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I'm not sure if this needs a cw or not so I'm going to be cautious:
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I make meads, wines and seltzers when I can afford it. I also want to try making some fermented foods like kimchi or sauerkraut, but haven't gotten around to it yet.That sounds awesome! I’ve never tried anything like that, but I always wondered about fermenting odd things like peaches, marshmallows, etc. just to see what would happen. Maybe I should get a mead kit at some point and try it out.
At some point I want to try using some sort of candy like starbursts or jolly ranchers
That’s super cool
It's a lot of fun.
When it comes to food, you only need to CW when it’s about meat and body weight.
From the CoC:
Topics that must be CW'd
Violence towards self such as self-harm and suicide Violence towards animals or humans such as corpses and carnist products and especially ||abuse, gore, and sexual violence Traumatic societal harms such as transphobia, sexual and gender oppression, fatphobia and lookism, ableism, sanism, racism, ageism and other bigotry Other common triggers such as discussion of weight and calories, ableist slurs, abortion, NSFW,removed and sexual assault, police brutality, ethnic cleansing and genocide, etc.Thanks.