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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are you saying a vegetable fried this rice?

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does this help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switcheroo

It's kind of an internet culture thing to respond like that...

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No I'm familiar with the ol' Reddit switcheroo. I don't understand what exactly is being switched in this case.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch here. The comment is intentionally mixing things up for comedic effect, but it's not a direct switch of anything...

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago

Damn. I didn’t understand the joke the above user was making and was hoping that by understanding why it’s a switcheroo I could understand the original joke. But now I’m no closer than where I started.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's an existential crisis I've had after starting to eat vegan. Suddenly everything in your cupboard is a plant, with the exception of salt and sometimes mushrooms.

It's just like: I'll now eat this noodle-shaped plant with this pureed plant and this protein-rich plant and I'll also throw in some tasty plant shreds. Maybe I should also have some plant leaves with a dressing out of plant oil, fermented plant juice and this plant seed paste.

But then I realized that meat, eggs, cheese, milk, and even mushrooms, they're all just processed/digested plants, too. So, there's only plants and salt. Which really didn't make the existential crisis any better, but at least we're all in it together. 🙃

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

All beings, including us, are descendants of the first single-celled being that appeared on Earth billions of years ago. We share 75% of our DNA with a potato (some people which I know, even more)