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posted by mrpg on Monday June 11 2018, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-coal-is-ok dept.

And Just Like That, Goth-Friendly Charcoal Foods Were Canceled

It turns out those highly Instagrammable, pitch-black "goth" foods were far edgier than we could have ever imagined. According to a new report in Eater, the Department of Health says that activated charcoal is currently banned from all food- and drink-serving establishments in NYC. A spokesperson for DOH told Eater that the rule isn't new, but enforcement has increased.

Morgenstern's Finest Ice Cream, that NYC ice cream shop that caused a mini frenzy in 2016 over their popular jet-black ice cream, reportedly had to dump "$3,000 worth of product during a routine inspection," per owner Nick Morgenstern. The ice cream shop posted a cryptic Instagram in late May that hinted something was afoot. The ice cream, which they've been making since 2015, uses coconut ash—a form of activated charcoal. "I don't see any evidence that this is actually a question of public health safety," Morganstern told Eater. "I would challenge someone to identify the public health safety risk of that ingredient."


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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday June 11 2018, @08:02AM (10 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Monday June 11 2018, @08:02AM (#691308)

    As a bonus, you don't get any of that pesky fluoride you find in tap water. Also, would it distill the water, effectively turning it into something that will suck the salt out of your body? Or are salts and other minerals too small (?) to be removed by activated charcoal?

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 11 2018, @10:09AM (3 children)

    I was in the Emergency Room a while back for what turned out to be Hyponatremia that was caused by my Psychogenic Polydipsia.

    Hyponatremia is a potentially deadly deficiency of sodium ion in one's blood. It can be cause by drinking too much water in a very short time. A fraternity pledge died of a heart attack when his fraternity brothers had the idea that they could initialize him by requiring him to drink vast quantities of milk.

    A radio station once held a contest to see who could drink the most water. The Sacramento, California police investigated to determine whether a crime occured when one of their contestants dropped dead.

    More commonly known as Water Toxicity, Psychogenic Polydipsia is a raging, unquenchable thirst that is poorly understood but is speculated to be caused by antipsychotic medications such as the perphenazine I take for my Schizoaffective Disorder. "Speculated" because such a thirst occurs more commonly among those who experience hallucinations or delusions but to the best of my knowledge the link hasn't been proven yet.

    Raging, unquenchable thirst is also a symptom of the worst kind of diabetes in which one's urine smells pleasantly fruity because one's kidneys are secreting blood sugar.

    That far-more common condition had the result that I required twenty years to get my Psychogenic Polydipsia diagnosed. Every time I'd ask a doctor to explain my uncommon thirst they would order a fasting blood sugar test. "But doctor! It can't be diabetes! My blood sugar is always normal. Were it to be diabetic polydipsia I would have been dead twenty years ago."

    My blood sugar always turned up normal, leading all but just one uncommonly diligent doctor to lose all interest in diagnosing me.

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday June 11 2018, @12:02PM (2 children)

      by RS3 (6367) on Monday June 11 2018, @12:02PM (#691359)

      Someone I know is somewhat hyponatremic. A pair of motivated nephrologists prescribed Ure-Na. Perhaps you've heard of it, tried it?

      How did you find an "uncommonly diligent" doctor?

      • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 11 2018, @01:22PM (1 child)

        A member of what used to be kuro5hin.org. Her nick was mariahkillschickens.

        At the time she was an Emergency Room resident in Buffalo New York. She treated a Schizophrenic patient who kept demanding to be permitted to urinate.

        He clearly wasn't diabetic so she investigated further.

        Had he been diabetic that would have shown up in both his blood and urine.

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        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by RS3 on Monday June 11 2018, @02:08PM

          by RS3 (6367) on Monday June 11 2018, @02:08PM (#691387)

          Part of me hates to say (type) it, but you're making the strong case for AI replacing doctors. IBM Watson, are you listening? Of course you are.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Monday June 11 2018, @10:47AM (5 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Monday June 11 2018, @10:47AM (#691341)

    Also, would it distill the water, effectively turning it into something that will suck the salt out of your body?

    I don't know if it'll do that, but if you could separate out the electrolytes you could make a good business selling them to gardeners. It's what plants crave.

    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday June 11 2018, @02:28PM (4 children)

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 11 2018, @02:28PM (#691397) Journal

      It's what plants crave.

      That's actually a myth. I watched a documentary where they said that the electrolytes were salt and stuff and the plants died, but if you put water, like from the toilet, on the plants, they grow again.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @02:31PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @02:31PM (#691400)

        Go away, 'baitin!

      • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday June 11 2018, @10:26PM (2 children)

        by krishnoid (1156) on Monday June 11 2018, @10:26PM (#691644)

        Seriously, water? Like, from the toilet? I'd think the electrolytes would have what plants crave.

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by Mykl on Tuesday June 12 2018, @01:54AM (1 child)

          by Mykl (1112) on Tuesday June 12 2018, @01:54AM (#691741)

          Much as I would love for this to remain an 'in' joke for some of us, the opportunity to recommend the movie [imdb.com] is too great.

          • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:52AM

            by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:52AM (#691756) Journal

            Truth. It's like Nostradamus wrote a sci-fi.

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