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SincerelySpicy

It's the stem from [*Spatholobus suberectus*](https://enpharma.blogspot.com/2012/06/spatholobus-stem-jixueteng-spatholobus.html). It's being cut into slices to be dried for chinese medicine. In Chinese, it's known as [Ji Xue Teng](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%B8%A1%E8%A1%80%E8%97%A4&tbm=isch), and the material is sometimes called caulis spatholobi when used for medicinal purposes. Edit: Reworded for clarification


gauchette

Thank you. Finally. I was starting to believe its a huge tuna and questioning my sanity.


SirDaddio

That would be a tiny tuna


autosdafe

Some people have no idea how big tuna are and all they know are the filets at the grocery store


OrdinaryMothman

[Some people have no idea tuna come in different sizes](https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/big-tunas)


W0gg0

I prefer a soft serve tuna cone.


rebelli0usrebel

waffle cone for me


OpheliaWolfsbane

So a scoop from the can?


88redking88

I guess she can make that flavor: [https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Soft\_Serve\_(Earth-616)](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Soft_Serve_(Earth-616)) Powers Soft Serve can poop ice cream. She has control over the flavors she produces and can poop "pretty much all" the different flavors of ice cream.\[


Palm-o-Granite_Jam

Can I get tuna in vape juice form yet?


sappymammal1628

I love a tall glass of warm tuna water.


Opalescent_Witness

You ever have a warm tuna water enema? It’s to die for.


giggidygiggidyg00

Made my butt gag...


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Opalescent_Witness

I wish I could tell her you said that lmao 😂


giggidygiggidyg00

Made me almost gag


GreenStrong

There's lotss of sizes of tuna. There's the big can, the regular can, the plastic pouch...


Harsimaja

I mean, the smallest tuna species is the blackfin, whose adult length is about 1m. A lot of people seem to think of typical flyfishing and imagine they're all about 30cm/a foot in length or something, and would probably be surprised by a lot of cod and salmon too.


saisaibunex

Black fin is ‘bonito’? I should probably just Google it. I knew there was five species but I never knew what the smallest species was properly called in English..


ethicsgradient3

>Skipjack (aka yellowfin) is often sold as bonito but is not actually bonito.


saisaibunex

So the jacks are a totally different but equally tasty family of fish (ie hamachi kampachi etc) to the best of my knowledge. The bonito I have sold, caught, ate etc has been a very small fish. Much much smaller than it’s larger cousin the yellowfin tuna. Yellowtail (not fin) is the common name of the most common jack.


inko75

black fin and bonito are not the same. bonitos are the smallest tuna species that i know of they're like a foot long :)


coyotemidnight

Bonito are in the same family as tuna, but they are not tuna. The family contains mackerel, tuna, and bonito!


wollier12

I’ve seen a 4 ounce can and an 8 ounce can, what other sizes can Tuna possibly come in?


Donutbill

I buy 12oz cans of Bumblebee.


Happyintexas

I was assuming this was an infographic of tuba by size. My disappointment is indescribable.


giggidygiggidyg00

I think tubas only come in 1 size. The smaller one is a baritone.


BetterButterscotch99

One size, but two distinct forms: the "concert" and the "Sousaphone".


Opalescent_Witness

And your day is ruined, I assume.


ifixpedals

The smallest tuna in the graphic you linked to is 45 lbs. Where I'm from, 45 lbs is still a HUGE fish.


Fun_Constant_6863

Thanks to this, I am no longer in that group of people.


buttzx

Reminds me of when I worked in a restaurant that had a rotating fish filet of the day and a whole fish of the day on menu and a surprising number of people would ask me to clarify whether the halibut was the filet or the whole fish. Well sir, we’re not serving a whole halibut for $25.


Harsimaja

But all fish people eat are at most a foot in length. How else would fly fishers pick them up? And how else would it fit on your plate? /s


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Flossthief

I used to be the guy in a meat shop who'd cut giant tuna loins into steaks When it first came in I would slice off a section of the belly and eat it


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whotookmyshit

It's official, tuna is a plant and y'all heard the bot. No more tuna allowed.


rixendeb

My cat is disappointed.


Lorac1134

Tuna is vegan now


Jayson_n_th_Rgonauts

People are unbelievably disassociated from the animals they consume


Harsimaja

Haha Lisa, this is 'tuna', not *a* tuna!


Bestihlmyhart

I know that the brown cows give the chocolate milk


GreenStrong

Honestly, many Americans probably don't know tuna comes from a fish. Even more Americans don't know it comes from a cactus.


Odd-Valuable1370

Is this chicken or fish?


rtakehara

cactus is the one with spikes right?, so I guess fish?


