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Eating tomatoes 'turns kids into criminals'
The Observer [UK] ^
| February 23, 2003
| Jean West
Posted on 02/23/2003 7:00:33 AM PST by aculeus
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:00:33 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
The "Twinkie Defense" writ large.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:06:32 AM PST
by
snopercod
To: snopercod
When my son was about 3 years old, we found out that the sodium in hotdogs and lunch meats made his behaviour very bad. Once we took him off that stuff, he was fine. The doctor we saw said this was common.
And now he's 16 and ranked first academically in his high-school class, so something must have worked.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:09:44 AM PST
by
Bernard
To: aculeus
For me it was always artichoke hearts and peas (peas to this very day). I haven't eaten peas since I got big enough to fight back.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:10:15 AM PST
by
stevem
To: aculeus
This "defense" of non-social actions is just an excuse..substances may may you anti-social but, it's discipline and responsibility for "actions" that is the crux of the argument....
as one reader put it...and he's right, "the tomato-twinkie" defense will be here one day.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:14:58 AM PST
by
GreenCell
To: aculeus
I didn't have to read the article. I already saw the movie:
Can you believe this movie celebrated its 25th anniversary last year? Man, I'm gettin' old.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:15:00 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Liberate Iraq!)
To: aculeus
This article is a victory for the "bananas" industry.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:17:33 AM PST
by
thisiskubrick
(may the running liberal pig-dogs be turned into bbq toasties in the sea of fire)
To: aculeus
I have a friend who believes all this stuff. She obsesses about the ingredients in everything from her food to her toothpaste and laundry soap, and is convinced she and her children are 'allergic' to nearly everything. She says stuff like "Junior is allergic to tomatos and pickles. They make him hyperactive". If a child has a bad day, it must have been because he ate an unauthorized cookie somewhere.
Though I think we are what we eat, and I have no basis to argue with her, I know that she and her kids are always sick, and I (who eats nothing but junk food or whatever else is around) have not been sick in years. I don't know which came first, the obsession with ingredients or the constant illnesses, but she is, nevertheless, a hypocondriac.
To: aculeus
Politically correct "science" will lead nowhere.
To: Bernard
Question? How do you eat a "doorstep"? Even smothered in butter it must be kinda hard to go down.
10
posted on
02/23/2003 7:28:07 AM PST
by
dvan
To: aculeus
burp
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:30:58 AM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Bernard
Bernard, I fear you have not given yourself due credit for the love, concern, and effort that you likely poured into the raising of this child!
To: dvan; MadIvan
Question? How do you eat a "doorstep"? Even smothered in butter it must be kinda hard to go down.
All references I have found call it a type of a large sandwich, made with a long loaf of bread. In their parlance, it seems to connote something large:
"The (reports) that cross my desk are certainly as big a doorstep sandwich, and must consume a lot of planning officers' time and council tax payers' money."
"It is important not to be intimidated by such terms, especially if you view 'theology' as a subject which is beyond you, something only done by people who can read books thicker than a doorstep sandwich!"
To: aculeus
I never have liked tomatoes. Now I have a legitimate excuse for not eating them.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:46:09 AM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
(a new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family)
To: aculeus
Since all the bad foods were veggies it does go a long way to explain the actions of PETA.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:46:42 AM PST
by
KeyWest
To: dvan
Question? How do you eat a "doorstep"?
The same way you eat "$h*t on a shingle". One bite at a time!
To: aculeus
I KNEW IT! Anything with inards as slimy as tomatoes must be evil.
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posted on
02/23/2003 7:52:07 AM PST
by
rintense
(Go Get 'Em Dubya!)
To: rintense
Didn't early Americans think
tomatoes were poison?
To: Bernard
When my son was about 3 years old, we found out that the sodium in hotdogs and lunch meats made his behaviour very bad.Are you sure it wasn't the cockroaches and mouse feces?
To: aculeus
The high glycemic load of the government recomended diet will be found responsible for a huge part of mental and physical illness. Just eat your 15 servings of grain and become diabetic and depressed.
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posted on
02/23/2003 8:05:34 AM PST
by
Nov3
(Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion!)
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