Ripped from the headlines:
Mediterranean diet tamps down overeating, study says
Small wonder. That’s because all that stuff tastes like shit without one of these consumed alongside:
Bloody stupid studies.
Tag: Gluttony
More Outrage
Of course, no festival could be safe from the Perpetually Indignant. From the so-called National Obesity Forum (U.K. branch), we are told the following:
Super-sized Eater eggs are a risk to health because of the extraordinary amount of sugar they contain, [these fucking busybodies] have warned.
Over-indulging youngsters could do ‘real’ damage, they say, if they consumer an entire egg in one day – all too likely at Easter.
Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Crunchie Ultimate Easter Egg contains a whopping 330g of sugar. This is the equivalent of 17 days’ worth of sugar, based on the NHS recommendation for children aged four to six to consume no more than 19g in a day.
It makes me want to go out and buy six dozen of these bad boys, and hand them out to random kids at our local playgrounds. I wonder if World Market has them in stock…
Unsurprising
Found via Insty, we see this little snippet:
Judged by a panel of 40 industry experts, Lidl’s [private label] Queen Margot, an eight-year blended Scotch whisky, took home a category win for “Scotch Blended 12 Years & Under.” The whisky beat out some serious competition from industry giants (and far pricier bottles) including Johnnie Walker Black Label. Queen Margot retails for £13.49, or approximately $17.98 USD, proving that good Scotch doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg.
Blended Scotch isn’t a “premium” product by any stretch of the imagination, so this shouldn’t come as any surprise. And “taste” is purely subjective, in any case. (I think the above-mentioned Johnnie Walker Black Label is overpriced for a liquor that tastes like cough medicine mixed with diluted engine oil, for instance, but many people love it.)
For the record, I have two favorite blended Scotches, when I feel like drinking more than one or two shots: J&B (with lots of ice and water) for a “light” drink, and Famous Grouse for a more substantial, undiluted one.
As Glenn dryly (and correctly) notes:
“The price/value correlation with booze isn’t super-tight.”
Nor with so many other “premium”-styled products, either, e.g. the $300,000+ Rolls Cullinan:
Oh STFU
I started reading this article because it looked amusing:
Real men don’t crave cheesecake.
In fact, a new study claims that sexy images of the female form leave men hankering for beef and pork.
Researchers behind “Is Meat Sexy?,” published in the journal Food Quality and Preference, tracked more than 1,600 men and women in the US, UK and Australia to explore advertising’s impact on red-meat consumption and how that relates to mating.
And so on.
But it wouldn’t be an academic study without one of the academics slipping in a little slice of bullshit from the Narrative:
“Sexualized images of women can make men eat meat more as a way to increase their masculinity and status, to show them off to the opposite sex,” he says. “[But] since the growing trend of meat consumption harms one’s health and is bad for the environment, sexy ads don’t just sell the latest cologne or clothing — they may have unforeseen consequences.”
And here we are, back to cow farts.
1) Meat consumption harms one’s health — that’s a fucking lie.
2) Meat farming is bad for the environment — that’s another fucking lie — no more than vegetable farming or any other kind of farming is bad for the environment.
I’m getting so sick of academia.
And just to cheer everyone up, here’s a sexualized image.
Now go and eat some meat.
Not Diligent
I see that I’ve forgotten to itemize my non-vegan intake over the past two weeks. I plead Old Fart Forgetfulness, so please forgive my sloppiness. Here, however, is sort of a representative summary of my meals thus far:
Oh wait, there was some pulled pork in there too:
I’ll try to do better next time, promise.
Fungus?
From Britishland, (a.k.a. Vegan Nation):
Fish and chips are set to go vegan as Quorn launches an alternative made with protein derived from fungus – to help create a similar flaky texture.
The meat-free brand is set to release breaded and battered fishless fillets in March, both of which took five years to produce.
It comes just two weeks after Greggs launched a vegan sausage roll, and days after Harvester announced a new plant-based menu.
Thanks but no thanks… I’ll be sticking with cod.
And don’t get me started about vegan sausage rolls.