I need your help interpreting symptoms!!

[Al]

....Al, well I have done something right for once.

I'll say, Jim. Here's what I came up with: I roasted those roots after slathering them with olive oil, Then made a salad of spinach, red lettuce, and arugula, added some pear slices, walnut bits, and goat cheese. After the beets cooled, I skinned and sliced them, and put the slices on top of the greens. Then I washed my hands, which were quite purple, and served up the onion soup to go with the salad. Big hit. Still don't like beets myself, but I'll say that you know how to handle women, my friend....

Al

[mishb]

I'll say, Jim. Here's what I came up with: I roasted those roots after slathering them with olive oil, Then made a salad of spinach, red lettuce, and arugula, added some pear slices, walnut bits, and goat cheese. After the beets cooled, I skinned and sliced them, and put the slices on top of the greens. Then I washed my hands, which were quite purple, and served up the onion soup to go with the salad. Big hit. Still don't like beets myself, but I'll say that you know how to handle women, my friend....

Al

I've cooked them a few times over the years Al, but the hands do go very purple.
Thankfully we have them already prepared in cans, from the supermarket (whole or sliced) and are way easier to add to salads or sandwiches.
Can't you purchased beetroot in cans???

[delorisdoe]

My mom pickled a bunch of beets and then proceeded to eat a jar for dinner. The next day she went to work and started to pee what she thought was blood. Always the drama queen she left work early due to illness, went home googled red blood, figured out she was most likely dying. She cried for aproximately an hour or so. At this point she decided to drown her sorrows in another jar of beets. She then googled what could happen to your pee if you eat too many beets. My mother, the drama queen.

[Al]

I've cooked them a few times over the years Al, but the hands do go very purple.
Thankfully we have them already prepared in cans, from the supermarket (whole or sliced) and are way easier to add to salads or sandwiches.
Can't you purchased beetroot in cans???

Yes. Michelle, the rasty roots can be found in cans. But frankly, I do cans only as a last resort. Quirk of mine, I suppose, but when I have food, I prefer actual food, not something canned, boxed, or otherwise manufactured: chopped, measured, packed, and sanitized for my convenience. I enjoy learning the physics of the process, knowing what zigs when you zag. I think this is the same reason I still drive a stick shift car: I want to feel how the vehicle operates in its full context. Of course, there is a limit to this. When I built my house, I left most of the work to real carpenters, but I did pound some nails myself, and i regularly hung out with the crew to get a feel for what the were doing and a real sense of how the house was put together. And, at the hospital and during other medical procedures, I made them go through full detail before (and after) the action; if I didn't understand it, it wasn't going to happen. Hey, I even watched the video during the colonoscopy. (Can I talk about food prep and colon testing in the same post?) Anyway, now you know my position on beets, construction, driving, gut checks, and on cans....

Al

[Al]

My mom pickled a bunch of beets and then proceeded to eat a jar for dinner. The next day she went to work and started to pee what she thought was blood. Always the drama queen she left work early due to illness, went home googled red blood, figured out she was most likely dying. She cried for aproximately an hour or so. At this point she decided to drown her sorrows in another jar of beets. She then googled what could happen to your pee if you eat too many beets. My mother, the drama queen.

Good story, Leigh! So your mother found out she really was dye-ing. Those beets are really colorful, I'll give them that....

Al

[delorisdoe]

I am with you on that Al. I hate beets. I dont get what people like about them. yuck.

[mishb]

Yes. Michelle, the rasty roots can be found in cans. But frankly, I do cans only as a last resort. Quirk of mine, I suppose, but when I have food, I prefer actual food, not something canned, boxed, or otherwise manufactured: chopped, measured, packed, and sanitized for my convenience. I enjoy learning the physics of the process, knowing what zigs when you zag. I think this is the same reason I still drive a stick shift car: I want to feel how the vehicle operates in its full context. Of course, there is a limit to this. When I built my house, I left most of the work to real carpenters, but I did pound some nails myself, and i regularly hung out with the crew to get a feel for what the were doing and a real sense of how the house was put together. And, at the hospital and during other medical procedures, I made them go through full detail before (and after) the action; if I didn't understand it, it wasn't going to happen. Hey, I even watched the video during the colonoscopy. (Can I talk about food prep and colon testing in the same post?) Anyway, now you know my position on beets, construction, driving, gut checks, and on cans....

Al

You are too good Al.
A Greek friend of mine once told me that the Greek call Australian's - 'Skippy Can Eaters'. Yes, I have to admit, canned food is pretty big over here.
I would really love to do it all myself but convenience has it the other way I'm afraid. We even have pre packed/cut salads, pre made stir fries etc etc (not in cans)

The way the arthritis is in my hands, I wouldn't be able to make it all myself anyway ..... I even struggle just to open the cans.

I'm pretty sure you can talk about food and the colon, but we have kind of gone off track from the Gall bladder

[Al]

....I'm pretty sure you can talk about food and the colon, but we have kind of gone off track from the Gall bladder

Dunno, Michelle. Don't you know that the shin bone is connected to the thigh bone sort of thing? The gall bladder and the colon are pretty close, come to think about it. Eating appropriated would be appreciated by both organs, I think. Gotta watch thos pre-packed foods. Some have enough salt to entice a cow to lick them.

Al