Isn't there a rule against torture on this site?
Oh well, to each his own, my mother used to say that grilled rattlesnake wasn't all that bad.
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Lost in translation (US to UK)
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Isn't there a rule against torture on this site?
Oh well, to each his own, my mother used to say that grilled rattlesnake wasn't all that bad.
But baked beans are different to what you think they are...very tomatey. Here is a pic of a 'Full English', including baked beans, black (blood) pudding and PROPER bacon...yuuummmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!
Is this a diet breakfast? Where's the bubble-and-squeak and the fried bread?
Well, I got in on this discussion a bit late, but reading kesslari's "Advice to American Tourists In England" (posted 12/16) kept bringing episodes of "Keeping Up Appearances" (Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket) to mind. What a rip. Oh, is "rip" in this sense understood on both sides of the pond?
But baked beans are different to what you think they are...very tomatey. Here is a pic of a 'Full English', including baked beans, black (blood) pudding and PROPER bacon...yuuummmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!
Is that a Kidney?
No kidneys here - just black pudding and pork sausages. Although grilled kidney is luvverly too...
No kidneys here - just black pudding and pork sausages. Although grilled kidney is luvverly too...
Where's the badly-grilled Tom?
No shrooms either
Once you put it beside a slab of congealed blood the baked beans look pretty damn tasty
Later
Rob
Once you put it beside a slab of congealed blood the baked beans look pretty damn tasty
Later
Rob
Could be worse could be white pudding!! (fat)
The regional food by me is faggots and grey peas! [Invalid or Expired Link Removed])
Once you put it beside a slab of congealed blood the baked beans look pretty damn tasty
Later
Rob
Oh I see, that would make all the difference. ??? Thanks but no thanks.
Where's the badly-grilled Tom?
No shrooms either
Yes of course - you could go crazy and have it all, fried bread, burnt grilled toe-mart-toe (for our US cousins, note correct pronunciation), grilled mushrooms, kidneys etc, but they don't make plates large enough!!
But baked beans are different to what you think they are...very tomatey. Here is a pic of a 'Full English', including baked beans, black (blood) pudding and PROPER bacon...yuuummmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!
To complete this picture I add a late 70's ode to Beans:
Wrong beans, man. Wrong beans.
They look like they came from a can of beanie-weenies, w/o the weenies. I think I'm just too much the border girl...it'll always be refritos for me. I don't even like baked beans for supper. I make them for my family, but I don't like 'em very much. Too sweet, too tomato-y.
Cherie
Where's the badly-grilled Tom?
No shrooms either
Grilled shrooms? Oh honey, y'all can keep the beans and the kidneys...gimme them grilled shroomers!!!
Cherie
It's kind of funny getting a health commentary on food from one of our US cousins!
Yup - "the Fast Food Nation" !!!
David A. Kessler, a Harvard-trained doctor and the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, writes in his new book "The End of Overeating,'' ....
He claims that the salt-sugar-fat combination alters the chemistry of the brain so that instead of satisfying hunger, it stimulates the eater to want more. And the food industry, he says, has manipulated this neurological response to get diners to keep eating -- more than they should or even more than they want. (How many times have you finished a meal and said, Why did I eat all that?)
..there's no denying the scientific fact that too much salt, sugar and fat in our diets causes high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and of course, obesity, the forerunner of all the rest, which is rampant in America. And the long-term costs of those illnesses in such large numbers of people is what is bankrupting the health care system.
If we still lived in the Paleolithic era, it wouldn't matter. The men would be burning more calories chasing dinner than they consumed in eating it, and the women would be busy collecting firewood, cooking and caring for their young (or perhaps running from the men). There were no cave potatos among the homo sapiens.
Today is different. The fact that nearly one-third of Americans tip the scale into obesity, while almost two-thirds are overweight, attests to two basic facts of the modern era: we eat too much and move too little. And in the fast-food nation, jumbo portions full of substances that are very bad in large quantities are a major culprit.
So where are the fast-food chains in the health care debate? Not in the forefront. They had to be dragged into disclosing the calories and fat and salt contents of their offerings. It's true that they are coming up with better choices these days: more salads, whole-grain breads and grilled meats. And I applaud their efforts. But there's still a lot of bad stuff out there. And a lot of misleading information.
Some of the numbers are truly astonishing. The Colossal burger at Ruby Tuesdays: 1,677 calories, 114 fat grams. A regular cheeseburger there is 942 calories and 62 fat grams. Just the dressing on the Caesar salad: 390 calories and 42 fat grams.
The weight of the average American woman is now above 160 pounds. For a person of that size, 50 grams of fat is close to the maximum allowance for the day. So Delia, if you ate the Pecan Crusted Chicken Salad at TGIF because it sounded like a healthy choice (it's salad after all), you would have consumed your entire day's allowance of fat.
And don't be fooled by some of the grilled options. At Taco Bell, the grilled stuffed chicken burrito is 670 calories, 25 fat grams and a whopping 2,010 milligrams of sodium.
Also, remember to read the fine print. The chicken quesadilla appetizer at Ruby Tuesday's is listed as 225 calories and 14 grams of fat. That doesn't actually sound so bad, but read on: that's for one-quarter of the dish. If you ate the whole thing, it would be 900 calories and 56 grams of fat. That's nearly your total fat content and roughly half the calories you should be consuming in a day. And that's just the appetizer!
With so many Americans eating it, fast food, indeed, has become a very big business. According to Wikipedia, the National Restaurant Association estimated that Americans spent $142 billion on fast food in 2006. That's approximately what the president budgeted for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2009.
But our inexpensive indulgences today will have enormous future costs tomorrow. The chronic diseases the country faces carry a huge toll on the public health and on the country's health system. Until we rein it in, individually and collectively, and reform the food system – which means summoning the will to take on the fast-food industry and its lobbyists -- we will never get a handle on our health care reform.
As Michael Pollan, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, said : "One of the leading products of the American food industry has become patients for the American health care industry.''
The problem isn't just in the fast food restaurants, just look at what's available on the grocery store shelves; procecessed food, junk food, foods minus usable nutrients, enzymes needed for proper digestion eliminated through processing......on an on............... and people are buying this stuff and living off it. Yes, there are plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats available, but the consumer really does need to be educated in what really constitutes a good diet. It really frustrates me that proper nutrition, lifestyle, preventive care are left out of the health care debate. Oh, there are a few that bring up the issue but they are not being heard. Well, I could go on and on, but I'm beginning to rant.
