Comments on: Super Size Me http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/ Toujours Le Meme Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:25:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nutritional Supplements Weight Loss Weight Loss http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-3105 Nutritional Supplements Weight Loss Weight Loss Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:01:08 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-3105 <strong>Nutritional Supplements Weight Loss Weight Loss...</strong> I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view... Nutritional Supplements Weight Loss Weight Loss…

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view…

]]> By: Wolfie http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-2649 Wolfie Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:17:34 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-2649 Its a play on words from the well known metaphor : <i>"living on borrowed time"</i>, but with a gastronomic twist (thyme being a herb). Its a play on words from the well known metaphor :

“living on borrowed time”, but with a gastronomic twist (thyme being a herb).

]]> By: Mac http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-2648 Mac Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:58:27 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-2648 what exactly the phrase "living on borrowed thyme" means? what exactly the phrase “living on borrowed thyme” means?

]]> By: Wolfie http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-2493 Wolfie Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:04:39 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-2493 Oh dear, it sounds like you got trapped in the hideous tourist-trap known as the "West End" where crooked restaurateurs peddle vile over-priced muck to the poor unfortunate visitors to our country. It is certainly a blot on our cultural landscape of which no Britain can be proud. Please accept my apology as an Englishman for this criminal attack on your wellbeing but alas these areas are controlled by gastric gangsters with no sense of national pride. If you were to hop onto the tube and venture out into the more residential [affluent] suburbs of our city you would find a plethora of fine eateries to exonerate the British cuisine. Maybe next time. As for the Cherry Creek vomit; our assumption was bulimia, not poisoning (the Atkins reference was a clue). Clearly a local habit judging by the waif-like young women swanning about the mall. Oh dear, it sounds like you got trapped in the hideous tourist-trap known as the “West End” where crooked restaurateurs peddle vile over-priced muck to the poor unfortunate visitors to our country. It is certainly a blot on our cultural landscape of which no Britain can be proud. Please accept my apology as an Englishman for this criminal attack on your wellbeing but alas these areas are controlled by gastric gangsters with no sense of national pride. If you were to hop onto the tube and venture out into the more residential [affluent] suburbs of our city you would find a plethora of fine eateries to exonerate the British cuisine. Maybe next time.

As for the Cherry Creek vomit; our assumption was bulimia, not poisoning (the Atkins reference was a clue). Clearly a local habit judging by the waif-like young women swanning about the mall.

]]> By: Super Size Me » Living on Borrowed Thyme http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-2488 Super Size Me » Living on Borrowed Thyme Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:56:38 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-2488 [...] Wolfie has a nice post on Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me. [...] [...] Wolfie has a nice post on Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me. [...]

]]> By: Rastaman http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-2487 Rastaman Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:45:07 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-2487 Interesting. When I was in London I had never seen so many pasty, puffy, pale skinned people in my life before. Everyone looked horribly in ill health and poorly fed. In the cafes, I had my first taste of what you call a banger, and my last. I cut this pallid excuse for a sausage open and instead of meat inside, it slowly deflated as grey grease drizzled out. I kept trying different restaurants and cafes and it was all the same, greasy, tasteless, terrible. Finally I came across a McDonalds and said Oh, what the hell, and had a Big Mac and a salad and it was the best meal I'd been able to find in London at any price. So that's where I ate from then on until I left. In the years since, I have eaten at McDonalds perhaps 3 times as I don't care for fast food. In London it's the only place to eat. It's no wonder the French laugh at English food, it really is terrible, tasteless and extremely unhealthy. All I can say, Wolfie, is you and your wife must be exceptions or you must live in a country setting where people know how to eat. Americans consume too much starch and fat and there's no doubt of it, in the cities. Country people tend to be leaner and more health conscious. But I guess it's fashionable to complain about "them" as compared to "us", no matter who or where we are because obviously, our impressions aren't always the true picture. That thing about the toilets all being full of vomit... I have never seen that in my life. Either there was a local illness going around, or an outbreak of bacterial food poisoning - salmonella or whatever - or some unusual event. To assume it was due to the so-called American Diet is a mistake. For that matter, I'm sure there's no such thing as either an English or an American diet, we all have our own preferences. And I also have to say that the US is literally filled with very excellent restaurants. Most restaurants are VERY careful about using salt because of lawsuits, and the only time you get sugar in your food is when you order something sweet, so if you got too much salt and sugar it was because you salted it or ordered sweet foods, and or put sugar on/in it. I have an alternative probability to your complaints. You came from almost sea level to a place 1000's of feet ABOVE sea level. The air is thin where you were and it's small wonder that you felt weak and tired. Additionally you were probably retaining more water in yoiur systems than usual because of a change in diet. That month of detox was more like a month of re-acclimation. Nothing to say about the incredible beauty of all that you saw in my wonderful country? Interesting. When I was in London I had never seen so many pasty, puffy, pale skinned people in my life before. Everyone looked horribly in ill health and poorly fed. In the cafes, I had my first taste of what you call a banger, and my last. I cut this pallid excuse for a sausage open and instead of meat inside, it slowly deflated as grey grease drizzled out.
I kept trying different restaurants and cafes and it was all the same, greasy, tasteless, terrible. Finally I came across a McDonalds and said Oh, what the hell, and had a Big Mac and a salad and it was the best meal I’d been able to find in London at any price. So that’s where I ate from then on until I left.
In the years since, I have eaten at McDonalds perhaps 3 times as I don’t care for fast food. In London it’s the only place to eat. It’s no wonder the French laugh at English food, it really is terrible, tasteless and extremely unhealthy.

