It's cheaper to be fat!

scotty · 11 May 2006, 11:27

I've just been to Tesco's to grab a quick something for my piece (Lunch to you Englanders and posh birds fi Bearsd'n!), a mixed fresh fruit salad and two o' them wee fruit smoothie things came to Â£4.87

, I could have got a tin of Coke, a mince pie, a packet of crisps and a Heart attack for about Â£2.50, where's the encouragement to eat healthily...............FFS

snowey · 11 May 2006, 11:36

Should have just gone the chippy and got yourself some of that deep fried pizza and mars bars we keep getting told about.

11 May 2006, 11:46

aye, welcome to my hell.

basically its cheaper to fill food full of chemicals, additives and s**t than it is is to actually put anything real in.

have look at the ingredients list for a mcdonalds strawberry milkshake for example... it was printed in a book called "fast food nation" and spread over 3 pages

food science has a lot to answer for

timsinister · 11 May 2006, 12:22

I had a battered Mars Bar on my last jaunt to Glesgae. First Bite was lovely, by the third bite, it was in the bin!

Sympathies to those with this problem; Miss Sinister is obsessed with healthy food (I have no idea how she copes with my diet!), and regularly spends Â£silly on food. All this chatter about 'Obese Britain' is just a smoke-screen, because the administration will never try and push the big food-producing corporations around, eh?

Andy TG · 11 May 2006, 15:53

timsinister wrote:I had a battered Mars Bar on my last jaunt to Glesgae. First Bite was lovely, by the third bite, it was in the bin!

Sympathies to those with this problem; Miss Sinister is obsessed with healthy food (I have no idea how she copes with my diet!), and regularly spends Â£silly on food. All this chatter about 'Obese Britain' is just a smoke-screen, because the administration will never try and push the big food-producing corporations around, eh?

My ExGF now Best Mate

is on a health kick at the moment - do what she does - buy a juicer, buy fresh fruit / veggies every other day and make your own smoothy thing - they are very nice in fact

jande · 11 May 2006, 16:02

Its not the battered mars bars that bothered me, when we lived in Edinburgh, but the deep fried pies the chippies sold

Andy TG · 11 May 2006, 16:23

jande wrote:Its not the battered mars bars that bothered me, when we lived in Edinburgh, but the deep fried pies the chippies sold

Oh Never heard of them - a deep fried steak and kidney pie sounds like something I would like to try. I wonder if my local Chippy would be willing to make one for me - I am serious about this

James Blast · 11 May 2006, 16:59

you want a deep fried pizza Andy, I still miss them

6FeetOver · 11 May 2006, 17:09

Quiff Boy wrote:aye, welcome to my hell.

...and mine! The organic/healthy/natural/veggie supermarket chain called WholeFoods here in the States has been dubbed "Whole Paycheck" because of it - and it's not really much of an exaggeration. It's disgusting. All the blab about Americans being the fattest folks on earth...well, the average Joe and his family over here probably can't *afford* to eat anywhere but sodding McDonald's! Quality healthy food costs an arm and a leg!

eotunun · 12 May 2006, 00:23

SINsister wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:aye, welcome to my hell.

...and mine! The organic/healthy/natural/veggie supermarket chain called WholeFoods here in the States has been dubbed "Whole Paycheck" because of it - and it's not really much of an exaggeration. It's disgusting. All the blab about Americans being the fattest folks on earth...well, the average Joe and his family over here probably can't *afford* to eat anywhere but sodding McDonald's! Quality healthy food costs an arm and a leg!

Back in the good old days you at least got a whole pig..

Andy TG · 12 May 2006, 00:56

SINsister wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:aye, welcome to my hell.

...and mine! The organic/healthy/natural/veggie supermarket chain called WholeFoods here in the States has been dubbed "Whole Paycheck" because of it - and it's not really much of an exaggeration. It's disgusting. All the blab about Americans being the fattest folks on earth...well, the average Joe and his family over here probably can't *afford* to eat anywhere but sodding McDonald's! Quality healthy food costs an arm and a leg!

