The nutritionalists want to make everybody eat puny portions at high cost to make the superamrkets more profit. I have no problem with small healthy sized portions but what i do have a problem with is supermarkets selling puny portions at ripp off prices so people are forced to buy more
You cannot tell people what to eat, because everyone has a different constitution, genetic, and ethnic background. In Julia Child's day, the food was not full of GMO, pesticides, and additives, because she did not eat processed food, she made everything from scratch. That is key. Portion size DOES matter. The French diet is high in fat, But they are very skinny by our standards.Their portions are tiny, and they drink lots of wine, walk lots,and have plenty of sex.
She's absolutely right. We loved their french fries before the change over. We never eat them now , they suck. I'm going to sound like an old fart, but damn it, these kids these days have no idea what they are missing! The fries you get today are horrible compared to what they used to taste like.
Julia was blessed with great constitution. She ate loads of butter and full fat foods yet she lived to be 90+. Some people are just genetically lucky that way. My grandma smoked since she was 19 and she is still alive at 93. Still smokes, too. We stopped telling her that the cigarettes would kill her when she turned 80. Actually I think they're keeping her alive somehow...
@Galactic123 Um actually she probably lived to 90+ BECAUSE she ate these natural, full fat foods. It's the biggest load of nonsense that butter and other natural full fat foods cause heart disease and cancers in humans. Just complete nonsense. It's the highly processed vegetable oils that are to be avoided.
@Galactic123 This is what is called a logical fallacy. Just because "someone I know" is/is not affected does not mean the entire body of research surrounding its carcinogenic qualities is defenestrated. Anyone who believes that smoking does not cause cancer (even though it does not to everyone) is truly ignorant.
@novaguy1968 and THIS is what is called a strawman. You're arguing against a point I never made. I didn't say smoking doesn't cause cancer. I said smoking DIDN'T cause cancer to my grandmother. 1 specific case, an exception to the rule. No one said anything about debunking the carcinogenic properties of smoking.
its all things in moderation. even mcdoanlds. i dont care for mcdonalds but its food that can taste good when youre in the right mood. nothing wrong with it intrinsically. its just food.
You are totally right, innuendoXP. Plus if the fat is super hot when you cook the food, it doesn't enter into the food, the heat itself cooks the food and the fat crisps the outside. I think this idea that fat in the diet goes into the arteries, etc., is a simplistic idea for people who want to cut down on their intellectual activity.
agreed, fat stops entering the food when hot because the water content of the food boils and expansive pressure keeps the oil out as water-vapour escapes. Also agreed on people preferring simplicity (Apple iProduct) evidence seen everywhere of people starving themselves, living on salad, then not thinking twice about chugging down that bottle of coke.
I hate how people complained about howmuch butter is incorporated into her cookbook recipes. Honestly, if they were to educate themselves a bit, it's not bad. Secondly the French eat far less and are more active. You need a balance, no one can just sit there on a couch and expect that the food they eat will make them super healthy.
Very refreshing to hear especially considering all those liberals out there who blame McDonalds instead of the fat asses who don't understand the principle of moderation! Typical liberal thinking though, let the government control what you eat!
@MannybeingManny2434 Ahahahahha you're an idiot, liberals blame the fatasses more than conservatives, conservatives like to believe their people are good so they continue to keep on buying their corporate mcdonalds bs
@DimLantern Yeah liberals blame the fat asses and that is why they want to control how much Trans Fat McDonalds can cook with. If liberals truly blamed the fat asses instead of McDonalds then there would be no need for them to mandate the amount of fat in McDonalds food! And Im the idiot? Nice try tough guy!
Julia Child lived past ninety. The moral of the story is that a joyful life is the greatest health tonic known to man (see also Groucho Marx living to 87, George Burns living to 99, and any other senior citizen who says "to hell with it being bad for you, life's too short to worry". Ironically, their lives aren't short at all.)
@SimuLord I would tend to agree. However, we cannot know for sure. Genetics play a large role in everything and a huge part of how long you live depends on your genetic pre-disposition to disease.
I think part of the problem with the whole "because of mcdonalds (and other fast food) our nation is going obese" is the PEOPLE as well. I really think when it comes to simple pleasures like food, it really is up to us to be responsible on proportion-in take. And I mean not going to McDonalds after every soccer practice/tournament, etc...
Now in our generation, we will never taste how good McDonalds french fries really are. :(
I think the problem is honestly, since the tv generation or the advent of computers becoming such a part of modern life nothing before has compelled us to spend so much time seated and stationary in mankinds entire history. Couple that with time constraints and 'convenience' products - generations of people who don't know how to cook properly or the first thing about nutrition, a wealth of weight-loss myths and you've got yourself an obesity epidemic :(
Also that apart from cheap aesthetics, the true value of being at peak physical form and how it enhances quality of life has been criminally understated in education and modern western culture. We spend so much time in our heads that we never really learn how to REALLY use our bodies or how intricately connected our state of mind and state of physical health are.
Vanity, while it's enough for some, in general, is a weak motivation at best for somebody to strive for physical fitness
@pepperannziggi That's the part of it that isn't so easy: moderation. The food IS addictive. People are addicted to this kind of food, so they consume until they get fat.
Most of the unhealthy food is basically the only option. You go to supermarkets and there's unhealthy food. It'll cost a fortune until people are able to find the healthy kind of food. That speaks for America.
All the unhealthy companies COMPETE because its addictive. Just like lays says: betcha can't eat just one
" I feel sorry for all these people on these fad diets and silly things. They don't get any enjoyment out of thier food" Julia Child
I agree with her. You can have a happy life and enjoy yourself, just have some wisdom and know what's good and bad. I know if I eat a deep fried oreo, I'll feel like absolute shit. So I don't do it.
Julia seems very insightful and knowledgable about food...She's been very successful and I take her word about Mickey D's french fries! As long as you only eat them in moderation and lead a healthy and active lifestyle, they are a treat to enjoy! (:
@pepperannziggi I really wanted to thank you for this comment. I developed cancer last year and went into treatment and my weight went completely bonkers because my body was trying to adjust to the chemotherapy. People kept giving me a hard time about it and even after I explained the medication and how my body was reacting to it they continued to offer advice on how to lose weight. It was SO frustrating because they didn't just stop and listen, all they could see was the weight change.
It's a misconception that eating fat goes straight to fat in your bodies. Sugar and processed carbs are far worse offenders where that's concerned. Plus it isn't so much about how much you eat, it's WHAT you fill your body with every day. It's like a car... if you fill it up with el-cheapo fuel, you're gonna run a brand new engine into the ground sooner and get worse mileage... but you only get one body in this life.
