Eating Snow

[brainbomb]

is there any benefit to eating snow? I did it most of my childhood and I turned out pretty normal. I wondered if snow has any probiotics or glacial secrets

[RoganJosh]

I think, if it is yellow, then it is healthy.

[brainbomb]

no. thats not.

[MajorMitchell]

Well if you're matrimonial ambitions are successful Dipbro Brainbomb and you.are blessed with offspring then as long as your children do not have pallid complexions and orange carrot like noses it's probably reasonable to infer no genetic consequences from eating snow in your case.
How's the artistic painting caper going ? I've been chopping out cracked mortar in old stone house walls, applying new mortar & plaster & preparing to slap on undercoat paint to ornate high ceiling and repaired walls. Might go and do a days work at it tomorrow.

[MajorMitchell]

Today I've been scribbling since 7am to 1pm soon I have to go & pay a bill etc

[Claesar]

Today I've been scribbling since 7am to 1pm soon I have to go & pay a bill etc

I feel like you've been scribbling on this forum for years now..

[e.m.c^42]

Is this meant to be a euphemism?

[flash2015]

Is this meant to be a euphemism?

Could be:

http://www.campustimes.org/2019/11/24/c ... r-cocaine/

[brainbomb]

Im not into drugs though. I was being serious that growing up eating snow was a pretty common thing.

[Octavious]

Out of curiosity, is there any one who lives where it is (occasionally) snowy who hasn't eaten snow?

[brainbomb]

In the 1980s after Chernobyl, traces of radiation were found in virtually every continent on the planet. What my main curiousity was, is just how many various toxins are in snow now as opposed to then.

[Octavious]

Traces of radiation have been found everywhere since the nuclear age got going long before Chenrobyl. That's why Scapa Flow steel is worth harvesting.

[flash2015]

Im not into drugs though. I was being serious that growing up eating snow was a pretty common thing.

I thought emc was trying to be funny...so I was following up on that. I guess I could understand eating snow for curiosity sake once but why would you do it more than once?

[brainbomb]

I remember the rationale being that it was easier than going inside to get a glass of water. and being thirsty from sledding, snowball fights, ect. The simplicity and accessibility of it was nice. that and adults told us not to do it so it felt like a "ill show you" act of defiance

[e.m.c^42]

Lol

I was a snow cuisine artist. Pack it into a ball and it becomes a snow apple. Make 'em small and it was snow grapes. Pour juice in it and it freezes into juice-icles. Milk. Chocolate milk. Chocolate syrup on packed snow, sprinkled with powdery snow. Icicles dipped in fluffy snow.

Also, sugar on snow with donuts and pickles. It was the absolute best on actual fresh snow :D

[gimix]

Lol

I was a snow cuisine artist. Pack it into a ball and it becomes a snow apple. Make 'em small and it was snow grapes. Pour juice in it and it freezes into juice-icles. Milk. Chocolate milk. Chocolate syrup on packed snow, sprinkled with powdery snow. Icicles dipped in fluffy snow.

Also, sugar on snow with donuts and pickles. It was the absolute best on actual fresh snow :D

Pure genius
But why should you stop eating snow once you grow up?

Btw you may like a typical dish fom my region, Sopa Freida, or Cold Soup: red wine, stale bread, sugar and some spices like clovers and nutmeg. Bury it under the snow for several hours, the colder the better, and it's ready. Admittedly it takes some courage to have it at breakfast though

[yavuzovic]

Years ago, we provoked some children playing in the snow, with my sister. I was about 7 or 8 years old, my sister 1 year younger than me. They were older than us for a few years. We we throwing snow at them from the other side of wall.
Finally they came to our garden and forced me to eat some snow. That time, snow didn't taste really good.

[MajorMitchell]

Gosh I've had a huge Australia Day long weekend, it now being midnight on the last day (Monday). Two trips to Adelaide, Sun & today I visited an elderly Aunt (96 years of age) I don't think the lady will make it to next Christmas. I picked up a frangipani in a pot one of several that I gave her about 18 years ago when she first moved to her apartment in an aged care luxury prison.. she's ready to depart this strife torn mortal world. Also borrowed some photos to get scanned & copies printed. Her daughter from NSW is visiting at present.
I also visited a few old comrades & Adorable Princess Estelle.

I used "Scribbling" more as a self depreciating descriptive term rather than a euphemism. If I've spent the morning relaxing in onanistic pleasure or bwavely foraging with pwodding bayonet in steamy moist regions & ample enticements of my Lovely Fire Breathing MemSahib Her Serene Imperiousness Indoors lying on a sofa eating cakes, I would describe such events as I just have.

The overwhelming majority of my writing ends up as shredded paper compost & I get a few cheques each decade for very small amounts for about an umpteenth billionth of what I scribble each decade.

I think I'd been working on one fictional thingy set at the latter part of Henry 3rd's reign & Edward 1st's reign & located in upper reaches of Our river.

I've got another fictional thingy going set in current times, with a Trump~esque character (doesn't become POTUS or try to) as the villain plus his servants, acolytes, peer group as various types from Machiavellian manipulators to dumbnuts & stooges..
The good guys are Monty and Tom & yachts and international yacht racing part of the stage.

The scribbling caper has great domestic value, it's a plausible reason I use with my Lovely Fire Breathing MemSahib Her Serene Imperiousness Indoors to justify my skulking off to my study/library and hiding bwavely for hours imbibing a few fortifying wee drams of single malt whisky and smoke like a stone chimney in a bark hut.and generally not being pestered to go and​prune the roses or other domestic task. That's definitely the greatest use of the scribbling caper in my life.

[MajorMitchell]

Thankfully my twusty pens don't correct what I scribble. The asinine algorithm changed Ouse to ours. I think the river is named the Ouse. It feeds into Humber River & Hull estaury.

[e.m.c^42]

Pure genius :-D
But why should you stop eating snow once you grow up?

Btw you may like a typical dish fom my region, Sopa Freida, or Cold Soup: red wine, stale bread, sugar and some spices like clovers and nutmeg. Bury it under the snow for several hours, the colder the better, and it's ready. Admittedly it takes some courage to have it at breakfast though :eyeroll:

Oh, that sounds interesting. Unfortunately it doesn't snow much where I currently live, so if I try it fridge it will be, haha.

Feel like probably should also clarify, sugar on snow isn't actually sugar on snow - it's maple syrup boiled, then poured over snow/shaved ice to create a taffy-like candy :D