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Are you going to get a new computer? Did it die of natural causes?

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, USians DO need to be mindful of what they eat, and the "Nutrional Indudstrial Complex" IS fucked up, and getting more fucked up every day. People get touchy about their eating habits, but that's no kind of good argument against books like FFN or the Omnivore's Dilemma. If you're eating fast food every day and buying Lunchables for the kids, that's a problem on a lot of levels. If someone reads a book like Fast Food Nation and thinks, "HOW PREACHY! I'm going to eat at Taco Bell every day forever and ever" instead of "That's fucked up. Maybe I should put more thought into what I'm eating," then I can't imagine any sort of method of information conveyance that wouldn't have the same "off putting" effect.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not feel that way about FFN at all - it was informative and I think I've recommended it to like 10 people who eat too much fast food. I have not read the Omnivore's Dilemma.

My computer died for unknown reasons. I don't know what we're going to do about it. The warranty expired SIX WEEKS AGO. Fuckers.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

notes on ketchup packets

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, I'm not going to scoff at someone for not drinking organic milk, especially if that person is socio-politically aware and not avoiding organic/healthy food out of some twisted sense of intentionally dense pride. I AM going to scoff at someone who buys Lunchables (the evil foodstuff I personally love to hate) because OMG have you ever read the ingredients on those things? They aren't food! And the packaging! MAMA MIA!

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I feel like I eat pretty f-ing healthily and for someone to tell me that I need to eat even MORE healthily makes me want to tell them to eat recycled cardboard.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Worst lunchable ever: "taco bell"

Contains tube of "meat"

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

If it's not obvious, none of this is directed at anyone here, especially Amanda, whose eating habits I seriously and honestly strive to emulate. So healthy! So interesting! So home cooked!

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Really, you thought it was scolding? I didn't get that impression at all.

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

recycled cardboard = not so healthy

― Laurel, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

lunchables? more like lunchdisables!

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

xpostoramalamadingdong!

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

more like lunchaDON'TS!

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(I know it's pretty much been said 900000x already but: no xpost notification ate my balls)

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought what was scolding?

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

nonono-- FFN is not scolding. I just meant that it did not have the effect on me of making me want to eat McShitcakes every day.

Jenny, if you were me today you would have eaten
oatmeal
figs
nuts
grilled cheese
pretzels
applesauce
licorice

for dinner i hope to eat a salad with giant scallops!

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Fast Food Nation

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm coming off as cranky, but that article made me cranky. Sorry you're so sensitive about what you eat, sister, but that's not my problem.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I LOVE GIANT SCALLOPS

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, that settles that! :) Also, once again, fuck no xposts... how confusing.

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I love everything that Amanda has eaten today with the possible exception of pretzels, which I don't hate but which I rarely get excited for. Unless you are talking about SUPER PRETZELS in which case: AWESOME.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i know. it blows.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

GODDAMN THE NO XPOSTS

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc I still have a copy of FFN if you want to borrow it.

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

If you were my friends you would go with me to Lawrence's sometime and eat (fried) giant scallops.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And his awesome follow up: Reefer Madness

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and a diet hansen's rootbeer because i could not stop eating licorice.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The fact that FFN is apparently not scolding means that its appearance in old girl's article makes even less sense.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i dunno about fried scallops-- are they rubbery? i usually only make my own because i am FUSSY about rubbery scallops.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Bye Chicago. I'm going home to eat the $12 worth of caprese salad I bought from Jewel to take to a meeting that turned out to be nonexistent.

Come to my conference tomorrow at UNITE Hall, 333 S. Ashland, at 10 AM to hear me give a fiery speech. Stay for free food.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to go to Lawrence's sometime. Actually, Kr and I did stop in when we went to Chinatown recently, but we weren't hungry, so we just kind of looked around and promised ourselves we'd return someday.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

They're not rubbery, they're BUTTERY.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I think scallops are a perfect transition food from vegetarianism to fish-eatingism. They don't have heads, taste like whatever you put on them and have an inoffensive texture if cooked properly.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmmm buttery.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr is buttery?

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I'm to drive slow and rock shows. Have good weekends.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Even though I've been typing it for nearly a year, it just occurred to me how funny "Kr" is.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

BYE GUYZ

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the periodic abbreviation for krypton(ite).

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, both of the Schlosser books are pretty fascinating in a non-obnoxious way.

― n/a, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My fave veggie burgers are the Morningstar Grillers PRIME. I don't think they contain any vegetable matter at all, just mysterious chemicals. They're probably relatively fatty because they are DELICIOUS.

― n/a, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I checked out this book from the library but I'm not sure I'm actually going to read it.

― n/a, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

(from the amazon description) But the meatless diet couldn't be completely violence-free, for it also appealed to Adolf Hitler. Stuart points out that not only was Hitler a vegetarian but so were Himmler, Hess, Bormann and possibly Goebbels. They even argued about the purity of each others' diets, with Hess declining to eat meals cooked by Hitler's chef because the vegetables were not truly organic.

hahaha sorry but that made me chortle

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I read the New Yorker review of it. Sounds interesting.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the BPAL perfume i'm wearing today might smell like AXE body spray. I can't tell if it smells good and freshly unisex or like men's deodorant.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing wrong with a woodsy spicy woman.

― Eazy, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Better than being musky, I suppose.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

This entire conversation has reminded me of the GBV song "Ambergris"

What's that you're wearing/smells so good
You don't wanna know
What's that you're eating/could be misleading
You don't wanna know

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

so if I go to Panang circa 7:45 tonight some of y'all are going to be there, right?

― horseshoe, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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