@InnuendoXP You know gas of equal grades have the same base ingredient, only difference between company's gases are that the additives. Which is easy to counter with a routine maintenance with things like fuel injector cleaner, carb cleaner, etc. But yeah the soda they sell is worse then beef fat french fries. Just the soda company has ALOT of money to pay off people to look the other way.
@InnuendoXP still gives you high cholesterol, clogged arteries and heart disease. And considering that those run in my family. I'll stay away from them.
You know the 'small' meal at McDonalds, that size meal is basically the limit of what is healthy to consume even once in a while. Once in a while being one such meal a fortnight or something.
@InnuendoXP even yeah but for the huge majority of people they aren't eating healthy the rest of the two weeks either. They have cholesterol, and sugar, and saturated fats through out their diet. Sure if you eat pristine for every other meal but other wise even ever two weeks is bad.
the rise in obesity coincides with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup! I'm sure many folks have commented before, that at is an important part of your diet.
many people may not be getting enough fat in there diet. there is no reccomended daily allowance for food. the only limit is there are no limits. I have never actually heard any so called health experts to reccomend people to eat more. they only seem to encourage people to eat less. you should aim to eat more than eat less as the more you excercise the more you need to eat. also the most important thing is dont listen to what you see on the tv and news. that will suck ur life away
The Big Mac may be the perfect sandwhich IMO. If people gorge themselves on MD's then the results will be obvious. Once every 2 or 3 months I have a full on meal, and I'm a body builder.....
That's what the fuck I'm talking about. This woman, this ledgend of the culinary world LIKED MICKEY DEE'S. All these food snobs out there who think they're doing something by saying they NEVER go to chain restaurants as if they're beneath them, here is a good reason to cut the shit, put the front down and stop posing.
@RightWingCon81 It's true, their fries were much tastier back when the fryer oil was partially beef fat. CSPI and other nutritional do-gooders try to ruin everything. If everyone enjoyed good food in moderation and took a little exercise we could put the food police out of business. I am by no means calling all of McDonald's food good... but you get the idea. Paul and Julia's generation understood this. I think we've lost some of the common sense that our parents and grandparents had.
@bagelboi66 Past generations also worked a million hours a week, & didn't have time to sit and stuff their faces, nor the money. I can sit and watch YT all day and eat like a fatass. I have that luxury, they didn't, and hence they weren't collectivly as fat as we are today. And God forbid you tell a person they're fat due to their own choices, NO, if I'm fat, MD's is to blame, it's the sum total of our problems, no responsibility, I'm fat, close down MD's if I have financial issues, Obama, HELP!
@RightWingCon81 yea thats what u talking about and after cutting shit please dont pass any to me and the left overs are best with real cream and butter yummy in your tummy fuck face
@Simon4642 I wish I knew what you were talking about so I could respond properly. Cutting shit? Cream and butter? Did you forget your meds? What are you mad about exactly?
If you don't want to put anything you don't desire into your body, don't go out and eat. Cook yourself... ppl... Don't blame restaurants... i am not talking about Julia Child, but people commenting here... Craziness...
*sigh* Please read the title of the clip: "1995 Clip: ..." I REPEAT: I became a vegetarian in 1988; the incident I referred to occurred shortly thereafter, while my vegetarianism was still novel. I am referring to BOTH the lie about the frying medium (late '80s--the "vegan claim" IN PRINT but in actuality frying in tallow until '90--prior to 1995) AND the flavoring deception (early '00s--LONG AFTER 1995). KINDLY extend me the courtesy of not telling me what I'm talking about--I think I know.
Everyone should watch "Food, Inc.". Everythings ruined in fast food b/c its all huge corporate farms that use all kinds of weird additives and too much corn in everysingle thing we eat.
Its the french paradox at work. France has far less cardiac problems when compared to the US, yet they eat fats & cheeses in most of their meals everyday. The solution? Drink a moderate amount of wine almost everyday and adopt a French diet :D
@plasma4ce It's not so easy to just "adopt a French diet" here. You think you can go to the store and just buy meat/eggs/dairy/cheeses from animals, and that they're no different from what's in France? The animals are fed *completely* differently here due to government subsidies for grains like corn, wheat, and soy. Rather than letting them graze in open fields like they evolved to do, we constrict their diet, skewing the composition of nutrients and fatty acids. CHD and obesity are inevitable.
@anti0918 hey man, i see what your getting at but obesity isn't inevitable. There are ways to avoid consuming things that are unhealthy and so forth, it just takes focus. A lot of people are too busy, poor or lazy to sit down and pay attention to what they're eating. So people can still make due with moderation and ceasing the urge to snack often. I knw US food is super processed but if you avoid hydrogenated ingredients and stick to pure saturated fats you're good, which is doable.
Everyone, including Julia Child, seems to be missing the point. The problem wasn't McDonald's frying medium of choice, it was that they LIED about it. They actually claimed--in print, no less--that the fries were vegan. NOT "vegetarian," mind you--"vegan" (just like the salads). They were successfully sued for deception, not bad nutrition. They'd have saved themselves a world of trouble had they just been truthful.
@feartheneon This interview took place in 1995; in 1988 or '89 (I became a vegetarian at the end of 1987), some McDonald's stores used to have small, colorful flyers that contained what we'd now call FAQ and their answers. I took home one to show my fiancé that claimed the fries and salads were "VEGAN." They got spanked and switched over in 1990, five years prior to this interview; I'm pretty sure that it was after the interview that they were again spanked for not disclosing beef flavoring.
@HotVoodooWitch this interview was way before that what you are referring to was 1998 or 99. the event she is talking about happened in the 80s i believe when some of the first major healthy eating fads started to sweep the nation and mcdonnald's swapped from animal based shortenings to vegetable shortenings as the primary frying medium. what you are talking about is the beef flavoring that was added to the fries at the factory before they were shipped to the restaurant.
@weightfeather1 I think preparing your own food from scratch and taking time to eat makes your life healthier. You burn more calories shopping and cooking rather than just go to a shop and buy a dish. All the activities also makes life mentally healthier.
@weightfeather1 I think preparing your own food from scratch and taking time to eat makes your life healthier. You burn more calories shopping and cooking rather than just go to a shop and buy a dish. All the activities also makes life matally healthier.
Part of living in a free society involves the freedom to make bad choices. Making food like McDonald's the staple of your diet is bad for your health in the long run. But that is a choice everyone should be free to make. And any sentient human being with an IQ above 50 knows that eating fast food is not good for you - but that's a choice people should be free to make. The current crusade against McDonald's is just nanny-state busybody food fascists trying to run other people's lives.
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What happens to food when the "Cookie Cutter model" changes to make food which will hurt you? There is a 97% + correlation between the number of McDonald's restaurants and the incidence of diabetes in the world. Yes, 97%.
