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People can argue about food, its preparation and the best combinations until the end of time. Somehow we all are born with different taste buds and there are people who like and dislike identical foods, so if you think about it, such a discussion is kind of pointless. 

But it still goes on as Redditor heystarbuckslover asks “What are some foods that most people have been eating the wrong way or not the way it was intended?” Most people interpreted the question a bit differently and actually told the weirdest and rarest ways they eat food or someone else does. 

Whether they answered the question directly or were talking about what they personally were eating wrong, this list of people’s mistakes may be viewed as educational or even inspirational if any of these wrong ways sound delicious to you.

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#1

People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time My dad believes steak should be well done. And by well done, unseasoned shoe leather.
Growing up I never could fathom why anyone loved steaks, and why they were such an 'expensive treat' at the house.
My dad would buy these beautiful, thick cut rib eyes, then toss them on the flaming grill with no seasoning, cook them on one side for seven minutes, flip, then other side, till they had shrank half their size and were charred. Then he would berate us for using sauce because 'it covered up the flavor of the meat'.
No Scott, your inability to cook on a grill covers the flavor.
It wasn't until I was 18 and living on my own that I tried to grill my own.
Seasoned with garlic powder and salt, flipped on the flaming grill often and buttered between flips, taken off when I was tired of waiting, I had my first medium rare steak that melted in my mouth.
I have never let my father 'cook' me another steak since.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"No Scott, your inability to cook on a grill covers the flavor." Oh, wow. I don't know who got burned worse: Scott or the steak.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Okay, so this is more along the lines of me eating a certain dish the wrong way, but when I was little my mom would make french toast except she would put chilies, onions and sometimes chicken on it. I grew up thinking french toast was a savory dish until I ordered it at a diner and it was sweet. I still like my mom’s version of french toast better tbh.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time My grandfather enjoys eating lightly salted peaches with mayonnaise. If you didnt know there was a wrong way to eat a peach, now you know.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time My dad served us underripe fruit my entire childhood because to him firm = good and soft = bad. The first time I had a mango that was actually ripe I was an adult and the experience was borderline orgasmic.

noprods_nobastards , David Stanley Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Call me a savage if you like, but when it comes to bananas, I prefer them when they're still a bit green.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time You have to devein shrimp, or else you're eating their poop.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone told me "You don't want to know" when I asked what the black thing they were taking out. I assumed it was a parasite and have avoided shrimp since. I can deal with it being a vein and pooper now.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time I eat Kiwis with the hairy skin on. My mom said I seemed to like it so she wasn't going to stop me. Later on I find out that I'm a freak of nature for doing it, but I still eat it that way because I just like it. The only downside is that since I like the texture of the hair and skin, I have "forbidden fruit" moments when I'm looking at the abdomen of a tarantula.

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Jason Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing wrong with it. I've been eating them with the skin on for years. It's good for you and actually nice.

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#7

People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Recently read where people were **eating the f*****g wax** on Babybel cheeses and I haven't been the same since

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't eat the wax. Save it up and make tiny candles for your garden gnomes.

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Deborah Harris
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be honest the cheese tastes like the wax anyway ..go for it :D

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SerumSeven
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can make little boats with the wax and play with them in the bathtub. ⛵

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Remi (He/Him)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, don't know what in the kinder surprise this cheese is supposed to be, but accidentally eating some of the sealing wax on the edge of a cheese is 100% not harmful for anything besides your taste buds as on blegh.

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LoudMansLover
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The entire cheese is covered in wax that you're supposed to pull off with a small double tab embedded in the wax. It's not the edge of a cheese, more like a wax container the soft cheese is inside.

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Nick West
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the wax. I love candle wax too. I know this is wrong and weird.

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Dad
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who but kids wanting to pretend they're chewing chewing gum would do such a daft thing?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those wax lips/fangs that are sold during Halloween season are allegedly edible, because it says so on the packaging. But after taking a bite & chewing it, I had to spit it out. I don't know if anyone else actually eats them. Anyone?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think I've ever met anyone who actually eats them. They are fun to chew on for a few minutes, but that's about it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom grew up in a large family and they were poor. She told me when she was a little girl she would eat the cheese first and then chew on the wax for a while and treat it like gum, since they couldn't afford gum. Unfortunately she passed away so I never was able to get more information but I do know it was her family's poor man chewing gum"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My cousin does this. Even after she had to have her backend snaked at the hospital. Still eats the wax. She even has a kid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did eat the wax the very first time I tried one as a kid, because I didn't realize you were supposed to peel it off.

