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AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

related to mcgriddle chat: i picked these up on a whim the other day

review: overpowering cinnamon scent that stuck to my fingers all day long. 2/5

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# ? Apr 16, 2024 14:51

Pennywise the Frown: May 10, 2010; Upset Trowel

His Divine Shadow posted:

Pretty sure jam can be made in a myriad of ways and nutritional content varies wildly across the board

It's almost always just sugar, water, and fruit. You can add other flavorings but anything else might just add to the calorie content. Fruit actually has a ton of sugar but fruit is good for you. I was reading something from the NHS (UK) a while back and they basically said that eating any fruit far outweighs the sugar content so you can mostly discount it. But they almost always add a ton of sugar to jam. I always get the 25-50% less sugar kind.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 17:06

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

"Outweighs" it how?

I'm not disagreeing that fruit is generally healthy but calories are calories

# ? Aug 16, 2021 17:08

Pennywise the Frown: May 10, 2010; Upset Trowel

The Bloop posted:

"Outweighs" it how?

I'm not disagreeing that fruit is generally healthy but calories are calories

I think it has to do with fructose vs sucrose. Plus it actually has vitamins, minerals, and fiber. I'll try to find the NHS article on it. I'd like to see it again anyway.

edit: from https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/how-does-sugar-in-our-diet-affect-our-health/

quote:

The "of which sugars" figure describes the total amount of sugars from all sources � free sugars, plus those from milk, and those present in fruit and vegetables.

For example, plain yoghurt may contain as much as 8g per serving, but none of these are free sugars, as they all come from milk.

The same applies to an individual portion of fruit. An apple might contain around 11g of total sugar, depending on the size of the fruit selected, the variety and the stage of ripeness.

But sugar in fruit is not considered free sugars unless the fruit is juiced or pur�ed.

This means food containing fruit or milk will be a healthier choice than one containing lots of free sugars, even if the 2 products contain the same total amount of sugar.

You can tell if the food contains lots of added sugars by checking the ingredients list.

edit 2: here's what I was looking for

quote:

Sugars also occur naturally in foods such as fruit, vegetables and milk, but we do not need to cut down on these types of sugars.

Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Aug 16, 2021

# ? Aug 16, 2021 17:20

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

its a shame the only pics of this place were posted by the same guy who forgot to wipe the vaseline off his camera

# ? Aug 16, 2021 17:21

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

# ? Aug 16, 2021 17:43

Waterbed Wendy: Jan 29, 2009

Turtles can't even drive cars

# ? Aug 16, 2021 17:48

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

The Bloop posted:

"Outweighs" it how?

I'm not disagreeing that fruit is generally healthy but calories are calories

Outweighs probably referring to micronutrients but also don't forget the fiber content of fruit both gives feelings of fullness and helps keep from getting a sugar high. Which is a sign of a pending inconvient headache for most people but is concerning for diabetics; you can generally work some fruit in to sate your sweettooth as a diabetic while syrups, jams, and candy will tend to be off limits if you want to keep your toes.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 17:52

Gutter Phoenix: Jul 23, 2013; I preferred your last avatar, so I put it back. My apologies to the pedo who purchased your last one (it's always projection).

Waterbed Wendy posted:

Turtles can't even drive cars

My li'l buddy here is doing a fine job driving as we scream down the boulevard in my street machine of steel, allowing me to post my banal and turgid observations on the somethingawful.com forums.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 18:07

Waterbed Wendy: Jan 29, 2009

I am sorry turtle, I thought I was a worldly queen but I am actually a gassy shetland pony confined to a tiny thought paddock.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 18:27

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

zedprime posted:

Outweighs probably referring to micronutrients but also don't forget the fiber content of fruit both gives feelings of fullness and helps keep from getting a sugar high. Which is a sign of a pending inconvient headache for most people but is concerning for diabetics; you can generally work some fruit in to sate your sweettooth as a diabetic while syrups, jams, and candy will tend to be off limits if you want to keep your toes.

Certainly there are all sorts of good things to know if you have specific dietary issues

And I don't think anyone is really surprised by "fruit is healthier than a pile of granulated sugar" I was just curious what the rationale was for posting it in this case because a lot of times it's naturalistic woo

# ? Aug 16, 2021 18:46

Pennywise the Frown: May 10, 2010; Upset Trowel

The Bloop posted:

Certainly there are all sorts of good things to know if you have specific dietary issues

And I don't think anyone is really surprised by "fruit is healthier than a pile of granulated sugar" I was just curious what the rationale was for posting it in this case because a lot of times it's naturalistic woo

Fruit aligns your chakras you fool.

As they say, "One apple a day keeps the demons away."

# ? Aug 16, 2021 18:55

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Fruit aligns your chakras you fool.

As they say, "One apple a day keeps the demons away."

I had my chakras surgically removed and also gently caress demons on the reg, it's great, highly reccomend

# ? Aug 16, 2021 18:57

Pennywise the Frown: May 10, 2010; Upset Trowel

The Bloop posted:

I had my chakras surgically removed and also gently caress demons on the reg, it's great, highly reccomend

You must be an added sugar haver then. MARK OF THE BEAST!

# ? Aug 16, 2021 19:05

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

One thing about some regions of US cooking I appreciate is the love of pickles - it's not like we don't use them, and you may get a pickle with a restaurant burger, but the pickle threshold seems lower over on your side. I mean, you probably got it from the Germans or the Polish, but still.

