I know cold cut sandwich meat are bad for me, but I just can't go without them.

It's one of the few things that I never want to know how they're made; because once the scales come off I'll probably never east them again. Ignorance is bliss.

fark slideshows and fark this lady.

Confabulat: Whaa, that's all I eat now. I'm 42 years old and still weigh 145 pounds, same as 17. My cholesterol level is fine (the heavy drinking helps with that) and the endless BC powders ensure I won't die of a stroke.

/if it ain't drippin' grease or full of sugar, I ain't putting it in my mouth

Really? I was underweight from running cross country during high school, and college. I am about the same body weight and composition as I was at ~24 years old. However, I work really hard to maintain that through a fairly strict diet, and daily exercise. It's a huge trade off in certainly quality of life aspects, but I just learned to appreciate high quality fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts, etc. It is a much more expensive diet than a typical diet. The exercise makes me miserable on a daily basis.

If there's one thing childhood taught me... It's dont gnaw on a 9 volt battery.

I will say this... I won't be giving my little boy pure fruit juices when he gets into the sippy-cup stage. From all I've read they are just sugar, and actually giving the kid a piece of fruit is much healthier. I try to stay away from pure fruit juices too, although a bit of OJ & some seltzer water is very refreshing.

/add champagne and it becomes REALLY refreshing...

A few notes:

Furthermore, a 2008 study in the journal Hypertension found a direct relationship between salt intake and sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption that cola contains salt.

If your child still requests fruit juice, mix three parts water with one part juice to help reduce the amount of sugar he/she is consuming tell them to STFU and drink what you GD give them.

Also from now on I'll only allow my kids to drink from the red ketchup bottle instead of the green one.

/don't have kids

Citing studies that are, even quoted as, scientifically questionable does not aid your case.

Ginger ale is not a cola.

You can have my hot dogs when you pry them from my cold, greasy, dead hands.

That was pretty much all I ate from 10 to 17 (specifically instant dinners and cola).

So I can still feed my kids fire ants. Good to know.

In the Daily Fail, an article about a kid whose mother made her kid a Smartie sandwich.

I'm ok with this. I used to have sugar sandwiches as a kid. It was farkin delicious. It was the energy drink of yesteryear.

GungFu: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 634x487]

In the Daily Fail, an article about a kid whose mother made her kid a Smartie sandwich.

I'm ok with this. I used to have sugar sandwiches as a kid. It was farkin delicious. It was the energy drink of yesteryear.


I should sentence check.

At the bottom where there's usually a related articles thing, this article has a "More Slideshows" box. Why on earth would you advertise the fact that these links are slideshows? No one likes slideshows. And of course, the "More Slideshows" box is itself a slideshow.

GungFu: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 634x487]

In the Daily Fail, an article about a kid whose mother made her kid a Smartie sandwich.

I'm ok with this. I used to have sugar sandwiches as a kid. It was farkin delicious. It was the energy drink of yesteryear.

Since that's Britain you know those sandwiches are laden with heavy butter as well. I can't see any evidence in the photo, but it's there.

My Pennsylvania-Dutch-descended grandmother has always kept bacon grease and used it in place of lard when baking - a traditional use-everything kitchen tip from the Amish. When I was a small child I always looked forward to visiting her house because of the delicious treats she'd have ready. I only learned about the grease ingredient a few years ago. Kind of disgusting, but bacon + baking is probably a good combination in 9/10 Farkers' books.

Unsurprisingly, I have been a fat guy for my entire adult life. However, after recently moving to Japan I've lost 55lbs in four months. Considering the huge variety of fried foods available here I am a little surprised, but while reading that list I realized I've had pretty much none of those things since coming here. Cola, processed meats and instant dinners were frequently on the menu back in Canada.

I now hereby declare a new fad - the "Move to Japan Diet."

Pattuq: GungFu: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 634x487]

In the Daily Fail, an article about a kid whose mother made her kid a Smartie sandwich.

I'm ok with this. I used to have sugar sandwiches as a kid. It was farkin delicious. It was the energy drink of yesteryear.

Since that's Britain you know those sandwiches are laden with heavy butter as well. I can't see any evidence in the photo, but it's there.

My Pennsylvania-Dutch-descended grandmother has always kept bacon grease and used it in place of lard when baking - a traditional use-everything kitchen tip from the Amish. When I was a small child I always looked forward to visiting her house because of the delicious treats she'd have ready. I only learned about the grease ingredient a few years ago. Kind of disgusting, but bacon + baking is probably a good combination in 9/10 Farkers' books.

Unsurprisingly, I have been a fat guy for my entire adult life. However, after recently moving to Japan I've lost 55lbs in four months. Considering the huge variety of fried foods available here I am a little surprised, but while reading that list I realized I've had pretty much none of those things since coming here. Cola, processed meats and instant dinners were frequently on the menu back in Canada.

I now hereby declare a new fad - the "Move to Japan Diet."

