Post #322,409
3/5/10 1:35:43 PM
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This is sacrilege
Over the years, the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show has done its part to make Texans the fattest creatures on the face of the Earth by offering some of the most calorie laden foods that it can. For example, offerings from years past include:
- deep-fried Snickers bars
- deep-fried corn dogs
- deep-fried Twinkies
- deep-fried Coca-Cola syrup (yep; the concentrated syrup that's mixed with carbonated water to produce the soft drink)
Well, this year they've crossed the line. They're selling deep fried White Castle Hamburgers. That's right: batter covered and boiled in grease Sliders. Eaten during the daytime.
SACRILEGE!
Everyone knows that you should ONLY eat White Castle hamburgers after 2:30 AM on your way home from the local bar.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #322,419
3/5/10 2:24:13 PM
3/5/10 2:24:43 PM
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You are some fat bastards, but not the fattest
http://www.cdc.gov/m...html/mm5845a2.htm
Check the chart at the bottom. Of course, those statistics were gathered before the dawn of the deep-fried slider.
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Drew
Edited by drook
March 5, 2010, 02:24:43 PM EST
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Post #322,431
3/5/10 4:32:50 PM
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MiCthulhu.. correlation may not be causality. They Say
But it looks like more testimonial that the Civil War (er, the First one, but maybe also the Present beginning one)
was a Huge Mistake. We shoulda let the crackers secede.
By now they'd be the local teaching-lab: for getting Muricans prepared for the adjustment to Full Banana Republic folkways and mores (to complement the bankruptcy when it is formally declared.)
I mean, I mean:
ain't that darkest hued-territory ~~ an almost exact overlay on the Slave (and slavering) States du that jour, going right up to the borders!?
(noticing for the later 'Nevada' ... and especially Las Vegas' county: the modern concentration point for CDO operators, bankers and those occasional amateur-gamblers/voyeurs/suckers.)
(No wonder that photo-essay of Walmart Shoppers, some months back, was in da Souf == avoirdupois rhymes with I-slept-with-my-pa, maybe?)
Gahhhh.. as they say.
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Post #322,433
3/5/10 4:46:15 PM
3/5/10 4:47:08 PM
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Arggh-dupe; wrong arrow.
But it looks like more testimonial that the Civil War (er, the First one, but maybe also the Present beginning one)
was a Huge Mistake. We shoulda let the crackers secede.
By now they'd be the local teaching-lab: for getting Muricans prepared for the adjustment to Full Banana Republic folkways and mores (to complement the bankruptcy when it is formally declared.)
I mean, I mean:
ain't that darkest hued-territory an almost exact overlay on the Slave (and slavering) States du that jour, going right up to the borders!?
(noticing for the later 'Nevada' ... and especially Las Vegas' county: the modern concentration point for CDO operators, bankers and those occasional amateur-gamblers/voyeurs/suckers.)
(No wonder that photo-essay of Walmart Shoppers, some months back, was in da Souf == avoirdupois rhymes with I-slept-with-my-pa, maybe?)
Gahhhh.. as they say.
Edited by Ashton
March 5, 2010, 04:47:08 PM EST
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Post #322,436
3/5/10 5:26:54 PM
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naw, its yer yankee finger, here have a southron one :-)
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #322,450
3/6/10 2:10:08 AM
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Obesity MINUS diabetes
I notice that some states (WI, MN, in particular) have high obesity but low diabetes. Fat but healthy? Cheese consumption, maybe?
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Post #322,456
3/6/10 7:57:40 AM
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Eastern European stock somehow a factor? Dunno.
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Post #322,458
3/6/10 8:53:30 AM
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stocky !=obesity it may be genetic
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #322,512
3/7/10 9:57:01 PM
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Yes and no...
Genetics plays a role in Type I && II (but not in gestational or (sometimes) ones involving injury.
Overweight can be a side effect of Diabetes...(and not eating right can affect you getting Type II diabetes) I know diabetics (who don't handle their sugars properly) who have gotten heavily overweight. I know others who have watched their weight and reversed diabetes.
But my Grandfather was rail-thin and had to take insulin the entire time I knew him.
No hard and fast rules. It's a fun disease.
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Post #322,466
3/6/10 9:14:25 AM
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Seems odd...
I seem to remember reading somewhere that diabetes had a higher incidence in Scandinavians.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #322,492
3/6/10 6:59:32 PM
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Re: This is sacrilege
Everyone knows that you should ONLY eat White Castle hamburgers after 2:30 AM on your way home from the local bar.
Hard to know that when the closest White Castle is in Cape Girardeau, Missouri :)
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Post #322,530
3/8/10 5:25:57 PM
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Re: This is sacrilege
White Castle's web site doesn't show one in Cape Girardeau. The closest one to you is in Farmington, MO.
So, get a motel room in that town, go have a few drinks, and then enjoy some Sliders the correct way!
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #322,539
3/8/10 6:18:53 PM
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that's odd
the only reason I know about the Cape Girardeau location is because I looked up the closest location via White Castle's web site.
No need to drive all the way there - HEB has them in the frozen foods section.
http://www.whitecast...om/food/in-stores
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Post #322,591
3/9/10 1:14:51 PM
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I know, but they're just not the same
They have to have that fresh-off-the-grill warmth and smell, with just the right amount of grease; you just can't get that from a thawed Slider. Besides, the ambience is part of the taste and experience (like watching a guy go into the men's room to hurl, then coming out to buy 6 more).
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
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