silver Queen

Then I ate it

Picture taken from Amazon

Re the previous post. Long ago I did an experiment with soda and sugar free soda. Ants love the regular soda but won't touch the diet soda. Probably the same for the other bugs.

Cherry season! I will inhale many pounds of this delicacy until the season ends. 

As far as the heading is concerned you can watch the third and fourth videos but the first two just provide the context about an American man living in Sinop, Turkey.

Sinop is the hometown of the Houston Rockets' Alperen Şengün, by the way.

I feel sorry for someone who had no idea that that culture was 3,000 years old - or maybe 6-8-10,000 depending on definition (certainly well more than 3,000).  I guess in his West Coast lifestyle he somehow missed that - altho most folks out there would surely know more about Turkish history than this guy.  Yet Americans are notorious for being insular and incapable of learning more than they have to about other cultures.  A point I've made multiple times herein.  I'm glad he's happy - but one wonders what else he's missed in his life.

That said.............there *is* a difference between *knowing* a civilization is X number of years old, vs. being able to actually visit in person Catalhoyuk, or Gobekli Tepe, or hundreds of other ancient sites in person.   And yet in America.......it's not hard to visit and experience the ancient Native American or Mesoamerican sites of essentially the same ages.   So cultural laziness is at work, methinks. 

Silver Queen is so good 😋 

I'm now making blueberry waffles--like, a lot of them.

It seems to me that a waffle is really just a pancake panini.

Arby's JamMocha Shake (decadently delicious)

Half of it yesterday, and with scoops vanilla for the rest.

energy drink consumption

Living in SE WI has had me know of "Chicago Dog" and the heresy of ketchup use withal, but what about a healthy dose of Old Bay? That makes tons of stuff better...paprika, a little red pepper...