Profits rule, and "man has dominated man to his own injury." We were better off with a fragmented world. I suppose the organization of man to make the Tower of Babylon just shows how screwed up organization can be. It institutionalizes stupidity.
McDonalds may change, but money rules the change. The USA was supposed to be a democratic republic, and Lincoln mentioned government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Though he had been a lawyer for the Burlington R.R.
The Bible advocates God's Kingdom, which the Bible says that everything was created by, for, and through Jesus via Holy Spirit. This would imply theocracy and is anti-McDonalds (who gives you what you want, and Supersize it).
The hydronated veg oil is what she's talkin about.....everyone switched to that because the "experts" claimed that oil from animal sources was terrible for your health....Turns out that the process of hydonating the veg oil created loads of transfat, which is ten times worse than oils from animal fat.
And NO it's not cheaper that way and NO McDonalds didn't just change on their own....experts and liberals forced it on us all.
McDonalds doesn't make you fat. A sedentary lifestyle and eating nothing BUT McDonalds makes you fat. I miss the old McDonalds fries and I miss the Chicken Nuggets when they weren't all white meat.
All fast food use to be good in the 1960s and 1970s before they all changed to mass marketing processed crap...Taco Bell was so different back in 1970s it was ACTUALLY really good...now I can't even eat it...it is horrible faux Taco bell
@uberathlete There are some places near my house, specifically poutine places in Quebec, that still cook their fires in beef tallow, and trust me, they are incredible! Much more flavorful, and as Julia said, they tend to be crisper, plus, and I'm not sure about this, but I don't think beef tallow has any trans-fats. (yep, google just confirmed)
The bigger whoopdedo about the fries came from Hindus that thought that the fries were vegetarian. The lack of labeling was a problem. I like the In-n-out fries, I only order them well done and they are nice and crispy.
@MilesB1975: they're still quite real potatoes, and for fast food they're still not bad. But Child is right; they used to fry in a mix of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil, and switched, with great fanfare, to pure vegetable oil in 1990. However, they also quietly changed the fries to add beef extract as a "natural flavor" in the production process, which led to several lawsuits. Those were settled, but I believe to this day McD's fries still have a tiny touch of cow in 'em.
I doubt it has much to do with the oil they use, more to do with the fact that thay are no longer made from real potatoes. I think they use cornflour to save a buck.
I don't think any one place is responsible for bad health. I think it's a combination of habit, laziness and choice. I don't eat preservatives and I make sure I LOVE what I eat. That works for me because it means I don't each much junk. LOL.
Americans substitute fat, carb and all that natural stuff with strong chemicals!! no wonder they have an obesity problem!! People don't be afraid of fat or carb YOUR BODY NEEDS IT!! the trick is eating the appropriate portion!!
And yet the Galloping Gourmet nearly killed his wife with all the rich and fatty foods that he used to prepare on his show. Diet isn't the only thing that affects longevity.
The Woman who taught America to cook and like it. If she says there is something wrong with the way someone cooks, u can believe it's the truth. Julia Child was our grandest of chefs. I miss her.
I completely agree with Kimmijo. Watch anthony bourdains no reservations. Everywhere in the world he goes he runs into fatty foods. Why are most of those people still living full and happy lives?
Because what they eat comes from a field, not a laboratory.
@TheNexus lol. right. its not the fact that we sit on our asses all day and gorge ourselves every meal that makes us fat. a good majority of the food you purchase and eat is "laboratory" food. its tragic, but its the way of the modernized, westernized, and americanized world. its not that lab food is bad for us, its just more cost-efficient. it may be unnatural, but its not necessarily unhealthy. whats making us the way we are is the rest of the lifestyle: driving to work, sitting for 8 hours.
@TheNexus wrong. the rest of world exercise more and eat less. be it from walking more to simply eating less, the rest of the world does it better. I remember growing up hearing from Americans, talking about how good for you Chinese food was - look at the chinese, they're all small and skinny. Except chinese food stir fries everything and all drizzled with heavy sauces. The Chinese simply eat less and more more than Americans.
@TheNexus No its because unlike Americans they have to work their asses off every day. i guarantee if they had the same diet and dropped to American levels of inactivity they would balloon up and have horrible diabetes. Case in point Latinos in their home countries are fairly healthy weight, Latinos coming to America eating the same foods in same quantities have some of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world.
Julia will live in the hearts of many as one of the premier Class Acts of the 20th Century. I think a show with Julia Childs and Gordon Ramsey together would have been the most histerical and informative television ever conceived.
When I clicked on this link, I was definitly expecting her to say how terrible they were, and how McDonald's was sacreligious to the world of cooking. Lol. You gotta love Julia.
i think its funny how she started the whole televiision chef epidemic but her techniques and manners are completely unconventional to todays standards
@LauraBeachnut sorry to disagree but she was wayyyyyyyyyyyy beyond gordon ramsey in truth she was in a completely different league of her own haha i love her shes soo adorable
People need to realise that food is not cigarettes. Some people are super fit but still enjoy a good trip to Maccas. So by changing the tastes (limiting them) in order to fight for more health in them, I don't think it's a just cause. And frankly, as a skinny person who LOVES going to McDonald's, it's actually really annoying. So I agree with Child on this one. They need to stop making food crap because it's obviously not making people any thinner.
I don't think McDonald's is the problem necessarily, it's the person who has never eaten a wholesome home-cooked meal in his/her lifetime who relies on corporations to nurture them that is the problem.
yes.. the best food is just care free cut up meat and veggies put into a pan and oven baked untill half stuck to the sides of the pan. with whatever herbs and spices.. but who eats like that anymore.. who eats stuff that's not pleasing to the eye.., i enjoy my midevil times way of eating more than corperations food, but it was my greatgrandma that showed me that way of eating. she called it a newfie jig dinner and it was glorious
@atariboy84 Neh McDonald's is pretty greedy. The way they set up restaurants everywhere is simply ravenous. They really don't care about anyone. But I agree people think eating fast food is cheaper when it really isn't. Save up that money and put together a larger home cooked meal that you can eat for 2 or 3 days. Plus you won't have to pay the doctor when you have a heart attack.
@CallmeOblivion but look at japan and s. korea. they have McDonalds and lots of junk food chains. they work about as hard as americans, have similar living standards, but have higher life expectency. people over there are much thinner, get sick less often, and they have loads cheap restaurants where you can get good, healthy, not-so junkie food. i think most americans just really like the taste of junkie food, not just because they are cheap (inured to them, lack of alternatives, etc).
@bluemonolith88 That's a misconception. Obesity is rising exponentially although Americans are since to be bigger, it's because the fast foods started here. Plus there are other factors as to why they maybe thinner. Genetics is can be one reason. And Japan has a far better health care system in general to keep their population healthier.
