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And Americans wonder why the rest of the world doesn’t want the acid bath chicken and hormone and steroid infused milk exports Edit: exports

kortilla 5y ago
Yet neither of those are the problem. The problem is carbs and lack of exercise. American bread is basically cake. We serve fries with everything. Ketchup, which is basically red sugar paste, is a go-to condiment. People drink fruit juice “to be healthy”, etc etc. Even in big tech companies, nearly all of the snacks are carb dense potato chips, sugar glazed nuts, candy, instant noodles, and more. Everyone eats like they work 10 hours of calorie-intensive labor while barely moving at all. It would be a wonderful if the only thing Americans ate was chicken and steroid milk exports.
- cm2187 5y ago
  And lockdowns made that worse. Would be curious to see the average weight gain over 2020
  - AnimalMuppet 5y ago
    I lost (a small amount of) weight while working from home, because I didn't have access to the company-supplied stuff in the break room...
- ashtonkem 5y ago
  Honestly, even those with high intensity jobs often can’t burn the excess calories from the typical diet. How many overweight construction workers have you seen?
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- floralwhispers 5y ago
  The Dutch serve fries with everything. We use ketchup and sugar like you do. We eat and drink fruits like you do as well. Also, we deep fry like everything. Seriously, Google search for Dutch fast food. It’s literally all deep fried from cheese to noodles to meats. The difference is your portion sizes are gigantic compared to ours. If you go to a McDonald’s in Holland and buy a meal, our fries are what you’d call small size, and our cola are what you’d call child’s size. At restaurants we don’t have unlimited refill of cola like you do, we pay for each bottle so we don’t typically drink an entire days worth of kcal in cola with each meal like you do. Our breakfast is smaller and cold, not big lavish feasts with cooked food. What you call breakfast we’d probably call lunch, and what we call breakfast you’d probably call a snack. We also collectively exercise more than you do just by living. It’s not a secret that bicycling around is a huge thing and the primary transport we think of when we want to go somewhere unless we have a reason not to. I’m sure the types of food you have are a big contributor, but at the end of the day you’re the ones stuffing all of that into your mouths instead of properly portioning out sizes.
bpodgursky 5y ago
I strongly suspect that incredibly cheap lean protein (aka chlorinated / acid bath / steroid chicken) is net positive for American health by offsetting the low-quality processed carbs that would replace it.
- watt 5y ago
  I half expected you to say "Slime-Mold Protein", but you just had to say "chicken".
sneak 5y ago
I don't think either of those are in any way contributing to the problem I am describing. Portion sizes, excessive fat and simple sugars, loading everything (even savory foods) with huge amounts of federally-subsidized cheap corn syrup, all sorts of things. It's not as simple as (or related to) livestock practices. There are no more normal size candy bars for sale in the gas station by my winter home; only "king size" which are approximately 2x the size of a normal candy bar. This is just one of a million little examples.
- rhodozelia 5y ago
  Maybe not, but the problem tarnishes the brand and erodes trust in claims that X is not a problem.
- MauroIksem 5y ago
  I've actually seen the opposite where I live. A lot of stores have moved to smaller candy bars than in the past. But i suspect that's to increase profits as they still cost the same.
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  - hulitu 5y ago
    Also they increased sugar content. They may be smaller but they are deadlier.

kortilla 5y ago

Yet neither of those are the problem. The problem is carbs and lack of exercise. American bread is basically cake. We serve fries with everything. Ketchup, which is basically red sugar paste, is a go-to condiment. People drink fruit juice “to be healthy”, etc etc. Even in big tech companies, nearly all of the snacks are carb dense potato chips, sugar glazed nuts, candy, instant noodles, and more. Everyone eats like they work 10 hours of calorie-intensive labor while barely moving at all. It would be a wonderful if the only thing Americans ate was chicken and steroid milk exports.

cm2187 5y ago
And lockdowns made that worse. Would be curious to see the average weight gain over 2020
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  I lost (a small amount of) weight while working from home, because I didn't have access to the company-supplied stuff in the break room...
ashtonkem 5y ago
Honestly, even those with high intensity jobs often can’t burn the excess calories from the typical diet. How many overweight construction workers have you seen?
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floralwhispers 5y ago
The Dutch serve fries with everything. We use ketchup and sugar like you do. We eat and drink fruits like you do as well. Also, we deep fry like everything. Seriously, Google search for Dutch fast food. It’s literally all deep fried from cheese to noodles to meats. The difference is your portion sizes are gigantic compared to ours. If you go to a McDonald’s in Holland and buy a meal, our fries are what you’d call small size, and our cola are what you’d call child’s size. At restaurants we don’t have unlimited refill of cola like you do, we pay for each bottle so we don’t typically drink an entire days worth of kcal in cola with each meal like you do. Our breakfast is smaller and cold, not big lavish feasts with cooked food. What you call breakfast we’d probably call lunch, and what we call breakfast you’d probably call a snack. We also collectively exercise more than you do just by living. It’s not a secret that bicycling around is a huge thing and the primary transport we think of when we want to go somewhere unless we have a reason not to. I’m sure the types of food you have are a big contributor, but at the end of the day you’re the ones stuffing all of that into your mouths instead of properly portioning out sizes.

bpodgursky 5y ago

I strongly suspect that incredibly cheap lean protein (aka chlorinated / acid bath / steroid chicken) is net positive for American health by offsetting the low-quality processed carbs that would replace it.

watt 5y ago
I half expected you to say "Slime-Mold Protein", but you just had to say "chicken".

sneak 5y ago

I don't think either of those are in any way contributing to the problem I am describing. Portion sizes, excessive fat and simple sugars, loading everything (even savory foods) with huge amounts of federally-subsidized cheap corn syrup, all sorts of things. It's not as simple as (or related to) livestock practices. There are no more normal size candy bars for sale in the gas station by my winter home; only "king size" which are approximately 2x the size of a normal candy bar. This is just one of a million little examples.

rhodozelia 5y ago
Maybe not, but the problem tarnishes the brand and erodes trust in claims that X is not a problem.
MauroIksem 5y ago
I've actually seen the opposite where I live. A lot of stores have moved to smaller candy bars than in the past. But i suspect that's to increase profits as they still cost the same.
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- hulitu 5y ago
  Also they increased sugar content. They may be smaller but they are deadlier.