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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 07:57 PM Nov 2015

World Health Organisation Warns That Consumption Of Kale Leads To Arrogance

World Health Organisation Warns That Consumption Of Kale Leads To Arrogance

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a new report today warning that consumption of the ‘super-food’ kale over a period of time can lead consumers to have heightened levels of arrogance.

The study was conducted in several cafes in Sydney’s beach-side suburb of Bondi and also its inner-city suburb of Newton where kale consumption is almost at epidemic levels.

A spokesperson for the WHO told The (un)Australian: “These findings though alarming are not surprising, I mean we’ve all been at a dinner party and had to endure the whining of a vegetarian or worse a vegan, talking about how superior they are to us carnivores.

“Until recently they merely whined, now with the introduction of kale and to a lesser extent quinoa their whining is now more boastful and confrontational.”

Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce is currently considering legislation to confront the kale epidemic and has not ruled out making the consumption of red meat compulsory for all Australians.

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World Health Organisation Warns That Consumption Of Kale Leads To Arrogance (Original Post) GliderGuider Nov 2015 OP
Bawhaha marym625 Nov 2015 #1
I'm literally eating quinoa as I read this. I am so fucked. Gregorian Nov 2015 #2
Oh crap LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #3
Canine teeth and forward looking eyes. Give me a burger Lochloosa Nov 2015 #4
Heretic!!!! GliderGuider Nov 2015 #5
What? No kale? Lochloosa Nov 2015 #6
1/2 Lb ground chuck w baby leaf spinach, Habanero Jack cheese, and sun dried tomatoes FrodosPet Nov 2015 #7
I like the cut of your jib nt Adrahil Nov 2015 #15
I just wave some kale over my bacon until I think it has absorbed enough kale memory pinboy3niner Nov 2015 #8
But they say bacon can kale you! LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #12
Its large supply of Vitamin K could kill you if you are on blood thinners eridani Nov 2015 #9
Then does consumption of bacon lead to humility? milestogo Nov 2015 #10
Don't ask me. ANYBODY could give you a better answer than I could. pinboy3niner Nov 2015 #11
what if you mixed kale and bacon? (or other humility-inducing foods?) 0rganism Nov 2015 #13
Kale sucks. Adrahil Nov 2015 #14

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
7. 1/2 Lb ground chuck w baby leaf spinach, Habanero Jack cheese, and sun dried tomatoes
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 10:06 PM
Nov 2015

Spinach over Kale, cause that's how I roll!

eridani

(51,907 posts)
9. Its large supply of Vitamin K could kill you if you are on blood thinners
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 10:30 PM
Nov 2015

That's why I don't cook it--DH is on coumadin.

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