/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My Amerishart frens (also Canucks). As a bong, is there anything on this site that's actually worth trying? I've never had a Slim Jim, but I can't just buy that.

Got a bit of a hankering for some HFCS, maybe.

https://americanfizz.co.uk/

>>13362605
It's because of two things primarily:
1) Farming subsidies
2) Weight problems
For thing 1 you have a history of grains, fruits, and vegetables being strongly supported by governments around the world because you realistically need to do this in order to keep farming practices stable. Subsidies for example help make sure farmers don't wildly yo-yo back and forth between having way too little supply or way too much by insulating them from the immediate short term differences in crop yields that happen from season to season and providing some base level of income to keep supplies where they'll be most profitable and therefore will keep prices and consumption at ideal rates and will help ensure food security / prevent shit like the dust bowl from happening again.
This also translates into education for the general public and as part of childhood education which communicates the idea you should be consuming lots of grains, fruits, and vegetables. It's good to promote this so farmers continue getting good business and everyone benefits when done within reason.
For thing 2 vegetables are a lot less capable of being digested by humans than meat is, which is another way of saying you get way fewer calories from vegetables. And when people becoming overweight and sedentary is a problem, then this transforms that attribute of vegetables and human digestion into a selling point even though it sounds like a bad thing otherwise. This feeds into your observation about vegans looking malnourished. A lot of how a vegetable / fruit heavy diet is healthy is because of what it *isn't* providing (large amounts of calories). And of course this is both a positive and a negative depending on context.

>>13352889
No. Boost is the patrician meal replacement option.
Soylent is the result of some autistic software developer's amateur kickstarter project from a few years ago who had no formal education on nutrition or food processing and just came up with a bunch of ingredients to throw together based on what he Google-ed about human nutritional needs. There have been multiple occasions since he first started where he fucked up badly and had way too much of some harmful ingredient.
It's also notorious for causing GI problems (original was stuffed with way too much fiber, and people still complain about stomach problems from it even after he reduced the fiber content). And the Canadian Food Inspection Agency banned it for not meeting their basic meal replacement standards.
Was also sued over unlabeled lead / cadmium quantities (lead levels are 25 times higher than prop 65 limit).
Soylent bars were recalled due to all the nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea they caused.
Powder was recalled due to a suspected contamination problem which still hasn't ever been conclusively identified (company itself blamed algal flour but they have no evidence to support this and the algal flour supplier vehemently denied having anything to do with their problems).
And Soylent uses artificial sweeteners which I make a point of avoiding in anything I eat or drink (might also be the real cause for all the stomach problems Soylent is associated with).

>>13219555
>Bait
Care to explain? All I see is some social media normie meme pic which I assume is about a waitress being disappointed she was tipped $5 on a $65 meal when that works out to less than 8% and the standard tip for waitresses is more like 15% or even 20%.

Remember to make sure you get Ceylon cinnamon, because the popular more commonly used type of cinnamon is highly toxic and bad for your liver.

>>12788644
>hurr your body is 70% water so why do you even need to drink anything??? (^:
No, other anons are right.
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/103/3/717/4564598
>Cumulative urine output at 4 h after ingestion of cola, diet cola, hot tea, iced tea, coffee, lager, orange juice, sparkling water, and a sports drink were not different from the response to water ingestion.
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/20/health/he-54596
>The same goes for tea, juice, milk and caffeinated sodas: One glass provides about the same amount of hydrating fluid as a glass of water. The only common drinks that produce a net loss of fluids are those containing alcohol.
Reminder Danone's been caught shilling in academic journals:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jul/22/had-our-fill-of-water
>Over the last few weeks, those who visited the British Medical Journal's website might have noticed an advert for a new public health initiative, Hydration for Health. It is sponsored by Danone – which owns the Evian, Volvic and Badoit bottled water brands – and urges healthcare professionals to encourage people to drink more water, claiming that "evidence is increasing that even mild dehydration plays a role in the development of various diseases".
>Margaret McCartney, a GP and columnist, saw these adverts and complained about it, writing an article for the BMJ (who admitted "we hadn't followed our own guidelines. The advertisement bypassed our editorial checks") about the lack of evidence – and citing the shortcomings of many studies – that people should be drinking more water.
Reminder "chronic mild dehydration" is a bullshit meme:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6514825
>The results indicate that during free access to water humans become thirsty and drink before body fluid deficits develop, perhaps in response to subtle oropharyngeal cues, and so provide evidence for anticipatory thirst and drinking in man.

>>12629839
Not really. If you look at the study for this it's the same deal as the correlation between sugary drinks and type 2 diabetes.
Meaning *being overweight* is the real problem. Sugary drinks are only associated indirectly by the fact that you're more likely to be overweight if you drink them.