All I can say, Wolfie, is you and your wife must be exceptions or you must live in a country setting where people know how to eat. Americans consume too much starch and fat and there’s no doubt of it, in the cities. Country people tend to be leaner and more health conscious. But I guess it’s fashionable to complain about “them” as compared to “us”, no matter who or where we are because obviously, our impressions aren’t always the true picture.

That thing about the toilets all being full of vomit… I have never seen that in my life. Either there was a local illness going around, or an outbreak of bacterial food poisoning - salmonella or whatever - or some unusual event. To assume it was due to the so-called American Diet is a mistake. For that matter, I’m sure there’s no such thing as either an English or an American diet, we all have our own preferences.
And I also have to say that the US is literally filled with very excellent restaurants. Most restaurants are VERY careful about using salt because of lawsuits, and the only time you get sugar in your food is when you order something sweet, so if you got too much salt and sugar it was because you salted it or ordered sweet foods, and or put sugar on/in it.

I have an alternative probability to your complaints. You came from almost sea level to a place 1000’s of feet ABOVE sea level. The air is thin where you were and it’s small wonder that you felt weak and tired. Additionally you were probably retaining more water in yoiur systems than usual because of a change in diet. That month of detox was more like a month of re-acclimation.

Nothing to say about the incredible beauty of all that you saw in my wonderful country?

]]> By: Wolfie http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-2448 Wolfie Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:35:40 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-2448 As far as I know Uraninite is pretty harmless in its natural form and it was quite apparent that the food was going to kill us first! Mind you those Halliburton trucks are pretty scary with the darkened windows and chains on the fender, they reminded me of that movie about a "possessed" psychopathic truck (I can't remember the title). Tescos seem to want to become the British Wal-Mart and I make a conscious effort not to shop there on principle as I think their business practices are seriously questionable and the fact that they have avoided investigation up to now by the Office of Fair Trading highly suspicious. As far as I know Uraninite is pretty harmless in its natural form and it was quite apparent that the food was going to kill us first! Mind you those Halliburton trucks are pretty scary with the darkened windows and chains on the fender, they reminded me of that movie about a “possessed” psychopathic truck (I can’t remember the title).

Tescos seem to want to become the British Wal-Mart and I make a conscious effort not to shop there on principle as I think their business practices are seriously questionable and the fact that they have avoided investigation up to now by the Office of Fair Trading highly suspicious.

]]> By: Stef http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/super-size-me/#comment-2446 Stef Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:03:04 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/04/07/214/#comment-2446 We've done a fair few US road trips like yours over the years and there really is little choice but to sit back and enjoy the horror food, and culture, wise. Moab is, of course, a little different as long as you're OK about breathing in all that dust from the nearby uranium mine. Ah, the joys of US road trips British variant of Supersize Me here http://tesco-value-me.livejournal.com/ We’ve done a fair few US road trips like yours over the years and there really is little choice but to sit back and enjoy the horror food, and culture, wise. Moab is, of course, a little different as long as you’re OK about breathing in all that dust from the nearby uranium mine.

Ah, the joys of US road trips

British variant of Supersize Me here

http://tesco-value-me.livejournal.com/

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