mycravatundone
a girl i know told me how a guy she knows once moved out from his parents, ate nothing but fries and meatballs for HALF A YEAR, and got scurvy. imagine the doctor’s face when this guy shows up with like his gums bleeding and the doc has to fucking say DUDE…. THATS SCURVY…. in this day and age
this is turning into a “how a person i know got scurvy” thread and im so here for this, please share your scurvy stories if you have any
aquarianconstellations
the other day someone posted pics from the reddit page r/zerocarbs where these fools only ate meat and 0 vegetables or fruits and all the posts were about various symptoms of scurvy. i died when one literally read ‘i don’t want to start the vitamin C debate again but’
THE VITAMIN C DEBATE
elidyce
My mother told me all about scurvy when I was five and trying to resist eating pumpkin and let me tell you it’s been 35 years and I still get nervous if I go for two days without eating a green vegetable.
I told my own little picky eater about scurvy, rickets etc and now one of her most frequently requested lunch items is baby spinach, closely followed by carrots.
I’m not saying everyone should mildly traumatize their children to make them understand that vegetables are vital to ongoing possession of your teeth and organs, but.. no, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Go for it.
ariadne83
some guys i used to know went on a boys only road trip. they decided they were only going to eat things they could cook on the engine block of the car.
two of them got scurvy. one of them drank so much jagermeister + red bull that he temporarily lost the ability to see in colour.
dexvoan
im sorry he what now
astudyinimagination
I too would lose my ability to see in color if my regular liquid intake consisted of 35% alcohol and 80mg of caffeine.
starfate
A guy from my student association got scurvy after eating nothing but “tostis” (fried cheese sandwitches??). The doctor told him that if he had eaten even a little bit of ketchup with it, he would have been fine.
raeadropofgoldensunshine
I had scurvy in high school!! It makes you really depressed and tired for a few months and then I needed like 3 mouth surgeries. It sucked.
marzipanandminutiae
my friend’s roommate got scurvy from eating nothing but pizza for months (why the sauce didn’t prevent this, I have no idea)
the doctors got her all fixed up
then she went back to eating nothing but pizza and got scurvy again
egglygreg
I remember telling people I had scurvy as a child. My mother was horrified I’d gone and told so many people. I actually just had mild gingivitis and didn’t know the difference.
jemthecrystalgem
Omg that’s adorable. I remember as a kid I only knew what scurvy even was cause of that Trail to the Amazon game computer game.