But judging by the size of said "Arm and Leg" I am sure the doner and their family would be able to eat at "WholeFoods" for a month

wild bill buttock · 12 May 2006, 01:07

Salad ain't food,its what food eats!

Andy TG · 12 May 2006, 01:12

wild bill buttock wrote:Salad ain't food,its what food eats!

IIRC thats a Young Ones quote!

wild bill buttock · 12 May 2006, 01:15

Vyvyn(or is it Vyvian?I don't know its late) Bastard I believe C.1984

Big Si · 13 May 2006, 19:02

Andy TG wrote:
jande wrote:Its not the battered mars bars that bothered me, when we lived in Edinburgh, but the deep fried pies the chippies sold
Oh Never heard of them - a deep fried steak and kidney pie sounds like something I would like to try. I wonder if my local Chippy would be willing to make one for me - I am serious about this

I had one last night!

jande · 13 May 2006, 21:51

Big Si wrote:
Andy TG wrote:
jande wrote:Its not the battered mars bars that bothered me, when we lived in Edinburgh, but the deep fried pies the chippies sold
Oh Never heard of them - a deep fried steak and kidney pie sounds like something I would like to try. I wonder if my local Chippy would be willing to make one for me - I am serious about this
I had one last night!

Did you have sauce with it or is that just an east coast thing?

Francis · 13 May 2006, 23:33

You can't go wrong with beans on toast. And pilchards. Or pitta bread if you're feeling adventurous. Washed down with a few can's of Guinness. It's as good as a three course meal.

Big Si · 14 May 2006, 16:06

jande wrote:
Big Si wrote:
Andy TG wrote: Oh Never heard of them - a deep fried steak and kidney pie sounds like something I would like to try. I wonder if my local Chippy would be willing to make one for me - I am serious about this
I had one last night!
Did you have sauce with it or is that just an east coast thing?

Normally with Brown, but that night just extra lard

boudicca · 14 May 2006, 17:15

The solution is very simple.

Go to the McDonald's, just eat a bag of small fries and have a diet coke every day. If you remain lardy on that, you're a medical miracle!

DerekR · 14 May 2006, 17:19

jande wrote:Did you have sauce with it or is that just an east coast thing?

Mmmm chippy sauce, a delicacy limited to the east coast of Scotland, where we have a more discerning palate

. Basically Gold Star brown sauce watered down with vinegar. They sell it in lemonade bottles in Edinburgh chippys you know (well the good ones anyway)

You tried asking for "salt an sauce" in a Glasgow chippy? You'd get run out of town!

weebleswobble · 14 May 2006, 17:48

What about scraps those bits of batter than would appear to have fallen of the fish?

Wife introduced me to that in Leeds-is it widespread?

Big Si · 14 May 2006, 17:56

weebleswobble wrote:What about scraps those bits of batter than would appear to have fallen of the fish?

Wife introduced me to that in Leeds-is it widespread?

No scraps in glesga

James Blast · 14 May 2006, 17:58

I didn't think you needed to 'water down' and Gold Star products with vinegar DR they're pretty tart to begin with

I do like a chip or 98 with lashings of Gold Star Red Sauce

hellboy69 · 15 May 2006, 09:11

weebleswobble wrote:What about scraps those bits of batter than would appear to have fallen of the fish?

Wife introduced me to that in Leeds-is it widespread?

My skoolmate introduced me to that ~ in Staffordshire, we used to call them "fish bits" :p

Doktor Gott · 15 May 2006, 09:29

oooooh scraps.. now that does take me back..

Mind you, the more confusing issue with chip shops in Bolton was wtf a "barm cake" was...

Girl behind counter of one chip shop had to show me wtf it was as she didn't know any other name for it..

When I saw it I realised it was a roll/butty.. I was quite disappointed.. barm cake sounded proper exotic..