The Absolute Best Piece of Advice These 15 People Ever Got

Advice is a hard thing to give and to get. You’re never sure if you want it, if someone is listening, or if it will make a difference or just end up driving the other person away. That’s what makes it so special when it comes through on both ends with such beautiful clarity you can’t help but share. Just like these folks did on AskReddit.

#15. Make it worth something.

“There will come a time in your life where you’ll have nothing to offer someone but your word. Make it worth something.”

Edit: Oh shit my first gold?! Thank you kind stranger! I really do feel like I’m internet famous.”

#14. Check your shoes.

“Probably “If it smells like shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.”

I’m much less of a miserable asshole these days.”

#13. Your younger self.

“Be the person you needed when you were young.”

#12. You’re not supposed to be sure.

“This was specifically when looking to transition to a significantly higher responsibility role, but I have found to be applicable to any time I’m facing a new challenge. “Don’t be worried if you’re not sure you can do it. You’re not supposed to be sure. If you were already sure you could do the job, you’d be bored within a month.”

#11. Change.

“Life doesn’t change, unless you change it.

You can’t sedate your way out of a crappy life, you have to get up and make changes.”

#10. With friends or family.

“Years of love have been forgotten in the hatred of a minute”

Really helps whenever I get into an argument with my friends or family.”

#9. Uncomfortable conversations.

“Your success will be largely dependent on the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have – Reddit”

#8. Short and simple will do.

“One of my favourite teachers in Highschool told us:” If you need five pages to talk about 20 lines of poetry, you are obviously bullshitting me. State three well constructed arguments for your point of view and I’ll be happy to reward you for that. Claim. Reason. Proof. Nothing more.” He repeated that before every exam and it really helped me to boil my rather confused teenager thoughts into clear statements. I still think of him today while writing reports for work.

TLDR: Keep it short and simple.”

#7. Priorities and options.

“Don’t make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option”.

#6. A great boss.

“My first great boss told me “never make yourself indispensable or you’ll never get promoted”.

It’s worked for me.”

#5. Get off the fence.

“Sometimes the worst decision is no decision. Sometimes you just have to make a decision, any decision, then make that be the right one.”

#4. Pay now.

“You can pay now, or you can pay later, but it’s almost always cheaper to pay now.”

It seems like a lot of people think this is only referring to money, it’s not.”

#3. Money well spent.

“If you lend someone some money and never see them again, it was probably money well spent.

Got told this after I lent a friend $100 and the fucker dropped off the face of the planet.”

#2. Morning and night.

“Do something that makes you want to get up in the morning. Find someone that makes you want to go home in the evening.”

#1. Respect yourself.

“Respect yourself enough to walk away anything that no longer serves you, grows you or makes you happy.”

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The Craziest Thing a Houseguest Did in These 15 Generous Hosts’ Homes

Playing host is hard work – which is why I personally side-eye all of these people on HGTV who claim to “love having guests over” all the time – and sometimes you learn more about the people who stay with you than you wish you had.

Like these 15 willing hosts who got more than they bargained for after opening their homes.

#15. Thief!

“Stole my paprika :(“

#14. My pork chops.

“Says she was a vegan, so only brought with her some seeds, nuts, etc. but cooked and ate MY pork chops before I got home from work. She had no company over…. so it was HER!”

#13. We played it cool.

“We were hosting a group of teenage boys for a youth group convention. My mom served a family style breakfast, with bacon, hash browns, and eggs each piled high on seperate large plates. One of the two boys we were hosting sat down, and promptly finished the entire plate of eggs, meant for 6 people, by himself. We played it cool at the time, but we still joke about the kid that ate 12 eggs in one sitting.”

#12. My Littlest Pet Shop

“Oh boy, one night in elementary school I had two friends over, let’s call them Sara and Megan, they were my two best friends and everything was fine until I went to bed. Let me tell you, I’m a deep sleeper and I hadn’t woke up all night. It was morning a Megan had to leave early, but right before she left my Grandma handed her bag to her and noticed it was really heavy. She opened it and my little pet shop toys fell out along with some dress up clothes.

