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   Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:39:50 JST Hoss Delgado
   >be me
   >formerly normal grocery shopper
   >oil is oil
   >butter is butter
   >mayonnaise is mayonnaise
   >life is simple
   >make catastrophic mistake of reading one thread about seed oils at 1:30 AM
   >come out the other side spiritually unable to view a nutrition label the same way again
   >go to supermarket next morning
   >pick up loaf of bread
   >soybean oil
   >why
   >put it back
   >grab hamburger buns
   >soybean oil
   >tortillas
   >canola oil
   >crackers
   >sunflower oil
   >granola
   >expeller-pressed safflower oil
   >protein bar
   >vegetable oil blend
   >vegetable oil blend
   >what vegetables
   >which vegetables are being squeezed for oil
   >have never seen anyone wring a broccoli
   >start checking things that logically should not require oil
   >dried cranberries
   >sunflower oil
   >raisins
   >sunflower oil
   >seasoning packet
   >canola oil
   >peanut butter
   >rapeseed oil
   >excuse me
   >buy roasted nuts
   >ingredients: almonds, sunflower oil, sea salt
   >THE ALMOND ALREADY CONTAINS OIL
   >WHY DID YOU OIL THE OIL
   >walk into frozen aisle
   >every product has the same microscopic ingredient list
   >"contains 2% or less of soybean oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, natural flavors, xanthan gum, spiritual malaise"
   >realize seed oil isn't an ingredient anymore
   >it's atmospheric
   >it's the culinary equivalent of microplastics
   >restaurant menu says "grilled chicken"
   >excellent
   >ask waiter what it's grilled in
   >"our house vegetable oil blend"
   >there is no escape
   >order steak
   >"we brush the grill with canola oil"
   >order steamed vegetables
   >"finished with our garlic-infused soybean oil"
   >order plain baked potato
   >waiter begins sweating
   >"the potato supplier lightly coats them in vegetable oil for..."
   >STOP
   >go home
   >decide to cook everything myself
   >buy cast iron pan
   >butter
   >beef tallow
   >olive oil from a bottle with more provenance documentation than my birth certificate
   >finally safe
   >roommate walks in
   >"hey anon I bought some nonstick cooking spray"
   >look at label
   >CANOLA OIL, SOY LECITHIN
   >hear Dark Souls boss music
   >week later become That Guy at every social gathering
   >"what oil did you use?"
   >"anon it's birthday cake"
   >"ANSWER THE QUESTION"
   >friend hands me chips
   >turn bag around before accepting
   >sunflower oil
   >hand recoils instinctively
   >friend looks at me like I'm inspecting the ingredients for plutonium
   >eventually realize half the modern food supply appears to be based on one fundamental culinary principle:
   >take a perfectly edible substance
   >find some way to spray soybean or canola oil onto it
   >sell it
   >even foods marketed as healthy
   >"ancient grain organic superfood clusters"
   >ingredients begin with oats, quinoa, chia
   >beautiful
   >keep reading
   >CANOLA OIL
   >they got the ancient grains too
   >Mesopotamia has fallen
   >start shopping exclusively around perimeter of store
   >meat
   >eggs
   >produce
   >dairy
   >feel like medieval peasant avoiding cursed interior aisles
   >occasionally venture into center for coffee
   >inspect label anyway
   >100% coffee
   >finally
   >one product has escaped
   >cashier sees me reading it
   >"sir, that's coffee"
   >I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE CAPABLE OF
   >seed oil redpill isn't even believing they're uniquely poisonous anymore
   >it's simply noticing them
   >once noticed they become impossible to unsee
   >soybean oil is hiding behind every cupboard door like fucking Slenderman
   >canola oil is somehow in both the salad dressing and the "buttery" popcorn
   >sunflower oil has infiltrated dried fruit
   >cottonseed oil exists despite cotton famously not being food
   >every time I think I've escaped
   >new product appears
   >"Made with REAL AVOCADO!"
   >check ingredients
   >canola oil, avocado oil
   >avocado oil listed just high enough to legally put a green avocado on the front
   >mfw modern food manufacturers apparently regard seed oil as the culinary equivalent of mortar
   >nothing may be constructed without it
   >mfw I just wanted lunch
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     Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse (feralphilosophernc@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:49:47 JST Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse

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     • Shiplap
     Sadly, I'm neither autistic nor Artistic
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     penguin (penguin@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:49:47 JST penguin

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     • Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse
     • Shiplap
     sanstisms
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     Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse (feralphilosophernc@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:49:49 JST Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse

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     My daily struggle
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     Shiplap (shiplap@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:49:49 JST Shiplap

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     • Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse
     Mein täglicher Kampf
     
     Sounds vaguely familiar...
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     druid (druid@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 10:43:20 JST druid

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     >buy $15 jar of mayo that lists only avocado oil
     >consumer testing
     >0% avocado oil
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     SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 11:55:52 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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     Last century, as the global economy emerged, the focus shifted on modifying food with preservatives; so they would survive the journey from being grown in Paraguay, being packaged in Vietnam, and then shipped to America for consumption. Somehow in capitalism's infinite wisdom, eating fruit that was harvested 9 months ago and traveled 30,000 miles is cheaper than growing food in the same hemisphere we live in.
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 11:55:58 JST Nudhul

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     • SKiZM :confederate:
     @SK1ZM @Hoss also note that these fruits and vegetables are always picked extremely under ripe, which is why they are all bitter and need to be coated in oils for anyone to stomach them.
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     Xeraser :RepubblicaSocialeItaliana: (xeraser@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 21:51:58 JST Xeraser :RepubblicaSocialeItaliana:

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     @Hoss
     don't consume cottonseed oil if you value your swimmers
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     Verfassungsschmutz :sonnenrad: (verfassungsschmutz@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 21:52:37 JST Verfassungsschmutz :sonnenrad:

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     FWIW expeller-pressed oil is probably fine because it doesn't use chemical solvents to extract the oil. But unless that's specifically mentioned, it's safe to assume chemical extraction was involved.
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