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post #51 of 65
6/7/07 at 5:30pm
Diva makes a good point about the processed foods.

Also, the amount of packaging involved with all those cans and boxes and plastic bottles and bags is phenomenal.
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post #52 of 65
6/7/07 at 5:33pm
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Originally Posted by Sammy Jankis
The Mexican family has more soda than the Americans. That's because Mexican coke tastes so much better.
When I visited Peru, the people there had so little food, but Inca Cola was everywhere. I guess sugar drinks can substitute for food when your that poor.

Which reminds me of the Dave Chappelle joke where he visiys a friend's house as a kid and the friend asked him if he wanted grape juice...

"What is juice? I want sugar water. Sugar. Water. Purple. Those were the ingredients!"
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post #53 of 65
6/7/07 at 6:34pm
I want to eat with the family from Cairo. I just got done reading a great book about a Pakistani-American woman traveling through the middle east. I spent the entire time I was reading it just starving. I still have to go get my falafel/ Egyptian Rice fix.

And, yeah, I cannot believe how much soda people drink. We never even have it in the house. I also can't believe how much the American families spend on lousy food. I don't really have a good sense for what's average in other countries, but I know that the Americans could do much better if they didn't buy so much processed stuff.

Oh, and Cheesecake Factory is awful. I've been there once, waited about 45 minutes for a table (welcome to dining in Wisconsin!), and spent the whole meal mildly nauseous over the sheer amount of food that they were bringing us. The really lousy pizza I ordered could have easily fed two, if not three.
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post #54 of 65
6/7/07 at 7:09pm
Sign me up for Mongolia. Mutton dumplings actually sound pretty good. And yes, we eat too much processed stuff in the US. I try to shop as much as possible around the edges of the supermarket where the fresh, whole foods are. But when my wife and I are both a little late getting home and neither of us wants to cook, processed food and relatively quick chain restaurant carry-out food is (slightly) better than nothing. Last night, for example, I brought home a steak and some pasta from Outback on the way home from work. Now I feel guilty that our meal for two cost more than that Mongolian family spends on food in a week.
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post #55 of 65
6/7/07 at 9:00pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Tiny and dual-wrapped in plastic?
Their butterscotch jelly-filled krimpet cheesecake is divine.


There's a CF in a strip mall by me in Winter Park. Why the hell do you need valet parking in a mall parking lot? Why?
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post #56 of 65
6/7/07 at 9:11pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
What is Bela Lugosi selling in that Japanese commercial?
Ant poison.
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post #57 of 65
6/7/07 at 11:48pm
I don't know, I mean, nobody on here probably pays any mind, but places like cheesecock fucktory are total poison. Why not just stay home, play some records, cook up some decent food for 1/5 the price?? The food out there isn't that great, it's full of chemicals, and you're in this totally stressful atmosphere. See, I was in this relationship once where we together for 6 years and our relationship thrived off of just going out to restaurants and talking shit, and we were so miserable that we couldn't get up the energy to cook for ourselves, so I can see where people kind of get sucked into going to these places, but in retrospect I can see that that whole existence was bullshit. So, like, these places suck. Just take it easy dudes/dudettes. Be kind, rewind.
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post #58 of 65
6/8/07 at 12:04am
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8
Why the hell do you need valet parking in a mall parking lot? Why?
Because you have an enormous ass from eating at the Cheesecake Factory and cannot walk the 50 yards from your car to the door of the Cheesecake Factory without having a cardiac event.
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post #59 of 65
6/8/07 at 8:52am
I like that it's a cardiac "event". Like your spleen and liver come up to cheer on your heart as it explodes in a breathtaking display.
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post #60 of 65
6/8/07 at 10:10am
Do you think your vena cava puts on a little top hat? I bet the kidneys toss white roses from the balcony.

I have a dear friend who is a nursing student. After some of the stories he has been kind enough to share with me (sometimes while we're eating! yay!), I think we should all thank our lucky stars for cute euphemisms.
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post #61 of 65
6/8/07 at 10:23am
Two days ago, my sister invited me out to go eat dinner with her and her daughter at The Cheesecake Factory. I declined since I was very tired after work.

Having not known anything about the place, and hearing the stories told here, I'm pretty glad I didn't go.
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post #62 of 65
6/8/07 at 10:29am
It's not like your soul is forfeit as soon as you set foot on the premises. It's just another somewhat annoying, overpriced chain restaurant that's going to be full of suburbanites that are generally too lazy to look for anything better.
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post #63 of 65
6/8/07 at 10:33am
More than the gas-causing salty foods or guilt-inducing portion sizes, what kills any chain restaurant for me is kids. I don't like kids in restaurants. If you can find a place that doesn't have that caterwauling din of sugar-fueled moppets as its soundtrack, you're halfway there.
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post #64 of 65
6/9/07 at 12:02am
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
It's not like your soul is forfeit as soon as you set foot on the premises. It's just another somewhat annoying, overpriced chain restaurant that's going to be full of suburbanites that are generally too lazy to look for anything better.
Eeeexxactly.
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post #65 of 65
6/9/07 at 1:23am
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Originally Posted by devincf
Is it a language thing that keeps you from understanding what he is talking about?

He's talking about the waste, the arrogance of American consumption and the lockstep blandness of the mall culture environment.
God,Devin,at time you sound like a Hollywood version of the radical who is angry about everything.
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