True, but fast food is a nightmare. ;)

It is not any worse than what is already in your fridge.

-S

Checkout the Big Mac's over here. :shifty: :lol:

And the hot dog vender's in London, food poisoning anyone?

You canna wack a curry :nope:

At least the spices mask whatever the meat is supposed to be :lol:

Are there nothing like showing off your a real man eating top of the line extra spicy and extra hot curry which even the chef would not touch, probably he's got more sense not to. :D

That's probably because he's a cat or a dog lover :p

I am not going down that road. :lol:

Fair enough....don't want to go barking up the wrong tree now, do we :rotfl:

As I said, it can't be any worse than what's in your fridge! :D :lol: Check it:

http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_mystery_meat_1.html

-S

I'm married to a British Asian woman. Trust me on this. Whatever the meat is it will NEVER be underdone. I have yet to see meat being just cooked. Meat curries are cooked for ages and quite frankly I'm surprised that any meat is left after the cooking process. I used to like a good steak done medium rare. If my wife cooked me a steak it would look like it had be napalmed. The steak cooking is my domain. :smug:

I've read this entire thread and I have a bold plan. I'm going to drink coffee for the next 12 straight hours and then go order 2 bacon egg and cheese McGriddles for $2. With a fried hashbrown thingy.

The key to American food is: "Fat = Flavor"

You're a very smart man! I love dabbling in the kitchen once in a while, and I tell you that fat does equal flavor. For example, I like really lean burger meat, but all burger meat has fat so it has flavor. Matter of fact, if you got rid of all fat from your diet, you would die, so you actually need it.

If you want to get technical, contrary to all the diets that have ever been billed to you, or should I say conned to you, fat is very important. It triggers a hormone in your brain telling you that you are full. Remove fat from your diet, you will never get the hormone, you will constantly be hungry for the entire time you don't get fat. So actually, contrary to popular belief, no fat = you will get fat yourself! But wait you tell me, I ONLY EAT SALAD!!! Hahahaha! So? How out that carrot in your salad! It had no fat in it, yet, you still turned what is pure carbohydrates (a complex name for sugar) into storage material in your very own body called FAT!!!! Don't think for a second that all those cows in the field over yonder got fat eating hamburger. Last I check, they got that huge from eating grass!!!! They are more efficient than you at getting fat off of grass, but you also don't need the efficiency to support 160 lbs - they are 1300 lbs + on average!!!!!

Yes, if you ate salad for the rest of your life, without fat, chances are, you will be a very fat person yourself! Have some flavor with that food. Not only will it taste better, but you will eat much less from due to the result of triggering of your hormone to stop eating!

-S

I can't say I've ever heard of a successful diet that prescribed cutting all fats. The key is to eat the right fats, and to eat them in moderation.

No diet is successful unless it is permanent.

Heard some lady on the radio a week or two back saying she lost like 20 pounds on some diet, but gained it all back the moment it was over. I mean, what a dumb ass! Duh! You went right back to the very thing that made you fat in the first place!!! Stupid people. For a diet to work - it must be permenent! Forever!!! Going back to old habits = same state you were once in! Why are people so stupid sometimes that they don't get this???? maybe I was born with common sense. It is scary to think that so many other people have absolutely NONE!!! I would hope they can think for themselves to the point of being able to help someone, maybe even myself may need help for that matter, out of a crysis if need be. Seems that too many people walk around with blinders on and I can't count on them in a state of emergency.

Maybe I shouldn't say they are stupid, but maybe just mentally challenged to look outside of their own little box. Most people I assume have at least half a brain, and are able to use it, just that they choose not to. That is the biggest problem in this world - people not using the gifts bestowed upon them.

Anyway, without getting too far off topic - I think you are meaning to say mono-saturated fat. Mono-saturated fat triggers the hormone in your brain that you are full, yet at the very same time, your body has absolutely no use for it. It is not able to store it as calories, so it simply passes it through your body and you gain no weight from it. Olive Oil is the perfect example. I will be cooking my hash browns tomorrow in Extra Virgin olive Oil! Preferably unfiltered!

-S

Thanks for pointing this out and I agree. As with all things, moderation is the key and a modicum of fat is necessary; my earlier post may have misled folks into thinking I was being critical of Americans and fat. Actually I was being a bit flip; I'm 5' 11" and about 158 lbs. Not muscular (quite geeky, actually) but generally healthy as far as cholesterol and so forth, and I have no qualms about real butter, whole milk, fried chicken, etc. Have never thought to try olive oil on hash browns, but it sounds good.

"The key to longevity is whiskey and bacon fat." That and more money. And faster horses. And younger women.:D