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Dietary musings....
A friend just returned from the doctor--practical nurse, actually--who ran a bunch of tests and pronounced my friend who is on more medicines than you-know-who to be otherwise in very good health, body chemistry normal--except for the cholesterol. She has been informed she must spend 8-12 weeks eating the things she hates--veggies, mostly--and then they will re-evaluate.
I sympathized but told her she'd make it--she knew better than to complain to me about diet! I had another bad bout--a trip to Macaroni Grill was sprung on me suddenly. After negotiating with the manager, I tried the Pork Chop, cooked in its own juices, and steamed veggies. Seemed fine then (I occasionally dipped things in what I thought was straight balsamic vinegar) but within 90 minutes I was home in the bathroom and realizing I wasn't going to get to eat those good leftovers. My guess is the balsamic vinegar was the mixed stuff they used on the salads and grilling that I was trying to avoid, and the waiter had a brain fart. I didn't put it on the uneaten chop. Maybe it's okay...
Eating out is a pain...eating is a pain. Makes my diet very monotonous, and the body bloat is crazy. Hope that aspect of the condition subsides soon. I had another staple pulled out from under me last week. Not only has Central Market South decided that the natural canadian bacon (cooked, no nitrates or additives or antibiotics) doesn't taste as good as the regular natural (no antibiotics, but nitrates and sugars!) but they've now convinced North of the same. I'll have to see if Whole Foods still has the natural. The other is better than anything else out there, but I figure I don't need nitrates, as upset as my system is. I tried a direct taste test with the last of the natural and the other stuff--and the natural tastes sweeter to me!
I understand the meat guy's dilemma. When you are used to the highly sweet offerings of sugared and other things pork, natural bacon, etc. tastes very bland at first. But then your system adjusts--and you discover that natural pork is actually very sweet and juicy.
Being a writer, my mind wandered over to the many times I've read comments taken from cannibals who reported that people tasted like pork--I wonder if Heinlein actually interviewed a cannibal, or just went by the comment knowledge? He mentioned it in a YA of his once.
If people taste like natural pork, no wonder we spent so many centuries eating each other.... %^)
I sympathized but told her she'd make it--she knew better than to complain to me about diet! I had another bad bout--a trip to Macaroni Grill was sprung on me suddenly. After negotiating with the manager, I tried the Pork Chop, cooked in its own juices, and steamed veggies. Seemed fine then (I occasionally dipped things in what I thought was straight balsamic vinegar) but within 90 minutes I was home in the bathroom and realizing I wasn't going to get to eat those good leftovers. My guess is the balsamic vinegar was the mixed stuff they used on the salads and grilling that I was trying to avoid, and the waiter had a brain fart. I didn't put it on the uneaten chop. Maybe it's okay...
Eating out is a pain...eating is a pain. Makes my diet very monotonous, and the body bloat is crazy. Hope that aspect of the condition subsides soon. I had another staple pulled out from under me last week. Not only has Central Market South decided that the natural canadian bacon (cooked, no nitrates or additives or antibiotics) doesn't taste as good as the regular natural (no antibiotics, but nitrates and sugars!) but they've now convinced North of the same. I'll have to see if Whole Foods still has the natural. The other is better than anything else out there, but I figure I don't need nitrates, as upset as my system is. I tried a direct taste test with the last of the natural and the other stuff--and the natural tastes sweeter to me!
I understand the meat guy's dilemma. When you are used to the highly sweet offerings of sugared and other things pork, natural bacon, etc. tastes very bland at first. But then your system adjusts--and you discover that natural pork is actually very sweet and juicy.
Being a writer, my mind wandered over to the many times I've read comments taken from cannibals who reported that people tasted like pork--I wonder if Heinlein actually interviewed a cannibal, or just went by the comment knowledge? He mentioned it in a YA of his once.
If people taste like natural pork, no wonder we spent so many centuries eating each other.... %^)