Yukkuri Stomach

poweryoga said:
Presumably while on stalk, some of the excrement and nutrient goes through to the mother. Which is why you see a lot of babies dying after you cut off the stalk, and they don't continue growing. But putting the stalk in sugar water supplies enough sugar to act as nutrient... presumably the sugar water will get a bit dirty as well from the excrement.

Another way to look at it is if you want to think of it in the way of pastry making.... think of baby yukkuri on the stalk as unshaped dough, raw ingredients that have not been processed correctly into manjuus. It grows and grows through the paste from the mother, and eventually becomes well formed enough to be a real "pastry", and falls down and becomes baby yukkuri.

As for food right after being born... I think of it as more basic biology. Newborns need nutrients and nurishment... in this case for yukkuris can be explained as needing to expel old paste that accumulated while on stalk.

Well,that suck,your nutrients come with shit.
Now heres the hard one,on humans food takes days to become shit,but with yukkuris,it becames their paste,and forces the oldest paste out,thats ok to me,but how normal food can turn into their paste so quickly?

Ready for it? "magic". Here are some different scenarios:

1) Anything eaten turns into paste automatically and immediately, including steel, metal, wood, garbage, etc.
2) Only "edible" things turn into paste. Hot peppers kill yukkuris.
3) Only "food" turns into paste.

For all three of these, there are varying degrees of stories depicting how "fast" these turn into paste. Some also have descriptions on how much the yukkuri body can tolerate these normally "inedible" things, and how fast they can turn these inedible things into paste.

Most stories agree that yukkuri bodies only have a certain tolerance, and after a certain point their body shuts down and nothing turns into paste anymore. Those yukkuris get thrown out, replaced with new ones.

You should look for the short story "how yukkuris saved the world". It's an interesting story on how using yukkuris for recycling and food production helps mankind fix all its problems.

Trying to make sense of yukkuris is like thermonuclear war - the only winning move is not to play.

poweryoga said:
Ready for it? "magic". Here are some different scenarios:

1) Anything eaten turns into paste automatically and immediately, including steel, metal, wood, garbage, etc.
2) Only "edible" things turn into paste. Hot peppers kill yukkuris.
3) Only "food" turns into paste.

For all three of these, there are varying degrees of stories depicting how "fast" these turn into paste. Some also have descriptions on how much the yukkuri body can tolerate these normally "inedible" things, and how fast they can turn these inedible things into paste.

Most stories agree that yukkuri bodies only have a certain tolerance, and after a certain point their body shuts down and nothing turns into paste anymore. Those yukkuris get thrown out, replaced with new ones.

You should look for the short story "how yukkuris saved the world". It's an interesting story on how using yukkuris for recycling and food production helps mankind fix all its problems.

I think its the first one poweryoga,they woulnd be useful if only food became paste.

FunkSoulBrother said:
Trying to make sense of yukkuris is like thermonuclear war - the only winning move is not to play.

A quote from the movie Wargames,isnt it?

Hrywhoaranngnh said:
A quote from the movie Wargames,isnt it?

Minus the yukkuris, yes.

2-how their paste can expire that quick?
The pastes export their vitamins into Yukkuris' organ,such as hair,skin,paste core,etcetera and etcetera.Then expired pastes get heavier,and then the Yukkuri excrete them as poo-poo.

Yukkumimi said:
2-how their paste can expire that quick?
The pastes export their vitamins into Yukkuris' organ,such as hair,skin,paste core,etcetera and etcetera.Then expired pastes get heavier,and then the Yukkuri excrete them as poo-poo.

It's pretty much canon that yukkuri only have one organ-the paste core. Anything outside the filling is considered inert by most. Hair doesn't grow, "skin" doesn't heal and accessories don't regenerate. Basically, the exterior is just a face on a balloon. Everything on the outside expands as it inflates.

I think yukkuri are full of bacteria that effectively do the work of the digestive system. And in the case of Suika and Yuugi, are responsible for fermentation. And also why they fart so much. The preferred sweet diet accelerates the digestion.

mad_hatter said:
It's pretty much canon that yukkuri only have one organ-the paste core. Anything outside the filling is considered inert by most. Hair doesn't grow, "skin" doesn't heal and accessories don't regenerate. Basically, the exterior is just a face on a balloon. Everything on the outside expands as it inflates.

This doesn't explain the Remilia/Flan types who can regenerate wounds and maybe even missing parts (minus accessories). Then again, IT'S MUTHA FUKKIN MAGIC so who knows?

boom said:
This doesn't explain the Remilia/Flan types who can regenerate wounds and maybe even missing parts (minus accessories). Then again, IT'S MUTHA FUKKIN MAGIC so who knows?

True; that's the general take on Remi/Flan. But Big G has done some pools recently with a Flan that lost a wing and eye as a ko. She's now a bodied yu.

Magic is a hell of a lot better way to rationalize it, though.

poweryoga said:
It's not that they "make it sweeter", the oranges there are just naturally so much sweeter.

Pretty much this. Westerners don't usually like orange juice to be that sweet, so they use a more tart breed of oranges for the juice.

Also, Japanese orange juice is seldom frozen for storage and transportation. This is important because, plainly put, freezing orange juice destroys the flavor completely; in the West, they get around this by adding tons of artificial flavoring to try and return the flavor to the juice. This is why a dozen different juice companies can buy produce from the same industrial-sized farms and still have different-tasting orange juice.

tora said:
Pretty much this. Westerners don't usually like orange juice to be that sweet, so they use a more tart breed of oranges for the juice.

Also, Japanese orange juice is seldom frozen for storage and transportation. This is important because, plainly put, freezing orange juice destroys the flavor completely; in the West, they get around this by adding tons of artificial flavoring to try and return the flavor to the juice. This is why a dozen different juice companies can buy produce from the same industrial-sized farms and still have different-tasting orange juice.

With artificial flavoring in the orange juice, that would probably do more harm to yukkuri than many of us would think.