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The real reason the French don’t get fat (Tasty Food)
The Globe and Mail ^ | Timothy Bond

Posted on 06/01/2014 5:45:14 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

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To: golux

If your meals are properly satisfying, then you are less likely to snack between meals. IMO, the French do not snack much.


61 posted on 06/01/2014 8:17:31 AM PDT by expat2
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To: miss marmelstein
Miss M,
I sense a lack of enthusiasm for your citizenship of the great country that gave the world Wonder Bread, homogenized Skippy Peanut Butter, and Welch's Grape Jelly.*

Please see my monograph delivered to the Pentagon. I argue that dropping Wonder Bread, bags of Fritos, and cases of Diet Coke on our enemies will finish them off faster than atomic warheads and might even be a lot cheaper.

Crème de Cacahuètes a la confiture

62 posted on 06/01/2014 9:03:23 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Vote for a gay African Marxist for POTUS? Sure. What could go wrong?)
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To: miss marmelstein
I have a neat book called "Bad Food Britain" which is about how the Brits can't really deal with cooking or food - but it sometimes applies to Americans as well.

Ah-ha!

Did they list the bad British cooking as the secret catalysts to such literary efforts as "Frankenstein", "Dracula", the Morlocks of "The time Machine"? As well as the whole Hammer Studios catalogue.

When Cecil Rhodes was asked why he emigrated to South Africa, he replied that he was sick and tired of eating cold mutton.

63 posted on 06/01/2014 9:05:04 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Starboard

Yeah... That’s quite a site. You see we don’t eat ANY of those things... Not even the sugary pies and stuff on Thanksgiving. My kids SOMETIMES have ice cream... But we generally have a salad every day, and there are surely some fatty dressings.
I just find most of that crap disgusting.
Sometime’s I’ll go for a fast food “meal” where you get a free soda. I really want is the water.
I just can’t stand the taste of that crap.


64 posted on 06/01/2014 9:15:00 AM PDT by golux
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To: Netz

Why should any woman shave her armpits and legs anyway?
What’s the point?
You wanna have sex with a girl or you wanna have sex with a woman?
Women have hair, juices, smells...
The American obsession with shaving, waxing, etc. is paedophilic.


65 posted on 06/01/2014 9:18:28 AM PDT by golux
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To: autumnraine
I have read that before about French food. Tastes so rich and good you eat less from the flavor rather than just eating until you are stuffed.

I noticed that with German beer, after a few days I realized that I was nursing a smallish glass of beer for 45 minutes instead of slamming it down like I would a Budweiser, so were my companions, it was the flavor, we were sipping and tasting the beer.

66 posted on 06/01/2014 10:12:05 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: golux

I’ll remember that when I get a haircut and shave my face and take a shower and put on a shirt with a collar, it is to attract “pedophilic” women to me.


67 posted on 06/01/2014 10:15:10 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: andyk

They grow tomatoes in green houses in Nevada and ship them to Canada , then package them and truck them here and sell them as hot house tomatoes.Avoid regulations.


68 posted on 06/01/2014 10:20:50 AM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

My rule is that the total quantity of flavor in a fruit or berry is constant. Only the size varies. When a strawberry is blown up to be inches across, it has the same amount of flavor as the original half-inch berry, distributed across a much larger volume.


69 posted on 06/01/2014 10:29:54 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: jiggyboy
So long as you're not one of those who looks down their nose at French fries and aren't trying to force everybody into a tofu and bean sprout diet, I'm OK with it.

But the Diet Police really piss me off!

70 posted on 06/01/2014 10:33:47 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: Covenantor

The funny thing is, I happen to love English food! Prepared properly it is a lovely thing. But Americans and the Brits sometimes take less time and preparation than their French and Italian friends.


71 posted on 06/01/2014 11:10:55 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Actually, I kind of love all that stuff - in moderation, of course.


72 posted on 06/01/2014 11:12:34 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: golux

Nous parlons ici de la cuisine, ne ç’est pas?


73 posted on 06/01/2014 11:57:44 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Vote for a gay African Marxist for POTUS? Sure. What could go wrong?)
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To: Kenny Bunk
Oui mais comprenez il y a l'haute cuisine, ainsi que 'lautre cuisine!
74 posted on 06/01/2014 12:20:40 PM PDT by golux
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To: jiggyboy

“high fructose corn syrup” is used to get cattle to eat more.
http://www.wellfedhomestead.com/how-to-fatten-pigs-and-people


75 posted on 06/01/2014 12:26:05 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: hoagy62

Post #26 originally made the comment——not me.

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76 posted on 06/01/2014 12:46:55 PM PDT by Mears
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77 posted on 06/01/2014 12:48:23 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: oh8eleven

One of the things I miss about NY. Also, good luck trying to find a real authentic Jewish bagel anywhere around the Tampa Bay area.
78 posted on 06/01/2014 1:16:55 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

“I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup.”


79 posted on 06/01/2014 1:17:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mears

Oh...okay. No prob.


80 posted on 06/01/2014 1:18:02 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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