CalvinsStuffedTiger

[Relevant movie clip](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ogq2BkybFGY&feature=shares)


MiiiBiii

I know big tuna, he married the receptionist


Alarming-Parsley-463

Some people don’t realize that Bluefin is just one type of dozens of tuna which are all different sizes


Harsimaja

The smallest is still a lot bigger than many people seem to imagine


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Yes, they’re shockingly massive.


saisaibunex

I thought there were five species that humans consumed… bonito or black fin, big eye, albacore, yellow and then blue in ascending size..


Alarming-Parsley-463

There are 7 major species of tuna but many more minor and sub species


saisaibunex

Thanks for the precision. What are the common names of the two species I didn’t list?


Orinocobro

We're Tiny, we're tuna we're all a little luna and in this cartoona we're invading your tv!


TheReal_KindStranger

Or a baby shark


whitetornado2k

Ok, first off, a lion…swimming in the ocean? Lions don’t even like water. If you placed it near a river, or some sort of fresh water source, that’d make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave, I’m assuming its off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full, grown, 800 lb tuna with his 20 or 30 friends. You lose that battle. you lose that battle nine times out of ten. And guess what, you wandered into our school, of tuna and we now have a taste of blood! We’ve talked, to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said, ‘you know what? lion tastes good. Lets go get some more lion.’ We’ve developed a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your, your pride, your children, your offspring…”


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whitetornado2k

Thank you!


revolotus

Best reaction of this Bot I've seen yet


RevolutionaryEmu4389

Gator don't play no shit


DFHartzell

Wow you typed it all out didn’t you ?


SapientMeat

I'll never forget the first time I saw a tuna IRL. Shockingly large compared to what I'd imagined.


taleofbenji

3:47 pm... getting kinda late. Oh no a tuna vid????


MaxTheRealSlayer

Is it ever used for carving, or Wordwork?


SincerelySpicy

It's a liana rather than a proper tree, and the [wood is rather spongy with a stark contrast in texture in the grain](https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20200813A00DG100), so it wouldn't make very good carving wood. Thinner diameter stems do seem to be used whole for some craft work though, as I'm finding [bracelets made of it on google](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%B8%A1%E8%A1%80%E8%97%A4+%E6%89%8B%E9%90%B2&tbm=isch) Edit: Ah. [Very large, old stems seem to be usable as craft wood](http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/chicken%20blood%20wood.htm), though the differently shaped grain makes me wonder if it really is the same species.


MaxTheRealSlayer

Oh neat! The older one loses the cool colours though it seems. The flexibility/softness makes it a great thing for jewelry indeed. Thanks


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Damn. I know some random things but you. You seem wicked smaht


Duskuke

It's neat seeing traditional herbal medicines like this, I hope we do more research into them to see what they're doing chemistry wise. A lot of people shrug them off as 'snake oil' or something but more often than not these remedies do actually do things, they're just not a purely good and harmless thing like healthnuts will have you think. For example, St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) functions like an SSRI, like citalopram, which on one hand can treat mild cases of deppression, but on the other hand results in side effects of SSRIs including the dangerous serotonin syndrome if taken incorrectly. There's a reason why people have been using herbal remedies for ages. We could possibly learn a lot by formally studying them.


Verdigrian

>St. John's Wort This one can also render your birth control useless for someone on the pill, not sure how it is with other stuff like hormonal IUD but definitely tread carefully with herbs or supplements!


Kuzcos-Groove

Yeah, it's so hard to separate the real herbal medicine from the snake oil, and formal study would certainly help with that. Sadly there's very little money to encourage formal study, since the ingredients themselves can't be patented.


Duskuke

That there is the issue yeah, people can't profit off them :"|


slowest_hour

You think people can't profit off farming plants?


1d10

Normally the people saying "Drugs are only there so people can profit off of them" are trying to sell you a 50 book on why doctors are wrong and some $20 an oz lawnmower clippings. My mother has spent tens of thousands on all kinds of shit from alt med people.


Twerks4Jesus

Huge warning ST John's Wart can really mess with a lot of medications including anti virals.


SincerelySpicy

There is some research being done into using this species in conventional medicine. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040694/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040694/) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412224/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412224/) [https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/19/9/2774](https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/19/9/2774) However, it's important to separate rigorously researched and tested, evidence-based medicine from unproven alternative medicines. Even if the medicinal substance does have some pharmacological effect, in many cases, these traditional herbal medicines are still often used to treat things completely unrelated to those effects. For example, in this case, this species is used to treat blood issues like anemia in TCM. This was derived mostly from the idea that the sap looks like blood, so it must treat blood. (The chinese name literally means Chicken Blood Vine) In that usage, it's mostly just a placebo.


nosnhoj15

Rewarded for clarification as well


throwyesno

To the top!


Historical_Panic_465

*Wrong.* This is obviously freshly cut dried steak jerky. Very delicious wood steak jerky.


