Wheatgrass shot
From CaseyPedia
A wheatgrass shot is basically the grass your cat nibbles on so it can cough up furballs, put through a blender (the grass, not the cat or the furballs) and sold at a excessively high price to Web 2.0 marketing personalities. It is the drink of choice for failing real-estate moguls. Available at outlets such as Jamba Juice, wheatgrass shots are an essential part of a modified vegan diet. Positive benefits are said to include excessive weight loss, anemia and blue fingernails. After overdraft charges, wheatgrass shots can cost as little as $37.90...!
Casey Serin, infamous consumer of wheatgrass shots, describes the benefits thusly:
- I do need to get healthier… I’ve been letting my health slip during the last year or so with all the craziness and stress. I drink wheatgrass to compensate and get a quick boost of nutrients.[1]
Jamba Juice describes the wheatgrass shot as follows:
- Liquid sunshine in one little shot! That’s wheatgrass, a healthy, all-natural detoxifier loaded with 23 essential and non-essential amino acids, enzymes, phytonutrients, vitamin K, folic acid, potassium, selenium,vitamin C and other powerful antioxidants to neutralize free radicals. Drink up… this shot is good for you! [2]
Casey recommends the 1oz shot for wheatgrass virgins; as an experienced tousle-haired wheatgrass aficionado he can handle the full 2oz load:
His partner would later describe the experience: "It was actually really good with a sweet afterburn. I would definitely do it again."[4]
Casey addressed speculation on the unfortunate digestive consequences of excess wheatgrass consumption, and its beneficial effects on comment moderation availabilty, during an IAFF talkcast appearance with Nacho:
- NACHO: Wheatgrass — does it give you gas? People want to know.
- CS: [inaudible] — jitters — you should try it, you know, it has a nice — kind of a sweet aftertaste. It’s kind of an acquired taste, so –
- NACHO: Does it give you the runs? Because it looks like it would.
- CS: Does it give you what?
- NACHO: The runs. Diarrhea.
- CS: No, it’s good. Because normally, I spend a little extra time on the toilet, and so wheatgrass comes out. The times I spend extra on the toilet is good because I can moderate my comments on the PDA in downtimes from my busy schedule.[5]
[edit] References
- ↑ I do need to get healthier…, comment on IAFF, May 17th 2007 at 11:13 pm; later deleted by Serin
- ↑ Jamba Juice Menu Guide: Wheatgrass
- ↑ Two shots, Flickr, taken on March 5th 2007
- ↑ It was actually really good..., comment by Salt Lake Mortgage Guy on DHC, June 15th 2007 at 3:02 PM
- ↑ Facing Foreclosure Call Transcript 2, IAFF, March 27th 2007
