About food

[kinzel]

Silver Dollar Pancakes and other such...

I'm bothered that several local eateries advertise a breakfast of eggs and "three Silver Dollar Pancakes" and then serve three of these monstrous things that barely fit on a dinner plate. Then... they serve these things with your choice of an unnatural jelly from a unopenable plastic security bin (peach-apricot? apple-strawberry-kiwi-fruit?) or an instant-mess dispenser of something labeled "table syrup."

Have you noticed that many foods offered up as low fat are high sodium? I mean really, when one cup of low fat soup serves you 50% of your daily sodium overdose...

Have you noticed that some things that never had sugar in them are being advertised as "sugar free"... right. "Sugar free H20 -- The Better Water." "New Table Salt, Sugar Free for Your Health!"

I'm relieved to be able to order senior meals without being challenged -- the gray beard does it. I appreciate the more reasonable portions (see rant above re pancakes the size of Manhatten)

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Silver dollar pancakes should be no more than 3" in diameter.

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

The low fat/high sodium thing is pretty common. And companies will go to all sorts of trouble to get the fat free, reduced fat and sugar free labels.

And well, if someone offers me 3 silver dollar pancakes, I'm expecting proper silver dollar pancakes. Tiny. I'd be inclined to corral the server and ask why they're using false advertising on their pancakes!

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

Have you noticed that many foods offered up as low fat are high sodium?

The low fat/high sodium thing is pretty common.

Alas. Salt and fat are the two easiest ways to make something tasty (in the instant-mouth-appeal sense), and they're both cheap. Ipso facto...

Given a choice, I avoid the high-salt, and eat the fat. "Food science" has finally come around to my view that fat is not inherently evil, so long as you're eating unmodified natural fats in non-industrial quantities. You simply cannot hurt yourself by eating too much olive oil (though it might be fun to try). Butter is less wonderful, but is a health food when compared with any partially-hydrogenated tropical oil.

As mardott says below, Eat real food!.

[saruby.livejournal.com]

what I find particularly amusing are candies that say "fat free". Of course they never say they are 100% sugar.

[mardott.livejournal.com]

You know what amazes me? That most people aren't even aware of the hyperbole from the food industry. They buy the "fat-free, sugar-free, low-carb" whatever and think they're doing something smart!

If I didn't have to work for a living, I'd try walking around in a sandwich board that says "Eat Real Food, People! Eat Real Food!"

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried ordering senior meals yet. Maybe deep down I'm afraid my own gray beard will let me get the meal unchallenged. I still smart from once saying that my gray hair makes me look distinguished, only to have a co-worker point out they make me look extinguished. Today's young people...