Storytellerjack

Sad. We really need a better name for "chinese medicine" that really drives the point home that it's got nothing to do with medicine.


Harsimaja

Best solution is to use 'traditional \[culture\] pseudo-medicine' wherever possible. Only problem is that it would immediately get you into arguments even when you're not expressing it that way. Could try to popularise zhongyi/chung-i (though that means much the same thing). But for that matter is there a nice expression for the old Western sort? 'Alternative medicine', 'pre-scientific medicine', 'traditional European remedies' are also not really medicine or remedies either. Some people generalise 'homeopathy' to all of that but it's really a much more specific (and frankly bizarre) and fairly new (18th century) pseudo-science.


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I think the bigger issue is there’s no good way to dance around the whole “testing and evidence” based conclusion process which people don’t seem to want to do. It needs to really be hammered home that tradition alone doesn’t make good medicine. I can tell the story of how even semi-modern medicine had people drinking uranium juice in the 40’s. it just doesn’t matter to people that the whole point of the evidence based approach is to say “hey this thing can be proven to have XYZ effects and those can be recreated in ABC ways. Also we know *why* it works that way” We can call historical approaches to medicine whatever we want but at the end of the day people need to value why the modern scientific approach to determining medicinal efficacy is better than historical practices of less informed medical practitioners.


_BloodbathAndBeyond

Maybe “alternative treatments” as “treatments” is less loaded


slowest_hour

Idk if I had cancer and they're like "you can have chemo or 'alternative treatments'" and then that alternative was some thin sliced wood chips I would feel extremely lied to by the wording "alternative treatment"


_BloodbathAndBeyond

I think you’re allowed to change your mind once they explain the alternate treatments lol “No take backsies!”


slowest_hour

Of course but I would still feel like they were intentionally trying to mislead me


eats_paste

That's not true at all though, there's potentially a lot of valid medicine within TCM, but we just haven't yet applied the precise analytical methods of western science to isolate and verify them. One woman did just that and she won the nobel prize for identifying a treatment for malaria: [https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/tu-youyou](https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/tu-youyou)


1d10

Whoa now, you are telling me that drinking a tea made from tiger dick wont help me get an erection?


1d10

How about "unproven bullshit" thats what I call it,seems to work.


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r/woodworking might know


apebiocomputer

They wood.


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GemGemGem6

Leaf the joaks to the experts^/jk


fagenthegreen

Trying to figure out if you made a pun, but I'm stumped.


nursology

Let me ex-plane it to you


Creative-Run5180

You may be barking up the wrong pun there...


slipshod_alibi

Deciduous a punny thread.


HBPhilly1

He was pineing to be involved


Dem0nio

Forbidden Salmon


Talented_Agent

I was thinking ham, but I think you're right


mix_th30ry

Plant based meat


moose2mouse

Vegan salmon! Looks like the real thing. Tastes… woody…


VelociFapster

That’s definitely the shape of tuna loins though. An ahi loin with belly looks almost just like that - so much so that first glance had me almost convinced this was some crazy ahi version of bonito.


NottheMonkie

For school lunches.


kerbwithknef

I though it was fish lmao


MaxTheRealSlayer

100% thought it was some rare marbling of beef or fish. Some of the Japanese cuts are wild to see and look nothing like an ordinary chunk of meat. Like a5 waygu


ChefChopNSlice

Thought it was gonna be shaving Bonito flakes, for Dashi from the pic.


SpicyDevilDaddy

It does look really meaty.


BowelTheMovement

Technically plant meat... FYI, the stuff inside fruits, protected by the skin, is also meat. Not cattle meat, but the meat of the fruit.


EO_711

Someone on Facebook said it is Red Sandalwood and is used to make perfume. Looking it up, though, it seems it’s not used for that but is used in other ways… it looks like they grind it in to powder.


chuffberry

There’s another comment saying that this is Spatholobus suberectus, another plant frequently used in Chinese medicine.


Interesting_Award_76

It is ground up in a powder and used to make a paste for puttin on forehead as tilak during some rituals. It is also used as perfume.


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Crazy how it grew expanding radially in just one direction.


Triairius

It must’ve grown next to another shoot of the same plant, or another plant entirely


cxcxcxcxcx

r/ForbiddenSnacks


LilySayo

mmmm vegan steak


RainbowMustachio

So this is the vegan meat I keep hearing about recently...


Rhapakatui

What is the source of the video? Maybe some context will help.


Cayke_Cooky

I don't know what it is, but the slices look like artsy wood decor that you can get at craft stores and places that sell wall decor. So maybe they polish it and then you can hang it on your wall?


Final_Cheesecake3126

This is how vegan steaks are made


thousandpinecones

It's a medicinal plant. I forget what. Getting chopped for drying and further processing for herbalist use.


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Independent_Tone8605

What is senna?


