[Opinion] A reason for Americas weight problem ... perhaps more than one.

[stratamaster78]

In the 70's, my mother just boiled the **** out of them

Same! Lol

Boiled, Salted, and Buttered.

 

[Xenophon]

In the 70's, my mother just boiled the **** out of them

Gentlemen, gentlemen! The solution is near to hand. "There are few culinary problems that cannot be solved by the strategic application of Tabasco sauce." Dave Jandt my old college roomie said that. He was, as it were, the Curtis LeMay of the kitchen. "Capsicum, capsicum, toujours le capsicum!"

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Gentlemen, gentlemen! The solution is near to hand. "There are few culinary problems that cannot be solved by the strategic application of Tabasco sauce." Dave Jandt my old college roomie said that. He was, as it were, the Curtis LeMay of the kitchen. "Capsicum, capsicum, toujours le capsicum!"

This is why curries are the best vegan food

 

[Xenophon]

This is why curries are the best vegan food

A Buddhist restaurant up the street offers tofu that you'd swear was chicken or fish. I'm not sure what to make of monks I see eating there. A vegan fantasizing about eating meat? Strikes me a little like using AI to generate kiddie porn, "It's not real so it's ok!" What's next? "Dharma Burger: soya as savory as sangre and with 99% less karma!"

 

[Robert Ramsay]

A Buddhist restaurant up the street offers tofu that you'd swear was chicken or fish. I'm not sure what to make of monks I see eating there. A vegan fantasizing about eating meat? Strikes me a little like using AI to generate kiddie porn, "It's not real so it's ok!" What's next? "Dharma Burger: soya as savory as sangre and with 99% less karma!"

I get very uneasy feelings when I see all those adverts for "plant-based protein" where they've worked very hard to make it look like the original meat product. How ultra-processed must it be to look and taste like the real thing?
I may use your disturbing simile in future

 

[Xenophon]

I get very uneasy feelings when I see all those adverts for "plant-based protein" where they've worked very hard to make it look like the original meat product. How ultra-processed must it be to look and taste like the real thing?
I may use your disturbing simile in future

Good. The phrase "plant based protein" get annoying after a while. Foodies infesting an expat forum where I live started raving about "animal based protein" instead of meat 'n dairy. A nadir was reached when tequila and mescal became "agave based spirits." ______-based is apparently a locution some folks wank to.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Good. The phrase "plant based protein" get annoying after a while. Foodies infesting an expat forum where I live started raving about "animal based protein" instead of meat 'n dairy. A nadir was reached when tequila and mescal became "agave based spirits." ______-based is apparently a locution some folks wank to.

You know what it's like when people have magical thinking without magical training - like the bullshit management speak where they think if they speak the "right" words in the "right" order, everything will suddenly obey their wishes.

 

[Xenophon]

You know what it's like when people have magical thinking without magical training - like the bullshit management speak where they think if they speak the "right" words in the "right" order, everything will suddenly obey their wishes.

Actually I have worked for folks like that. We had one "manager" regarding whom we would take up a monthly pool. The winner was whoever could find the management bestseller she mined for buzzwords at the last meeting. (The pool was an empowering exercise in innovative synergy for us, ABC Megacorp's, diverse and passionate team.)

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Actually I have worked for folks like that. We had one "manager" regarding whom we would take up a monthly pool. The winner was whoever could find the management bestseller she mined for buzzwords at the last meeting. (The pool was an empowering exercise in innovative synergy for us, ABC Megacorp's, diverse and passionate team.)

I hate it when I end up measuring myself against someone and find them to be a twat. I don't like to think of myself as some kind of towering intellect ( I am not) but when you encounter these people... as Johnny Mercer once said: "I could eat alphabet soup and SHIT better lyrics than these"

 

[Xenophon]

I hate it when I end up measuring myself against someone and find them to be a twat. I don't like to think of myself as some kind of towering intellect ( I am not) but when you encounter these people... as Johnny Mercer once said: "I could eat alphabet soup and SHIT better lyrics than these"

Which lyrics? The old Jimmy Buffet number "Escape" allus struck me strange: "If you like bean enchiladas and getting groped on the train/If you're into dry cat-food flavored with champagne/ If you like gigging frogs at midnight with some guy in a cape/ You're the laddie I've looked for, come with me on your skates...&c."

To our gentle moderators: I am looking for workout music here, so my American-birthed butt don't go full-Kardashian on me. Thus, the post is 100% relevant.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Diet alone doesnt cut it. One solid hour of raised heartbeat and exercising and hydrated is key - the heart must be raised for a solid hour, so figure two straight hours of exercise. Warmup and cooldown included.