Lecter, you say relevant, enlightening, and interesting things more often than not, certainly more often than most, but I doubt anyone but you would spend the time and money to inscribe them on plates of any metal at all. Pizza boxes, maybe, but snax, with your words the pizza boxes shouldn't be defaced in any way.

.....and I think this thread has run its course.... it was fun, and interesting.

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You all are missing out. I get free coffee and donuts every Sunday. Organized religion rocks!

Query if there aren't cheaper ways of obtaining bad coffee and stale donuts than sacrificing (pun intended) that much of your time every Sunday.

From what I've seen of Middle American churches, free donuts are probably the last thing you people need.

Hardly an American-only issue:



Gods how I hate those fat fucking Canadians.

This is your gut on religion?

You see fat in a box. I see the most amazing drunk food ever invented. I also see an extra 45 minutes in the pool the next day.

I don't care if you're doing non-stop butterfly sprints while towing a drag-bag: 45 minutes in the pool will not put a dent in that kind of caloric bomb.

what is that french fries with maple syurp and cottage cheese?

It's poutine: french fries covered in cheese curd and then smothered in beef gravy.

I don't care if you're doing non-stop butterfly sprints while towing a drag-bag: 45 minutes in the pool will not put a dent in that kind of caloric bomb.

Fourty five minutes of any focused and rigorous swimming would put a serious dent in your average order of poutine. Especially if you're chosen stroke is butterfly, and even more so if you're dragging at all. Now, if you were hung-over, which is more often than not an unrelated side effect of poutine indulgence... well... hard to say how much exercise will actually take place :P

Also, don't let that picture deter you. While it's true that is what your average order of street-vendor poutine looks like, when made with quality ingredients, poutine can be elevated just like any other common dish. Wild mushroom gravy and three year old cheddar is a good start :)

If that is the case, find a non-revolting picture to post in your defense.

Dissing foreign cuisine is much like a 'your mom' joke: It tells more about the person uttering it than it does about the actual content of the message.

And what it tells us is not good, however you may choose to spin it.

This is hardly the case for every instance of "foreign" cuisine, Tosh. And there's most assuredly an exception for poutine. I eat all sorts of things from around the globe: poutine is little more than lard, raw starch, and salt.

Also, gav, despite my love of swimming generally and butterfly specifically, it's not a cure-all workout. At least not a mere 45 minutes worth isn't: Butterfly calories per hour: 530 http://www.travelean.com/tools/calorieout.htm 530*3/4 =398 calories for 45 minutes of butterfly

KFC Poutine: 970 calories, 54 grams of fat and 2610 mg of sodium http://www.keepcanadaslim.com/about/10worst.php

And a KFC Poutine is a fuckload SMALLER than the above serving:

Lecter, I am not entirely sure what you mean by instance. If you mean the different ways of preparing and serving a specific dish, and rail against the 'bad' fast food¹ in general, and poutine as depicted in the first picture specifically, that is available far too often, I would be inclined to agree. If you mean a dish per se, in all its variations, I would not.

To clarify matters as I perceive them: Starting with high-quality ingredients and using careful cooking methods, I would argue that any dish can be made to excel (if the ingredients suit the taste of the consumer). For example, I really like good burgers. The travesty that McDonalds sells (I'm unsure as to how different they really are when comparing European and US McD burgers, ours over here are abysmal) makes me want to puke, but in the end, it cannot detract from the great accumulation of flavours that are combined in a good burger.

The same goes for french fries. Soggy, bleached, pus-filled fries are terrible, but crispy (twice fried, of course), golden-brown, delicately salted ones are heavenly. And they are essentially only fat, starch and salt.

I won't argue with the food or exercise facts, however: Such food is definitely not good for you if indulged in without balancing it with exercise and other, more varied foodstuffs. But that goes for any kind of food.

1: I do not think fast food as such is bad, it depends on how it is prepared, how often it is indulged in, and what it contains.

man im gonna go get me some poutine that shit looks delicous its like chilli cheese fries.

oh semi related my favorite stroke is the breast stroke.

Poutine IS fucking delicious.

I'll talk to church, see if they can serve poutine along with coffee & donuts. I may stay for BOTH services just to get the free blood pressure screening after the late service.

This topic is way too long to read through thoroughly, and this may be a little out of line. However, agnostic atheists (like myself) will enjoy this video:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html