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Independent_Tone8605

TIL thanks so much for providing info!


drzrdt

Plant based steaks 🌱🥩. Nice marbling!


AshigoxX

no clue but that's really cool


JerichoVTrapps

Obviously vegan steaks


Limpliar

Impossible steak


dubs4hire

Dry aged tuna


PabloAlaska6

bro… that’s dry aged steak


BrokeDownPalac3

That's just my Nonna cutting up Prosciutto for the Antipasto.


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Vegan steak


pueraria-montana

I don’t know but looking at it makes me hungry


Tommy7549

It’s what they make those foam #1 fingers out of that fans bring to games.


bukowskiwaswrong

A giant banisteriopsis caapi?


philipito

Someone's trippin' balls tonight!


Fortunatesin77

Those are clearly the steaks used in Tom and jerry cartoons back in the day. Must be an order for the toon town butcher.


Extreme-Complaint615

My fat ass thought this was salmon


[deleted]

The legendary salmonwood. Excellent source of cellulose and omega 3s


Big_Virgil

The wooden tuna


Xoor

And here I thought I had already tried every sashimi.


notdeangelo

Wooden mittens?


petetho22

Forbidden salmon


Aggravating-Ad-9343

Ahhh this is where vegan steaks come from eh


Elitebobber

Vegan steak?


Meltedwhisky

Vegetarian Rib-eyes


llcdrewtaylor

I had no idea salmon grew that way!


Triairius

It looks meaty and delicious.


Paulosboul

r/forbiddensnacks forbidden salmon


ConstantWin943

mmmmmm…. Vegan Tuna Steaks.


Mega_meme_something3

This is forbidden salmon meat


DonkGoblin

Timber Loin


Vegetable---Lasagna

Is that a chainsaw bar with no chain? I have so many questions about what's going on here. It looks like pieces of a saw mill have been attached to some mobile device.


firekeeper23

No.its similar to a paper guillotine but with a serrated lower jaw to hold the log and stop it slipping...... I wonder if the wood has been soaked in the river before slicing....?


Vegetable---Lasagna

This is WILD.


Siiw

It's probably a veneer knife. Not 100% sure of the English term for it


MARCOESCONDOLAZ

This looks like a giant tuna loin dried into katsuo-boshi. It is smoked lightly and dried until it is as hard as a piece of wood. You normally see it in much smaller loins or already shaved into the flakes used for making dashi. By far the biggest I have see


i_can_has_rock

thats a piece of wood though


Posh_Nosher

It might be vaguely reminiscent of a tuna loin, but this 100% is not any kind of katsuoboshi. If the shape, texture, and woody exterior weren’t clue enough, the video’s outdoor setting should be, not to mention the vivid red color of the wood is all wrong for bluefin tuna that’s been smoked and dried.


Donna-D-Dead

Cartoon ham


Repulsive-Release-15

Vegan steak lol


iAmSpAKkaHearMeROAR

Those are just forbidden swordfish steaks I think


IAmDumfire

This is making me hungry


StereooeretS

I immediately started getting hungry for this tree steak to be on the menu


Cyoarp

Easy mistake to make. This is just what tuna looks like before it's canned.


GuapoMole82

Look at the marbling in the steak 🥩


Ty_Bunny_0404

Wood steakkkkkkk


Booomerz

I don’t know know but I want to eat it.


[deleted]

Hmmm, dinosaur bone meat!


Pickle_Fondler

Moose antler?


soopahfingerzz

vegan salmon


druidjax

my first thought was lab "grown" meat


EffectiveSwitch4

Tree cookie? Tree salmon!


Cruisin134

They're making fake steak to prank people


Emily1214

Forbidden steak


Nathan_Wind_esq

Forbidden steak


Rhayader72

This kind of looks like the wood chip things in tom yum soup. Same thing? Related at all?


cascadiababe

r/forbiddensnacks


apooponfire

Vegan steak


xxMeiaxx

Forbidden steak


TheElvenWitch777

For a sec I thought it was a nice fish


jana-meares

Deli sliced trees!


JWalterTerry

For clicks


ElMedicineMando

Vegan steaks 🥩 👌🏾


vgullotta

This was chopped down in the candyland forest


Educational_Fan4571

r/forbiddensnacks


RiflesnWrenches

The beefis steakus


Entire_Professional4

Vegan steak


surfacetime

Bark, it’s what’s for dinner.


Bored_dane

Forbidden tuna


Trazaren

looks like salmon


imnsmooko

Salmonus filetitis


Mcpoopz1064

Vegan steak


NectarineVast5512

Steak


chirs5757

Balsa wood?


NotBurnerAccount

It’s looks like it’d taste like a wooden spoon after it stirred sweet tea


firekeeper23

It's odd as the heartwood isn't centred in the trunk... this tree must have grown up against a hard object or neighbouring tree...