JCC So 2030 Americas little problem

eh, if you put it that way we're all dying slowly. if some poor person finds some small amount of joy in eating copious amounts of ice cream and bacon who's to say that's any more meaningless than whatever escape we take pleasure in?

did i mention i'm reading "the road"?

 

Huh?

 

lol, just feeling extra cynical i guess.

 

What? who combines icecream and bacon? That can't be palatable.

As for the soul food question, many people from the West Indies and Central and South America, eat extremely heavy foods because life is simply not sedentary in a good chunk of the equitorial regions of the planet. And you tend to go a long time between breakfast/lunch/dinner, you don't snack much in Jamaica (Not when I went there to visit family)

As American there is an ugly fact that our nation is built around cars rather than around people, especially the suburbs. When I lived in Queens and Brooklyn pre-1999 I personally walked a hell of alot more that I have since moving to Nassau county. I have heard that the Italian people dont have an obesity epidemic because though they eat rich foods they also walk alot more.

 

Oh God....Realy? My brain just broke.

 

The Double Down and Doritos Taco didn't already do that?

 

That's in addition to BK using horsemeat in it's burgers.

 

Good point. We should get rid of all "freedoms" that don't "provide any benefit" on your end that might also kill you--slowly or otherwise. We can't expect people to make responsible choices, after all.

 

I'm of the opinion that junk food is an arbitrary, subjective term. There are no unhealthy foods (unless it's poisoned or perished), only unhealthy eating practices. MacDonalds 3 or 4 times a year as a treat won't do much, 3 or 4 times a month will. 3 or 4 per week or per day is practically suicidal.

Even the 'Man Vs Food' kind of stuff isn't going to kill you, it's the amount of it, and the frequency.

It's not completely our fault though, we are the product of our evolutionary success on the savannah, but when you see things like this, it's easy to point fingers.

From my UK perspective, we have very expensive food AND rising obesity, so I don't think raising prices is the answer (though it may be the answer for relieving poverty in poorer countries affected by your Orwellian 'Free Trade' and crop subsidies, but I digress). One thing that strikes me about American foods is how sugary they are. Even your bread tastes sweet.

PS: Anyone who puts sugar in tomato sauce is a bounder.

 

Serious question. Why would anyone care if they're eating horse meat instead of cow meat? Obviously, I don't mean to suggest that it's ok to pretend you're selling one thing and then sell another. But--and perhaps this question deserves a thread of its own--if you're a meat-eating kind of person, why is one animal more acceptable to eat than another? Cow, horse, goat, dog, cat, grizzly bear, whatever. Why the revulsion?

 

I've had leberkäse vom pferd. It's delicious. On a kaiser roll from a roadside sausage stand. mustard and ketchup.

 

Cats, Dogs and Crizzly Bears are fellow meat eaters! its just tasteless.

Bad form really.

 

I think it has to do with the fact that if they tasted any good, we would be eating them. I mean, think about it: Why, we as a society, decided cows, pigs, and chickens were okay to eat was because they were the tastiest. Trial and error amongst primitive peoples, if you will.

Just my thought.

 

Curried goat tastes better than most preparations of chicken and every single cut of pig save center cut bacon.

 

Don't the French eat horse? Who cares.

 

I don't know that I'd agree, though. Horse is quite tasty, I'm told. But I do think you're right about the fact that long ago we selected cows, pigs, etc and that became the cultural norm. I just think that we picked those animals because they're fairly easy to domesticate and provide a lot of meat for the amount of effort it takes to raise them. Cats and dogs produce very little meat.

 

You cannot make a valid comparison on the superiority of the taste of goat, unless the pork and chicken you are comparing it to are also similarly curried.

 

As has been noted, it's much easier to farm herbivorous animals than carnivorous. That rules out cats & dogs.

 

Curried chicken and pig are so much inferior I didn't even see the point in bringing it up.

 

I've had curried chicken and goat. Goat's better. Chicken's cheaper and easier to cook. Curried pork is disgusting.

Edit: Someone should note the time and date. Wonkers and I are currently in complete agreement.

 

But he's trying to say curried goat is better than almost all chicken dishes, and every pork dish*. Do you agree with that?

* except one particular cut of bacon.

 

No, I can't agree with that. There are some pretty amazing pork tenderloin dishes out there. And there are a metric butt tonne of awesome chicken dishes.

 

I lost 40 pounds through a university study. We met once a week for twenty weeks, then every other week for another twenty. We learned about making good food choices, food triggers, emotional eating, how to handle parties and holidays, etc. Nothing too earth-shattering, but still useful. There were maybe 12 of us in the group, and every week we'd share how well we met our calorie and exercise goals. Accountability is SO important when dieting. I tried so much harder knowing people would hear about my success or failure. Better yet, I got paid $100 for successfully completing the program. There needs to be more of these programs available. Almost everyone in our group looked and felt so different after those 40 weeks!