OT: Hostess Gone Bankrupt!

Gandalf Parker · #1 October 1st, 2004, 03:19 PM

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Timstone said:
Gandalf:
What?! You have a bunker?!
My goodness, you Americans really expected that the world was going to smithereens back in the 60's and 70's, did you?
Never knew the average (excuse me for using this term) American actually had a bunker in their backyard. Is this common?

Basement, tornado cellar, root cellar, its all various levels. Nahhh my dad would have been the one to do that. My generation tended to move to wilderness areas and take up homesteading.

but I AM working on a colony ship.

Intimidator · #2 October 1st, 2004, 03:35 PM

Timstone, about the American eating style.

Believe me it is even worse than we Dutch expect.
I lived in Florida for 6 months, and a few weeks with an American girl. After 1 week I begged her to do the cooking myself, had to explain her what all the green-stuff was and that you could actually eat it.

(She actually liked my food........can you believe that

)

Inti,

Fyron · #3 October 1st, 2004, 04:11 PM

So one idiot means everyone is an idiot? Way to stereotype people. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon47.gif[/img]

Intimidator · #4 October 1st, 2004, 04:57 PM

Ho wait,

Didn't say that, But my experience is that a lot of people in the states have an VERY unhealthy eating habit.
But I think you know that already.

BTW. the same problems are starting with kids in Holland also, less fruit more mcDonalds.........

Timstone · #5 October 4th, 2004, 06:05 AM

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Intimidator said:
Ho wait,

Didn't say that, But my experience is that a lot of people in the states have an VERY unhealthy eating habit.
But I think you know that already.

BTW. the same problems are starting with kids in Holland also, less fruit more mcDonalds.........

Sometimes the little bugger think that milk comes from a factory instead of from a nice cow. And no, there aren't any male cows, they are called bulls.
Stupid kids these days!

Atrocities · #6 October 1st, 2004, 07:22 PM

They don't make Mars bars any more.

Renegade 13 · #7 October 1st, 2004, 08:28 PM

I don't know about the US, but here, where I live (In Canada), I enjoy eating real food. Meaning food that was baked from the raw materials a couple hours ago. Mmmmm....what would life be without real, fresh from the cow steak! With no unnatural hormones, antibiotics and other crap. I guess there are some advantages to living on a ranch after all! If you ever need some meat, just go out, shoot it, skin it, cut it up and Voila! Meat! Oh yeah, as for the store-bought bread, it sucks. Weighs in at about 0.0001 grams per slice, and tastes like air with a little preservative added in for good measure. Although it does seem to toast a little better than real bread...hmmm...

TerranC · #8 October 1st, 2004, 11:21 PM

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Renegade 13 said:
If you ever need some meat, just go out, shoot it, skin it, cut it up and Voila! Meat!

Mr. Renegade, I don't suppose you could spare some of that steak for us less-fortunate city slickers, could you?

Caduceus · #9 October 1st, 2004, 11:55 PM

If you don't think America has an eating disorder, check out the NHANES II study that showed American kids obesity has doubled in the Last ten years.

If you don't believe that, go to your local Wal-Mart and take a look around.

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Gandalf Parker · #10 October 2nd, 2004, 12:39 AM

So what makes it a disorder? Looks to me like America eats well. No one starves in the US. Even our homeless look good because we have the highest grade of garbage in the world.

Actually, the fact that this conversation is happening at all means that you guys dont know what MSG is. Its a food additive that the FDA approved to add to foods because it had "no harmful side effects" other than making people want to eat more of the product. Now its in everything in the US, especially snack foods and fast food. Do a google search on MSG obesity FDA
Scarey reading