@CallmeOblivion what we do know for facts are that on average, americans are fatter and get sick more often than the people in other industrialized nations which includes nations like iceland or spain. so we can't just blame it on genetics. and we do know that obesity in america has something to do with the popularity, availability of fast food and relative lack of choice in healthier but just as cheap alternatives.
@bluemonolith88 It was two sentences then? But do you understand what I'm trying to say? We just stereotype everything without realizing the truth. The American diet is becoming universal. People just don't realize it.
@CallmeOblivion i said this sentence doesn't make sense: Obesity is rising exponentially although Americans are since to be bigger, it's because the fast foods started here. can you to clarify it?
@bluemonolith88 The number of obese and overweight people are increasing. People stereotype Americans as being fat or unhealthy, right? That is because those companies began here. So it had more time to get more people fat.
@CallmeOblivion many americans are fat and unhealthy, in far higher percentages than the people in any other industrialized nations. that's not exactly a stereotype. and we really don't know if fast food companies made americans fat, or fat americans who like fast food made so many fast food companies successful in america. it's probably a bit of both. there are too many factors to consider.
The nutritionalists want to make everybody eat puny portions at high cost to make the superamrkets more profit. I have no problem with small healthy sized portions but what i do have a problem with is supermarkets selling puny portions at ripp off prices so people are forced to buy more
210482fmj 3 days ago
wendy's have decent fries
dannyboy12357 6 days ago
I HATE McDonalds, to me everything tastes like crap.
amyyyamy 1 week ago
You cannot tell people what to eat, because everyone has a different constitution, genetic, and ethnic background. In Julia Child's day, the food was not full of GMO, pesticides, and additives, because she did not eat processed food, she made everything from scratch. That is key. Portion size DOES matter. The French diet is high in fat, But they are very skinny by our standards.Their portions are tiny, and they drink lots of wine, walk lots,and have plenty of sex.
loladelrio 3 weeks ago
She's absolutely right. We loved their french fries before the change over. We never eat them now , they suck. I'm going to sound like an old fart, but damn it, these kids these days have no idea what they are missing! The fries you get today are horrible compared to what they used to taste like.
Rick93705 3 weeks ago
in-and-out is better
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Julia was blessed with great constitution. She ate loads of butter and full fat foods yet she lived to be 90+. Some people are just genetically lucky that way. My grandma smoked since she was 19 and she is still alive at 93. Still smokes, too. We stopped telling her that the cigarettes would kill her when she turned 80. Actually I think they're keeping her alive somehow...
Galactic123 1 month ago
@Galactic123 Um actually she probably lived to 90+ BECAUSE she ate these natural, full fat foods. It's the biggest load of nonsense that butter and other natural full fat foods cause heart disease and cancers in humans. Just complete nonsense. It's the highly processed vegetable oils that are to be avoided.
AuntieTruth 1 month ago
@Galactic123 This is what is called a logical fallacy. Just because "someone I know" is/is not affected does not mean the entire body of research surrounding its carcinogenic qualities is defenestrated. Anyone who believes that smoking does not cause cancer (even though it does not to everyone) is truly ignorant.
novaguy1968 3 weeks ago
@novaguy1968 and THIS is what is called a strawman. You're arguing against a point I never made. I didn't say smoking doesn't cause cancer. I said smoking DIDN'T cause cancer to my grandmother. 1 specific case, an exception to the rule. No one said anything about debunking the carcinogenic properties of smoking.
Galactic123 3 weeks ago
@Galactic123 You're funny.
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novaguy1968 3 weeks ago
Damn nazitritionists taking away flavor.
clevelandphil 1 month ago
Sorry, Mc D is bad for anyone's health. I don't eat there even if Julia Child likes them. Good for her.
tasophy 1 month ago
its all things in moderation. even mcdoanlds. i dont care for mcdonalds but its food that can taste good when youre in the right mood. nothing wrong with it intrinsically. its just food.
evfich 1 month ago
Just gotta say, with all of the butter and food she and her husband ate they lived to 91 and 92.... Something too it I think lol
kamakaze112 1 month ago 2
Lard. yummmmmmm
MistahWagwan 2 months ago
she looks so like my great grandma.
NataliaWeronikaD 2 months ago
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TheInstanttv 2 months ago
Hell yeah, we need to go back to frying in lard!
wholtone 3 months ago
You are totally right, innuendoXP. Plus if the fat is super hot when you cook the food, it doesn't enter into the food, the heat itself cooks the food and the fat crisps the outside. I think this idea that fat in the diet goes into the arteries, etc., is a simplistic idea for people who want to cut down on their intellectual activity.
lhbrownstein 3 months ago
@lhbrownstein
agreed, fat stops entering the food when hot because the water content of the food boils and expansive pressure keeps the oil out as water-vapour escapes. Also agreed on people preferring simplicity (Apple iProduct) evidence seen everywhere of people starving themselves, living on salad, then not thinking twice about chugging down that bottle of coke.
InnuendoXP 3 months ago
I hate how people complained about howmuch butter is incorporated into her cookbook recipes. Honestly, if they were to educate themselves a bit, it's not bad. Secondly the French eat far less and are more active. You need a balance, no one can just sit there on a couch and expect that the food they eat will make them super healthy.
mikeandamina 3 months ago
Very refreshing to hear especially considering all those liberals out there who blame McDonalds instead of the fat asses who don't understand the principle of moderation! Typical liberal thinking though, let the government control what you eat!
MannybeingManny2434 4 months ago
@MannybeingManny2434 Ahahahahha you're an idiot, liberals blame the fatasses more than conservatives, conservatives like to believe their people are good so they continue to keep on buying their corporate mcdonalds bs
DimLantern 3 months ago
@DimLantern Yeah liberals blame the fat asses and that is why they want to control how much Trans Fat McDonalds can cook with. If liberals truly blamed the fat asses instead of McDonalds then there would be no need for them to mandate the amount of fat in McDonalds food! And Im the idiot? Nice try tough guy!
MannybeingManny2434 3 months ago
that girl knows food
BOWZERHEAD 4 months ago
It also has to do with exercise, you can eat extremely healthy and still be fat. Sitting around all the time can make you fat as it is.
Sabored 4 months ago
Julia Child lived past ninety. The moral of the story is that a joyful life is the greatest health tonic known to man (see also Groucho Marx living to 87, George Burns living to 99, and any other senior citizen who says "to hell with it being bad for you, life's too short to worry". Ironically, their lives aren't short at all.)
SimuLord 5 months ago 2
@SimuLord I would tend to agree. However, we cannot know for sure. Genetics play a large role in everything and a huge part of how long you live depends on your genetic pre-disposition to disease.
