Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Typo Boy - Aug 28, 2014 11:23:59 am PDT #5071 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Do a google on almost any food x, and "x the world's healthiest food" "or x a healthy food" something along those lines will be in the result set. Chocolate [link] . Lard "Top three reasons you should be eating lard" [link]

I don't think there is any food out there where a google search won't turn up a description as a health food in the top 30 results.


-t - Aug 28, 2014 11:25:59 am PDT #5072 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Turtles all the way down!

I just think that the people in Oz's audience should get a hivemind instead.

That makes a lot of sense. Crowdsourcing vs proof by authority.


Typo Boy - Aug 28, 2014 11:26:21 am PDT #5073 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Well there are exceptions like twinkies but still I think the above is true for about 95% of food items.


-t - Aug 28, 2014 11:27:08 am PDT #5074 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I don't think there is any food out there where a google search won't turn up a description as a health food in the top 30 results.

Sure. My point is, the "Cashews: World's Healthiest Food" site does not mention curing clinical depression.


-t - Aug 28, 2014 11:27:56 am PDT #5075 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Did the Great Twinkie Crisis get taken care of? Speaking of.


Steph L. - Aug 28, 2014 11:28:56 am PDT #5076 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There are three layers of Heaven, by the way.

Which one has the all-you-can-eat sushi buffet? That's the one I'm down for.


Steph L. - Aug 28, 2014 11:29:31 am PDT #5077 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Did the Great Twinkie Crisis get taken care of? Speaking of.

At the grocery store last week, I saw *4* kinds of Twinkies: regular, strawberry cream, banana cream, and chocolate cream. Twinkie the Kid is branching out.


tommyrot - Aug 28, 2014 11:37:07 am PDT #5078 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

It's a Twinkie renaissance!


meara - Aug 28, 2014 11:42:10 am PDT #5079 of 30000

Different flavored twinkies?? That's...weird. (They're still yellow cake, just with different fillings?)

I'm not immune to woo. I took St. John's Wort for a while...I think it helped)

Just because it's not big pharma doesn't mean it's woo. There ARE some supplements that have HAD those double-blind trials! And it's not as though big pharma doesn't take things from nature (like from St John's Wort, or yew trees, or whatever) in order to find the active compounds. But at the same time, there are many supplements that only have suspected powers...and when trials are done, sometimes they don't pan out.


Steph L. - Aug 28, 2014 11:50:39 am PDT #5080 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Different flavored twinkies?? That's...weird. (They're still yellow cake, just with different fillings?)

Yeah, they were all still yellow cake. I feel like banana cream would be good in a chocolate Twinkie, if such a think exists.