The Great Food Debate

[pluckyduck]

Amy, being bad as usual, was just threatening to bring up controversial kid related subjects for discussion in the family forum....we've told her she's not allowed, or we'll just move them all over to The Soapbox. How many hot potatoes might there be in family? Only a million.

Okay, if you think about it, every forum here has potential "hot" subject matter...but what about food?

If we want to make trouble here, what kind of trouble could we make? I tried with Coke and Pepsi, but alas, barely a stir.

So, let's rabble rouse!! What's hot? What can we get people all excited over??

If it's blue, is it food?

Howabout that? Anybody want to debate???

Are nutritional labels all they are cracked up to be?

The scandal!

Why do I have the feeling that nothing in this forum will ever need to a moderator to step in.........

Give me your best shot at controversy, I dare you!

Andrea

is Northern Italian food really Italian?

[amykhar]

HAH!

I have a topic. A food related topic that got me NHd out of spite on the mothersite. The Atkins diet. Is it a miracle diet and the Dr. is a saint, or is it a bunch of medically unsafe hogwash made up by a quack who was trying to make a quick buck?

Amy

[hadassahchana[$]]

Ooh- found another one!

How do you feel about diet soda?



Cindy

[Joubert[$]]

So the 12 pack I drink each week is bad for me is what you're saying....

Actually, we cut down our soda consumption a whole lot by signing for a home delivery water service. I know that our family of five is drinking more water than ever -- 25 gallons in May alone. Okay, several gallons were used to top off an aquarium, but humans drank most of it.

[pluckyduck]

Good work, Ladies!!!

Cindy, I love the graphic! (Excuse me just a sec, I have to take another sip of my Diet Coke.)

Okay, I thought of an obvious one -

Vegetarianism!

If we can just get a couple of Vegans and a couple of Texans slugging it out in here, we'll have more drama than all of the rest of the board combined.

Actually, I think we just need a couple of Vegitarians...isn't there all kinds of controversy there --- eggs and no eggs and milk products and fish.....and don't plants have feelings too?

Andrea
who actually gets depressed when meat production is discussed, maybe we shouldn't go there...

[hadassahchana[$]]

Vegans/carnivores. Andrea, that would probably make for a meaty discussion.



Cindy, who loves Google

[slick4591[$]]

[pluckyduck]

Oh God, the Texans are here

Where's Oprah when we need her???

Andrea
who has resolved to never eat a burger again....or was that booger?

[Workingmomof2]

Go ahead and start an Atkins diet thread. Then let Sara & I give you *OUR* opinions LOL


Shy as always -

[pluckyduck]

Originally posted by Workingmomof2
Go ahead and start an Atkins diet thread. Then let Sara & I give you *OUR* opinions LOL


Shy as always -

She already did , back on 5/14.

C'mon, wade on in. Let's see some fists come a flyin'!!!

Andrea
who clearly has some kind of secret affinity for controversy, even though she pretends to be a pacifist

[hadassahchana[$]]

Andrea wrote:

who has resolved to never eat a burger again....or was that booger?

PETA once again has the solution for this, in the form of
Louie Loogie

Cindy, stooping ever lower

[amykhar]

I have actually been experimenting with vegetarinanism. Mostly because both of my parents have heart conditions.

Of course, the grilling thread in here didn't help much. It's also not helping that since I have given up meat, I have GAINED two pounds.

Still working at it, but getting a lot of guff from my family - even if they did like the tofu pumpkin pie.

Amy

[Joubert[$]]

Originally posted by amykhar


It's also not helping that since I have given up meat, I have GAINED two pounds.

Amy

I had a roommate who had the very same issue. Skinny as a rail his entire life, became a vegeterian and starting putting on weight and eating stuff that just wasn't that good for him. Eventually he learned how to eat and maintain the proper mix of nutrients and calories, but it's hard to do. I guess there are books and web sites galore.

Me? I would think, Hmmm, a Snickers bar. That doesn't have meat. And because of that, it's healthy. I'll have three for dinner then. Problem solved!

[hadassahchana[$]]

Ok, if forced to admit it, we eat mostly vegetarian meals, and have meat only once a week on average. I keep trying to get back on the Ornish diet, too, in order to keep my heart healthy.

But...I would eat three meat meals a day in order to keep from becoming as smug as the PETA publicist must be. (disclaimer- I love animals, and have nothing against vegetarians. However, self-righteousness is not pretty).

Cindy

[slick4591[$]]

What's up with PETA and this milk stuff? Don't they know you're doing a cow a favor by milking it. Relieves the pressure they have. Milking makes a happy cow.

I ain't drank milk since I was probably 10. Never had a problem with growing pimples in my teens either. Grandad said I was playing with myself to much. Well, maybe, but I'm not sure of his reasoning either.

Loogies?? Hell, I can hack with the best of 'em, and I had a gut at a fairly young age. The gas part...ask my wife.

Oh, yeah. This was a food debate. Sorry!

[pluckyduck]

Men, you cannot take them anywhere!

Of course, I brought up boogers and Cindy linked to that disgusting image, so, um, maybe we're just as bad.

I was sooooo close to being a vegetarian for a couple of years, not really by philosophy, but by practice. I actually like all of that stuff, including tofu . I probably would have classified as a vegetarian under one of the loosest categories possible (I think they have one called Vegetarian Sinner or something)....... alas and alack, I'm as backslid as a Vegetarian Sinner could possibly get.

Oh well, DH bought organic eggs the other day in the supermarket ($2.59 a dozen instead of .99 a dozen...not sure what possessed him...) anyway, that might buy us a minute or two less in Food Purgatory.

Andrea
who is turning over a new leaf, she just wants fries with that