cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/28480950

In 2015, Cookie Monster filmed a viral video titled “Simply Delicious Shower Thoughts with Cookie Monster” for the Mashable YouTube channel. In the video, he explores various New York City museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, while pondering deep “shower thoughts” about food.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    1·
    22 minutes ago

    Donuts are already vegetable donuts. It’s cereal. Mostly wheat. And rapeseed or whatever you call it, uh canada oil with low acid.

    Donuts are mostly vegan. Should be at least.

    Although this makes me think of what donuts would taste like fried in beef tallow? Hmm…

    • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Does anyone else now kind of want to see them do a video together? And, no, im not talking a porn video, although…hmmmm…

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
    31·
    13 hours ago

    Ketchup is a fruit butter, not a jam.

    Cooked, pureed fruit with sugar and spices, no pectin. Not a jam

      • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Not sure if joking so I’ll answer seriously…

        Like apple butter, or pear butter. Maybe it’s an Appalachian thing, I dunno. You chop up the fruit, let’s say apples, and slow cook them for a few hours. Then puree them, add cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, whatever, and a bunch of sugar. Can the results. We always used small mason jars that had been in the family for God only knows how long.

        Grandma wouldn’t use a blender, she was old school. She’d add all the ingredients together in a big stock pot, drop a silver dollar in the bottom, and stir for hours, until she couldn’t hear the coin move around anymore. I say she stirred for hours, but she’d “enlist” the help of the kids, and later, daughters-in-law, and eventually grandchildren. She was born in 1912, so I reckon it was just her way

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      So to make ketchup, aka a fruit butter, we must first milk the tomatoes, then separate the cream, then churn the tomato cream, then separate the tomato buttermilk.

      I had no idea so much went into ketchup.

      • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Tomato butter is a little different, after you separate the tomato buttercream and add seasoning and vinegar, add back the tomato buttercream until the consistency is where you like it

    • cravl@slrpnk.net
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Not just your stomach, but your entire digestive system actually. It’s called the enteric nervous system, and it’s absolutely fascinating (the disfunction of which has recently been linked to a lot of different diseases and disorders). From Wikipedia:

      The enteric nervous system (ENS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the others being the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). The ENS is formed from the myenteric plexus, and the submucosal plexus, and consists of a mesh-like system of neurons that governs the functions of the gastrointestinal tract, including motility and secretion, and is known as the “second brain”.

      The enteric nervous system is capable of operating independently of the brain and spinal cord

      The enteric nervous system in humans consists of some 500 million neurons, 0.5% of the number of neurons in the brain, five times as many as the one hundred million neurons in the human spinal cord, and about ⅔ as many as in the whole nervous system of a cat. The enteric nervous system is embedded in the lining of the gastrointestinal system, beginning in the esophagus and extending down to the anus.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 hours ago

      Only in the sense that the gut is deeply tied to your emotional state. Example: “that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach”

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 hours ago

    Your stomach thinks all meals are smoothies.

    Your tongue always knows what it would feel like to lick any surface you can see in person.

    There’s no meaningful difference between eating a pound of crab meat and eating a pound of crickets.

  • derek@infosec.pub
    2·
    11 hours ago

    You’re travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land where Jack Handey voices Cookie Monster. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!