From geekology, Recently a man, who will now be known as Shaky Hands Joe, went to Starbucks in an attempt to buy the most expensive drink he could imagine. It turned out to be a 13 shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel, which will now be known as the drink that tastes like ass. It would have cost $13.76 with tax (ignore receipt), but the bastard had a coupon and got it for free. This story reminds me of the time I went on a date and ordered the most expensive bottle of wine the restaurant had. Not only did it not come in a box, it cost $600! After we had finished our meal I excused myself to the restroom and tried to escape out the window. Unfortunately I was too drunk and ended up passing out in a stall and puking on myself. See, very similar story.
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I just want to say that the whole "soy" thing makes me want to gag.
I get all the health aspects, and sorry if someone out there really digs on soy...but, just blech.
I'm with you on that one! My feeling is that life is short so why restrict your eating to crazy things that you fool yourself into believing you like.
I went on a soy kick about 5 or 6 years ago. It started with the milk, then the burgers, then the nuggets, and before I knew it my fridge and cupboards contained just about only soy products. I was a soy addict and consumed enough to last me ten life times. It started making me feel sick, and I had to stop eating it. Just hearing the word now turns my stomach. I was also 30lbs lighter then I am now when I was eating all that soy.
I too loathe soy. But JPX, the flip side is "Life is short, why make it shorter by eating overly processed garbage?"
As for what you should be eating -Michael Pollan's new book In Defense of Food is probably your best bet for sound advice, I cannot wait to read it. He's like a rock star around these parts. Lauren and I wanted to see him speak in Berkeley but it sold the hell out way in advance..
I think there's a fine line between eating healthy and being fanatical about it. Eating "bad" food once in a while is not going to kill you. I think it's all too easy to get caught up in disordered eating, and it takes the fun out of life if every meal is fraught with, "What's in this food, how many calories, how much fat, how were the animals treated...?" I just find health extremes to be a bore and it's just not fun to be around people who have to analyze every meal as if it's life or death.
Suddenly I want a hamburger.
"It's just not fun to be around people who have to analyze every meal as if it's life or death."
I agree, I have lived with two people that have had or still have eating disorders. They drove me insane not only because I had to listen to their weird externalized thoughts, debates, and disections about food, but they also intruded on my life as well by criticizing my eating habits, and dicatating what could and couldn't be eaten in the house.
*Slaps head in disbelief*
JPX, you just said so many inaccurate and possibly offensive things in one paragraph that I don't even know where to begin! The fact that you're bored by it doesn't make you (even slightly) right.
First of all, you incorrectly assume that eating healthy and eating happily are mutually exclusive. When in fact, the exact opposite is true!
Secondly it has nothing to do with counting calories or how the cow is treated other than the better they're treated the more delicious they are.
What Pollan points out is that the what humans put in their mouth has changed drastically over the past 3 generations. We no longer eat food, we eat "edible food-like substances".
I'll put my grass fed beef from one town over up against your crap-burgers any day!
yay, another feud! food feud.
Wow - I haven't been back in awhile - look at what I started.
*Grins mischievously*
I yearn to "eat better" and I definitley want my kids to eat healthier. It's funny how I kind of eat all kinds of crap but don't let them eat it.
I don't know about Micahel Pollan, I will have to check him out JSP. My biggest problem breaks down to time. Yeah I should be cooking something healthy for my kids, but by the time we get home I have appx an hour to an hour 1/2 to get them fed, bathed, have some playtime and get to bed. Spending 45 min. prepping and cooking a meal doesn't work for me.
Whirly - I have been very close to a couple of people with eating disorders, I can't imagine living with someone...yowza.
Food Feud! That's got a great ring to it. AC - you should write for Archie comics!
I owe a lot to Pollan actually. Lauren definitely had a disorder for a period of time, she would eat basically only "rabbit food" (carrots and celery). The Omnivore's Dilemma changed the way we think about food and we now enjoy it more than ever.
In the Omnivore's Dilemma, he took four meals - 1) a McDonalds meal, 2) a meal made from Whole Foods, 3) a meal made entirely from a self-sustained farm in West Virginia and 4) a completely hunted/gathered meal. He traced the foods back to their original source which in most cases, leads to the corn fields in Iowa. He is very funny and never preachy. Anyway he made me happier, what better compliment can one give? His new book takes it a step further and says "Ok well that sucks, what can we do about it?"
all right, i have a cancellation, so i'll weigh in too.
jsp, the book sounds great. i tend to like books like that (supersize me, fast food nation, etc.)
full disclosure- i'm one of those boring whole foods (not Whole Foods) vegetarians. i am not remotely eating disordered and i love to cook and to eat, but i do care how animals are treated (sorry if that makes me a sap) and don't trust corporations to ensure the meat they sell is wholesome. as long as i can be physically healthy and culinarily satisfied i will probably stay veg.
AC - that doesn't make you a sap, I didn't mean to suggest that. I just meant that I'm not about to start picketing "Free the Cows". Meat eaters should care about how the cows are treated because that's what they are ultimately putting into their bodies. Most beef in this country comes from cows that spend their lives caged in CAFO's. They're fed corn because of the overabundance of it even though they're not biologically equipped to handle it. (There's a documentary called "King Corn" that explores this.) So they end up vomiting. To stop them from vomiting, they're pumped full of antibiotics. If you do eat meat, then you should look for the "grass fed" or "free range" tags. ("Organic" beef doesn't mean shit by the way.) The difference in taste is astonishing.
jsp- you didn't say that, and i agree with your/Pollan's points. even veggies taste better when they're freshly picked and locally grown so i bet a well-treated animal raised on food it was meant to eat would be the most yummy too.
skip this if you're already bored: my first round of being a vegetarian stemmed from a summer camp experience at URI's Alton Jones campus when i was maybe 13. i did a week of hands-on farming (excellent fun) and at the end of the week, those who wanted chicken dinner had to help kill the chickens we'd been caring for all week (not so fun). instantly, ac=>vegetarian, which lasted about ten years.
isn't there a simpsons episode with a restaurant where they sledgehammer the cow of your choice? hilarious.
I think that would have made me a vegetarian too AC!
Except I like meat too much. Clearly there is a lot I don't know though, looking forward to picking up Pollan's book.
Right, it's days later... kind of too late to get in on this one...
Uh, I like meat.
(cough)
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