Americans and food

[Bad Bear]

I was a member of a forum a few years agio in which the members had a thread called "What I'm doing right now". It was an American film site and most of the members were, thusly, American, and I became sort of hypnotised (for want of a better word) by the refernces to food many of the posters made.

There would be posts like:

"Watching Terminator and snacking on fried chicken. Drinking Mountain Dew [whatever that is! ]"

And

"Halfway thru Carlito's Way and chowing down on chips and dips and sipping chocolate milk."

I was bewitched! Surely Americans have the greatest snacking food in the world. Maybe the unhealthiest , but surely the most wide, varied and lipsmacking!

For the record, I'm about to watch The Empire Strikes Back whilst nibbling on chilli barbecued chicken

[Moderator]

Helps to explain our obesity problems, too--sitting on the couch watching TV, noshing on junk food.

[Srbo]

Nothing wrong with that.

Back in my old country, people ususaly sit around, drink cases and cases of beer, scotch, whatever, in front of them is freshly roasted pork, still smokingly hot or something "healthy" and heavy like that, and they more comment about how silly the actors look and if they maybe resemble their mother in law than actually paying attention to the movie itself.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

As a Yoorow Peon, one of the thing's I've learned here on the SKMB is NEVER to make generalizations about Americans.

And I come from the most obese country in Your Rope, where we deep fry our Mars Bars,
(year on year the population of Scotland is about 12% heavier than it was the previous year).

Long days and pleasant nights

[sknut70]

everything seems to revolve around food. Movies, books, concerts, family gatherings. I start thinking about lunch break as soon as I sit at my desk!

[BlackThorn]

I dunno buddy, I'm 6"1' and I weigh 155 pounds. I can run up a mountain, and down in the same set of breaths.

Have you been reading the news lately? It seems Glasgow, Scotland is getting pretty obese there too. They say, they usually end up watching a show they hate, because they don't want to get up to find the remote. They say, they don't have energy to walk their dogs, or even play with their children. It's not lethargy, it's just lack of energy.

If you ask me, this has something to do with all the pharmacuticals that have been shoved down our throats, and the fact that when we piss after, we piss out all that lovely anti-depressant, or blood-pressure medicine, or eyedrop medicine, etc... and it goes right back into the water system. They don't filter for it, although they know how to test for it.

But anyway, yeah, Americans were a pudgy people, and many still are. But think about it... Americans are badass survivors. We were hatched out of a country that still blocks news stories it wants to block, that still does not allow religious freedom, and that still does not, to this day, allow cold steel and gunpowder to defend your homestead.

Now that we're making a comeback from worldwide bankruptcy, you think we'll survive? Or maybe we'll just stay on the couches, as we run out of food... wadda ya think?

[thymeoperator]

You really don't need to know what mountain dew is, it's terrible, can't believe i liked it as a kid. it's probably radioactive, with the neon yellow it is-freakish!! i ate much less when i moved to england. i'm glad for it...but i do miss good humour choc eclaire ice creams and cookies n cream ice cream sandwiches...and dairy queen blizzards...crap maple syrup for a dollar...and hey remember hundred grand bars?? wonder what i'd think of all that now. apart from the syrup, i buy that overpriced at waitrose along with bisquik and do pancakes a few times a year.

oh hey...hershey kisses, i miss those too. i dropped three sizes after i moved here, dropping all those yummies.

[Ubasti]

I'm pretty good about not snacking while watching a movie. I work in a chocolate shop so I do most of my snacking there. When I do snack I try to eat cheese and crackers or hummus and crackers.

[devious1]

well i'm not an American but a good movie and a good snack go hand in hand... over the weekend i watched Million Dollar Baby while snacking on honey garlic chicken wings...

btw Srbo... i'll comment on your euthanasia thread a little later, seeing as how i watched the same movie for the umpteenth time myself...

[Bad Bear]

I dunno buddy, I'm 6"1' and I weigh 155 pounds. I can run up a mountain, and down in the same set of breaths.

Have you been reading the news lately? It seems Glasgow, Scotland is getting pretty obese there too. They say, they usually end up watching a show they hate, because they don't want to get up to find the remote. They say, they don't have energy to walk their dogs, or even play with their children. It's not lethargy, it's just lack of energy.

If you ask me, this has something to do with all the pharmacuticals that have been shoved down our throats, and the fact that when we piss after, we piss out all that lovely anti-depressant, or blood-pressure medicine, or eyedrop medicine, etc... and it goes right back into the water system. They don't filter for it, although they know how to test for it.

But anyway, yeah, Americans were a pudgy people, and many still are. But think about it... Americans are badass survivors. We were hatched out of a country that still blocks news stories it wants to block, that still does not allow religious freedom, and that still does not, to this day, allow cold steel and gunpowder to defend your homestead.

Now that we're making a comeback from worldwide bankruptcy, you think we'll survive? Or maybe we'll just stay on the couches, as we run out of food... wadda ya think?

Interesting points there, BlackThorn. And JD, I wasn't generalising about "all Americans", just re-telling what I liked about a certain site I was a member of. I loved the way that (as far as I know) perfectly healthy people could enjoy chilling out with a film and some food and share their evenings with others.

Talking of food, my favourite documentary of recent years is 'Super Size Me'; fascinating stuff, and here in full on Google Video:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...+size+me&hl=en

Intersting stuff, BT about the pharmaceuticals in the water system. Surely too small in quantity to be harmful, though?