Sugar Is Toxic

[binley100]

it's probably hiding ...............

*I'll get me coat ..........

[veggiechicken]

it's probably hiding ...............

*I'll get me coat ..........

Think I will too!

[mothhawk]

I read an interesting view on sweeteners a few years ago, it said you're better of sticking to real sugar, although it IS bad for you, our bodies know how to process it, unlike the artificial sweeteners that we didn't evolve with.

Forgive me being pedantic, but we didn't "evolve" with sugar. When Darius, King of Persia, invaded India in 510 BC, he discovered the "reed that makes honey without bees" and took the idea home. Cane cultivation gradually spread around the Arab world, but it was the returning Crusaders who brought the sugar trade to Europe in the 11th century, and it remained a luxury item until the 19th century, when the heavy tax on sugar was abolished, and also sugar beet began to be used in Europe.

So processed sugar cane/beet has only been affordable as a regular dietary food for the ordinary citizen for less than 250 years, maybe six generations, not really very much time to do any evolving at all.

[mothhawk]

I've already got me tin 'at on, reaching for me coat as I type...

[_Chris_]

When I say sugar I really just mean simple carbohydrate, not actual sugar cane. Interesting stuff though

[Two_Sheds]

How much sugar is there in goose fat?

Pedant.

Coming from me, that's a compliment

[piskieinboots]

How much sugar is there in goose fat?

BUT - fat is an essential nutrient, sugar is not

[Two_Sheds]

BUT - fat in moderation, and of the healthy kind, not the saturated sort. Fat is another thing slipped into all kinds of processed foods to add mouth feel and flavour: instant noodles are one of the worst.

[veggiechicken]

Pedant.

Coming from me, that's a compliment

You crafty so and so, TS! You've edited your earlier post, just to make me look like an idiot!!

[Two_Sheds]

You've edited your earlier post, just to make me look like an idiot!!

No, not at all.

You rightly corrected me, so I corrected my post. You now have the option to delete or edit your post.
Confused? I am

[veggiechicken]

No, not at all.

You rightly corrected me, so I corrected my post. You now have the option to delete or edit your post.
Confused? I am

But if I delete or correct my post I'll make others look like idiots - and I'm sure they're not! Since I'm used to being made fun of, I'll let sleeping geese lie. Let those that come after me chew the fat about my sanity.

[piskieinboots]

Spuds roasted in goose fat - yum... what?

[veggiechicken]

Spuds roasted in goose fat - yum... what?

Don't you mean sugar crusted spuds with goose fat syrup topping? I feel sick....

[piskieinboots]

No - wherever possible I don't eat sugar - but I do eat fat and appear to be losing weight whilst doing so ...bonus

[Madasafish]

Spuds roasted in goose fat - yum... what?

NO NO No.

Boil for 10 minutes, drain, put into a tray with hot vegetable oil (rape seed is cheap and works well) and roast in oven fro about 80 mins.

Lovely and crisp outside but not hard and leathery - and far fewer calories. And if you lightly salt the water in which you boil them - gorgeous...

Goose fat is for geese...