What's your most controversial food opinion?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you think of fruit as a "treat" and think carbs are something to be limited or make you gain weight, and you're not a diabetic, then you have an eating disorder.

If you equate limiting carbs to having an eating disorder, your relationship to food is probably disordered too.

Yep those darn sweet potatoes! Chickpeas! Fava beans! Oranges! Carrots! Barley! Lentils! Farro! I may even have ice cream a few times this week to help cool me down after dinner. Soooo disordered!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That all the new fake milks (soy milk, almond milk, oatmeal milk) aren't milk at all and I wish they would just give it a different name.

That Fair Life Milk is just a marketing ploy to get you to spend more on milk.

Yes. But what shall we call it? Almond Nut strained Pulp?

An ecodisaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you think of fruit as a "treat" and think carbs are something to be limited or make you gain weight, and you're not a diabetic, then you have an eating disorder.

If you equate limiting carbs to having an eating disorder, your relationship to food is probably disordered too.

Yep those darn sweet potatoes! Chickpeas! Fava beans! Oranges! Carrots! Barley! Lentils! Farro! I may even have ice cream a few times this week to help cool me down after dinner. Soooo disordered!

Maybe not disordered, but wow, you sure worked hard to know a lot! Yes, beans, legumes, and fancy grains have carbs! Oh you are so sophisticated! Brava! Surely people looking to limit carbs are referring to fava beans (haven't seen those fresh in two decades), barley, and farro, not fries, bread, beer, and eggo waffles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Truffle tastes revolting, like the musk gland of a large animal.

+100

Truffles are overrated.

+ 1 million. They smell disgusting and taste like dirt. We went to the Inn at Little Washington once and the meal was ruined by them putting truffles on almost every dish. So gross.
I think it must be a practical joke - let's have pigs root around in the dirt, eat what they find, and charge $$ for it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you think of fruit as a "treat" and think carbs are something to be limited or make you gain weight, and you're not a diabetic, then you have an eating disorder.

If you equate limiting carbs to having an eating disorder, your relationship to food is probably disordered too.

Yep those darn sweet potatoes! Chickpeas! Fava beans! Oranges! Carrots! Barley! Lentils! Farro! I may even have ice cream a few times this week to help cool me down after dinner. Soooo disordered!

Maybe not disordered, but wow, you sure worked hard to know a lot! Yes, beans, legumes, and fancy grains have carbs! Oh you are so sophisticated! Brava! Surely people looking to limit carbs are referring to fava beans (haven't seen those fresh in two decades), barley, and farro, not fries, bread, beer, and eggo waffles.

I don't think you know what a carb is. Maybe you're talking about processed food? They are not similes.

Carbs are what encompass the diet of the healthiest populations on the planet, by and large. If you can afford it, go to Italy and off the beaten path. Fresh raw fava beans are delicious. Maybe even have it on some fresh bread with olive oil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you think of fruit as a "treat" and think carbs are something to be limited or make you gain weight, and you're not a diabetic, then you have an eating disorder.

If you equate limiting carbs to having an eating disorder, your relationship to food is probably disordered too.

Yep those darn sweet potatoes! Chickpeas! Fava beans! Oranges! Carrots! Barley! Lentils! Farro! I may even have ice cream a few times this week to help cool me down after dinner. Soooo disordered!

Maybe not disordered, but wow, you sure worked hard to know a lot! Yes, beans, legumes, and fancy grains have carbs! Oh you are so sophisticated! Brava! Surely people looking to limit carbs are referring to fava beans (haven't seen those fresh in two decades), barley, and farro, not fries, bread, beer, and eggo waffles.

I don't think you know what a carb is. Maybe you're talking about processed food? They are not similes.

Carbs are what encompass the diet of the healthiest populations on the planet, by and large. If you can afford it, go to Italy and off the beaten path. Fresh raw fava beans are delicious. Maybe even have it on some fresh bread with olive oil.

