Super Size Me
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Big D
By the way - Fast Food Nation is a very good book - well written in an entertaining style. Still eating the burgers - just try not to remember the details of the book!
The milkshakes are nice though ... not sure about the reports of pig fat being used though ...
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
"Mechanically Recovered Meat" ... you've gotta love that phrase ... mmmm!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by rincewind
Best of all, the DVD has some good bonus material
...when they put the McD's burgers and fries in the glass containers and watch them over time. They all grow mold failry quickly, but the french fries look like they've JUST been bought even after TEN WEEKS!!! *puke*
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
"Mechanically Recovered Meat" ... you've gotta love that phrase ... mmmm!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm
Ate Elk meat the other day, must say, was rather nice, but didn't half fart like a beast after tho *l*
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Bob
yummy indeed
Ate Elk meat the other day, must say, was rather nice, but didn't half fart like a beast after tho *l*
Ate Elk meat the other day, must say, was rather nice, but didn't half fart like a beast after tho *l*
I've had some Icelandic Pony and Puffin, lovely stuff.
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Steffi
Ohh, yeah! And not to give this whole bonus thing away, BUT...
...when they put the McD's burgers and fries in the glass containers and watch them over time. They all grow mold failry quickly, but the french fries look like they've JUST been bought even after TEN WEEKS!!! *puke*
...when they put the McD's burgers and fries in the glass containers and watch them over time. They all grow mold failry quickly, but the french fries look like they've JUST been bought even after TEN WEEKS!!! *puke*
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
If you like that sort of thing you may like this book:
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Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World
(Eric Schlosser)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...Fencoding=UTF8
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I've got it on order but have heard good reviews.
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Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World
(Eric Schlosser)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...Fencoding=UTF8
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I've got it on order but have heard good reviews.
I read FFN about three years ago and it is an excellent book. Passed it onto my sis-in-law to read. She and her book club read it too.
I very much want to read the book that Schlosser wrote after Fast Food Nation- "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market". This is one I'll probably borrow from the library.
NC Penguin
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
I read FFN about three years ago and it is an excellent book. Passed it onto my sis-in-law to read. She and her book club read it too.
I very much want to read the book that Schlosser wrote after Fast Food Nation- "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market". This is one I'll probably borrow from the library.
NC Penguin
I very much want to read the book that Schlosser wrote after Fast Food Nation- "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market". This is one I'll probably borrow from the library.
NC Penguin
If you like stories of deception and intrigue in the fashion industry then "The Beauty Myth" by Naomi Wolf is also worth a read.
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
"Mechanically Recovered Meat" ... you've gotta love that phrase ... mmmm!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm
Remember, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you can make a Ginster's cornish pastie....
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Big Vern
Earholes, eyeholes and arseholes, was how it was once described to me....
Remember, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you can make a Ginster's cornish pastie....
Remember, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you can make a Ginster's cornish pastie....
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
It's the saveloys that get me ... what IS that stuff that's wrapped around em?
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Re: Super Size Me
No Logo - found that one quite boring...
Fast Food Nation was good though and Supersize Me was FANTASTIC!!! I've vowed never to step inside a McD's again - was always aware of how bad the food can be but didn't realize you'd get so sick so quickly - that's the part that really shocked me....
Fast Food Nation was good though and Supersize Me was FANTASTIC!!! I've vowed never to step inside a McD's again - was always aware of how bad the food can be but didn't realize you'd get so sick so quickly - that's the part that really shocked me....
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Re: Super Size Me
Tho having said that, I think the food at the KFC in the UK was better than in the US...as bad as it was, it was less greasy and nasty back in blighty...
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by yvonneg
No Logo - found that one quite boring...
Fast Food Nation was good though and Supersize Me was FANTASTIC!!! I've vowed never to step inside a McD's again - was always aware of how bad the food can be but didn't realize you'd get so sick so quickly - that's the part that really shocked me....
Fast Food Nation was good though and Supersize Me was FANTASTIC!!! I've vowed never to step inside a McD's again - was always aware of how bad the food can be but didn't realize you'd get so sick so quickly - that's the part that really shocked me....
Got my copy of FFN today so I'm sorted for in-flight entertainment
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Re: Super Size Me
Originally Posted by Deadmeat
Got my copy of FFN today so I'm sorted for in-flight entertainment