>>12466148
There's a short list of sandwiches you order here:
https://www.subway.com/en-US/MenuNutrition/Menu/All
First you tell them the sandwich.
Then they ask you what bread you want. The options for that are listed here (there's a list of universally available breads and a list of conditionally available breads at some locations but not others):
https://www.subway.com/en-US/MenuNutrition/Menu/BreadsAndToppings
>Our Breads: 9-Grain Wheat, Multi-grain Flatbread*, Italian, Italian Herbs & Cheese, Flatbread*
>Your Subway® restaurant might have: Hearty Italian, 9-Grain Honey Oat, Jalapeño Cheese, Monterey Cheddar, Parmesan Oregano, Roasted Garlic, Rosemary & Sea Salt, Rye Bread, Gluten-Free Bread*
If you don't know what you want for bread, Italian's pretty much the default.
By picking out the sandwich and the bread, they'll already know what meat and cheese you're getting, but other toppings (mostly vegetables, cheese, and dressing) will still be something you need to decide on. The way the Subway sandwich menu works for the most part is that it doesn't assume anything about vegetables, cheese, or dressing.
You could also at this point in the order ask for extra meat or extra cheese.
Cheese options:
>Our Cheeses: American and Monterey Cheddar
>Your Subway® restaurant might have: Feta, Mozzarella, Cheddar, Pepperjack, Provolone, Swiss
Dressing options:
>Our Sauces: Chipotle Southwest, Light or Regular Mayonnaise, Ranch, Oil, Subway® Vinaigrette
>Flavorful Fat-Free Sauces: Mustard, Vinegar, Sweet Onion
>Your Subway® restaurant might have: Barbecue, Buffalo, Creamy Italian, Golden Italian, Honey Mustard, Savory Caesar, Sriracha, Tzatziki Cucumber
Vegetable options:
>Our Fresh Veggies: Cucumbers, Green Peppers, Lettuce, Red Onions, Spinach, Tomatoes
>Other Veggies: Banana Peppers, Jalapeños, Black Olives, Pickles
>Your Subway® restaurant might have: Avocado, Carrots, Guacamole, Sweet Peppers
That's about it.
That said you should go to Jersey Mike's instead.

>>12385639
>if you are hungry you're already starving to death
>I bet it hurts being this retarded
>>12386871
>you shoud eat before you is hungry
>becaw
>if you hungry.....you already starving
Exactly.
>>12386933
>False-equivalency
No. If anything it's even MORE ridiculous to believe you're accidentally getting "mildly dehydrated" all the time. It's insane how long some people have been recorded surviving without food*, whereas with water if you're kept from getting any of it (including the large amount of water in food that everyone ignores for some reason which started the 8 glasses per day myth) you're fucking dead in about 3 days**. You don't even get a week.
We all (I hope) intuitively understand it'd be silly for someone to worry about dying because they didn't force themselves to eat some food earlier that morning on account of not being hungry. Your body (barring obvious exceptions like aggressive chemo therapy) is not going to accidentally forget to make you hungry to the point of serious health problems
Yet the bottled water company propaganda has so thoroughly fucked with some of your heads that you believe something much, much more vital to living is going to somehow fail to throw off extreme thirst alarms long before you're anywhere close to in trouble***.
*
e.g over 1 year without food:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/survive-without-eating-382-days/
**
Going without water is so effective at killing you that it's one of the most popular passive euthanasia methods for the elderly in regions where actively induced euthanasia is illegal:
https://www.deathwithdignity.org/options-to-hasten-death/
***
Anticipatory thirst makes you drink enough water to prevent dehydration before it happens.

>>12273568
Honestly it just makes people sound like they secretly feel bad about eating meat when they react this over the top to the concept of not eating it. Just because you choose to continue eating meat because you like it or realistically need to for basic nutritional purposes doesn't mean you need to go full on in the opposite direction and insist animals are retarded pieces of trash that only exist for your personal amusement. Patrician stance is to eat meat AND maintain a sense of respect for the animals it came from. Cows, pigs, and chicken are cool friends who lay their life down so we can thrive.

>>12137372
>Does coffee cause diabetes?
No. Even sugar *on its own* isn't recognized as a direct risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The major risk factor for type 2 diabetes is being overweight, and nobody's ever found an independent link between sugar consumption and type 2 diabetes that controlled for subject weight, meaning while you can find a link between sugary drinks and diabetes for example the people drinking those sugary drinks are also more likely to be overweight and consuming way too many calories in general. The association between being overweight and type 2 diabetes also doesn't lessen any just because overweight people are consuming a caloric surplus of fatty foods vs. sugary foods. You get fat and you have a major risk for type 2 diabetes no matter how you got fat.
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eating-with-diabetes/diabetes-food-myths/myth-sugar-causes-diabetes
>With Type 2 diabetes, though we know sugar doesn’t directly cause Type 2 diabetes, you are more likely to get it if you are overweight. You gain weight when you take in more calories than your body needs, and sugary foods and drinks contain a lot of calories.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23880355
>In the present study, we investigated the association between dietary intake of carbohydrates and the risk of type 2 diabetes.
>These prospective findings suggest that the intakes of starch and sucrose are not associated, but that those of fructose and glucose are inversely associated with diabetes risk.
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/myths/
>Is diabetes caused by eating sugar?
>A diet high in calories from any source (including sugar) contributes to weight gain and weight gain increases your risk for type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is caused by genetics and unknown factors that trigger the onset of the disease. Type 2 diabetes is not caused by sugar, but by genetics and lifestyle factors.

>>11937174
ok then, based.
i'm sorry i jumped to conclusions, OP.

>>11724160
I'm going to help OP now just to spite your normie alcohol loving ass.
>>11723976
>Is it literally "oh look it gets me drunk lol" is the only reason people drink this crap?
Pretty much, yes.
>>11724077
>I tried some wine and it's just more of that bland nastiness. I was hoping for some kind of fruity taste.
Pinot noir's what you're after. It's known as the red wine for people who don't like red wine and that movie Sideways even brings up repeatedly how Merlot in particular is bad and Pinot noir is the better choice. It's also known for tasting less alcohol-esque and more fruity. For high quality but a little expensive there's Beaux Frères. For affordable you can go with Broadley Vineyards Willamette Valley or something else around the $20-$30 range. Less than $20 and you start to risk buying something awful.

>>11582556
We're going to make some progress eventually, friend. Just relax and let it all out. What are your scary thoughts on sandwiches you don't want to be bullied about?

>>11541321
This is supposed to be a safe place. Please stop bullying.

>>10113638
but they are already my friends !