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Lee Kerr
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid I tried to eat the wax on Edam because we weren’t sure what is was or what to do with it. I soon decided it wasn’t edible!

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eMpTy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always buy these for christmas. It just isn't christmas without baby cheeses.

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Kitti B.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first time I ate these I was an adult and the red part looked suspicious. I googled it and said it's wax. Do people eat everything that's not obvious plastic?

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Gunn Smoke
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My buddy tried to eat a tamale with the corn rapper still on. Lol

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A.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loving the ideas on how to reuse the wax & lucky for me I just got a bag of Babybels! I already have some gnomes & fairies, so it's time to get creative again. Thanks, fellow Pandas!

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Bart
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please, do not call that rubbery substitute cheese, it's a insult to even the most mediocre cheeses out there...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’d rather save it for candles, letter sealants, and wrapping things. No way would I eat it!

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#8

People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time There was a comment a long time ago from a guy who found out in adulthood that you aren't supposed to eat the cupcake wrappers when someone looked horrified when he ate it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, when I was little I would kind of gnaw on the paper stick from a lollipop?

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time To everyone who eats spaghetti with a little itty bitty smidge of sauce at the top with the rest completely dry and white: Atone or be banned from cooking forever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I eat my spaghetti covered in butter and parmesan cheese, the sauce is in a separate bowl covered in cheese was well. I eat the sauce like soup.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time When I first ate edamame I chewed up the entire pod and couldn't figure out why people enjoyed eating them. I did't realize you're just supposed to eat the bean inside the pod.

*Not peas in a pod. Beans.

Amari__Cooper , David Pursehouse Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoops. I've also eaten the pods. I figured it the beans were supposed to be shelled, they already would be.

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#11

People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time My buddy's step dad puts sugar in his f*****g mac and cheese. Sometimes I think about it and I can't sleep

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm going to assume there's already sugar in KD considering Spaghetti-os puts sugar in their sauce.

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#12

People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time It's not traditional to eat Thai food with chopsticks. They use a fork and a tablespoon. Stop asking for chopsticks in Thai restaurants.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Thai people who run restaurants in my town are incredibly hospitable, adaptable, and good-hearted. They know that people are going to ask for chopsticks, and although that's not part of their culture, they give them to those who ask. They also hand out fortune cookies.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Not others but I don't take Oreos apart and lick the frosting off first, I just bite into them like a savage.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time [A man once sued a restaurant in Miami for serving him an artichoke which he promptly ate all of.] I don't mean like "he finished the artichoke" - I mean that this guy, who apparently is a *Doctor*, just ate the entire f*****g thing, including all of the inedible parts.

For those of you who have never encountered an Artichoke, the edible part of the plant is a fleshy substance that is on the inside parts of the leaves. You scrape it off and eat that part and discard the leaves. The artichoke heart, at the middle of all of the leaves, is also edible (and delicious). The stem and the fibrous leaves are not edible. Well I guess except to this guy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As far as vegetables go, artichokes are indeed delicious, but they take the most amount of work for the least amount of return.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time This is really relevant to me today, because I just found out that my girlfriend has been buying smoked salmon for years then cooking it!

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#16

People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time You're supposed to wait for the pizza rolls to cool down BEFORE you put them in your mouth, not after while you're doing the dragon breath thing trying not to let them touch your tongue

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Ladies and gentlemen of Reddit. Do what ever you’d like behind closed doors, but please remember if you’re eating a banana in public it’s banana to mouth. Not mouth to banana.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I take a chunk off, then eat each of the 3 sections, then start another wedge. Anyone else?

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time If you steam brussel sprouts and also dont salt and pepper them of course you dont like them. They need to be charred and on the brink of almost burnt for them to be good. Olive oil salt and pepper in a 450 degree oven cut in half, cook for 10 to 15 minutes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fatty bacon in a pan til it starts to brown, add halved sprouts, toss around until they start to brown on the edges, then devour while hiding them from your children.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time My friend eats popcorn by picking the fluffy parts away from each piece and discarding the “seed” center. Every time i tel him hes an idiot but hes too stubborn to just eat a damn piece of popcorn like a human

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of these people are getting criticized for eating too much fiber; some are getting criticized for eating too little. Rock on with your fluff-eating self, friend.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time For me, it was crackers with any sort of topping until my wife showed me the error of my ways.

