r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 7d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/thrumplewart 7d ago

I'll take 5000 yaks please. No you can't ask why.

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u/Jeramy_Jones 7d ago

You’ll be a king in Mongolia.

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u/PMA1898 7d ago

What a win! Think of the barbeques!

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u/StockingDummy 6d ago

Fun Fact: Mongolian barbecue isn't actually Mongolian.

It started with a guy from Beijing who opened a street food stall in Taiwan. He wanted to call it "Beijing barbecue" but decided against it; he was starting business right after the Chinese Civil War, so he called it "Mongolian barbecue" instead.

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u/PMA1898 6d ago

That is a fun fact! I've never been there before (not a king).

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u/PapaThyme 5d ago

But Bejing BBQ has a way better wing to it.

Fowgive me, I can not pwonounce the dweaded "r"

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u/billy_twice 6d ago

Think about getting stomped to death by 5000 yaks!

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u/Wishbone_508 6d ago

Don't kink shame me.

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u/astride_unbridulled 6d ago

Kink defrocked

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u/im_dead_sirius 6d ago

I'd rather not.

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u/Jamesmateer100 6d ago

And the milk, don’t forget the fresh yak milk.

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u/Tomwhyte 6d ago

Oh sure, you have to pick the hairs out, but it's sooo good for you!

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u/astride_unbridulled 6d ago

I think yak butter was what originally inspired bulletproof coffee

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u/Ponyboi667 6d ago

And the fresh yak breast milk

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u/mexicodoug 6d ago

What other kinds of fresh yak milk are there? Technically, of course, yak milk comes from udders, which are the type of breasts that bovinae have.

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u/TheAlcoholicMolotov 6d ago

I'm down for a BBQ

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u/TWH_PDX 6d ago

Now down to 4999 yaks

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u/Divebarkeep1 6d ago

Four thousand nine hundred ninety nine yaks on the wall, four thousand nine hundred ninety nine yaks….

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u/im_dead_sirius 6d ago

Four thousand nine hundred ninety nine yaks on the grill, four thousand nine hundred ninety nine yaks….

Fixed that for you.

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u/Its-my-dick-in-a-box 6d ago

and the lamentation of the women

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u/im_dead_sirius 6d ago

And the murmuration of the starlings!

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u/ttchubbo 6d ago

And also think about the amount of feces they produce, there will be a mountain of poo.

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u/-Titan_Uranus- 6d ago

Great fertilizer production for the crops

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u/im_dead_sirius 6d ago

And hair stylists really like the taste of yak. Imagine the barber queues!