Eating habits (spam very slightly, and hold the mayo)

[fable]

Sourdough bread, maybe, @CE?

I used to have a voracious appetite, and a metabolism like a forest fire. I was the bane of buffets, eating twice as much as any human being should, without gaining an ounce. In the last few years my metabolism has slowed slightly, but we still hit one buffet a week--not to consume everything in sight, but because we're very fond of the food, there. It's an Indian, mixed northern (meats) and southern (veggie), very authentic (meaning: Hot).

Indian's probably my favorite at the moment, but I'm also partial to MidEastern, Greek, Italian (more northern than southern), Korean, and Thai.

I don't eat breakfast, unless we're traveling and on a busy schedule. Typically, I'll have a bigger meal at lunch, and a smaller meal at night, since my schedule is flexible enough to include a siesta if I so desire, and throw an extra workload on late in the evening when the phonecalls are likely to be less frequent.

[HighLordDave]

Speaking of eating habits, everyone check this story out. I don't know whether to be sick to my stomach that this lawsuit even saw the light of day, sue this guy for wasting my taxpayer dollars by bringing this before the courts, or pile-on against my favourite fast food chains and join the class-action lawsuit.

[C Elegans]

Originally posted by fable
Sourdough bread, maybe, @CE?

Yes, that's probably it. The name is not so appetizing, but like Xandax, I eat it a lot and prefer it far above white bread.

@HLD: Re your link, I don't know what to say. I find it almost incomprehensible that people can sue for this and that in the US, and I personally think it is a very strange legal system that allows individual to sue a third party for their personal choices? I also have difficulties with the combination of a legal system that allows this, and the notion of the country and its citizens as free. If people acknowlegde they are free, they must acknowledge they have free choices. And if you have a free choice, how can a company be responsible for what you eat? It all seems very illogical to me.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Originally posted by Tamerlane


Hmmm, so I guess it wasn't a good idea to discuss the meat processing industry whilst in a food hall then

The fact that I had just started eating the hot dog was slightly inconvenient, yes.
It wasn't even a particularly good hot dog...

[Tamerlane]

Talk about a shameless attempt to make a quick buck. Is it really so hard to swallow that fried food is bad. What really worries me is that this sort of stuff is slowly being seen down here.

@Odie Its a good thing you didn't buy a pie or stop at one of those Chinese food places we saw, or I could of regaled you with stories of what my parents encountered when they visited the more isolated parts of Asia

[Maharlika]

In Asia...

...or at least here in South East Asia, rice is the staple food. That means, rice for breakfast, rice for lunch and rice for dinner.

Normally you would have fried rice in the morning since this rice would be the leftover from the pot of the previous night.

Variety is primarily based on the viand(s) that go(es) with rice.

As for habits, I would eat breakfast at school, since the food is free (i.e., I'm stingy... ) and I wouldn't want to spend too much time in the morning as I hurry off for work.

However, if there is someone to cook my breakfast then I'd probably eat a quick one at home.

Lunch is usually the heaviest for me as I eat at least two cups of rice. Just like fable, I have a fast metabolic rate so I can eat a lot without having to worry about my weight (or fat).

Dinner is normally light but can be heavy if the cook is in a good mood to come up with a sumptuous meal. My food is more often Asian-style (Thai or Filipino). My favorite are dishes cooked in coconut milk. And yes, just like BS, I LOVE fried chicken.

It's interesting to note though that we Filipinos have five meals a day: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. Some would have six and sneak on a midnight snack too.

For snacks I love home-made burgers and hotdogs.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Originally posted by Tamerlane
@Odie Its a good thing you didn't buy a pie or stop at one of those Chinese food places we saw, or I could of regaled you with stories of what my parents encountered when they visited the more isolated parts of Asia

You are slowly but surely ruining my staple diet, you realize...
I have a thing for chicken and vegetable pies...Please tell me they're okay...

[Maharlika]

It all depends, my friend...

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
I have a thing for chicken and vegetable pies...Please tell me they're okay...

...what part of the chicken you are talking about.

In the Philippines, we have what we call pulutan. Literally, it would mean "something to pick up." These are types of food that you eat while drinking alcohol. Yes, finger food would be the correct English term, although there are some pulutan that need to be taken in with the use of the spoon.

Traditional pulutans would be peanuts, sardines in tomato sauce, different parts of chicken innards, pig blood, pig ears, etc.

[HighLordDave]

Originally posted by C Elegans
I find it almost incomprehensible that people can sue for this and that in the US, and I personally think it is a very strange legal system that allows individual to sue a third party for their personal choices? I also have difficulties with the combination of a legal system that allows this, and the notion of the country and its citizens as free. If people acknowlegde they are free, they must acknowledge they have free choices. And if you have a free choice, how can a company be responsible for what you eat? It all seems very illogical to me.

The United States is the land of total denial of responsibility. For example, take the woman who spilled hot coffee on herself as she pulled out of a McDonald's drive-thru and then sued McDonald's and won to the tune of $2 million (this award was later substantially reduced in an appellate court, but the verdict was allowed to stand). Consequently, restaurants now put warnings on their coffee and hot chocolate cups that its contents are hot.

My wife is comparing this case to the people suing tobacco companies for the complications resulting from their bad habbits. I pointed out that the difference is that I don't believe there is an industry-wide conspiracy to make people addicted to extra-value meals, whereas cigarette companies have known for years about the dangers and addictiveness of nicotine and mounted a campaign to keep those dangers secret and have altered the chemistry of their product to be more addictive.

I think this joker just wants to make a couple of bucks off of the people he's helped make rich and absolve himself of the responsibility of being a fat guy in poor health. My wife (a registred nurse) says that if he has been diagnosed with diabetes (which the article claims he has), he has at some point received dietary counseling, so if he's still patronising fast food places, it's his own fault now.