the relentless drive for healthier food

is boring

just watching that Food Truck show on TV1, the chef dude is reveling in a sort of puritanical culinary excitement that he has invented an even healthier form of Mexican food

I find this both irritating and boring

Mexican food is already a pretty healthy option, I don't think a "lighter version" is necessary.

leave the cheese and sour cream in there please. thanks.

yeah if you're going to have mexican, do it properly. Don't even CHOOSE light sour cream, full fat or gtfo!

I reckon!!!!!

some people just want to take all the fun out of life ........

It's just a shame that fat makes shit taste better. All the best recipes include shitloads of fat in whatever form. Damnit...

The French understand this

fat = flavour country

duck fat and waygu fat RULES

watching foodtruck waysa

I find that programme lulz when he has a team of people preparing all his food as though your average food truck also has access to a restaurant kitchen and chefs.

Idiots.

They barely use cheese and certainly don't use SOUR CREAM in proper Mexican food. You're all used to Tex-Mex, which he pointed out in the show. A bowl of nachos is not 'pretty healthy' as he explained it was the same calories as 1.5 Big Mac combos.

I enjoyed the show, and obviously his recipes went down an absolute treat. Anybody cooking healthy, tasty food is a win in my book.



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I hate mexican food

http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/television/michael-van-de-elzen-interview/

the true mexican vs tex mex debate rages on

meanwhile back in the truck something is burning

tune in this week to see our chef cook and talk from a truck

a motherfucking TRUCK

He probably has Alzheimers from cooking chickens with beer cans in them. Can' be trusted imo.

I love Queso Fundido, and mojito's.

if you can't trust a man in a truck who the hell can you trust?

#theendoftheworldisnigh

Eat everything, just watch out for added synthetics.

I love bacon fat, the fat on pork chops, the fat on steak, duck fat, chicken fat, add some cream, butter. Fat is good.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I watched it and really liked it. I want to have a go at making corn chips like he did!

speaking of fat/grease, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42oUVwyFsZI&feature=share

Good lord, deep fried cheese cake, with added chocolate, powdered sugar and cream for good measure...that is just insanity!

She adds a little vegetable at the end.

How come Mexico is arguably the fattest countries in the world?

2006 OECD chart.. (adults)

they all carry drugs internally?

I actually think a lot of cultures take on 'western' food really badly. The over abundance of processed carbohydrates and fats at low cost really fucks with the poor if they have access to it. It's like Tonga - I watched a very scary documentary on the types of food they have taken on there, and how prestigious it is to be fat etc. It's common place to find ice cream platters for breakfast, or another delight 'fanta bread' where a can of fanta is poured into a hollowed out loaf of white bread and the whole thing is consumed.

That's a pretty scary chart though.



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Fanta Bread?!?! Man that's gross...

In summary I really do think it is because of the heavy American influence in Mexico, coupled with a lack of money and lack of education about nutrition and exercise.



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Holly fock NZ pulling up next to the US for the Bronze Medal in the Fat Olympics

What rock have you guys been living under to not realise that's the case?

I bet we can take em if we opt for the per head of pop bullshit we do so well

NZ number one.... repeat to fade

Yeah word Kris, thought that was common knowledge!



gc.

The graph does portray "percent of adults" so it's as representative as anything.

sorry - I was too busy stuffing my face to read

Right! It's appalling. I hold my tongue overseas when people are slagging off the stereotypical fat american.

I thought American Samoa hit over 97% obese?

I suppose it's an American territory or something not a country though isn't it?

yeh, agree, American food influence is fucking their shit up, and the crappy corn crops that are replacing the original native corns (fuck you Monsanto!)

Quick stat from our Nutrition Paper : The average Mexican now drinks over 500 cans of Coca Cola per year, twice the amount they drank 10 years ago.....

No Pacific Islands in that chart, so it can't be 100% indicative, but we should still be disgusted with ourselves.



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That is terrible, but I mean so is the average being 250 a year 10 years ago!

Utterly insane. Especially considering the quite *horrific* raping of the environment that the aluminium can industry is undertaking as well... Slow murder of hundreds of millions of people AND the planet.

Neato.



gc.

To be fair you're only looking at the downsides though smf. Don't forget they will get very rich

this thread needs more deep-fried cheesecake

this thread has made me decide to try carl's jr tomorrow

http://www.carlsjr.com/menu

Hahahaha... touche mate.

:>

gc.

watched this the other day, really good