/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6230355

I've blown people away before by revealing that potato chips are more fat calories than they are carb calories. People will also take a baked potato and spread so much butter, cheese, or sour cream on it that the added fat has twice as many calories as the potato it's on. Therefore, potatoes make you fat, and by extension all carbs are fattening.

>>5807941

I think it's mostly Americans who think that. In Asia, they'll have steamed rice with vegetables and soy sauce. In America, they'll fry the rice in oil and add pork and eggs to it, and have it as a side next to a giant slab of meat also cooked in oil. In Peru or Okinawa they'll have some boiled sweet potatoes for a meal. In America, they'll bake a potato, cover it in cheese, sour cream, and bacon bits, and eat it next to a big steak with a side of vegetables that are also covered in butter because apparently the rest of the fat on the plate wasn't enough.

In America, people will eat potato chips and think they're eating something that's 99% carbohydrate, rather than 60% fat. While I advocate whole grains myself, America would be a lot thinner if they just ate plain white rice

>>5753733

Made more ironic by the fact that chips are more fat than they are carb. They take potatoes, one of the leanest foods in the world, and add so much oil that it becomes 60% fat by calorie. Next they'll make some junk food out of beans and chickpeas where the beans are air-puffed, injected with safflower oil, and then deep fried, and you'll have to deal with more fatties talking about how "beans make you fat"