I think my favourite starter was one I got at a Russian restaurant in Helsinki: a neat pile of perfectly salt and crispy pickles, cut into square sticks and stacked like a square campfire, with a bowl each of thick sour cream and honey to dip them in.

e: I did not have the bear meat - it was like $40 for a moderate portion. The reindeer was good, though.

Computer viking fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Aug 16, 2021

# ? Aug 16, 2021 19:12

Doll House Ghost: Jun 18, 2011

Aardvark! posted:

Are chainsawed bears a popular decoration somewhere around America?

I'm sorry this is from the wrong continent, but I feel like this captures the same spirit. We have a town called Ilomantsi where the main thing is an annual bear statue saw-off. Here's some pics from this year:

And this year's winner, surprisingly touching work titled "Refugees":

We visited the place this summer, and the whole town was filled with past years' competition works. Bears everywhere.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 19:17

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

That last winner is awesome.

Yes they are a big thing in some places here, specifically in Washington and Oregon I recall seeing fuckloads of them

# ? Aug 16, 2021 19:21

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Doll House Ghost posted:

LOL, gottem.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 19:26

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I think Big Animal Carvings are a sort of Northern Rural thing, from Maine to Alaska

Southern Rural is more 10x10 tents on the side of the road selling watermelons and trump hats

I do see people selling furniture like that sometimes too, like wooden porch swings. Never cool carvings, though

# ? Aug 16, 2021 19:48

Deeters: Aug 21, 2007

Yeah, I've seen those a lot around New England and upstate New York, but I don't remember any around the parts of Virginia and the Carolinas that I've been in. There's definitely lumberjack competitions up here too.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 20:05

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

There's a restaurant chain in California called the Black Bear Diner that has a chainsaw sculpture of a bear at each location. They also serve gigantic bearclaw pastries that are like 2000 calories. Very Americana.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 20:24

Gutter Phoenix: Jul 23, 2013; I preferred your last avatar, so I put it back. My apologies to the pedo who purchased your last one (it's always projection).

Black Bear Diners vary in quality and quantity of food, but overall they're pretty decent.

Northern California is infested with chainsaw sculptures, especially up top near the redwood forests. Lots of chainsaw bigfoot sculptures if that's your thing (it should be).

# ? Aug 16, 2021 20:42

Waterbed Wendy: Jan 29, 2009

Never thought I would tear up at chainsaw art but it's been a tough couple years

# ? Aug 16, 2021 20:45

Monkey Fracas: Sep 11, 2010; ...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!; Grimey Drawer

Gutter Phoenix posted:

chainsaw bigfoot sculpture

pro username/centering mantra

# ? Aug 16, 2021 20:56

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

iwentdoodie posted:

##upshur County, tx

And

##polk County, fl

Please.

How many left on your list?

ill do polk tomorrow, also i have no idea how many are left on my list btw sorry i didn't see this question before. i just click back through my quote of the last one i did and ctrl-f for the next '##'. this post is from 43 pages ago so i'm going to guess the answer is "a lot"

Upshur County, Texas
Pop 41,753
Area 593 sq mi
Density 67/sq mi

trump won this county with 83.6% of the vote in 2020

i only just found out that you can actually get timg'd images to expand to full size by clicking the little tiny box on the top left so i'm timging things for a while to see how it feels

# ? Aug 16, 2021 22:27

Gutter Phoenix: Jul 23, 2013; I preferred your last avatar, so I put it back. My apologies to the pedo who purchased your last one (it's always projection).

# ? Aug 16, 2021 22:27

HenryJLittlefinger: Jan 31, 2010; stomp clap

# ? Aug 16, 2021 22:53

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

tfw mom says you cant hang out with the Jets after dinner

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:03

A Pack of Kobolds: Mar 23, 2007

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:31

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

There's a restaurant chain in California called the Black Bear Diner that has a chainsaw sculpture of a bear at each location. They also serve gigantic bearclaw pastries that are like 2000 calories. Very Americana.

Black Bear Diners exist outside of California. There's one in Colorado Springs.

All of our Denny's closed a few years ago, something needs to fill the gap.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:32

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:38

Mozi: Apr 4, 2004; Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die; Nap Ghost

i know the food must taste great from all the traffic but jesus christ

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:40

A Pack of Kobolds: Mar 23, 2007

Those hot links came from a toilet

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:40

TIP: Mar 21, 2006; Your move, creep.

Aardvark! posted:

that is the most viscerally upsetting food picture I've ever seen

:barf:

probably tastes good though

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:44

Zil: Jun 4, 2011; Satanically Summoned Citrus

Those photos belong in the antifood porn thread.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:46

HenryJLittlefinger: Jan 31, 2010; stomp clap

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Black Bear Diners exist outside of California. There's one in Colorado Springs.

All of our Denny's closed a few years ago, something needs to fill the gap.

I ate at one in Reno a couple years back and it was very :effort:

American food.

Aardvark! posted:

I had a friend in college who was from Texas and every now and then his family would bring him some. One night we drank a bunch of cheap whiskey and ate a shitload of these things and then I puked on someone's truck.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:47

AARD VARKMAN: May 17, 1993

Zil posted:

Those photos belong in the antifood porn thread.

they belong in a museum

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:53

uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

i'll have the ground beef pile, xl. served in a bowl of ground beef grease.

# ? Aug 16, 2021 23:54

Gutter Phoenix: Jul 23, 2013; I preferred your last avatar, so I put it back. My apologies to the pedo who purchased your last one (it's always projection).

I would put this poster on my wall.

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Gutter Phoenix: Jul 23, 2013; I preferred your last avatar, so I put it back. My apologies to the pedo who purchased your last one (it's always projection).

# ? Aug 17, 2021 00:03

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