That wasn’t all, after Megan left Sara told me Megan would sit on me while I was sleeping and fart! Wtf! And when I was cleaning up where we slept I had found really mean notes about me. My Grandma had both Megan and Sara’s parents bring their agendas to compare the handwriting. Guess who it was… fucking Megan.

After that I stopped talking to her. She found a new friend who actually had the same name as me. Idk if it was a coincidence or not, but she was fucking weird. I tried to warn Same Name but she didn’t listen. Oh well.”

#11. The first time any of us had met him.

“When I was in middle school my parents and I watched the X-Files pretty religiously. The truth is out there! Anyways, my dad had a friend move back to town and he was dating a woman with a son my age. My dad tells the friend to bring the son over to hang out with me (without asking me of course). We were playing some computer games and the kid was a little weird but nothing too crazy.

In the evening the new episode of X-Files was airing so we all sit down to watch it. There was an intense shoot out scene in a forest and all of the sudden dude stands up and yells “I got your back Mulder!” He then proceeded to aim his ass at the TV and blast a huge fart. This was the first time any of us had met him… We really had no idea how to react. We laugh our asses off (no pun intended) talking about it these days, but in the moment all of us were like who the fuck is this kid?!”

10. Not cool.

“Relative of my husband stayed with us for a month while trying to get back on her feet, looking for a job and whatnot. She’s a strange person and did a few strange thing, but the thing that was the strangest (and rudest) was redecorate the guest room. Put up shelves, badly, by drilling huge screws into the wall. Took a painting off the wall and shoved it into the back of the closet and then took a metal art off the wall in the foyer and hung it in the guest room, crooked, with the same shoddy screws in the wall method. The wallpaper where she drilled got all torn and ruined. This was that nice fabric type wallpaper that looks like it has embroidered patterns. And then she had the nerve to be livid when she was told how not cool that was. I don’t get the logic in her thinking what she did was okay. After she (predictably) lost her (well paying) job after two days we kicked her out and I turned the guest room into an office. The walls looked like shit. I’ve never been in someone’s house and ever thought to mess with their stuff. Edit: a typo.”

#9. Details.

“Pulled me aside to ask for details about my parents sex life.”

#8. Just a preference.

“I used to have a friend who would always come over to take a dump. When I asked her about it, she told me she preferred my toilet over hers.”

#7. The weirdness

“My boyfriend had a friend of a friend, who we’d never met, come to a small party. He disappeared for awhile and then reappeared. I thought he looked different but couldnt put my finger on it. Turns out he had helped himself to the upstairs bathroom, to his roommates used razor, snd shaved his beard off. At a party. At a strangers house. Left beard hair everywhere.

To add to the weirdness we heard a few months later that he had died. He was drunkenly drag racing and crashed and killed himself in his early 20s.”

#6. Really alarming.

“Girlfriend and I hosted a guy from Couchsurfing at our place, put him in our guest bedroom. He originally requested to stay 35 days and my super generous girlfriend almost gave him the green light for that until I stepped in and told her that’s positively insane and he could stay for like 4 nights maximum.

He was a nice dude, really really awkward and spoke of his work in kind of a masturbatory manner, but very polite and respectful in our home. Well, the day before he’s going to leave he asks my girlfriend if he can make a copy of our key “for next time I’m in the area,” and without thinking she says sure. So the guy makes a fucking copy of our key and I only find out about it after he’s gone to sleep his last night there, and he’s planning to leave at like 4am.

So I set my alarm for 3:30am and hung out in the living room so I could intercept him and grab that new key. I did it by thanking him for making a copy of the key for our next guest. He seemed a bit hurt that I was asking for it back, which only made me happier I went through all the trouble of getting it back.

