Comments on: A hearty, spicy roll drizzled with sweet frosting

By: PinkWithIndignation

PinkWithIndignation — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:17:00 +0000

I know for a fact troll chow is made of the tears of the innocent preserved with citric acid, so this is a completely moot point, food troll.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:37:00 +0000

I am being supportive. My support is to say, “Stop being so self-loathing about your weight that you’re reduced to eating this crap.”

By: tashencreb

tashencreb — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:46:00 +0000

Maybe your absence of empathy for the people that need nutritional support is a smaller problem than your perceived know-it-all attitude. . . That is, unless we choose to open up this forum to cruel, baseless speculation. I don’t know you (and your burdens) / you do not know me. Neither one of us is likely equipped with the necessary magic powers to make blanket statements AND expect them to be the end-all, be-all.

By: Laura Harden

Laura Harden — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:26:00 +0000

cheese is a “processed food”. It is the mother of processed food. Curd is separated from whey and formed into a portable and sometimes preserved method of consuming milk. I love cheese.

By: Laura Harden

Laura Harden — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:23:00 +0000

Oh my god. That’s the revelation of my life, thank you genius commenter. This is in regards to cellulose in the context of food ingredients. Not the whole of biology.

By: Laura Harden

Laura Harden — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:19:00 +0000

Yeah, I will take the blame for that. I try to eat organic when I can. I am a major asshole.

By: Laura Harden

Laura Harden — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:14:00 +0000

I never said it was “dangerous” ! I said “I DON’T WANT TO EAT IT!”. You are having a lengthy argument with yourself.

By: Laura Harden

Laura Harden — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:12:00 +0000

I didn’t say that. I said I *don’t want to eat whats in it!* !!! Jesus. The rest of you can have at it. BTW, I don’t make a habit of eating baked goods. It doesn’t matter if they are organic. It’s not really good for anyone to eat on a regular basis.

By: Laura Harden

Laura Harden — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:10:00 +0000

Most of the Soy used in the USA is GMO. Non-gmo soy is expensive and moderately rare.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:43:00 +0000

Junk food is revolting. Claiming that it’s delicious sounds like a crackhead saying that he smokes because it’s fun, not because he’s addicted.

By: Stephen Schenck

Stephen Schenck — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:27:00 +0000

Antinous, I’m not sure where this ‘tude of yours is coming from, but it’s not helping you make your case any.

Some people enjoy certain foods more than others. You may group all “junk” food into the non-delicious category, but it’s a big world out there with lots of opinions. Realize that people differ.

And maybe I’m just totally misreading you, because you seem to be implying that you believe junk food to not be delicious, but methamphetamine ABSOLUTELY makes users peppy, so I’m a bit confused.

By: Shane Selman

Shane Selman — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:27:00 +0000

Not that I’m lining up for Nutri System, but I’m 6’2″, 250lbs, and I am *not* an athlete. If I lost 30-40 lbs, I would be much healthier and probably happier. We DO have a real weight problem in this country and the percent with a distorted body image is much much smaller than the percentage that really do need to shed some weight.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Maybe the absence of self respect inherent in being willing to ingest this morsel is a bigger problem than any perceived weight problem.

By: thunderhammer

thunderhammer — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Oh great, Captain Hindsight is here to save us!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:54:00 +0000

If more than half the audience understands the headline on first pass, you’ve failed. We have no business coddling the reader. This one’s a winner.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:49:00 +0000

The idea that junk food is delicious is sort of like the idea that meth makes you peppy.

By: Missy Pants

Missy Pants — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:35:00 +0000

Back in 2008 (when we were all still on LJ instead of FB) my friend did a month long Nutrisystem trial. And would occasionally post updates on LJ. This is by far the best one:

http://elixxir.livejournal.com/479306.html

Nothing says yummy like freeze dried burger pucks rehydrated with hot water! Yum!

