Tried that … bad idea.
I’m not entirely sure that you got the additional point about the specific behavior not necessarily being harmful to the specific person, considering their overall diet, their particular digestive system, their particular activity levels, and their specific medical situation.
It is indeed partly that people are entitled to take risks, and that anybody capable of reading a message board has, in this society, been informed of the risks attending on eating any particular food, and specifically of foods containing fat and/or processed food, over, and over, and over. (Actually, name just about any food whatsoever and we’ve all been told by somebody or other that we shouldn’t eat it. Obviously, this isn’t helpful.) It’s also that you don’t know whether eating that specific food is unhealthy for that specific person in the ways in which that person is eating it.
(Presuming, of course, that you haven’t just found out it’s been recalled for being full of cyanide, or something of that sort.)
‘Cyanide rich foods eliminate Autism in 100% of patients that go on that diet.’
~ RFK Jr
What about lettuce? Oh wait, e.coli.
Only the ultra-processed crow; if you cook it at home with all natural ingredients, including free-range, organic crow it tastes divine!
So fish head & gills but human legs???
Not trying to pile on, but just a thought:
Wagging your finger to someone about how they shouldn’t be eating something (to me) isn’t that far removed from the person responding to a question with “Why do you even care about this?” And that attitude has been frowned on for some time.
Personal observation: There’s a thread in Cafe Society that is 17 years old, and has been repeatedly bumped, the last time so far was this past March, and every time I see it, I wonder to myself, “Why does anyone even care about this?” However, it was apparently a special collective memory that I was just not a part of.
Yes.
The opposite also happens: making rude comments toward people who are eating healthily.
I hate going out to lunch with coworkers. Each of them orders high-calorie / fat-laden food - which I never comment on - while I always order a salad with grilled chicken, with no cheese or dressing. “Why are you eating that?!” “Are you on some kind if diet?” “Eat some real food!” “Oh, I already know what Crafter_Man’s going to order, ha ha ha.” And on, and on, and on, for a good three or four minutes.
One thing I find just as annoying as critics are the people on some wacky fad diet who just won’t shut the f up about it.
Like hey, I’m glad you’re feeling good and I know you’re excited about it but no one wants to hear about it. (They have an uncanny tendency to inject it into any conversation, even stuff that is entirely unrelated to food.)
Yes. I had a supervisor who would comment on my lunch, usually, “That looks like cat food!” (It was seasoned tofu.) Since it was my supervisor, i’d just smile. Part of a pattern of inappropriate behaviors, including insulting my religious heritage during meetings.
Why would that be problematic? Unless sperm are sentient or something (whatever the exact threshold would be)? Clearly vegans eat living things. And something about post/username there.
And unlike the sources of most animal-based foods, the provider of the “meal” presumably gave consent.
It’s something I’ve heard before as a supposed “gotcha,” just never understood it. I mean vegans eat plants and I assume all sorts of fermented foods with live bacterial cultures in them ….
I opine that you should seek out the Indonesian food, “tempeh” - a delicious femermeted soy-bean product, more solid than tofu but used in much the same way - except it is robust enough to be deep fried. It is worth it.
We all have opinions.
I’ve been in loads of trouble here, for mine.
Sometimes I have trouble really explaining why I feel like I do.
Mostly it has been knee jerk, on my part. Because of some past horrible experience I’ve had in real life.
I love, love the food/eating threads. It was my food porn. My restricted diet makes me have cravings itches that cannot be scratched any other way. (I watch the cooking shows, read recipes for the same reason).
What gets to me is people can’t say “OMG, I love Kraft Mac n Cheese” and people tsk, tsk them…“oh, you can make it better and cheaper, my way.”
Yeah, but it ain’t Kraft Mac n cheese, like that.
I love Sonic corndogs. I say it repeatedly. I think I have threads on it.
You can tell me til doomsday how horrible they are. How unhealthy they are. How terrible Sonic is. I care not.
If I can possibly work them in, I’m gonna have one. (Or Taco bell tacos).
I won’t get mad at you for saying it, I just won’t take your advice.
Wasted words, on me.
Nothing wrong with corn dogs!
Where it gets annoying for me is when people point out stuff with nitrates/nitrites in it, or MSG, and especially the former when they’re all like “I only buy the uncured stuff”, which, if anyone pays any attention, actually is cured via celery juice or powder, and may have more nitrites/nitrates than the conventionally cured product. “Oh, but it comes naturally from celery.” Whatever.
What?
You mean to say I shouldn’t tell my child what they shouldn’t eat? Ummm…no, I was very opinionated on that, when they were young.
No soda was brought in this house by me. It’s my personal pet peeve. I said it loud and clear. To them.
I’m sure they’ve had their share as they got out on their own. But none are addicted it.
My DIL drank nothing but Dr.Pepper when Son brought her here.
I never had it in the house.
She finally started drinking water at her pregnancy and was gaining too much.
She likes to say it was my preaching. I swear I never said a word. Dang, I wanted to. But I was very careful.
My kids, as adults eat what they want. I don’t say much. Unless I see it rubbing off on the grand kids. Then I may speak up. May.
If they eat at my table(and they do, nearly nightly) they’ll eat some variation of what I’m having.
Maybe not perfectly healthy, but we do try.
IMHO, the only time to chime in on someone’s unhealthy eating is if they believe it is healthy. Like, if someone says eating lots of white rice and white bread will help “reduce their blood sugar.” Then at that point you gotta tell them that no, it has the exact opposite effect.
Otherwise, if someone loves something unhealthy and knows it’s unhealthy, that’s totally their business.
Yeah, my father is diabetic and is constantly asking me about various herbal medicines and whatnot and what their effect on blood sugar is, and I keep tell him, don’t worry about some bullshit Polish “natural remedy,” stop eating all that sugar, rice, and bread for christ’s sake!
Well, in case you didn’t know…