Oh wow, so you not only show off every carb you know, but you also assume I don't know what a carb is.
I ate fresh fava beans weekly at my grandma's house for years (I grew up 'off the beaten path' where you may have gone on a nicely Instagram'ed vacation) but I also know what carbs encompass in the standard American household. So if your neighbor or frenemy wants to avoid carbs, you're a secret pompous narrow-minded idiot to laugh at them on the inside because the healthiest populations on the planet eat carbs, instead of understanding that they are trying to avoid the carbs that are in the standard American diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you think of fruit as a "treat" and think carbs are something to be limited or make you gain weight, and you're not a diabetic, then you have an eating disorder.

If you equate limiting carbs to having an eating disorder, your relationship to food is probably disordered too.

Yep those darn sweet potatoes! Chickpeas! Fava beans! Oranges! Carrots! Barley! Lentils! Farro! I may even have ice cream a few times this week to help cool me down after dinner. Soooo disordered!

Maybe not disordered, but wow, you sure worked hard to know a lot! Yes, beans, legumes, and fancy grains have carbs! Oh you are so sophisticated! Brava! Surely people looking to limit carbs are referring to fava beans (haven't seen those fresh in two decades), barley, and farro, not fries, bread, beer, and eggo waffles.

I don't think you know what a carb is. Maybe you're talking about processed food? They are not similes.

Carbs are what encompass the diet of the healthiest populations on the planet, by and large. If you can afford it, go to Italy and off the beaten path. Fresh raw fava beans are delicious. Maybe even have it on some fresh bread with olive oil.

Oh wow, so you not only show off every carb you know, but you also assume I don't know what a carb is.
I ate fresh fava beans weekly at my grandma's house for years (I grew up 'off the beaten path' where you may have gone on a nicely Instagram'ed vacation) but I also know what carbs encompass in the standard American household. So if your neighbor or frenemy wants to avoid carbs, you're a secret pompous narrow-minded idiot to laugh at them on the inside because the healthiest populations on the planet eat carbs, instead of understanding that they are trying to avoid the carbs that are in the standard American diet.

Hon, if you're hell bent on deconstructing the standard American diet, perhaps you could use the right words and terms so you don't further confuse people.

A big reason why Americans have such a warped relationship with food, is because diet industries have hijacked words and terms to market them into a simultaneously neat yet disordered boxes to package and serve up to people. I know that, and I think you know that. Atkins, Keto, Paleo, all of these are messed up. Take truth back. Carbs are good for you. Processed shelf stable junk? Not so much. You're really irrationally irritated when we both seem to agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Getting fast food for dinner every once in awhile is NBD. My car broke down the other night and I walked over to In N' Out while I waited for help and it was delicious. A few months ago I mentioned McDonald's at work and my coworkers were horrified, apparently they thought I ate 'healthy'. Every few months I get that craving for a cheeseburger and salty, greasy fries and I get it, enjoy it, and don't want it again for another couple months.

Same here!!!

I think all seafood is gross and don't understand why people eat it.

I don't like a lot of Asian restaurant food because it tastes like grease to me. Same if someone tries to invite me something they have fried at home, I taste the oil and the smell alone makes me want to throw up.

[Anonymous]

Most American processed foods are poisonous and Big Food is more evil than Big Tobacco.

[Anonymous]

The only cheese that belongs on a burger is a slice of processed American cheese product

[Anonymous]

Spam is delicious. Give me a few well fried slices and some piping hot jasmine rice and I am very happy.

Mashed potatoes aren’t very good no matter how much butter you throw in them.

Filet o fish is the best thing at McDonald’s besides the pies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Otherwise plain scrambled eggs must be topped with ketchup.

You a correct.

[Anonymous]

Paneer is an abomination

- South Asian

[Anonymous]

The advice about eating I've ever heard is from Michael Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's one thing to not like a few things here and there.

But "picky eating" is caused by shitty parenting 99% of the time.

Then you got lucky. I worked in the (high end side of the) food industry. My kids were introduced to read food from the beginning. Spicy, garlicky, complex, new recipes, veggies I barely had heard of before. One kid ended up pretty average to slightly adventurous. The other eats nothing. Fruit, crackers, cheese, pasta. Won't touch any new table food at 8. Can hardly travel or go to someone's home for a meal without a problem.