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There are 41 posts tagged: "food & diet"

Rightsize me: 19 May 2022; A New York lard-arse is raising a class-action lawsuit against MacDonald's and Wendy's, alleging that their burgers are lacking in lard-arseness. Specifically, that the companies' marketing suggests that their burgers are 15% larger than they really are.
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Dietary habits of the twig children: 3 May 2022; BBC Future does science. Except, it doesn't really.
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It's not harmful if you treat it right: 27 April 2022; Purveyor of sugar-laden shit, Kellogg's, is taking the UK government to court, over restrictions on the display of nutritionally-deficient, obesity-inducing breakfast cereals in stores.
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Liver hard, die young: 20 February 2022; BoJo's bozos—AKA the UK government—are likely to drop plans to ban the import of foie gras, after several ministers raised concerns about upcoming dinner parties. People who don't have posh dinner parties expressed their envy, by protesting the weakening of the Animals Abroad Bill.
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Journalism or mental torture?: 17 February 2022; Writing for BBC World's Table—another entry into the BBC's pantheon of WTF? subcategories—Richard Morgan asks: Is America's best restaurant in Puerto Rico? It's one of those unanswerable questions, no doubt about that.
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Vegan meat: 28 January 2022; Writing for BBC Future, William Park explores the question that I suspect few have ever pondered: The reason some vegan alternatives don't taste like meat.
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The great egg race: 21 January 2022; Zaria Gorvett explores The race to make a multipurpose vegan egg, for the benefit of those of us who weren't even aware that such a thing existed. The race, that is.
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Me(diterranean): 17 January 2022; I've always been more attracted to the food of Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece than anywhere else. But it was only when reading of the Mediterranean diet today, that I realised its similarities to the one that I follow naturally when I just cater for myself.
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Chicken sausage rolls: 29 December 2021; My youngest doesn't eat pig, so I make these sausage rolls for her. And everyone else, since my wife and eldest prefer them to pork.
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Pizza the action: 27 December 2021; Today the girls decided that they wanted pizzas for dinner. My eldest's favourite shop-bought pizza is Trattoria Alfredo's Deliziosa Salame, from Lidl. It costs CHF3.75, for three medium-sized (25cm diameter) pizzas; that's £1.01, $1.36 each!
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Red wine and dementia: 9 December 2021; According to Dr Will Mitchell, there are 3 ways to kill dementia. So it's strange that he's only offering one here. But I guess we all have to start somewhere.
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It must be Thanksgiving: 22 November 2021; To celebrate Thanksgiving, BBC Food asks me How much do you know about American food? And presents a handy-dandy little quiz, to check whether I'm lying or not.
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All-we-can-afford-for-you-to-eat: 18 November 2021; An all-you-can-eat buffet in Changsha, China, has banned a food live-streamer for eating all that he can eat. The owner of the Handadi Seafood BBQ Buffet stated that Mr Kang was losing him money every time he visited.
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Tess Holliday's morning workout routine: 31 October 2021; Gotta keep training!
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Measure for measure: 21 September 2021; According to the instructions, 850 mL is equivalent to 1½ pints, and 425 mL is approximately ¾ pint.
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Pickled nothing: 29 August 2021; I've harvested so many chillis this year that I'm going to have to pickle some of them. I've never pickled anything in my life before now. Except, possibly, my brain and liver. (SMH)
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Meat-substitute head: 2 August 2021; Ethan Brown, founder of Beyond Meat, is in favour of a tax on meat consumption. No shit, is he really? Who'd've thunk it. (rolleyes)
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Mushrooms are tasty: 28 July 2021; Ina Garten (who?) is the Barefoot Contessa (who?). At least, I think she is.
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McRon: 24 July 2021; My eldest asked me why I don't eat McDonalds'. I told her that, other than it being shit, it's because I cannot abide Ronald McDonald. Which is true.
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Is there a dietician in the house?: 16 June 2021; A couple of idiots on YouTube, claiming to be dietician nutritionists, and spreading misinformation. Who knew? I couldn't watch the whole video, because their voices grated on my nerves.
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Is there a doctor in the house?: 10 June 2021; Ooooh, I've found another crackpot on YouTube. Aren't I lucky?