I don’t know what the fuck he was thinking asking to keep a copy of our key, but I found it really alarming. Of course he might have made two copies and hidden one of them, who knows. We’ve since moved so I’m not worried.”

#5. Two whole days.

“Had a long-lost cousin pass through my town years ago, offered him a place to stay. He was a really cool guy when I was growing up, I was really looking forward to spending some time with him. He arrived, I showed him to the spare room of the house which had my Sega Mega Drive (this was many years ago, when they were one of the gaming consoles you had to have) set up to a TV. His eyes lit up when he saw the Sega. He said he was going to lay down and have a bit of a rest, he had been travelling by road all day, so I understood and left him alone. He didn’t emerge for the rest of the day and well into the night so I thought I would check on him. I peeked into his room and he was just sitting on the floor playing Sega. He stayed there for two whole days, only coming out to go and get himself some takeaway (refused our offers of dinners we had prepared) or go to the toilet. From time to time I would go into his room and sit on the bed and try to make any kind of conversation but he would just grunt or give single-word responses while he played games. I eventually gave up and just left him to it for basically two days and nights. He would play well into the early hours of the morning (with the volume on low, which was considerate I suppose). The third day he packed up early and just left without saying goodbye. Haven’t seen or heard from him since.”

#4. I need to know why.

“There are about 84,573 posts on here about guests just shitting on the bathroom floor.

I literally don’t understand I just need to know why.”

#3. It’s cool.

“My brother’s friend came over once, took out a switchblade, and started stabbing our couch. When my brother yelled at him to stop, he just looked up and said “Its cool, I do it to my couch all the time!” and went back to stabbing the couch. My brother had to confiscate the switchblade.”

#2. All over the couch.

“Picked at his peeling sunburn and left copious flakes of skin all over the couch and in the bed. I think he was reptilian.”

#1. She handed it to me.

“Caught my mum’s friend sticking her used chewing gum under our bookshelf. When she saw me staring, she said “Oh, I was going to remove it later. I just needed a place to put it.” And then she handed it to me to throw away…”

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15+ Icy Comebacks to Idiotic Online Homophobia

People seem to be braver while hiding behind a computer screen. Also, people hiding behind computer screens don’t seem to mind whether they sound ignorant or hateful, or like a terrible person in general. And while some of us are fatigued with confronting these types on the Internet, there’s a reason to celebrate – because these 17 people knew just what to say, and they didn’t hesitate to put the trolls back under their bridges.

#17. Just pointing out the obvious.

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#16. He really nailed it on the ending.

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#15. Hell is where all the fun people will be, anyway.

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#14. I mean…

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#13. Number 2 is the best.

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#12. Boom.

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#11. When your friend makes your point for you.

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#10. That turned out better than expected.

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#9. Lovely.

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#8. Just for being gay!

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#7. Waiting…

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#6. Buh-bye.

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#5. Memories of high school…lol.

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#4. Master shade.

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#3. Truth.

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#2. Can you say the same?

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#1. Preach.

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Science Says It’s Pointless to Try and Pressure Picky Eaters into Being Adventuresome

There are two types of people in the world – people who, when faced with food, shrug and dig in regardless of preference and people who wrinkle their noses and would rather go hungry than take one single bite of food they don’t 100% enjoy.

Now, being one of the former (there are very few foods I’ll flat-out refuse to eat, and some of those are due to food allergies), I can say that it can be hard to understand the picky eaters in my life. Food, in general, is just enjoyable for me, and the concept of deciding not to eat rather than just try something that I might not like is completely foreign.

After reading this new study published in the journal Appetite, though, I may have to change my attitude – and the practice of trying to cajole the picky peeps into trying new things – because according to science, it just doesn’t work.

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Not only that, but forcing kids (and presumably anyone) to eat unwanted foods doesn’t affect any outcomes later in life. When it comes to children (actual children), the tension that can invade mealtime over food battles can also damage the health of your overall relationship.