Eatmybologna 3 months ago
I think part of the problem with the whole "because of mcdonalds (and other fast food) our nation is going obese" is the PEOPLE as well. I really think when it comes to simple pleasures like food, it really is up to us to be responsible on proportion-in take. And I mean not going to McDonalds after every soccer practice/tournament, etc...
Now in our generation, we will never taste how good McDonalds french fries really are. :(
frdrcksncn 5 months ago
@frdrcksncn
I think the problem is honestly, since the tv generation or the advent of computers becoming such a part of modern life nothing before has compelled us to spend so much time seated and stationary in mankinds entire history. Couple that with time constraints and 'convenience' products - generations of people who don't know how to cook properly or the first thing about nutrition, a wealth of weight-loss myths and you've got yourself an obesity epidemic :(
InnuendoXP 3 months ago
@frdrcksncn
Also that apart from cheap aesthetics, the true value of being at peak physical form and how it enhances quality of life has been criminally understated in education and modern western culture. We spend so much time in our heads that we never really learn how to REALLY use our bodies or how intricately connected our state of mind and state of physical health are.
Vanity, while it's enough for some, in general, is a weak motivation at best for somebody to strive for physical fitness
InnuendoXP 3 months ago
Shes an inspiration she beat all the elite chefs on food network
roark100 5 months ago
Does Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil make my dick go limp, too? Damn.
akaleiki 5 months ago
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veggietree 5 months ago
@pepperannziggi That's the part of it that isn't so easy: moderation. The food IS addictive. People are addicted to this kind of food, so they consume until they get fat.
Most of the unhealthy food is basically the only option. You go to supermarkets and there's unhealthy food. It'll cost a fortune until people are able to find the healthy kind of food. That speaks for America.
All the unhealthy companies COMPETE because its addictive. Just like lays says: betcha can't eat just one
DistortedFaiths 5 months ago
I;m sure McD's will change their oil for Julia, she is their best customer, you know.
handiest1 5 months ago
" I feel sorry for all these people on these fad diets and silly things. They don't get any enjoyment out of thier food" Julia Child
I agree with her. You can have a happy life and enjoy yourself, just have some wisdom and know what's good and bad. I know if I eat a deep fried oreo, I'll feel like absolute shit. So I don't do it.
ccipollini1984 5 months ago
YAY! Lard! X3
Moonlightrealgirl 6 months ago
Julia seems very insightful and knowledgable about food...She's been very successful and I take her word about Mickey D's french fries! As long as you only eat them in moderation and lead a healthy and active lifestyle, they are a treat to enjoy! (:
LiveLaughCourtney 6 months ago
I remember the good fries.
4200bam 6 months ago
@pepperannziggi Just like crystal meth. Moderation is the key.
shaheed79 6 months ago
@shaheed79 you can smoke crystal meth in moderation with no probs at all !
dusted04 6 months ago
wow she does look like Meryl Streep!!
itubedesiree 7 months ago
@pepperannziggi youtube George Carlin on Stupid People.
bluegreedo 7 months ago
@pepperannziggi I really wanted to thank you for this comment. I developed cancer last year and went into treatment and my weight went completely bonkers because my body was trying to adjust to the chemotherapy. People kept giving me a hard time about it and even after I explained the medication and how my body was reacting to it they continued to offer advice on how to lose weight. It was SO frustrating because they didn't just stop and listen, all they could see was the weight change.
hotwaiter 7 months ago
McDonald's is GARBAGE! All Fast Food is bad for you.
Lainer1 7 months ago
WARNING; McDonalds french fries contains beef "flavoring." They are NOT for vegetarians or vegans. WARNING; Mad Cow Disease is in the U.S.
Chadolution 8 months ago
It's a misconception that eating fat goes straight to fat in your bodies. Sugar and processed carbs are far worse offenders where that's concerned. Plus it isn't so much about how much you eat, it's WHAT you fill your body with every day. It's like a car... if you fill it up with el-cheapo fuel, you're gonna run a brand new engine into the ground sooner and get worse mileage... but you only get one body in this life.
InnuendoXP 8 months ago 24
@InnuendoXP You know gas of equal grades have the same base ingredient, only difference between company's gases are that the additives. Which is easy to counter with a routine maintenance with things like fuel injector cleaner, carb cleaner, etc. But yeah the soda they sell is worse then beef fat french fries. Just the soda company has ALOT of money to pay off people to look the other way.
monkeyman123321 4 months ago
@InnuendoXP Spanglish fuel? What is "el-cheapo" fuel?
Mr13born79 3 months ago
@Mr13born79
The more 'premium' a fuel is, the less additives are in it. Also (should be) cleaner gasoline to begin with, but that's another topic.
el'cheapo fuel = less than premium = 'economical' fuel
It was just an analogy though
InnuendoXP 3 months ago
@InnuendoXP still gives you high cholesterol, clogged arteries and heart disease. And considering that those run in my family. I'll stay away from them.
blakmagik4 3 months ago
@blakmagik4
That's what moderation is for.
You know the 'small' meal at McDonalds, that size meal is basically the limit of what is healthy to consume even once in a while. Once in a while being one such meal a fortnight or something.
InnuendoXP 3 months ago
@InnuendoXP even yeah but for the huge majority of people they aren't eating healthy the rest of the two weeks either. They have cholesterol, and sugar, and saturated fats through out their diet. Sure if you eat pristine for every other meal but other wise even ever two weeks is bad.
blakmagik4 2 months ago
@blakmagik4
Lol, it doesn't take a salad every meal, just stuff like having a sandwich for lunch instead of fast food., making dinner a light meal.
There's nothing wrong with cholestrol, sugar and saturated fats in your diet in limited quantities, you do need SOME cholestrol and sugar
InnuendoXP 2 months ago
I met her and she was very amusing
chefgiovanni 8 months ago 2
the rise in obesity coincides with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup! I'm sure many folks have commented before, that at is an important part of your diet.
GrandFunker 8 months ago
@GrandFunker The rise in obesity coincides with people sitting on their ass all day.
AWickedMind 7 months ago 2
@AWickedMind While that certainly helps, it does not change the truth of my statement.
GrandFunker 7 months ago
many people may not be getting enough fat in there diet. there is no reccomended daily allowance for food. the only limit is there are no limits. I have never actually heard any so called health experts to reccomend people to eat more. they only seem to encourage people to eat less. you should aim to eat more than eat less as the more you excercise the more you need to eat. also the most important thing is dont listen to what you see on the tv and news. that will suck ur life away
210482fmj 8 months ago
I'm coming to You Tube soon! Request recipes and Sub now!
CookingWithKelly 9 months ago
fuck niggers
911gestapo 9 months ago
@911gestapo yes and fuck me right up my ass please
Simon4642 9 months ago
The Big Mac may be the perfect sandwhich IMO. If people gorge themselves on MD's then the results will be obvious. Once every 2 or 3 months I have a full on meal, and I'm a body builder.....
