Food that is bad for you (by K2)

[Deleted]

What shouldn't you eat that you still eat anyway, in spite of what your doctor, spouse, the press, scientific evidence and common sense have told you to avoid at all costs?

I admit that I still enjoy charred meat although the black bits are supposed to give me cancer sooner or later.

[Don Cuevas]

BACON!

I wanted to eat at this charcoal cooked chicken and meat place in Guanajuato, but we ran out of time.

La Carreta
It looks really unhealthy, but so good. The photo does not show all the soot. accumulation.
I have some photos of their menu on the wall.

[tillystar]

I eat everything I want, everything in moderation I say.

I work on a 80% good stuff / 20% "bad" stuff idea. They say 10% bad but I can take it

I don't like chocolate, sweets, crisps etc so I can use up my % on chips, burnt BBQ food, burgers and bacon butties.

[happytraveller]

Mayonnaise. I eat way too much Mayonnaise. Mmmhhh...

[Don Cuevas]

Salt and salty food. I love anchovies, capers and well salted condiments, pickles and sauces.

Also fat. It's great, But I do try to use "good" vegetable oils and olive oil, less butter nowadays, and pork fat about twice a year, in the form of carnitas (chunks of pork, slowly rendered down in its own lard to crispy edges and succulent meat. Pickled chiles with it a must.

[traveler63]

Anything fried. I love fried potatoes with onions. Fried chicken with the skin on, yum!!!!!

[imec]

Butter

[hwinpp]

I still eat everything. Probably the list is too long to put here.

[mockchoc]

You only live once and some of the health nuts I know still have health problems so enjoy each day like it's your last.

Being happy and enjoying what you eat or drink has to be beneficial too.

[auntieannie]

Some sense at last... yey to mockchoc! ;D

[rikita]

burned food (i feel bad throwing it away, and i am very talented at burning food), all kinds of sweets, meat, fast food, frozen food, pizza... etc. etc.

[lagatta]

Pizza isn't necessarily "bad food", though some of it is.

As for pizza and frozen food, one of the most popular frozen pizzas here seems to be the Dr Oetker from Germany. I was looking at them at the supermarket, and the meat (sausage etc) ones actually say they are imported from Germany.

[Deleted]

butter,cheese,ice cream,butter ,and like hw said too.

[auntieannie]

actually, anything that has been processed in a factory is bad and in my view, should be banned.

[lagatta]

Even steelcut oats and similar porridgy things? Or organic wholegrain flour? I agree with your general thrust - I get sick when I see all the "ready meals" in people's shopping trolleys, but think it over a bit. Some foods can't really be eaten unprocessed.

As for me, salty foods. I'm careful not to salt much, and use soya sauce etc in dishes sparingly (measuring it) but I do love anything savoury.

[Deleted]

I absolutely love pork belly (fatback), fried, stewed, baked, crispy or gelatinous. I am relatively sure that it is not good for one's health.

[Don Cuevas]

When I get sick with a chest cold, why is it that I want hot, spicy, hearty food? I've had a cold now for 2 days, and I'm eating the Mexican equivalent of a fat Hot Link Sausage, hot mustard, with fried potatoes and onions, and a heap of steamy sauerkraut. There's the last bottle of Cerveza Noche Buena nw going down, and for a starter I had 3, spicy red radishes.

I think I may be ready for another "Bafar™) salchicha para asar. (A fat hot link sausage.)

[Deleted]

Sauerkraut is good for you. It completely neutralizes the sausage or any other bad thing.

[bixaorellana]

You laugh, but .................. www.sauerkraut.com/benefits.htm

(somewhat less wide-eyed material here.)

[lagatta]

I've always thought of sauerkraut as a very healthy food. My grandmother made it (and we weren't of Central or Eastern European descent). Perhaps we should start another thread about sauerkraut and its Asian counterparts? Though there is a whole yin and yang of healthy + unhealthy foods as life partners.

[Don Cuevas]

This sauerkraut was S&W Brand, in glass jars. I felt really good after eating all that stuff. I feel even better now, after a 2 1/2 hour nap.

(By the way, my second batch of cucumbers is slowly pickling. But still not sour at all. Taste good, though. If I only had some grape leaves to add.)

"Flu Fighter
With the spread of Avian Flu spreading across the globe, one enterprising Korean scientist, Kang Sa-Ouk of Seoul National University, took 13 chickens infected with avian flu virus and a couple of other diseases, fed them Kim chi extract and found that 11 of the birds recovered. Experts think the vital bacteria are created during the fermenting process and this gives the dish its health-boosting qualities."

(By the way, at this very moment, there's one of those creepy ads in the cartoon cemetary that asks, in Spanish; " Do you want to know how much time remains to your life? Take the Death Test." Then it laughs maniacally as I mouseover the graphic.)

I'd like to see some kimchi extract. Last time I had some of my own kimchi with rice for breakfast, I had the esquirts for 3 days afterwards. It might have been coincidental, I would hope.

[Deleted]

I have been frying things for the last three days. My body must have been having some sort of grease deficiency. Or else I've been spending too much time in the food abomination gallery...

[joanne28]

It's liquorice for me. Black liquorice is the pinnacle of candy for me. I love the soft Australian stuff. I no longer can take the commercial crap - it gives me a nasty case of the jits and doesn't taste as good.

I'm a candy fiend in general. I love jujubes, gum drops and jelly beans. Toffees are nice too. I have a lovely time browsing the bulk store and buying candy.

I like chocolate but am not fanatical. Given the choice, I invariably take something else. I completely threw a waiter off who assumed the Ferrero Rocher chocolate cheesecake was for me - it was my husband's & I was having the baklava.

I adore cakes and cookies too. Premium ice cream but I'm fussy on the flavours.

Salty snacks don't get ignored either.

I try to keep all this in check. Once in a while I'll go on a binge and not feel too happy afterwards.

[Deleted]

I just ate a whole bag of fried pork rinds.

The only place that sells them is the Chinese supermarket, but they are actually imported from Spain.

www.papasargente.com says the bag. It looks like they only make bad food, but they try to trick you with little items about parsley on the website.

[Deleted]

God forbid my husband hear or see about those!!

[6lucky]

After a full day of fun in the 115 degree sun we headed over to the Heart Attack Grill for a burger. Apparently, those over 350lbs eat for free.



Next to the door you can find their declaration of being certified the World's unhealthiest restaurant.



I wimped out and ordered only the double bypass burger with the optional 10 bacon slices



I was a bit surprised when my order arrived. The double burger was a bit bigger than I thought it would be. I only managed to eat 3/4 of it. Quantity aside, it was actually a really good burger.

[Don Cuevas]

Totally disgusting.
I want one, now.

[Deleted]

They should think about opening a few locations in Somalia and the Sudan.

[rikita]

i lately often have a craving for chinapfanne, a noodle stir fry you can buy at a lot of fast food places here. it contains a lot of fat, and probably all types of taste enhancers and all that... but i can't help wanting to eat it every now and then...

[Deleted]

I think that fat is one of the most important food groups -- in moderation if at all possible.

One thing that amazes me is the number of people who will carefully remove fat from steak or ham or a pork chop or a leg of lamb and yet they adore fried bacon. Talk about a contradiction!