Browsing the archives for the food tag

Cereal Label Fail

Here is the label: And the fail is the way the difference between cereal with milk and cereal without milk is listed. Hey Kellogg’s, you have 2 columns in there. Use them to list the nutritional content in both cases (you do that for vitamins and it works, right?). Don’t be dumb and put this [...]

Binge Eating Calculator (Losing weight saga – 12)

In the right side of my blog, somewhere down, you see a list of items I share from my feed reader. While usually I just share them, I’ve ran across one that is just hilarious and seems to fit the Losing weight saga topic very well: http://www.murraythenut.com/2010/05/07/binge-eating-calculator/ Def: Binge eating [Wikipedia]

Food Content and Labels

Ever wondered how the caloric value for different foods is measured? I mean, everything must have a neat label that informs you, the consumer, about the contents and caloric value of the product you’ve just picked up in your friendly neighborhood (or not) supermarket. But how are those values established ? Well, it seems that [...]

Taboo – American Food

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: American Food Well, the topic of food here in the US is a somewhat controversial. From the outside it seems that almost everybody is eating junk food and obesity is the king. I wouldn’t say that the situation is like this, but the highly processed cheap food that is widely [...]

Taboo – Fat People

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: Fat People Header: Before going into the actual subject, let’s watch a documentary on the subject of unhealthy eating: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/peter_jennings_reporting_how_to_get_fat_without_really_trying/ For those of you who don’t have 44 minutes to watch it, I’ll sum it up for you. It’s really hard to eat in a healthy manner here in the [...]

Taboo

Looking at blogs of other Romanians in the US, I came across this blog post: http://terbea.blogspot.com/2009/07/subiecte-tabu-sau-nu-in-america.html In this post we found a list of subject that are supposed to be taboo (or very discussed). As this blog, is in the end, a really neat experiment we’ll examine each of these subjects in detail to see [...]

Chinese food

Have you ever ate Chinese food? Of course you have. What kind of question is that. Is Orange Chicken your favorite? Or maybe Kung Pow Chicken? Does the Egg Flower Soup rule or what? But enough about the actual food itself. What I want to express my opinion about is the Chinese restaurants waiters. What [...]