CustomJ 10 months ago 3
seriously. the food snobs are insane.
alexanderleatherman 10 months ago 2
That's what the fuck I'm talking about. This woman, this ledgend of the culinary world LIKED MICKEY DEE'S. All these food snobs out there who think they're doing something by saying they NEVER go to chain restaurants as if they're beneath them, here is a good reason to cut the shit, put the front down and stop posing.
RightWingCon81 10 months ago 3
@RightWingCon81 It's true, their fries were much tastier back when the fryer oil was partially beef fat. CSPI and other nutritional do-gooders try to ruin everything. If everyone enjoyed good food in moderation and took a little exercise we could put the food police out of business. I am by no means calling all of McDonald's food good... but you get the idea. Paul and Julia's generation understood this. I think we've lost some of the common sense that our parents and grandparents had.
bagelboi66 10 months ago 20
@bagelboi66 Past generations also worked a million hours a week, & didn't have time to sit and stuff their faces, nor the money. I can sit and watch YT all day and eat like a fatass. I have that luxury, they didn't, and hence they weren't collectivly as fat as we are today. And God forbid you tell a person they're fat due to their own choices, NO, if I'm fat, MD's is to blame, it's the sum total of our problems, no responsibility, I'm fat, close down MD's if I have financial issues, Obama, HELP!
RightWingCon81 10 months ago 4
@RightWingCon81 yea thats what u talking about and after cutting shit please dont pass any to me and the left overs are best with real cream and butter yummy in your tummy fuck face
Simon4642 9 months ago
@Simon4642 I wish I knew what you were talking about so I could respond properly. Cutting shit? Cream and butter? Did you forget your meds? What are you mad about exactly?
RightWingCon81 9 months ago
believe it or not lard is actually much healthier that hydrogenated vegetable oil.
mastersnet18 11 months ago 3
I love the French chef! She is one of a kind :)
DrPepper1885Phd 11 months ago
If you don't want to put anything you don't desire into your body, don't go out and eat. Cook yourself... ppl... Don't blame restaurants... i am not talking about Julia Child, but people commenting here... Craziness...
tamiblurr 11 months ago 2
*sigh* Please read the title of the clip: "1995 Clip: ..." I REPEAT: I became a vegetarian in 1988; the incident I referred to occurred shortly thereafter, while my vegetarianism was still novel. I am referring to BOTH the lie about the frying medium (late '80s--the "vegan claim" IN PRINT but in actuality frying in tallow until '90--prior to 1995) AND the flavoring deception (early '00s--LONG AFTER 1995). KINDLY extend me the courtesy of not telling me what I'm talking about--I think I know.
HotVoodooWitch 11 months ago
Everyone should watch "Food, Inc.". Everythings ruined in fast food b/c its all huge corporate farms that use all kinds of weird additives and too much corn in everysingle thing we eat.
grizelda71 11 months ago
Julia Child was a cook not a doctor.
metronomic1 11 months ago
Its the french paradox at work. France has far less cardiac problems when compared to the US, yet they eat fats & cheeses in most of their meals everyday. The solution? Drink a moderate amount of wine almost everyday and adopt a French diet :D
plasma4ce 11 months ago 3
@plasma4ce It's not so easy to just "adopt a French diet" here. You think you can go to the store and just buy meat/eggs/dairy/cheeses from animals, and that they're no different from what's in France? The animals are fed *completely* differently here due to government subsidies for grains like corn, wheat, and soy. Rather than letting them graze in open fields like they evolved to do, we constrict their diet, skewing the composition of nutrients and fatty acids. CHD and obesity are inevitable.
anti0918 11 months ago
@anti0918 hey man, i see what your getting at but obesity isn't inevitable. There are ways to avoid consuming things that are unhealthy and so forth, it just takes focus. A lot of people are too busy, poor or lazy to sit down and pay attention to what they're eating. So people can still make due with moderation and ceasing the urge to snack often. I knw US food is super processed but if you avoid hydrogenated ingredients and stick to pure saturated fats you're good, which is doable.
plasma4ce 11 months ago
Everyone, including Julia Child, seems to be missing the point. The problem wasn't McDonald's frying medium of choice, it was that they LIED about it. They actually claimed--in print, no less--that the fries were vegan. NOT "vegetarian," mind you--"vegan" (just like the salads). They were successfully sued for deception, not bad nutrition. They'd have saved themselves a world of trouble had they just been truthful.
HotVoodooWitch 1 year ago
@HotVoodooWitch What Julia is talking about happened years before what you are talking about. Just an FYI.
feartheneon 11 months ago
@feartheneon This interview took place in 1995; in 1988 or '89 (I became a vegetarian at the end of 1987), some McDonald's stores used to have small, colorful flyers that contained what we'd now call FAQ and their answers. I took home one to show my fiancé that claimed the fries and salads were "VEGAN." They got spanked and switched over in 1990, five years prior to this interview; I'm pretty sure that it was after the interview that they were again spanked for not disclosing beef flavoring.
HotVoodooWitch 11 months ago
@HotVoodooWitch this interview was way before that what you are referring to was 1998 or 99. the event she is talking about happened in the 80s i believe when some of the first major healthy eating fads started to sweep the nation and mcdonnald's swapped from animal based shortenings to vegetable shortenings as the primary frying medium. what you are talking about is the beef flavoring that was added to the fries at the factory before they were shipped to the restaurant.
scatmaster125 11 months ago
FOOD INC was an eye opener. Now I only buy from local organic growers
blueeyedtara 1 year ago
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@weightfeather1 I think preparing your own food from scratch and taking time to eat makes your life healthier. You burn more calories shopping and cooking rather than just go to a shop and buy a dish. All the activities also makes life mentally healthier.
beauleeful 1 year ago
@weightfeather1 I think preparing your own food from scratch and taking time to eat makes your life healthier. You burn more calories shopping and cooking rather than just go to a shop and buy a dish. All the activities also makes life matally healthier.
beauleeful 1 year ago
@beauleeful On the other hand ordering lasagna already piping hot comes in real handy, but I do agree with natural cooking at home in general.
supermandisco 1 year ago
If it's good enough for Julia, it's good enough for me!
WSenator1 1 year ago
Part of living in a free society involves the freedom to make bad choices. Making food like McDonald's the staple of your diet is bad for your health in the long run. But that is a choice everyone should be free to make. And any sentient human being with an IQ above 50 knows that eating fast food is not good for you - but that's a choice people should be free to make. The current crusade against McDonald's is just nanny-state busybody food fascists trying to run other people's lives.
callasite 1 year ago 2
well if u dnt exercise even anything will kill u
Hartebreaker84 1 year ago
she just wanted the original french fries back ! right on Julia!
electronictrip 1 year ago 72
@electronictrip Yea, right on heart attack! This country is big time PIG TIME!
bluegreedo 7 months ago
I recall that McDonald's had used half beef lard and half vegetable oil for their fries. I tried it myself and have never tasted fries any better.
