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- frsrblch, on 07/10/2009, -1/+35Next up, 8 Ways to Split What Should Have Been a Short Article Into 9 Pages.
- DirtyVicar, on 07/10/2009, -1/+27OK, five clickthroughs or more for a simple slideshow? OK, screw that, here's what it is:
1. Too much sugar, fat and salt.
2. Easy-to-chew food.
3. Brain conditioning.
4. When in doubt, throw cheese and bacon in it.
5. Restaurants assemble food, not actually cook it.
6. The myth of healthy grilled chicken.
7. Sneaky sugar.
8. Creative chemistry.
Yeah, #5 is definitely worth noting. If you have ever seen any purchasing info from Sysco, it is a massive, massive operation and they provide tons of prepackaged and preprocessed food to big chains like Applebees and mom & pop restaurants, who buy everything from salads and entrees right down to salsa tubs and desserts. The restaurant's job is mostly just to heat and assemble the food. - Frixionburne, on 07/10/2009, -2/+27Cliffnotes Version:
Unhealthy food is unhealthy. - ff542, on 07/10/2009, -2/+19"It's food that literally melts in your melt."
- UnFriendlyFire, on 07/10/2009, -3/+15Dugg for slide 5. When in doubt and bacon and cheese.
- worseforwine, on 07/10/2009, -0/+11Sysco is exactly why I hate going to restaurants, paying huge amounts for what is basically a TV dinner. Here is a great article about Sysco:
http://www.slate.com/id/2160284/ - lisaawesome, on 07/10/2009, -3/+13This should be titled my favorite foods.
- loudh0ward, on 07/10/2009, -1/+10If this were a comment on The Consumerist I'd say something like "This is exactly why I grow all of my own vegetables, raise my own livestock and cook everything in my own kitchen."
Thankfully I'm on Digg and have eaten all of these in the past month! - humptyz, on 07/11/2009, -0/+7"Buffalo wings: The fatty parts of a chicken get deep-fried. Then they are served with creamy or sweet dipping sauce that’s heavily salted. Usually they’re par-fried at a production plant, then fried again at the restaurant, which doubles the fat. The result: sugar on salt on fat on fat on fat."
Reading that almost made me throw up. - NateSikes, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7What a terribly written article.
- neeno0, on 07/10/2009, -1/+7It's no surprise the unhealthy food is marketed "much the same way that tobacco companies manufactured and sold cigarettes". It IS the tobacco companies, rebranded and diversified into the food market when they saw the writing on the wall.
- uthallan, on 07/11/2009, -0/+6ONE PAGE PLZ
- Cannonballkid, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6How about calling some of these companies out? Look at the latest reports
http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090708/how-fat-is ... we as a country are only getting heavier and unhealthier. We don't need to see an FAQ to why this food makes us fat. We know its bad already. For goodness sake msnbc doesn't need the ad revenue to pull the slide show ***** on us. Or do they? end rant/ - Anth0n, on 07/10/2009, -2/+7FTA:
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Easy-to-chew food
It's food that literally melts in your melt.
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Yo dawg, I herd u like easy-to-chew food... - BlackX4Life, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6does that make you dead meat?
[and yes, I know I'm going to get dugg down] - yocouchdigga, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6shouldn't you be at work, mom?
- Frixionburne, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5I seem to find myself in doubt and bacon and cheese quite often. It's a bit difficult to move around in, especially with the constant feelings of self doubt coupled with trying to walk through cheese covered bacon. You thought sand in your crack was bad...
- harrisbradley, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4#9 - Soylent Green
- tgc1, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4I noticed that one too. Damn they must be pushing these people hard over there for them not to have the time to proof-read.
"I don't pay you to think johnson, get that article up there. NOW!" - BossKey, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3or a vegetable
- silverchrysalis, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3pita bread and hummus?
- lisaawesome, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Well you aren't very enticing so I must not be that easy.
- thecitysleepz, on 07/10/2009, -6/+9it melts in your melt!
proofread ***** - andytronic, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3At least if there were page numbers would have been nice.
- b0bbyw1se, on 07/10/2009, -1/+3Some of the tricks are, they make the food tasty, tender and juicy. Damn! The bastards.
- linuxpenguin, on 07/11/2009, -1/+3So in other words, they take advantage of the fact that you don't know ***** about what you're eating.