I would always put cheese, or whatever spread I might be eating with the crackers on the top i.e. salty side of the cracker. My wife lost her ever loving mind when she saw me do this. She then proceeded to explain to me that I should turn the cracker over and put the spread, cheese, or whatever on the bottom so that the salty side would hit my tongue when I put the bite in my mouth.

It was a revelation.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Ya seen these taco lickers? You heard of these guys? Yeah, well there are these people out there, and I don't know who raised them or how they turned out the way they did, but they eat their tacos middle-out. They dip their heads down to their tacos and lick out all the insides first, then eat the soggy shell afterwards. Sometimes they don't even eat the shell. I can't take my kids out to the Taqueria anymore because of these freaks. I don't want my little girls to become taco lickers. It's just not natural and I will not have any taco lickers living under the roof of my house!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK, but if we learned anything from Kevin Bacon in "Footloose," it's that restrictive measures often make kids rebel. Don't come crying to us when your kids run off to lick tacos in a commune in Montana!

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time My grandpa would peel a green apple using this nifty little device, then salt it and put it on a stick and give it to me

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This seems less like a snack and more like a arcane ritual for summoning an A24 horror version of Johnny Appleseed.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Ginger with Sushi. You're actually supposed to eat the ginger slices between eating the rolls of sushi so as to cleanse the palate.

Although, personally I love putting ginger and Wasabi on my sushi roll then eating it in one bite.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anybody else love eating all the ginger at the end? It's like a tiny dessert.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time people can make their basic ramen taste a bit better, open the packet, take out the seasoning, and set it aside, cook the ramen just in the water, after its cooked drain the water leaving only a tiny tiny amount, pour some more out you still have too much, just a little, and add the seasoning and mix it at that point, it actually flavors the noodles themselves and makes em taste much better

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I cook the noodles in the broth, toss the broth, and then just eat the noodles.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Vegemite. As an American I was tricked into eating some as a sandwich and was convinced it was just a food meant to prank people with. An Australian friend was alarmed when I recounted this and corrected the method for me.
"Oh GOD no, you don't eat it as a sandwich! You've gotta get yourself a nice piece of toast, spread a good layer of butter on it, then just the tiniest scrape of Vegemite over that. And if you can get a slice of cheap processed cheese on there, even better! Please please don't dismiss Vegemite until you give it another go."
This same friend introduced me to TimTams AND the TimTam slam, so who was I not to trust her implicitly?? I took her advice, and I'm glad I did. Ended up buying myself a little jar because dang, that's a nice little savory punch if you use it right!

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time It might have been said already, but I got tired of scrolling.

I don't know if it's "most", but I know it's fairly common to rinse off your pasta after you drain the water. Don't do that.

Also, cooking the pasta until it sticks to a wall means you over cooked it.

I've read plenty of ways "to make your pasta better" but those two simple things are the only ones that really made any difference to me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The issue is this - once I pour the al dente pasta into the colander to drain, it's still cooking. If I leave it there for 5 mins while readying my sauce or whatever, it gets too soft. Rinsing lowers the temp of the pasta so it stops cooking and my al dente stays al dente. Am I missing something?

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time I don't know about most people, but growing up I always thought I hated guavas because they were so dry. Turns out, my parents used to cut out the best part--the fleshy seedy inside-- and serve me the dry rinds...

Edit: since a lot of the comments are confused, I'd like to clear a few things up.
My parents would cut out where the seeds are and eat the green part + the white parts where there are no seeds. not sure if that's fully the rind; I guess the easiest way to compare it is with a watermelon: it's like cutting away the red flesh and eating the skin + white part. no, my parents don't hate me (maybe for other reasons) because I've seen them throw away the seeds. we are Vietnamese and my parents prefer the dry, crunchy texture with some chili salt and think the seeds cause constipation.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guy goes into the doctor with lettuce in his hair, carrots sticking out of his ears and beans in his nose. He says despondently, "Doctor, what's wrong with me?" Doc says "Well first of all, you are not eating right."

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Not many people know but you are supposed to remove the membrane that is on the bottom of a rack of ribs before you cook them. It makes them easier to cut and eat.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time If you eat salmon to have a healthy meal, it's more beneficial to leave the skin on... just fry it with some salt/pepper until it's crispy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or give the skin to your dog, who will greet this gift with zoomies and joy.

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People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time Up until a couple of years ago (22 currently) I thought you were supposed to bite the skin off the apple then eat it.


If I didn't have a knife I would spend my time biting around the entire apple, spitting the skin out, then eating it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most people eat the skin of an apple. It's odd that someone would peel it off with their teeth.

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