It’s been a very long time since I last ate fast food (such as McDonalds, KFC or Hungry Jacks). In fact, it’s been years, because I just can’t stand the stuff and I know it’s really bad for me.
When it comes to other types of junk I’m pretty good. The only time I ever eat potato chips is when my mate Mike pops round and brings them with him. I never buy them myself, and they don’t make it into our shopping cart when we buy groceries. I never eat doughnuts any more. I don’t remember the last doughnut that I ate, that’s how long ago it was.
So, you can probably imagine how happy I was that my junk food habits are very minimal (chocolate being the only contender, and even that doesn’t make a frequent appearance) when Amy sent a link to me describing some stuff that happens during potato chip/doughnut manufacture. In essense, eating this kind of junk food is horrendously bad for you.
If it’s not good for a biodiesel car engine, how can it be good for the human body?
February 3, 2007
I remember the last doughnut you ate….it was one of those Krispy Kremes that kept flooding the office when we worked at the “B”. Hmmm…..d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t-ssss…..
February 4, 2007
So it would have been around March ‘05!
February 5, 2007
Yes but when you eat them you hoe into them like a man possessed. At the end of the day its about balance not abstinence. Your body is made to process the good and bad things therefore if your having masses of rubbish you’ll sit on the loo for an hour at a time. You mention chocolate which releases endorphines into your body so that is not really junk it has also been proven to aide digestion. If I made you a home made burger would you eat it ? and if the answer is no why and not just because its bad for you which is tosh.
February 5, 2007
I won’t deny that when I do dabble in the crisps I find them moorish. But I am able to stay away from them consistently, and it’s only when YOU bring them do I eat them
The answer would probably be yes, but my answer would vary depending on the contents of the burger.
February 5, 2007
molten lard with chunks
February 5, 2007
In that case I’ll have two!
February 6, 2007
This is really a post about home cooked vs processed food. I’ll admit I eat quite a bit of crap from time to time, but since Katherine got me eating and COOKING our own great food from scratch with good ingredients it’s made a lot of difference to how I view such processed shite.
February 6, 2007
“Processed” isn’t necessarily the word to use I think Keef. Perhaps “mass produced” or “fast” would be better options. Of course, our definitions of “processed” might be slightly different
Cooking at home from scratch with good, fresh ingredients can not be beaten. The taste of the resulting meal is just out of this world, especially compared to rubbish like McD’s or KFC (”The Dirty Bird”
).
February 7, 2007
“processed” to mean scraped off the abatoir floor and pumped full of enough preservatives to keep it edible (if you can use that word) for months.
We got a breadmaker last year and the bread you get out of it tastes amazing, though it does go stale after about two days (even kept in an airtight container). Makes you realise how much chemical shite is in such an ordinary thing as sliced bread.
February 7, 2007
Yeah I hear ya there mate. We’ve made bread like that in the past, now we’re thinking of giving it a sping without the use of a breadmaker
I’ll leave that to the missus I think!
September 4, 2007
Harden up girls! (…as he licks the last of the salt & vinegar chips off his oily fingers…)
September 4, 2007
OOOO listen to the big man
I’ll leave it to you to clog up your arteries mate!
September 4, 2007
job done - may as well go down in a blaze of glory… (someone will visit you when you’re 99 in an old people’s home somewhere…)
September 4, 2007
Nah, I’ll have taken my own life before that happens. Probably via some form of extreme sport I think!
Much better option than heart disease