Originally posted by thirsty moore:Check this if the going gets tough:
I'm aiming to cut out fast food.
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation
New Year's resolutions anyone?
Fast Food Nation
Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
Gesundheit
Having worked fast food in college, I know what is there and it does scare me. Problem is my mom worked in the food industry for 40+ years and so all food scares me. Fancy restaurants, slaughterhouses, hell with this green onions = hepititis thing what is a safe food? Organic from your back yard?
Originally posted by thirsty moore:That book literally changed my life. I never ate a lot of fast food, but I have not been in one since I read it 2-3 years ago. It's not just the food safety issue either: "The industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways."
Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
Another related book is: Nickel and Dimed
You'll never treat a fast food worker, waitress or maid the same again.
Originally posted by flawd101:Try wanking with the left hand so it can catch up….it's like someone else doing it for you too, which is an added bonus! ;)
cause i cant flex….my arms just tense up…for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left….
Originally posted by mankie:sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :cool:
Originally posted by flawd101:Try wanking with the left hand so it can catch up….it's like someone else doing it for you too, which is an added bonus! ;)
cause i cant flex….my arms just tense up…for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left….
i'm currently four days into the south beach diet… who hide the chocolate :eek:
Originally posted by Samantha:I sent this little helpful tidbit around today to some friends…you've caused quite a stir.
sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :cool:
Originally posted by grotty:You think that's something,I just learned this today as well.Never heard that before,anybody else familiar?
Originally posted by Samantha:I sent this little helpful tidbit around today to some friends…you've caused quite a stir.
sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :cool:
http://www.rotten.com/library/language/the-finger/shocker/
Originally posted by thirsty moore:I have read part of this book, and i wonder. Is the food you buy in the grocery store really any better? i mean, its still being packed by the same corporate food giants right? I am just wondering if my food is any better for me coming from the Perdue plant?
Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:probably not much better…why eat meat at all?
Originally posted by thirsty moore:I have read part of this book, and i wonder. Is the food you buy in the grocery store really any better? i mean, its still being packed by the same corporate food giants right? I am just wondering if my food is any better for me coming from the Perdue plant?
Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:What do you think!?
Originally posted by flawd101:do you have a girlfriend?
for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left….
I'm so glad that I kicked the fast food thing, not that I ever ate it that much anyway. Fast Food Nation really solidified my reasons to stop eating it altogether. Just knowing how disgusting all of the "food" gets, and the fact that I am appalled at how our society has been transformed for the worse by this fast food hoopla …. Ughhh.
And that link about "the shocker" - I'm surprised you haven't heard of that. Pretty gross, huh? ;)
Originally posted by Celeste:probably not much better…why eat meat at all? [/QB]
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Well, that was my answer too. But the book is also about so much more than the quality & safety of food. It's about how fast food is reshaping America. How it affects workers. How it affects small businesses. How it makes everywhere you go look like everywhere you've been.
does Quiznos and Subway count as fast food?
cause i cant live w/o that Tuscan Chicken sub!
cause i cant live w/o that Tuscan Chicken sub!
Originally posted by grotty:Well, that was my answer too. But the book is also about so much more than the quality & safety of food. It's about how fast food is reshaping America. How it affects workers. How it affects small businesses. How it makes everywhere you go look like everywhere you've been. [/QB]
Originally posted by Celeste:probably not much better…why eat meat at all? [/QB]
yes! yes! yes!
Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by Samantha:
sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :D
Originally posted by SPARX:
You think that's something,I just learned this today as well.Never heard that before,anybody else familiar?That's been around for years…some enterprizing young chap from Yale or some hoity-toity school actually started a company that makes those giant foam hands that they all have at football games, only instead of the "we're #1" thing, he did the hand doing the shocker.
http://www.rotten.com/library/language/the-finger/shocker/
Made a fortune evidently…shocking huh! ;)
Originally posted by grotty:While some people don't like that (I'm one of them), it's been shown that most people do like predictability. That's part of the reason chains do so well. People like to know what they are going to get before they get it. That's why Starbucks does so well. people know that their double decaf soy caramel macchiatto is going to taste the same in Denver as it did in Duluth.
How it makes everywhere you go look like everywhere you've been.
The guy who started Holiday Inn died last year and the NY Times had a great article about how he influenced travel in the fifties and sixties. People became much more willing to take road trips because they knew they could find a Holiday Inn – a predictable environment – along the way.
Had never heard of that…
I think these names are more descriptive (and funny).
"Two in the pink and one in the stink"
"two in the coot and one in the boot"
"going to town with one in the brown".
I think these names are more descriptive (and funny).
"Two in the pink and one in the stink"
"two in the coot and one in the boot"
"going to town with one in the brown".