But if you read up and look at all the nutrition info, you're set. We as Americans are often too lazy to do what it takes to find out exactly how healthy our foods are. Nothing mentioned here is a shocker to anyone who actually is interested in knowing what they eat. - jdames1980, on 07/10/2009, -1/+3OMG, my mouth is watering so bad just reading this article! Thanks a lot *****!
- rhyss, on 07/10/2009, -3/+5You guys shouldn't dig thecitysleepz down. He makes a valid point about how full of spelling and grammar errors the article was. There were several instances that I caught after just one reading. Makes one wonder about how committed the author is regarding his research. Then again, it is MSNBC, so no one is really reading it anyway.
- SBbeats, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Well, i mean most of the people that are overweight in the US are that way because of main point in the article. They aren't aware of how bad everything actually is. People are so used to the American lifestyle, and buy in to the advertising and the idea of "social eating" it's about raising awareness and stopping a vicious cycle.
- obeythefist, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2And you should be labeled "easily enticed"
- yocouchdigga, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2you beat me to it.
- bicycleman, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Umm...Duh!??
- jaymbee00, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2This article isn't fair. The only thing the same about a "chain restaurant" and a restaurant is they're both serving food. That all may be true for a chain restaurant, but certainly not an individually owned and operated place. These chain restaurants are pathetic for reasons far worse than serving IQF vegetables. Restaurants that love and cook food are still out there for those concerned enough to look.
My name's Justin, I'm a Chef and... I COOK FOOD for a living. - silverchrysalis, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2but if they served it with celery sticks, all would be well.
- obeythefist, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Christ... it's not about unhealthy food. It's unhealthy food, in excess, turned into easily digestible, sweetened, processed, manipulative replacements for the foods that you once thought were the most indulgent and delicious foods and you love them.
- flux123, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Yes, you can get prepackaged food from Sysco, but you can also get all your fresh veggies, herbs and quite a bit of other stuff from them.
Chain restaurants are the worst for "assembling". Less training for the cooks, and no need for a head chef.
If mom and pop operations are ordering pre-packaged foods, blame mom and pop for being lazy. You can pick up whatever you want from Sysco. - silverchrysalis, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2"...and scrape my own salt from the Dead Sea, harvest yeast from the air, make cheese from my own- never mind"
- TheCash, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2It's proof reading that literally proofs your proof.
- waz67, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Jeeeesus, they make it sound as though sugar, fat and salt are bad for us. WTF?
- catxors, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Who eats a pound of rib eye every day? Plenty of people eat lots of fast food and snacks every day, though, because they are much cheaper, easier to eat, less filling, etc., etc., than your steak.
It's OK if you want to be judgmental toward people that eat too much. But the strategies that come out of that attitude (hectoring, criticism, moralizing) are proven failures for helping people eat healthy and keep a healthy weight. So scientists are studying human behavior in order to understand why people now eat too much and provide people with information and tools to help them eat better. Seems like a great idea to me. - bobbi21, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Nothing mentioned is a shocker for anyone who has any common sense. ``Oh I had no idea my DEEP FRIED potato skins had fat in them`` ``I had no idea that candy bar companies want their product to taste good so I will buy more of them``
All these companies are doing is making food that customers want to buy. Isn`t that what business is all about? - TriNiiTy, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1Ouch.
- Kat2kat, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1There is one way to stop the unnutritious fast food: stop buying it. Stop buying it and let the corporation who owns it know why. I stopped eating meat because it finally came home to me, and not overnight, what is in the animals the conglomerates grow. Do you trust ConAg? I sure as hell don't.
- Sil369, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1digg needs an automatic next page button presser :0
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Reading that made me make a bib out of my napkin. Yum :-P
- bobbi21, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1I'm pretty sure they're already doing that with helmet and seatbelt laws..amongst other things.
- bobbi21, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Yeah, I don't get this article. Food industry makes food that ppl want to eat. And the author thinks this is some grand scheme to get ppl to be fat and die of heart disease??
Obviously the point of a company is to make a successful product. Shoe companies try to make shoes ppl will want to buy. Car companies try to make cars ppl will want to buy. Food industries do the same. This isn't some big conspiracy full of men in dusty rooms plotting how to fool the american ppl. It's ppl trying to make a product that sells. They make food that tastes good so you want more of it. People`s own fault if they can`t control that. -
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