August 05, 2005

The worst foods for your health You there! Put that French fry down and come out with your hands up! Actually when it comes to bad foods, the French Fry, though a culprit isn't the worst. #1 on the list is a little suspected breakfast item. And zounds what about that fettucini alfredo?
posted by StoryBored 18 years ago
  • Interesting, and much food for thought (haha). That's one hell of an annoying presentation style, though--not you, StoryBored, the article :)
  • So I should eat sausage instead of cheeseburgers? Interesting.
  • Aw, shucks. But what if I balance that foundue with some wine? Heard it's good for the heart...
  • I thought I was in the clear until they got to #9... and #10... and #11. Although I've pretty much given up on General Tso since I nearly choked to death while eating it. That sneaky General.
  • But...where is the great poutine mountain?
  • Mmm...sausage.
  • Being a vegetarian saves me from the perils of most of these, although I'm sure I make up for it with chips and salsa.
  • That website makes me angry.
  • Really annoying slideshow, and then broken links to get to the article itself. "Eat right, exercise, die anyway." ... but then who really thought eggs benedict was good for you.
  • Never order eggs benedict at a restaurant, unless you know the chef. At least, that's what Tony Bourdain says.
  • I make it myself on special occasions, and take my chances with the salmonellas. Improvised double-boiler and all.
  • Screaming at the screen that CHANGES FUCKING SLIDES WHILE I'M TRYING TO READ THEM. AND MAKES ME CLICK STOP EVERY. FUCKING. TIME I GO TO THE NEXT FUCKING SLIDE INSTEAD OF JUST HAVING TO FUCKING CLICK IT ONCE. It's probably bad for the heart. And nerves. And really, where's the poutine lard mountain? Or chili cheese fries. They have all that fancy french shit, are forbes readers too good for some chili cheese fries? Who the fuck can eat enough foie gras to give themselves a heart attack anyway? Now butter your bacon, boy. And bacon up that sausage.
  • On failure-to-preview: What's this about knowing the chef and salmonellas with the poached eggs? I like eggs benedict, is this news going to ruin that for me?
  • I think that insane slide-show approach triggered a migraine headache, gah! For those who can't make it all the way through: 1. Eggs Benedict with Hollandaise sauce 2. Cheeseburger 3. Duck Confit 4. Fondue 5. Fettuccine Alfredo 6. FrenchFreedom! Fries 7. Foie Gras 8. Chicken Hash 9. Fried Chicken 10. Lasagna 11. General Tso's Chicken 12. Sausage
  • smallish bear: It's the hollandaise sauce. It has to be made fresh for each dish, because it's a breeding ground for salmonella. Many restaurants use a mix instead, to avoid the spoilage issue. Blech.
  • And to think I'd been avoiding cheesecake all this time.
  • Monkeyfilter: That website makes me angry.
  • That website makes me angry. Big LOL. Yeah, like everyone else I hate the damn slideshow. Forbes for some reason loves doing these f*cking things. And the default speed is set to make you lose your bananas. Note you can change the speed by clicking at the top of the page. Thanks SugarMT for transcribing the list.
  • Where's the poutine lard mountain? THEY TOO SCARE FOR TO PUT THAT IN. THEY RUN FROM THE BIG ONE BUT STILL SUFFER FROM THE FLYING MOUND.
  • Thank god I hardly ever eat duck confit and foie gras. If I skip those I can have all the General Tso's and lasagna I want, right?
  • I'm so sick of hearing about how dangerous certain foods are (not as in unhealthy). I've eaten eggs benedict many many times. I've had it in fine dining restaurants where I worked and did know the chef, and I've had it in a bunch of other not-so-fine-dining places where I didn't know the chefs. In all these years, I somehow, miraculously didn't get sick. It's on the menus of many restaurants, pumping out thousands of orders a day. Where's the huge outbreak of poisonings? In this regard, chicken is my pet peeve. Nowadays, people treat it like it is some deadly biohazard. Just be relatively clean when you cook, use common sense and it's no big deal. The "salmonella's gonna get ya" meme somehow came about around 10-15 years ago. What on earth did the ignorant souls throughout history do before all the disinfectant-antibacterial kitchen products? Also, Tony Bourdain is an arrogant, self-promoting jerk. Why anyone reads/listens to him is beyond me. (boy, I'm cranky today)
  • That link sucked,I would have expected more from Forbes
  • That website makes me angry. That website makes me hungry.
  • As someone who once had salmonella poisoning, I can understand a bit of caution with the stuff (though it wasn't chicken that did me in).
  • Tony Bourdain is an arrogant, self-promoting jerk. Why anyone reads/listens to him is beyond me. I love arrogant, self-promoting jerks. He's also funny and knows what he's talking about.
