teezzy
Banned
I'm a simple man, so one of my favorite activities is grocery shopping. For me, it's not just about buying food, but people-watching as well. I'm the weirdo looking at you and looking at the contents of your shopping cart and judging your lifestyle. Believe me, I'm judging hard.
There's a Seinfeld joke about going to the grocery store and he talks about trying to find attractive, physically fit, people, and thinking, "He looks good, I wonder what he's eating"
You wouldn't believe how rampant obesity is here in Metro Detroit. Dear lord. What a crude reminder of reality my grocery trips are.
For the most part I stick to produce, eggs, and meat. I eat a lot of canned fish.
A couple days ago I made my Pop Tart thread. I was craving garbage. I bought those Pretzel boys and some Wild Berry ones because I hadn't had them since the 90s. I bought some carrot cake cupcakes from the bakery section too.
I won't lie, I gobbled that spit. Then I felt like ass. My thoughts were sluggish, I was tired, I could feel tension in my arms from a blood sugar spike. I had gunked up my system. It was... not good. Fairly certain I gained a couple pounds... and I wanted more sugar.
Cut to tonight, grocery shopping proper. More people watching.
In front of me in line was a family. Mom, dad, and two kids. All obese. The one piece of produce they bought was a little container of strawberries. Apart from that there were Pop Tarts, Cheetos, two loaves of white bread, ice cream, chocoloate syrup, 2 packs of hot dog buns, way too much Mountain Dew, pasta, muffins, Hostess, Little Debbie, TV dinners, yogurt - but the sugarry ass Yoplait kind, etc. No sign of anything that resembled "actual food" in sight. This is definitely not a quinoa family.
Then I made eye contact with the son. Maybe like 12 years old, and my heart broke. Kid was fat. Very fat. Reminded me of myself when I was young (I grew up "the fat kid") and like most other fat kids, he had this "soft" personality. You can tell he played a lot of video games; his posture was flamboyant and his clothing ill fitting. There's a sadness in these kids. You know they're picked on and self loathing, but they're not the ones buying the groceries. It's their parents who are, and the parents should be ashamed of themselves. Kids learn their dietary habits from their parents. I was an obese kid and my father was obese. I just sorta assumed it was genetic at that age. Like I was born fat. This kid is dopey and nice, probably funny too. You have to depend on that socially when you're a fat kid.
Idk, I dont have much of a point. I wish there was more of an effort in this country to educate people about food. We're animals - y'know? In the wild, human beings would not be eating like this. Mostly produce and fish - I think. Not Twinkies. We're so far removed from our natural state with our lifestyles.
Like if your kid wants something sweet, buy lots of fruit. Fruit has sugar in it, but lots of nutrients and fiber too! You never see some fat person and think "wow they must eat a lot of fruit!"
/rant
There's a Seinfeld joke about going to the grocery store and he talks about trying to find attractive, physically fit, people, and thinking, "He looks good, I wonder what he's eating"
You wouldn't believe how rampant obesity is here in Metro Detroit. Dear lord. What a crude reminder of reality my grocery trips are.
For the most part I stick to produce, eggs, and meat. I eat a lot of canned fish.
A couple days ago I made my Pop Tart thread. I was craving garbage. I bought those Pretzel boys and some Wild Berry ones because I hadn't had them since the 90s. I bought some carrot cake cupcakes from the bakery section too.
I won't lie, I gobbled that spit. Then I felt like ass. My thoughts were sluggish, I was tired, I could feel tension in my arms from a blood sugar spike. I had gunked up my system. It was... not good. Fairly certain I gained a couple pounds... and I wanted more sugar.
Cut to tonight, grocery shopping proper. More people watching.
In front of me in line was a family. Mom, dad, and two kids. All obese. The one piece of produce they bought was a little container of strawberries. Apart from that there were Pop Tarts, Cheetos, two loaves of white bread, ice cream, chocoloate syrup, 2 packs of hot dog buns, way too much Mountain Dew, pasta, muffins, Hostess, Little Debbie, TV dinners, yogurt - but the sugarry ass Yoplait kind, etc. No sign of anything that resembled "actual food" in sight. This is definitely not a quinoa family.
Then I made eye contact with the son. Maybe like 12 years old, and my heart broke. Kid was fat. Very fat. Reminded me of myself when I was young (I grew up "the fat kid") and like most other fat kids, he had this "soft" personality. You can tell he played a lot of video games; his posture was flamboyant and his clothing ill fitting. There's a sadness in these kids. You know they're picked on and self loathing, but they're not the ones buying the groceries. It's their parents who are, and the parents should be ashamed of themselves. Kids learn their dietary habits from their parents. I was an obese kid and my father was obese. I just sorta assumed it was genetic at that age. Like I was born fat. This kid is dopey and nice, probably funny too. You have to depend on that socially when you're a fat kid.
Idk, I dont have much of a point. I wish there was more of an effort in this country to educate people about food. We're animals - y'know? In the wild, human beings would not be eating like this. Mostly produce and fish - I think. Not Twinkies. We're so far removed from our natural state with our lifestyles.
Like if your kid wants something sweet, buy lots of fruit. Fruit has sugar in it, but lots of nutrients and fiber too! You never see some fat person and think "wow they must eat a lot of fruit!"
/rant