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wwwtotalitaerde 1 year ago
What happens to food when the "Cookie Cutter model" changes to make food which will hurt you? There is a 97% + correlation between the number of McDonald's restaurants and the incidence of diabetes in the world. Yes, 97%.
Profits rule, and "man has dominated man to his own injury." We were better off with a fragmented world. I suppose the organization of man to make the Tower of Babylon just shows how screwed up organization can be. It institutionalizes stupidity.
PMCMAN100 1 year ago
McDonalds may change, but money rules the change. The USA was supposed to be a democratic republic, and Lincoln mentioned government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Though he had been a lawyer for the Burlington R.R.
The Bible advocates God's Kingdom, which the Bible says that everything was created by, for, and through Jesus via Holy Spirit. This would imply theocracy and is anti-McDonalds (who gives you what you want, and Supersize it).
PMCMAN100 1 year ago
Corporate food sucks!
Compare a pizza made with fresh whole ingredients, with a Domino's or little Caesars and you'll get it.
sLeepPastNooN 1 year ago
Healthy, great tasting lard!
CurtHowland 1 year ago
The hydronated veg oil is what she's talkin about.....everyone switched to that because the "experts" claimed that oil from animal sources was terrible for your health....Turns out that the process of hydonating the veg oil created loads of transfat, which is ten times worse than oils from animal fat.
And NO it's not cheaper that way and NO McDonalds didn't just change on their own....experts and liberals forced it on us all.
Billshut100 1 year ago 5
julia childs was a sweety
MrHarry46 1 year ago 3
hydrogenated ANYthing is destructive to the human body
MrHarry46 1 year ago
McDonalds doesn't make you fat. A sedentary lifestyle and eating nothing BUT McDonalds makes you fat. I miss the old McDonalds fries and I miss the Chicken Nuggets when they weren't all white meat.
ATHFfan2003 1 year ago 4
@ATHFfan2003 I totally agree
KidKarnage187 1 year ago
All fast food use to be good in the 1960s and 1970s before they all changed to mass marketing processed crap...Taco Bell was so different back in 1970s it was ACTUALLY really good...now I can't even eat it...it is horrible faux Taco bell
nighthawk584 1 year ago
Who here knows when they replaced those ingredients?
Bla31n 1 year ago
@Bla31n it was back in the eightees yes I am that old.
crewlla 1 year ago
i love how honest she is lol
tiggermad 1 year ago
I remember the Mcdonalds fries used to be, they where way better then now,alot more flavor,but people still seem to like them ,so good for them.
rodbob11 1 year ago
Man, I'd love to have fries fried in beef tallow. That stuff must've been awesome.
uberathlete 1 year ago
@uberathlete There are some places near my house, specifically poutine places in Quebec, that still cook their fires in beef tallow, and trust me, they are incredible! Much more flavorful, and as Julia said, they tend to be crisper, plus, and I'm not sure about this, but I don't think beef tallow has any trans-fats. (yep, google just confirmed)
wendighoul 1 year ago
@wendighoul Ack! Now I gotta go to Quebec.
uberathlete 1 year ago
@wendighoul Well I must move to Quebec then, ha ha.
cmartyn88 1 year ago
The Didja Know Show just posted a cooking episode... with Julia Child impersonations! Check it out!
H and C
HaisterCaisterShow 1 year ago
The bigger whoopdedo about the fries came from Hindus that thought that the fries were vegetarian. The lack of labeling was a problem. I like the In-n-out fries, I only order them well done and they are nice and crispy.
kimzeynkink 1 year ago
@MilesB1975: they're still quite real potatoes, and for fast food they're still not bad. But Child is right; they used to fry in a mix of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil, and switched, with great fanfare, to pure vegetable oil in 1990. However, they also quietly changed the fries to add beef extract as a "natural flavor" in the production process, which led to several lawsuits. Those were settled, but I believe to this day McD's fries still have a tiny touch of cow in 'em.
chipotlecoyote 1 year ago
She looks like Angus Young!
pctechnet 1 year ago
I doubt it has much to do with the oil they use, more to do with the fact that thay are no longer made from real potatoes. I think they use cornflour to save a buck.
MilesB1975 1 year ago
god. the guy looks like he wants to have sex with her.
brwnandfriendly 1 year ago
She was born in California -- what's with the stupid British accent?
kw757 1 year ago
@kw757 how do you get a british accent out of that???
jacy150 1 year ago
@kw757 Not a british accent. She's just articulate. People use to speak properly back in the day.
savvysearch 1 year ago
Why can't we all just buy mashed potatoes with turkey gravy? :]
zachattack8860 1 year ago
I don't think any one place is responsible for bad health. I think it's a combination of habit, laziness and choice. I don't eat preservatives and I make sure I LOVE what I eat. That works for me because it means I don't each much junk. LOL.
icekat83 1 year ago 2
Americans substitute fat, carb and all that natural stuff with strong chemicals!! no wonder they have an obesity problem!! People don't be afraid of fat or carb YOUR BODY NEEDS IT!! the trick is eating the appropriate portion!!
anapao89 1 year ago 4
Vegetarians! consumers of food with more than 20 pesticides on it. very safe food :)
xtasytube 1 year ago 2
@xtasytube I'm a vegan and I eat organic fruits and vegetables. No pesticides for me.
musicaltheatergeek79 1 year ago
@musicaltheatergeek79 if you grown your own food i believe you. but if you don't... don't do that to yourself.
xtasytube 1 year ago 2
@xtasytube no me llores. I don't feel deprived.
musicaltheatergeek79 1 year ago
bring back mcdonald's classic french fries! join the fight.
anonymoosegoose 1 year ago
fast food is good for you (if you are american) if you are not, please do no eat fast food...
nestorrfortuna 1 year ago
@nestorrfortuna Kill all the Americans eh?
SuperChickBritt 1 year ago
@SuperChickBritt not at all. there are vegetarians in america...
nestorrfortuna 1 year ago
@nestorrfortuna Jeeze! I almost forgot.
SuperChickBritt 1 year ago
Julia Child lived into her nineties so she must've been doing something right.
Phyllisb78 1 year ago 25
@Phyllisb78
And yet the Galloping Gourmet nearly killed his wife with all the rich and fatty foods that he used to prepare on his show. Diet isn't the only thing that affects longevity.
gamewizard 1 year ago
The Woman who taught America to cook and like it. If she says there is something wrong with the way someone cooks, u can believe it's the truth. Julia Child was our grandest of chefs. I miss her.