  • HEY, PLEBES, COME ON OVER TO MY BLOG AT WWW.MCT'SMASSIVEE-PENIS.COM WHERE I'LL DISH UP THE REAL GENIUS AND TELL ALL YOU FUCKIN SHEEP WHAT TO THINK BAA BAA I PWN YOU ALL!!!
  • mct, you can't own me. i'm too elusive. I'll wind through your mind like mist, tweak some neurons, align some synapses, then leave, and you'll be left with only an inexplicable desire to do yoga and take care of butterflies. i am the way and the path, and, as I told Wendell once, the only way to get to nirvana without a bus pass. He believed me, but begged me to stop. which i did, because I'm patient. (though I will reel him in soon.) but, what you'll never guess is that I have brazen wings, coppery feathers which I can use to shield or harm. take youR choice, love, because I AM THE FURIES. I REALLY FURY AROUND. AND, I NEED TO KNOW WHETHER YOU INTENDED TO POST THAT SCREED ON THIS THREAD. IF YOU DID, well, you need me to instruct you in proper behavior. i remain your mistress.
  • That was my little ha-ha response to Koko's "I love arrogant, self-promoting jerks" comment, but your words have driven her from my mind and fill me only with blinding thoughts of you. Please, take me as your pool boy, I will be ever so loyal... :D
  • Come here, big boy! I-- *looks around, clenches fists, screams at sky* PAAAAAATHHHHH!!!!!
  • I am in the market for a pool boy myself, one to hand-feed me french fries and foie gras whilst liberally smearing my delicate skin with general tsao's chicken and fondue....
  • Foie gras is way better for your skin than General Tso's chicken!
  • *looks around, confused, horny and frightened*
  • Women like men with tools. Can you cook as well?
  • Lasagna is bad for me? I cook my lasagna slowly. I spend sometimes an hour or more just chopping the ingredients for the sauce. Quick boil and a cold water bath for the tomato to remove the skins before I seed and dice them, then on to slowly peeling, cleaning and dicing the garlic and onions. Slowly browning the filler (meatless crumbles, chopped eggplant, italian sausage, ground sirloin or turkey, I care not, I go with what sounds good that particular day). Adding in the olive oil, garlic, and onions. Dropping in various spices, crushed rosemary, fresh basil (roll each leaf, then slice into thin strips), what have you. Boiling it down until the tomato is tender and the sauce thickens. I mix the egg, parsley, ricotta and parmesan. I fill the pan one layer at a time, sauce, noodles, cheese, and thinly sliced marinated mozzarella (you can't shred real mozzarella). I bake it until the mozzarella makes a smooth white lake with touches of a golden brown crust on top, and serve it with fresh garlic bread. I couldn't really give less of a fuck that it's bad for me. I cook it because I like to cook it, I eat it because I like how it tastes. Fat? Feh. That's why I go to the goddamn gym, so that I can make lasagna for myself once in a while and not feel bad about it. When people post this sort of shit (idiotic slideshow or not - fire whoever made that, Forbes!) they never tell you that damn near anything can be part of a healthy diet, IN MODERATION. They always just skip right to the "OMFG!!! FAT! BEWARE!" lines they've been feeding us forever. Never mind that a diet without any fat is actually decidedly unhealthy. You need fat. (OK, not animal fat - which is mostly bad except for fish oils - but still, fat is not the enemy!)
  • I recently had a meal that hit the list three times: duck confit, fondue, and sausage. Luckily, we balanced those harmful foods with a couple of orders of fried macaroni and finished the meal with powdered donut balls dipped in chocolate syrup. And since I didn't see those on the list, I'm going to go ahead and assume that they're healthy options. And on a related note, if anyone is in San Francisco and looking for a great place to eat/work towards that bypass surgery, I highly recommend Andalu (16th and Guererro).
  • You do need even animal fat. I remember being told you shouldn't feed children under 5 skim or two percent milk - they should drink homo milk, because the fats in the milk were important for their development (brain, I think).
  • clf, a lasagne made with that much love cannot possibly be bad for you! I'll have mine with a side of hollandaise.
  • they should drink homo milk My kids ain't catchin' gay from no queer milk!! Go back to Canada ya commie!
  • great article, really makes you think... *eats more cookies* *with ice cream* *and hot fudge* oh and p.s. ...do you guys know what your body uses cholesterol for? cell walls! almost pure cholesterol, they are...
  • Being a vegetarian saves me from the perils of most of these, although I'm sure I make up for it with chips and salsa. JanetLand: Cheese is what keeps me from being vegan. Salsa isn't bad if you can cope with the salt. Chips with their refined carbs, fats, and salt on the other hand.... A good substitute for chips in my opinion is to take a flat bread (whole wheat, no added fat if possible -- also try the different herb flavoured flat breads) and toast it in a toaster oven until it is just crispy. Good with salsa and shredded cheese. I've never found a good healthy substitute for cheese but not for lack of trying. Damn cheese.