This. Due to a combination of eating much better and walking everywhere, I lost like 15 pounds in the two weeks I was in Japan. If I could afford to move there, I'd be in great shape.

batcookie: Keizer_Ghidorah: So I can still feed my kids fire ants. Good to know.

And don't forget Windex.

It sounds like something you want, but you don't! (new window)

Seriously, though. All they need to do is make more compounds that do for fatty tastes and salty tastes what adenosine monophosphate (new window) does for bitterness. Make a pre-meal mouth rinse that contains the AMP, the umami-blocker, and the sodium-blocker, maybe throw a little miraculin in there as well to make the naturally-sweet things taste sweeter, and let people eat whatever they want. If hypersalty greasebomb burgers just stop tasting so delicious, fruits taste exponentially sweeter, and broccoli tastes less like a sack of fermented assholes, that might actually help people eat healthy food.

I just can't believe that this lady really thinks kids will never like fatty/salty/unhealthy food if they're never exposed to it. If you pretend that any good healthy person should never want it, never try it, and certainly never enjoy it if they do try it -- or at least feel fantastically guilty about the terrible things they're doing -- you're not teaching anyone to make sound decisions.

So don't be surprised if your deprived little snowflake grows up to be the nutritional equivalent of the preacher's sheltered daughter who grows up to become the town bike.

miss diminutive: I know cold cut sandwich meat are bad for me, but I just can't go without them.

Not just bad for you but also bad for your wallet. Go over to the meat section and look at the price per pound for boneless/skinless chicken breast, boneless pork chops, potroast, and a london broil. Now look at the prices per pound for lunchmeat. Why the fark is lunchmeat more expensive than an average steak??

Pattuq: GungFu: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 634x487]

In the Daily Fail, an article about a kid whose mother made her kid a Smartie sandwich.

I'm ok with this. I used to have sugar sandwiches as a kid. It was farkin delicious. It was the energy drink of yesteryear.

Since that's Britain you know those sandwiches are laden with heavy butter as well. I can't see any evidence in the photo, but it's there.

My Pennsylvania-Dutch-descended grandmother has always kept bacon grease and used it in place of lard when baking - a traditional use-everything kitchen tip from the Amish. When I was a small child I always looked forward to visiting her house because of the delicious treats she'd have ready. I only learned about the grease ingredient a few years ago. Kind of disgusting, but bacon + baking is probably a good combination in 9/10 Farkers' books.

Unsurprisingly, I have been a fat guy for my entire adult life. However, after recently moving to Japan I've lost 55lbs in four months. Considering the huge variety of fried foods available here I am a little surprised, but while reading that list I realized I've had pretty much none of those things since coming here. Cola, processed meats and instant dinners were frequently on the menu back in Canada.

I now hereby declare a new fad - the "Move to Japan Diet."


In Asian countries there's a greater choice of foods. Some - the youngsters, usually - love the Western crap and get bigger and fatter because of it, but they also have the choice of eating more traditional stuff as well. It is those foods which are fresh and non-processed and packaged that makes the difference and as such, the aisles in supermarkets do not have wider aisles for the traffic of mobile scooters found in the US and now the UK.

The first thing I always notice when travelling back and forth from the UK and Asia is just how incredibly big the UK are getting. Note 'getting'...they seem to be increasing in size year after year. Hardly a revelation, really...



THIS is the Kidz Breakfast - so named as it weighs as much as a BABY.

The 9lbs, 6,000-calorie fry-up includes 12 bacon rashers, 12 sausages, four slices of black pudding and an eight-egg cheese and potato omelette.

Link (new window)

GungFu:

Wait wait wait... How can 9 lbs of food be only 6,000 calories?

I could manage about a tenth of that giant breakfast at my fattest point in history.

NobleHam: GungFu:

Wait wait wait... How can 9 lbs of food be only 6,000 calories?

Try eating nine pounds of watermelon. It might be about 600 or so calories. Of course, you will have to pee a lot.

GungFu: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 634x487]

In the Daily Fail, an article about a kid whose mother made her kid a Smartie sandwich.

I'm ok with this. I used to have sugar sandwiches as a kid. It was farkin delicious. It was the energy drink of yesteryear.

The Smartie sandwich reminds me of a treat an Australian parent brought to a kids' bday party once... they called it 'fairy bread' ... basically, it was untoasted white bread, butter, and a thick coating of cupcake sprinkles (they call the sprinkles 100s&1000s). Sounds gross and cheap (esp. as I can't stand plain white wonder bread). It was actually, strangely, pretty good!

I don't like articles that advise you to NEVER feed your kid this unhealthy stuff. Make it taboo and the kids will crave it. My practice has been to feed my kids GOOD (real & tasty & spicy) food, let them have the crappy stuff sometimes, and amazingly enough, given the choice, they usually ask for the good stuff - because it tastes better. They order items off of the adult (real food) menu when we go out to dinner rather than the crap offered as 'kid food' on the children's menus. Ok, so it is more expensive when they order calamari and steak with steamed broccoli instead of the chicken nugget mystery meat and soggy fries, but their health (and future good eating habits) is worth it.

