It was part of my role.
Is it even possible to eat broccoli raw? Isn’t it toxic in that state?
Yes, only one stalk.(*) I had to share the rest with the other actors. 
(*) The instruction from the stage director was: Eat fast and as loud as possible.
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Maybe if you ate several kilos of raw broccoli every day. >_> I’m pretty sure it’s much like how apple seeds are “toxic” because they contain cyanide. If you ate and chewed all the seeds of 10+ apples every day it might start to become problematic. It’s not like beans or lentils which can be actively bad for you if you don’t prep 'em right.
It’s more that broccoli is one of those items, mushrooms being another one I believe, where nutrient availability dramatically improves when you cook it iirc.
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Back on-topic:
Party people in the neighborhood with an enormous boombox with the volume set to the maximum (and beyond) at 4 am in the morning…
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ORLY
Fun article on Broccoli: Broccoli is bad for you, like, really toxic bad - Thinking Nutrition
Edit: heh, they said the same thing I did:
So what about all those alarming health concerns I wrote about? Ignore them. Most of them are theoretical as lack any context of dose. Just about anything will cause cancer of the everything in rats if you give it in high enough doses. Although if you have low iodine levels and were at risk of hypothyroidism, you would be wise not to be eating several kilograms of raw broccoli each day.
But okay, on topic:
American bread.
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Damn. I just ordered a truck with apples to ki… ehrm. Nevermind.
Can you buy that here in Europe?
Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is actually partially positive. There’s Harry’s American-style white toast & sandwich bread, for example. It’s almost as disgusting as real American bread.
Ok, then I agree with you. At least this sandwich bread is like white cardboard… (incoming shitstorm from people from the US in 3, 2, 1…)
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Incidentally, here’s a video by an American about German bread that’s making me really hungry. (I love Frisian rye bread, basically like what you call Pumpernickel, German sourdough, etc.)
American bread is more like the worst possible version of regular Dutch/Belgian/French bread. Germany by contrast is bread heaven.
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Yeah, I really like the different German breads. But other countries are making very good bread too. I remember that we had very good bread buns in Italy.
btw: Maybe we should create a new thread about foot… 
Actually the best bread I was able to find in America was a really, really, really absurdly expensive northern Italian style sourdough. It was good though. 
Car alarms
(And people dissing Americans on this forum 
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My wife is an American. Doesn’t mean I have to like American bread.
Edit: btw, love American iced tea. It’s nothing like that gross sugar water with some vague tea flavor they sell as “ice tea” over here. Or shudders PEACH ice tea. American iced tea is just what the name implies, iced tea. Delicious.
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True. My wife makes fun of American bread too.
We think of it more as a means to an end. A way to eat piles of meat and things without getting your hands messy. 
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I laugh about Arby´s jokes even though there is no way I would get them.
food packaging that has an enticing little corner to peel back the lid, then the corner bit just tears off and you have to open it with a knife anyway.
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people who put apostrophes in the wrong place, or use the wrong “your/you’re”
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Oh your s’o [insert witticism]
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Welcome to 21st century internet.
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Elderly men driving at 20 Mph wearing flat caps.
(And where the heck is that door icon? If I had patience to look for the icon, I wouldn’t be bothered by the elderly men)