Sarasdad91 1 year ago 6
Im Aroused...
Thade1900 1 year ago
I completely agree with Kimmijo. Watch anthony bourdains no reservations. Everywhere in the world he goes he runs into fatty foods. Why are most of those people still living full and happy lives?
Because what they eat comes from a field, not a laboratory.
TheNexus 1 year ago 37
@TheNexus lol. right. its not the fact that we sit on our asses all day and gorge ourselves every meal that makes us fat. a good majority of the food you purchase and eat is "laboratory" food. its tragic, but its the way of the modernized, westernized, and americanized world. its not that lab food is bad for us, its just more cost-efficient. it may be unnatural, but its not necessarily unhealthy. whats making us the way we are is the rest of the lifestyle: driving to work, sitting for 8 hours.
crapatitus 1 year ago
@TheNexus wrong. the rest of world exercise more and eat less. be it from walking more to simply eating less, the rest of the world does it better. I remember growing up hearing from Americans, talking about how good for you Chinese food was - look at the chinese, they're all small and skinny. Except chinese food stir fries everything and all drizzled with heavy sauces. The Chinese simply eat less and more more than Americans.
InvalidAuthorization 11 months ago
@TheNexus No its because unlike Americans they have to work their asses off every day. i guarantee if they had the same diet and dropped to American levels of inactivity they would balloon up and have horrible diabetes. Case in point Latinos in their home countries are fairly healthy weight, Latinos coming to America eating the same foods in same quantities have some of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world.
scatmaster125 11 months ago
1995 mcdonalds. sounds rich in transfat.
Vnix 1 year ago
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Thade1900 1 year ago
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Thade1900 1 year ago
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Thade1900 1 year ago
@Thade1900 lolololol
oskiH 1 year ago 4
@oskiH I'd tap that ass til next tuesday!!!!
Thade1900 1 year ago
@Thade1900 hey get in line!
eatinpsilocybin 1 year ago
Julia will live in the hearts of many as one of the premier Class Acts of the 20th Century. I think a show with Julia Childs and Gordon Ramsey together would have been the most histerical and informative television ever conceived.
fastwinner24 1 year ago 4
When I clicked on this link, I was definitly expecting her to say how terrible they were, and how McDonald's was sacreligious to the world of cooking. Lol. You gotta love Julia.
Mike6E 1 year ago 2
i think its funny how she started the whole televiision chef epidemic but her techniques and manners are completely unconventional to todays standards
skopered 1 year ago 4
lol...
Yep, she was the GORDAN RAMSEY of her day.
LauraBeachnut 1 year ago
@LauraBeachnut sorry to disagree but she was wayyyyyyyyyyyy beyond gordon ramsey in truth she was in a completely different league of her own haha i love her shes soo adorable
06bleach06 1 year ago
@06bleach06
I said of her day.
I like both to be honest.
LauraBeachnut 1 year ago
@LauraBeachnut oh right sorry bout that
06bleach06 1 year ago
People need to realise that food is not cigarettes. Some people are super fit but still enjoy a good trip to Maccas. So by changing the tastes (limiting them) in order to fight for more health in them, I don't think it's a just cause. And frankly, as a skinny person who LOVES going to McDonald's, it's actually really annoying. So I agree with Child on this one. They need to stop making food crap because it's obviously not making people any thinner.
Wishworks 1 year ago 6
I don't think McDonald's is the problem necessarily, it's the person who has never eaten a wholesome home-cooked meal in his/her lifetime who relies on corporations to nurture them that is the problem.
atariboy84 1 year ago 152
@atariboy84
yes.. the best food is just care free cut up meat and veggies put into a pan and oven baked untill half stuck to the sides of the pan. with whatever herbs and spices.. but who eats like that anymore.. who eats stuff that's not pleasing to the eye.., i enjoy my midevil times way of eating more than corperations food, but it was my greatgrandma that showed me that way of eating. she called it a newfie jig dinner and it was glorious
kaker69 1 year ago
@atariboy84 Neh McDonald's is pretty greedy. The way they set up restaurants everywhere is simply ravenous. They really don't care about anyone. But I agree people think eating fast food is cheaper when it really isn't. Save up that money and put together a larger home cooked meal that you can eat for 2 or 3 days. Plus you won't have to pay the doctor when you have a heart attack.
nikkk0123 1 year ago
@atariboy84 What you are saying is true, but it's not realistic. You should watch "Supersize Me." It's on youtube.
CallmeOblivion 1 year ago
@CallmeOblivion but look at japan and s. korea. they have McDonalds and lots of junk food chains. they work about as hard as americans, have similar living standards, but have higher life expectency. people over there are much thinner, get sick less often, and they have loads cheap restaurants where you can get good, healthy, not-so junkie food. i think most americans just really like the taste of junkie food, not just because they are cheap (inured to them, lack of alternatives, etc).
bluemonolith88 1 year ago
@bluemonolith88 That's a misconception. Obesity is rising exponentially although Americans are since to be bigger, it's because the fast foods started here. Plus there are other factors as to why they maybe thinner. Genetics is can be one reason. And Japan has a far better health care system in general to keep their population healthier.
CallmeOblivion 1 year ago
@CallmeOblivion your 2nd sentence doesn't make sense.
bluemonolith88 1 year ago
@CallmeOblivion what we do know for facts are that on average, americans are fatter and get sick more often than the people in other industrialized nations which includes nations like iceland or spain. so we can't just blame it on genetics. and we do know that obesity in america has something to do with the popularity, availability of fast food and relative lack of choice in healthier but just as cheap alternatives.
bluemonolith88 1 year ago
@bluemonolith88 It was two sentences then? But do you understand what I'm trying to say? We just stereotype everything without realizing the truth. The American diet is becoming universal. People just don't realize it.
CallmeOblivion 1 year ago
@CallmeOblivion i said this sentence doesn't make sense: Obesity is rising exponentially although Americans are since to be bigger, it's because the fast foods started here. can you to clarify it?
bluemonolith88 1 year ago
@bluemonolith88 The number of obese and overweight people are increasing. People stereotype Americans as being fat or unhealthy, right? That is because those companies began here. So it had more time to get more people fat.
CallmeOblivion 1 year ago
@CallmeOblivion many americans are fat and unhealthy, in far higher percentages than the people in any other industrialized nations. that's not exactly a stereotype. and we really don't know if fast food companies made americans fat, or fat americans who like fast food made so many fast food companies successful in america. it's probably a bit of both. there are too many factors to consider.
bluemonolith88 1 year ago
@bluemonolith88 Not the overweight people stereotype, the thin people stereotype.
CallmeOblivion 1 year ago