According to Dr. Julia Lumeng, the author of the study, pediatrician, and professor:

“Parental pressure is having no effect, good or bad, on picky eating or weight in this population. The kids’ picky eating also was not very changeable. It stayed the same whether parents pressured their picky eaters or not.”

The study followed 244 ethnically diverse toddlers and compared the pressure tactics of parents to the children’s healthy growth and the eventual reduction of picking eating and found zero to support the position of forcing kids to clean their plates of everything they hate.

“We found that over a year of life in toddlerhood, weight remained stable on the growth chart whether they were picky eaters or not.”

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Basically, stop worrying so much about every left piece of broccoli or perfectly delicious rice that’s met with a turned-up nose. Sure, you should still introduce your kids (and others) to a variety of foods in the hopes that one day they’ll acquire a more refined palate, but otherwise…don’t stress.

If you want to go the extra mile, Dr. Lumeng also suggests using the words “choosey” or “selective” instead of “picky” in order to keep your child’s associations with food and mealtime more positive.

Honestly, I feel like this study just set me free as a mother, friend, and wife. Now, I can let my husband and my toddler eat the same types of meals six days a week and know that at least one of them will probably still turn out okay.

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15 Pick Up Lines That Women Actually Liked Hearing

If you’re a guy (or a woman, for that matter) in the dating world, pickup lines probably go in one ear and out the other. They’re so unoriginal and just plain insulting…at least most of the time. These 15 stories prove that if you’ve got a good line, you could still get the girl.

#15. No.

“Guy – “Hey, you want some good sex tonight?”

Girl – “No”

Guy – “You came to the right place then”

#14. He wasn’t even French.

“It wasn’t use on me but I overheard a conversation between this guy with a heavy French accent and some hurl I front of me in an economics class. I wasn’t really paying attention till I heard him say “Let me take you out for ice cream, you look like you’d enjoy some French Vanilla” and I almost died. She said no, and I later found out he wasn’t even French, just very good at accents.”

#13. A bit of cute.

“You have a bit of cute on your face.”

Apparently this was used by both my bf and one of his friends to his current gf. Both gents got the line from a single friend who is still single.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

12. Nice buns

“I don’t like when people hit on me at work, but this one made me chuckle. I’m a baker and I was putting some hamburger buns on the shelf. A guy walked up behind me and said “hey nice buns.” Simple, but I laughed.”

Edit: anyone else want to make the beaver joke? Original, y’all.”

#11. You dropped something.

“Guy: Hey, you dropped something.

Girl: What?

Guy: Your standards. My name’s _______”

#10. You look like a cab driver.

“I was a security guard for Seahawks games, and we had to wear yellow jackets, black caps, and black slacks.

At the end of the game, we were going through and clearing out all the drunk people and this one guy I was helping to the door looked at me up and down and said “You look like a cab driver….you should take me home” and then winked at me. Told him it was a great line and to use it on someone else.”

#9. Worth it.

“My first kiss was with my best friend at the time in middle school. He bet me a quarter that he could kiss me without touching my lips. I thought he was just going to kiss my cheek or hand or something and say I owed him a quarter, but he really kissed me, pulled a quarter out of his pocket, pressed it in my hand and said ‘worth it.’”

#8. I think you’re doing it wrong.

“Sitting in a cafe doing homework. I hear a guy go, “I’m not trying to be weird, I’m just trying to figure out what kind of math you’re doing, because I think you’re doing it wrong.” He was right and helped me out. Asked me out in a date afterwards and we’re been together 7 years, married almost more than half of that.”

#7. She saw an opportunity.

“I was at a skating rink and this girl fell right in front of me and said “I think I’ve fallen for you.* Idk if she saw an opportunity and took it or was serious, but I don’t swing that way… sorry.”

#6. Until I got to the car.

“I was walking out of a book store when a guy told me I had dropped something. I looked at the floor thinking I had dropped a receipt or something. The guy then replies “my jaw”. My dumbass didn’t realize it until I got to the car.”

#5. Incredible charmed.

