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Originally Posted by pierrelm
Which got me to wondering...Americas's top ten favourite foods in descending order are as follows:
1.Hamburger
2.Hot Dog
3.Fries
4.Oreo Cookies*
5.Pizza
6.Sweet/Soda Drinks
7.Chicken Tenders
8.Ice Cream
9.Donuts
10.Potato Chips
*WHY? They are vile beyond belief, being laced with sugar and practically devoid of chocolate/cocoa. There again, maybe they are just in the US tradition which produces 'candy' (as in 'chocolate') that's the worst tasting toothrot known to mankind unless anyone's had anything even fouler? Unfortunately, since Cadbury's was bought out by Kraft, the sugar content goes up, the chocolate goes down. See also the once mighty Mars Bar, now a pathetic overly sweet unchocolatey shadow of it's former self. Bah!
Did you know:
The average American consumes three burgers per week; that's 13 billion per year as a nation. 71% of America's beef is consumed this way. That's a LOT of beef**
**GM Beef at that, too.
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That's pretty scary.
I remember a Jamie Oliver special a few years ago where he went into various American schools and tried to change their dietary programs. At the high school he noticed they only served french fries and pizza with sodas. He tried to get the cafeteria to change to serving salads, fresh sandwiches with milk and juices. The Kids went ballistic demanding the old food back. The cafeteria cooking staff complained about all the extra prep work of making salads and wanted to go back to the premade processed foods too.
At the primary school, where the children don't get to pick their meals, he also found all the food was pre-made and processed. Chicken nuggets, fries, pizza, and sweets were the primary food served to growing young children. He went out to figure out why and discovered that processed food companies had a powerful lobby and heavily funded the campaign runs of state and local people who would keep their high margin processed foods as the primary supply for schools. He pointed out it was cheaper for the boards to source out fresh food. He made some head way getting the kids to at least eat yogurt.
Certainly pointed out in the end how at a young age unhealthy eating habits were being built up in children and teenagers because of political influence.