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I don’t have a perfect diet, i binge on average a couple of times a month, sweets. I eat a lot of good stuff though, I think I have my macros figured our more or less for me. I don’t eat much of the worst stuff other than your regular desert item here and there, or drink non-nutritive beverages much, sodas, or alcohol.[/quote]
Food cravings is cultural. Many cultures don’t like sweets like cakes. My friends from Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand (the tropics where there are delicious fruits) prefer eating mango, durian, lychees…. over a chocolate lava cake for desert.
Tropical Latin America is different because of the heavy western food from Portugal and Spain.
Japanese cakes/pastries are unsweet and light compared to American cakes. There is Japanese bakery on Convoy. Real Japanese sushi does not use the heavy mayonnaise type sauce that Americans like. When the food is natural you can taste the quality of the ingredient and the skill in preparation better.
So it helps to be an internationalist elitist (I’m reclaiming the word) and study different cultures. Adapt what is best as your own. That’s what we as Americans do best.[/quote]
You are internationally full of yourself! Missed the point. It works pretty good for me! You are blinded by your elitism if you don’t see moderation as being as possible in US terms as in Asian or any other cultural terms. That we have more bad available may or may not be something to argue. Doesn’t matter if you don’t use too much of it.[/quote]
Blogstar that was beautiful!!! I never speak what I think in these conversations lately because I have too many other interests in life these days to properly monitor the threads and defend a well placed barb (like many of those aforementioned countries regularly dine on what we consider pets or pests). I’ve deleted before posting more than I’ve posted lately for this very reason, so thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Perhaps I’m emboldened because Trump just locked up the nomination, non PC is safe for a few weeks, but lets not make this political. I’m going to vent for a moment, so prepare yourself. I buy organic, free range, grain fed, kosher, etc. not because of health or environment or sustainability or any other of the hippy reasons. I choose those things for taste. Head to head, line caught wild salmon or organic free range chicken tastes better. If waterboarded, tortured chicken tasted better, I’d buy that but it doesn’t. I get all self loathing in the store when I spend six bucks for a loaf of bread or $20 for two pieces of fish because it beats the hell out of processed food when it comes to eating it. I applaud BG for being healthy and thrifty, I can’t do it, the good stuff costs more usually and after about age 45, processed food gives me a stomach ache and makes me feel bad.
So mark me down for one of those guys who hates the ideology of the Flyerhi types, who wants to claim that third world countries have it right and we are wrong. Of course their lifestyle is better, But make no mistake their lifestyle is not a choice, hand them a winning lottery ticket and they will have diabetes in six months. So here I am, a Trump fan, who gives not one shit about the environment or animal welfare, hates rapid transit and urban dwellers and I hate myself that i have to admit that organic, free range chicken tastes better. My $7 a dozen eggs who are held and loved daily just taste better. And if you get in the way of my daily kombucha tea that costs me $3, I’ll point one of my many guns at you.
I’ll now fade back into obscurity because my own dichotomy disgusts me. But the fact remains, farmed salmon and processed chicken tastes like shit, Oh god I hate that i wrote this and didn’t delete it. I bet that I’m not alone, do it, drop $20 on two breasts of organic chicken, you’ll never go back.