“Had a paraplegic guy roll up to me and tell me ‘I’m 6’4” layin’ down’. I was incredibly charmed.”

#4. Hi, my name is John.

“Hi my name is John if anyone is looking to make a mistake tonight.” I wasn’t, but damn I thought that was funny.”

#3. I’m more into titans.

“At a nerd convention some guy asked if I wanted to see his giant robot. My brain didn’t compute I was being hit on, I thought we were talking about anime so I responded “I’m more into titans.”

#2. We’re married.

“Hey, you’re beautiful. Can I tell you that again next saturday over dinner?”

Lol maybe cheesey but I guess it worked because we’re married.

Edit:

They want a haiku,

I suppose I should write one.

But I’m so lazy.”

#1. Good fortune.

“I was working at a sushi restaurant in a small Texas town. I was serving a group of 3, a couple and their friend. So at the end of the meal the lonely guy (one may call him a neck beard or one of those nice guy types) asks if will open fortune cookies with them. In my head, I’m thinking I hope this gets me a a decent tip.

I open my cookie and it has some generic fortune. I ask him what his says. He replies without missing a beat: “my says the cute waitress will give me her number”. I giggled and politely decline saying I have a boyfriend.

It was one of the smoothest pick lines I’ve ever seen used but also from the least likely of people.”

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10 Tumblr Posts to Take with You As You Obliterate the Patriarchy

As if you need more inspiration to get out there and smash the patriarchy, I know. But keep these 10 posts for those days when you need a bit of a recharge because they’re definitely going to do the trick!

#10. Asterisk FTW.

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#9. Opinions are the worst.

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#8. Boob pockets. Lol.

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#7. Yes. Yes, it is.

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#6. Universal Austen Truths.

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#5. I mean really.

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#4. Fear the boob monolith!

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#3. That moment when…

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#2. Yes, exactly like that.

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#1. Burnnnnn.

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Test Your Mental Mettle Against These Three Google Job Interview Questions

Google is famous for many innovative ways of doing business, and for the way they conduct their job interviews. They’re notorious for asking brain-busting questions that make people think and that weed out the sort of candidates they’d like to hire – but can you answer some of them?

Let’s find out!

#3. Billiard Balls

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You have 8 billiard balls, and you know that one of them weighs slightly more than the others – how many weighings on the scales do you need to tell which is the heavy ball?

Continue reading when you’re ready for the answer!

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The Old School Insult These 15 People Would Love to Make a Thing Again

It’s fun to sit around and talk about the things we miss from the years when we were growing up, but how often do you long to bring back the playground insults from your days at school? These 15 people have thought about it, and after you read through their suggestions, I guarantee you will be, too.

#15. Very descriptive.

“You look like 10 pounds of sh*t in a five pound sack.”

#14. More proper.

“I wish people still said “You forget yourself” as a response to a comment someone made. It’s like a more proper “How dare you” with the implication that you are beneath them and should remember your place”

#13. Strangely endearing.

“A roommate once referred to an idiotic person she knew as “a muppet.” It was strangely endearing and oh-so-slightly savage that I’ve used it since but would love to live in a world where we could freely call each other muppets.”

#12. I fell in love with my fella the first time we used this word spontaneously.

“nincompoop”

#11. We all miss that

“Calling someone a Spaz. I miss that.”

#10. Okay, that’s going wayyyyy back.

“I bite my thumb.”

#9. Oooohhhh dang.

“You six piece chicken mcnobody.”

#8. YAS.

“Doofus.”

#7. Your face!

“Your face”

Eg “that shirt looks mental” “your face looks mental” “dude that doesn’t make any sense” “your face doesn’t make any sense”

#6. See also: go piss up a rope.

“Go take a long walk off a short peir.”

#5. So, there.

“You’re not invited to my birthday party”

#4. Rufio FTW.

“You lewd, crude, rude, bag of pre-chewed food dude.”

#3. Basically.

