Getting tired of the USA
Jul 6th 2016, 8:59 pm
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Jul 6th 2016, 9:21 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
So yes, I eat stuff without thinking about whether it's good or bad for me. Again, we're back to the subjective subject of taste.
Also, having a big slice of murky something isn't necessarily bad for you, depending on the rest of your diet. I eat like I described, but I'm a size 2 and pretty healthy, because I also love to eat a variety of other things plus I keep active.
My tone of delivery - if it sounds snobbish or pretentious to you like you wrote before - well, I don't mean it to be - but I understand if you think so.
Jul 6th 2016, 9:23 pm
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Jul 6th 2016, 9:26 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
My daughter loves mochi
Jul 6th 2016, 9:29 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
I eat all sorts of stuff. I eat Nutella from the jar. I can finish a whole jar in one go. These days I'm onto mochi ice cream. I can finish a whole box of them from Trader Joe's in one go. I love chocolate and regularly finish a whole bar. (Not to set you off again, but I don't eat Cadbury's or Hershey's.)
So yes, I eat stuff without thinking about whether it's good or bad for me. Again, we're back to the subjective subject of taste.
So yes, I eat stuff without thinking about whether it's good or bad for me. Again, we're back to the subjective subject of taste.
Diet isn't that complicated anyway. Calories in vs calories out is perfectly adequate for most people. I've dropped 25 pounds without even faffing about with micronutrients, simply by maintaining a deficit and I haven't had to change too much of what I eat, other than volume.
Could I have lost twice as much in the same time had I done something like a ketogenic diet, or some other macronutrient focused plan? Yes, maybe, but I would also have been 100% more likely to fall off the wagon and eat an entire bag of Doritos for breakfast one day as well. I'll stick to CICO with a week or two of low carb here and there and I'll get where I need to be before I'm 40, which is more important that anything else.
Might as well continue enjoying to eat along the way though, right?
Some of it does, but such are the limitations of the written word versus the spoken word, I suppose.
Jul 7th 2016, 9:49 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
I'd argue that good quality, unadulterated food and drink is more widely distributed and accessible in the UK than the U.S. There's the excellent phenomenon in UK supermarkets of presenting two or three ranges of equivalent products on the same shelf at each branch. "Taste the difference," standard middle of the road, and "everyday value." In my local Tesco in England, I can get good products that I'd have to go to Wholefoods or similar in the U.S. to find. By contrast, in our local Save-a-Lot or Walmart in the U.S., almost all the food is substandard crap (except for some staples such as butter.)
Can't blame the U.S. for the fact that it's a huge country, often sparsely populated. To find a Trader Joes, a high quality supermarket, a decent liquor store, a French or German bakery, I have to drive about 130 miles (Syracuse, NY or Burlington, VT.)
Jul 7th 2016, 9:54 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
Yeah, they seem to want to add a weight of cheese equal to the weight of the pizza dough, then fry it. 
.... I ate at Pizzeria Due in Chicago once, it was an interesting experience, but not one I have ever felt the urge to repeat. Maybe when we visit Chicago some time with little Miss P. 
.... I ate at Pizzeria Due in Chicago once, it was an interesting experience, but not one I have ever felt the urge to repeat. Maybe when we visit Chicago some time with little Miss P. 2. Thin crust is sold at every pizza place in Chicago (a fact I've noted repeatedly here). This notion that somehow Chicago pizza uniformly = deep dish / stuffed is a notion that only people not from Chicago believe.
Essentially you went to a tourist trap and ordered a tourist pizza and then were disappointed. Let me know the next time you're here and I'll tell you where to go.
Jul 7th 2016, 9:59 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
I suspect that Robin has local access to extremely fresh free-range venison, turkey, rabbits, as well as some more niche game animals, and a variety of fish. ..... He would just have to go out and catch them! 
Jul 8th 2016, 12:20 am
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
I threaten my neighbour I'll catch and skin her bloody cat if I catch it sh!tting in my garden. But I wouldn't eat it. She knows I'm (somewhat) joking, and she gives us eggs on a regular basis, and very good they are too.
Jul 9th 2016, 3:17 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
1. Pizzeria Due sucks.
2. Thin crust is sold at every pizza place in Chicago (a fact I've noted repeatedly here). This notion that somehow Chicago pizza uniformly = deep dish / stuffed is a notion that only people not from Chicago believe.
Essentially you went to a tourist trap and ordered a tourist pizza and then were disappointed. Let me know the next time you're here and I'll tell you where to go.
2. Thin crust is sold at every pizza place in Chicago (a fact I've noted repeatedly here). This notion that somehow Chicago pizza uniformly = deep dish / stuffed is a notion that only people not from Chicago believe.
Essentially you went to a tourist trap and ordered a tourist pizza and then were disappointed. Let me know the next time you're here and I'll tell you where to go.
Jul 9th 2016, 3:21 pm
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Re: Getting tired of the USA
Sometimes I miss having US cultural experience. What is the US equivalent of farleys rusks, calpol, sudocreme , TCP, ant pens, etc. If had had grown up in the US I would know about Elmer's glue and not Copydex.
Jul 9th 2016, 4:21 pm
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