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Asparagus: too exciting for lawyers: 2 June 2021; Belgian lawyers discovered a six-step recipe for asparagus hidden within the French text of the nation's official journal, Moniteur Belge.
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Quinoa: 16 May 2021; Beyond subsistence, what's the point of quinoa in a modern diet? It doesn't taste of anything, let alone anything interesting, and you can't eat it with a fork. If flavours were colours, it would be something inoffensive and dull, like beige or pale-to-mid grey. Yet restaurants, bistros, and supermarkets insist on including it in salads, where all that it adds is bulk.
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Gonna need more bread: 22 April 2021; …a lot more bread!
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Durian Durian: 7 April 2021; I received a somewhat pedestrian unsolicited commercial email from Danielle Cwalinski today, advising me of the health benefits of ONE exotic fruit. And she doesn't mean Joe Exotic…BA-DA-BOOM-TSCH!
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You are what you eat: 25 October 2020; BBC Food asks: How can changing your food shop help biodiversity?
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Silly sausage: 21 October 2020; One of the, ahem, meatier subjects to be debated by the European Parliament this week is when is a sausage not a sausage?
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It's finger cleanin' responsibly good: 25 August 2020; KFC is temporarily shelving its finger lickin' good slogan, in light of the pandemic.
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Ratatouille tgtnoise: 23 August 2020; I tried the recipe for ratatouille Niçoise that was published on BBC Food and, while it was okay, it wasn't good enough. Perhaps that was related to some of the changes that I made to the published recipe, but I'm not convinced that that explains all of the deficits from my expectations—and therein lies the rub, my expectations.
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Today I learned...: 13 August 2020; …not to trust anything you see on the silver screen. Again.
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Eat your heart out: 3 August 2020; One of the criticisms that's been raised against the UK Chancellor's August Eat Out To Help Out initiative is that it extends to junk food outlets.
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It's a gas: 16 July 2020; We all recognise the dangers of global warming and climate change. Or, at least, those of us who're not Donald Trump.
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Cereal killer: 21 June 2017; In an effort to improve children's health, by fostering healthier eating, public health officials in Liverpool have named-and-shamed breakfast cereals with high sugar content. Among the shockers is the revelation that Kellogg's Frosties has the highest sugar load of all. Is this really news? Come on, you can see the bloody sugar on the flakes, it's the main attraction, if you're a kid!
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The Bear necessities: 11 June 2017; Babe and alleged actress, Alicia Silverstone, explains that her decision to raise her son, Bear Blu, on a vegan diet was, like herself: such a no-brainer.
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Nuclear doughnuts: 4 October 2015; While on holiday in Portugal, my daughters have become accustomed, if not addicted, to Panrico Donuts [sic]. These things seem to have a shelf-life measured in millennia. And that's without refrigeration. God knows what's in them, but they must be packed to the gunnels with preservatives.
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Doner card: 27 October 2013; Kadir Nurman, a Turkish migrant to Germany who was credited with inventing the doner kebab, has died at the age of 80. Although grilled meat carved from a skewer was already popular in Turkey, Nurman added salad and served it in a flat bread; and thus was born a staple of fast-paced life in West Berlin, and drunken pub chuck-out time the length-and-breadth of England.
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Raspberry Pi(e) II: 28 March 2012; My youngest daughter, Emily, aged 5, came home from her Montessori pre-school. My wife asked her what she had for lunch, to which she replied: ham and raspberry pie.
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'Nutritious' has added sugar?: 19 January 2011; Apparently those mirthless buggers at the UK Advertising Standards Authority have upheld complaints about advertising by those frisky buggers at Coca-Cola.
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Apples 'n' Pears: 15 July 2010; The Bonkers Institute has concluded, from a survey of fat ladies, that those who deposit their chocolate rations on their hips are more likely to have bad memories than those with wobbly bellies.
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I'd like a 'P' please, Bob: 20 April 2005; Strangely, I was looking for ways to make yummy processed peas, like tinned marrowfat peas, because we can't get them easily in Switzerland. Anyhow, I happened across guidance from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Health Organisation on processed pea standards. I kid you not.
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Vegetarianism as the moral high ground: 22 November 2004; This, on the IMDb boards, made me realise that there's more to vegetarianism than not wanting to eat something that had a face.
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