“Up your nose with a rubber hose. Basically any insult from Welcome Back, Kotter.”

#2. Mom?

“Ragamuffin.”

#1. Classic.

“Eat sh*t and die.”

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The Old School Insult These 15 People Would Love to Make a Thing Again

It’s fun to sit around and talk about the things we miss from the years when we were growing up, but how often do you long to bring back the playground insults from your days at school? These 15 people have thought about it, and after you read through their suggestions, I guarantee you will be, too.

#15. Very descriptive.

“You look like 10 pounds of sh*t in a five pound sack.”

#14. More proper.

“I wish people still said “You forget yourself” as a response to a comment someone made. It’s like a more proper “How dare you” with the implication that you are beneath them and should remember your place”

#13. Strangely endearing.

“A roommate once referred to an idiotic person she knew as “a muppet.” It was strangely endearing and oh-so-slightly savage that I’ve used it since but would love to live in a world where we could freely call each other muppets.”

#12. I fell in love with my fella the first time we used this word spontaneously.

“nincompoop”

#11. We all miss that

“Calling someone a Spaz. I miss that.”

#10. Okay, that’s going wayyyyy back.

“I bite my thumb.”

#9. Oooohhhh dang.

“You six piece chicken mcnobody.”

#8. YAS.

“Doofus.”

#7. Your face!

“Your face”

Eg “that shirt looks mental” “your face looks mental” “dude that doesn’t make any sense” “your face doesn’t make any sense”

#6. See also: go piss up a rope.

“Go take a long walk off a short peir.”

#5. So, there.

“You’re not invited to my birthday party”

#4. Rufio FTW.

“You lewd, crude, rude, bag of pre-chewed food dude.”

#3. Basically.

“Up your nose with a rubber hose. Basically any insult from Welcome Back, Kotter.”

#2. Mom?

“Ragamuffin.”

#1. Classic.

“Eat sh*t and die.”

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The Foods These 12 Picky Eaters Would Turn Down Even If They Were Starving

Most of us have a food or two that totally turns our stomach, but if you were starving? I think most people would choke down what’s available (and the contestants on Naked and Afraid seem to prove the assumption) – but these 12 people have found at least one food that makes them ready to die rather than make the best of things.

#12. To save my life.

“In boot camp, I learned for a fact that it is broccoli.

While it’s not the most physical thing in the world, you rarely sit down, and you don’t truly rest much. I ate as much as humanly possible because I was losing weight so quickly, but most importantly, the DI’s check your plate. I could not choke down the broccoli to save my life. I ended up mashing it up and hiding it under my orange peels.”

#11. Calories are calories.

“Anything moldy or spoiled.

That’s it. I’ve been starving before, like “Sleep for dinner” and then “We’re out of oatmeal and milk but you can drink coffee creamer for breakfast” starving.

I will eat ANYTHING if I’m hungry enough. I may not enjoy it, but calories are calories.”

#10. Like an oil spill.

“Salad with a ton of mayo. Looks like you caught a lettuce in an oil spill.”

#9. The real texture.

“Anything with onions. I like the artificial flavor (funyuns) but the real texture is disgusting to me.”

#8. Organs.

“Liver. Gross…”

#7. Gooshy?

“Straight tomatoes. Will not eat! Too gooshy.

Chopped up and made into salsa? Will eat.

Mixed into a paste and spread on something? Will eat.

Straight? Nope.”

#6. In the can.

“Canned green beans.”

#5. Never say never.

“I will never ever, ever eat dog meat.”

#4. Americans, man.

“Spotted dick. It’s a real thing but the name really turns me off.”

#3. The worst.

“Raisins.

The worst food possible.”

#2. I would die.

“Not really food but milk…If I was dying and milk was my only option, I would not consume it, I would die.

Chocolate/strawberry milk is fine, but regular white milk literally makes me gag and throw up. I’d pass on the life saving milk.”

#1. Not even if you paid me.

“Mushy peas. Not even if you paid me.”

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