  • Hey! Someone put a fatwa on my foie gras! *mmmmm**
  • I like how they put foie gras and duck confit on there with french/freedom fries. Bless you, Forbes, for you truly know the American public. Also, in my abode, we only ever eat duck confit and foie gras. In fact, this is a duck-only dwelling. We only eat ducks and parts of ducks. Sure, I know we could probably live somewhere other than a box under the bridge and I could be typing this on something besides an old 386 I found in the dumpster next to our box, but I can't afford both foie gras every single night and a decent place to live. It's about priorties, yo.
  • Nomen Nescio: Peach salsa is usually low in sodium, no matter what the brand.
  • I hadn't thought of eggs Benedict in years, but I do want some now. Eggy, buttery, lemony goodness,with poached yolks soaking into the Engish muffin base. Do you suppose it's ok to eat it every thirty years or so? And, I do understand that you Brits don't recognize our English muffin, but you should just chill. It's one of the reasons we love you so much, the other is the tv shows you've sent us.
  • caution live frogs: Dang! You're not talking about cooking, that's FOREPLAY!
  • fuck health, man. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE ANYWAY. all of us. It may as well be a whole bunch of good meals, wine, and shagging that does it. I hate these uptight arsehole bastards. "Ooh ooh it's not HEALTHY" sez them "Have a wilty celery leaf and a wheatgerm cracker instead so you can spend the last twenty years of your insanely extended life wasting the resources of this planet by shitting in bags while machines tend your dessicated flesh." if i was to die coz of eating caution live frogs' Lasagne Of Lerve at the age of 57 in the arms of my family A CHOIR OF FUCKING ANGELS WILL CARRY ME OFF TO A SLOW FOOD HOEDOWN IN HEAVEN. hnk. sorry. that was a rant
  • and well ranted, pris.
  • prism wins!
  • Hear hear! *munches pork rinds*
  • prismatic7, beautiful as that was, that argument falls apart when you consider that you might end up fat before you die young. It's not death that people are afraid of. Death is a red herring in discussions like this; it's not about death, not at all. 'Course, the whole Bad Food mindset assumes that a) people eat this stuff all the time and b) people eat indulgent food without scourging it back out of their systems with exercise, but those oversights make for more scary slide shows and alarming headlines. Bleh.
  • The one saving grace of this obvious list of foods was that the naive myth "OMG CARBS ARE SO BAD" was only hinted at a couple times. It seems half the lack-wit wanna-be-dieters in the U.S. adopted the low-carb part of Atkins, without reading any background or understanding why, and now they act as if a piece of friggin bread is what is packing the inches on their hips. Sure, eat more bacon, just avoid that deadly bagel. Sheesh.
  • Yay, Wurwilf's back! Hi Wurwilf!
  • mmmmmm, more bacon *drool
  • So, is it bad *cough* if I eat the *hack* occasional stick of salted *hoawwwrrrk* butter dipped in *gakkk* white chocolate fondue? Say, once a week? *aaarrrrk*
  • If it's sugar-free fondue, I think it's in phase one of Atkins and South Beach. Speaking of which - invoke, SB almost literally states that bagel part. They go through a big rigmarole about how the "typical" breakfast of eggs, bacon, butter, juice, toast, blah blah is all wonderful and should be eaten in great quantity except that deadly toast and juice. So...yeah, basically, people do think that. Hey, I got it for almost nothing at a library sale, out of curiosity. I have not drunk the Kool-Aid. Which, by the way, omg carbs.
  • SMT, you might like to switch, since there's some evidence about dark chocolate being 'better' than the white ones, which have more in the way of sweeteners and additives in order to gain their pristine un-color.
  • ...life is butter dream...
  • caution live frogs, now that you're done with your degree, wanna come to OH and be my poolboy personal chef? clf makes the yummy food pr0n, and I haven't been to the grocery store in *weeks*
  • eating white chocolate is like eating Crisco straight outta the can *puts up flameproof umbrella
  • Troo dat, GramMa. Once you go dark, you never...eat...Clark?
  • I feel some tags coming on today. MonkeyFilter: Now, butter your bacon, boy. MonkeyFilter: Where is the great poutine mountain? MonkeyFilter You need me to instruct you in proper behavior MonkeyFilter: I couldn't really give less of a fuck that it's bad for me. MonkeyFilter: Someone put a fatwa on my foie gras! Ah, much better. *takes last bite of chocolate with a teensy sip of wine dabs mouth with napkin burps leaves table*
  • french fries have nothing on poutine.