NobleHam: GungFu:

Wait wait wait... How can 9 lbs of food be only 6,000 calories?



Dunno. You can make it yourself and see.

Kidz Breakfast

12 rashers of bacon
12 sausages
Six eggs
Four black pudding slices
Four slices of bread and butter
Four slices of toast
Four slices of fried bread
Two hash browns
Eight-egg cheese and potato omelette
Saute potatoes
Mushrooms
Beans
Tomatoes


/12 eggs, man!

along side the food and agribusiness disasters there's also another couple of issues.

My wife has a cook book called "The Railroad Cookbook" from the late 40's -50's somewhere in there. We were reading it for fun and the recipes on the whole turned out meals that were about 2-2500cal per person. So there's the baggage from that

Another is the loss of heavy industry that required men to consume huge amounts of calories to be able to do the work. Sadly many men though no longer needing the huge caloric intake due to retirement or job loss or job advancement, continue to eat in the same manner as before.

Case in point = I was working in a sintering plant, I could eat 2, foot long sandwiches (insert regional name here) with chips & coffee during breaks and lunch and then arrive home and consume two portions of anything on the menu that night. I gained 15 lbs in muscle mass. I was lucky that when I left the job I also left behind the eating regimen - just dodged that bullet.

GungFu: NobleHam: GungFu:

Wait wait wait... How can 9 lbs of food be only 6,000 calories?

[l.yimg.com image 630x354]

Dunno. You can make it yourself and see.

Kidz Breakfast

12 rashers of bacon
12 sausages
Six eggs
Four black pudding slices
Four slices of bread and butter
Four slices of toast
Four slices of fried bread
Two hash browns
Eight-egg cheese and potato omelette
Saute potatoes
Mushrooms
Beans
Tomatoes


/12 eggs, man!

Sounds good. Except for the black pudding. I just can't bring myself to eat something made almost entirely of blood.

Pattuq: I could manage about a tenth of that giant breakfast at my fattest point in history.

But you'd be happy! Unlike this poor kid...

GungFu: NobleHam: GungFu:

Kidz Breakfast

12 rashers of bacon
12 sausages
Six eggs
Four black pudding slices
Four slices of bread and butter
Four slices of toast
Four slices of fried bread
Two hash browns
Eight-egg cheese and potato omelette
Saute potatoes
Mushrooms
Beans
Tomatoes


/12 6 eggs, man!

I need to go and sleep. Brain is failing.

2 sentences in I...... want to kill ppl. farking fark you in the coont.

So I said to myself, if this is a short, useless slideshow, I will continue to think Huffington Post is the embodiment of everything irritating about the internet. If not, I will eat my hat.

My hat's still here, biatches.

ArcadianRefugee: Citing studies that are, even quoted as, scientifically questionable does not aid your case.

Ginger ale is not a cola.

You can have my hot dogs when you pry them from my cold, greasy, dead hands.

That's what she said.

I hate hate hate the phrase "processed food." How freaking vague can you get? Hell, it took me forever to get over "organic," but "processed" I will probably hate to my grave.

What's next? "Filled with Chemicals?"

Oh, wait...

FTFA:
They discovered there was a lack of evidence to support the idea that food coloring contributed to hyperactivity, but found that it may contribute to hyperactivity in children with ADHD.

Does not compute. I guess they don't teach logic in nutritionist school.

I know juice is sugar, but it's a different kind of sugar. It's not common granulated (sucrose), it's fruit sugar (fructose) and there's a huge difference on how your body metabolizes each. Let's just say the fructose is a hell of lot better for you.

I knew a guy who found he could order granulated fructose and he used that instead of regular sugar.

/yeah, yeah, world's shortest csb...

miss diminutive: I know cold cut sandwich meat are bad for me, but I just can't go without them.

It's one of the few things that I never want to know how they're made; because once the scales come off I'll probably never east them again. Ignorance is bliss.

Then keep eating them with their scales on.

"Quick Processed Meals"

No TV Dinners? What if there's nothin' else to eat? They really can't be beat!

And what's really interesting is how many of these same items are found on the menus of schools, or in vending machines on campus. But, those are ok, because the nutritional values are correct.

Home made lunches FTW!

qitty: GungFu: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 634x487]

In the Daily Fail, an article about a kid whose mother made her kid a Smartie sandwich.

I'm ok with this. I used to have sugar sandwiches as a kid. It was farkin delicious. It was the energy drink of yesteryear.

The Smartie sandwich reminds me of a treat an Australian parent brought to a kids' bday party once... they called it 'fairy bread' ... basically, it was untoasted white bread, butter, and a thick coating of cupcake sprinkles (they call the sprinkles 100s&1000s). Sounds gross and cheap (esp. as I can't stand plain white wonder bread). It was actually, strangely, pretty good!



I make fairy bread :)
It has to be made with super fresh white fluffy bread, fresh butter and yes, lots of sprinkles.

lets see. 2 bowls of frankenberry, pop tart,(or toast with sugar/cinnamon) glass of oj.

teacher: theres something wrong with little johnny, i think we should dope him up real good with drugs.