Makes a damn good insecticide
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Well, actually... it's ground into a powder, rather than the byproduct of sawing. I don't think it counts.
There are also studies saying it can help regulate blood sugar.
Every dust is sawdust after you see it.
If you witnessed a toothed cutting implement in action, you saw a saw saw.
...you saw a saw saw a sawed saw.
Officially the most upvoted comment I've ever seen within a day of posting. Winner winner chicken dinner!
Daaad! 🙄
We gotta crime seen here!
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All bark
Oh I’m old enough to remember the cinnamon challenge… it definitely has a bite
I mean I don't think you have to be that old to remember the cinnamon challenge. It took off in popularity in the early 2010 so about 10-15 years ago.
Link (that isn’t Chinese or Zuckerberg spyware)?
Did you mean to respond to me?
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I'm old enough to have a now-adult son who was dumb enough to try it. Although, at the time, I didn't know what he was up to, so I just told him "it's not sweet, the only reason you think it sweet is because it's always mixed with sugar." Fortunately, he didn't take much of it.
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If sawdust made my yeasted enriched dough taste awesome I'd be putting it on there too.
Tastes good atop of arabica bean soup and foamed lactase.
foamed lactase.
Isn't that the thing that digests milk, but not milk? You can buy little lactase pills at the pharmacy.
Opps. You are correct.
Lactase, is an enzyme that helps break down lactose into its component parts for digestion. (Wiki)
I guess I was trying to use the verb form "lactate" for a science-y term for milk.
I'd say it's more of a tea than a soup. Unless you leave the grinds in.
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Also, explosive if blown into an aerosolized powder
Many many things will explode in an aerosolized powder. Even a box of cornflakes.
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Does that mean sawdust isn't unhealthy to eat?
Depending on where it came from, and what wood, I wouldn't be surprized if it was outright healthy. Tons of fiber, plus dietary sources of lignans are rare.
It's actually used a lot in food, along with other agricultural waste materials. You'll find it listed in ingredients as cellulose. It's processed to hell and indigestible, so it doesn't really do much nutritionally beyond adding a bit of dietary fiber.
Dietary fiber is a lot. That's like the main thing missing from everyone's diets these days.
Lignan balls
Not healthy =/= unhealthy
But is it known to cause cancer in the state of California?
Everything is known to cause cancer to the state of California.
I think California is known to cause cancer in the state of California, you can bet cinnamon is too.
California is the cancer
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