(She did lose about 11lbs on the diet, but also notes it was not worth the price.)

By: Rezeya Montecore

Rezeya Montecore — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:34:00 +0000

It just strikes me as perhaps naive to argue something is dangerous because it has a scary-sounding name, scary-sounding source, or scary-sounding uses, when it’s demonstrably not that harmful in moderation. (e.g., The corn fiber bit is IMHO ridiculous, unless there’s some grotesque health hazard here I’m ignorant of. Are you one of those people who freaks out over carrageenan because it sounds funny too? Marketers love that attitude, it helps them immensely. :( )

The GMO stuff, I will at least admit the jury’s out, though I think statistically clear it’s not causing health problems for most already healthy people and… come on, I already *granted* you the trans fats (i.e. hydrogenated oils) are not so good. Those do distress me, because they’re unnecessary, the evidence *is* good they’re very harmful, and the labeling around them is full of loopholes.

But I’m sorry. I used to work with a vegan health fanatic who fretted at me just like this for years, and none of his assertions ever convinced me after I did the research. These issues are not the cut-and-dried things you say, and while I’ll hardly blame you for being cautious, treating this only modestly unwholesome pastry like utter non-food is kinda silly.

I’ll agree with you that it’s not good for you, but dammit, neither is the aforementioned $14 “wholesome” bun from some yuppie locavore health food store, and you presented no reason to think it’s that much better, which was my whole point. Food science is not in itself evil; substances with >10 letter names are not inherently harmful.

There’s just a whole lot of [citation needed] in your comment.

[Edit: For instance, everything I can find on titanium dioxide toxicity, from anything besides direct inhalation of particles, looks totally speculative. Care to back that one up?]

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:24:00 +0000

Mais les arbres ne peuvent pas parler français

By: Missy Pants

Missy Pants — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:19:00 +0000

They can join their cousins in Quebec! We welcome all fleeing Vermont Sugar Maples and offer all clemency and citizenship!

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:55:00 +0000

if u want to…

By: sweetmel007

sweetmel007 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:45:00 +0000

To everyone commenting about deception in advertising, please come out from under your rocks now and realize that NOTHING you see in advertising is real. NOT. ONE. THING (much like most of your facebook pages I’m sure).
Also, NutriSystem is a weight loss program and it’s there to help people, so lay off. If you’ve never struggled, than good for you. Not everyone has time to cook or prep food on their own. Not everyone can just exercise and watch what they eat and see results they want or need. Also, unless you are buying your food from a local farm, farmers market, bakery or local butcher, growing it yourself or slaughtering it yourself, you are most likely eating processed food.

By: GrumpySteen

GrumpySteen — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:37:00 +0000

That’s not a snack or dessert, that’s the entire meal and it’s only 1.8 ounces. Where in the world is less 1.8 ounces considered a reasonable size for a meal?

By: Ipo

Ipo — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:23:00 +0000

I don’t use sunscreen made with lead white.
Although it tastes better. Slightly sweet.

By: Dimmer

Dimmer — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:08:00 +0000

I see what Camus did there…

By: Dimmer

Dimmer — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:01:00 +0000

Well, maybe because we have a few folks left on the planet who are starving to death, and they could be fed but for our fads. And over-consumption of meat of course.

There’s nothing bad about hybrid foods: grow better; grow more abundantly; resist critters; last longer; rape less soil; require less infrastructure…

But as long as we can have our vanity foods then FTW eh?

By: mlw99

mlw99 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:25:00 +0000

I’m reminded of Carl Sagan’s quote about how to make homemade apple pie from scratch. First, you need to create the universe . . .

By: stephenl123

stephenl123 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:17:00 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about the titanium dioxide. But potassium sorbate, sulfite, phosphate and acetate are not good for you.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:01:00 +0000

“Serving suggestion, throw this roll out and eat something good.”

By: AnthonyI

AnthonyI — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:49:00 +0000

That’s not food.