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Health.com - Fattiest foods in the US by state

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Ryuukan

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kottila said:
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Why would someone put 300 grams of powdered sugar on something that's already sweet?
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While I agree that is a lot of powdered sugar in the picture, beignets typically have very little sugar in them, just a small amount used to prime the yeast.
 
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kottila

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Ryuukan said:
While I agree that is a lot of powdered sugar in the picture, beignets typically have very little sugar in them, just a small amount used to prime the yeast.
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A croissant dosen't have that much sugar in it either, but it's still sweet enough. Why don't they put some jam in it, if they want it sweeter?
 
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Ryuukan

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kottila said:
A croissant dosen't have that much sugar in it either, but it's still sweet enough. Why don't they put some jam in it, if they want it sweeter?
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Personal preference, not everyone likes jam in their pastries.
 
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Degen

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Entered this thread expecting the almighty Philly Cheese Steak to represent my state; was not disappointed. Hell yeah.


However, Michigan, home of the Wolverines:

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what is this-- i don't even-- Where is the LT in your BLT? That thing would taste like a tub of salt.
 
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YuriLowell

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Aaron said:
MASSACHUSETTS GETS A COOKIE?! WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS?! THERE ISN'T A CARLS JR ANYWHERE NEAR MASS!

They really half assed that list for sure.
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Mass has amazing pizza. Its probably the fattiest because I can eat two whole ones in a sitting.
 
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Ryuukan

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kottila said:
I've never seen such amounts of sugar on anything

This is how you sprinkle sugar on something

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Honestly, I would think the Colorado burrito that looks like a cow placenta or that sprawling bacon monster would be far more disturbing than excess powdered sugar.
 
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Zoe

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kottila said:
A croissant dosen't have that much sugar in it either, but it's still sweet enough. Why don't they put some jam in it, if they want it sweeter?
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Then it's no longer a beignet.

I get beignets every time I go to New Orleans <3

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At Morning Call you put on the powdered sugar yourself
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Shito

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EvaPlusMinus said:
I love this part. There are fat people everywhere. Don't be an idiot.
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You should take a trip to Asia, one day: you will find way less fat people roaming the streets in Tokyo than in the US. Of course, seeing how your shameful but most delicious junk food has been conquering the world these past decades I'm sure this will all be irrelevant in a few years from now.

And yup, beignets are wonderful, but that is WAY too much sugar on them.
And that's a guy putting way too much sugar on everything that is telling you this.
 
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TheLastCandle

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Man, powdered sugar is so good on deep fried or baked treats. Delightful.

I would honestly be interested in seeing something similar, but replace the states with countries of the world. We have some hilarious excessive stuff here in the the US but I saw some stuff in Europe that would make a few of those items blush.

I had a croque madame in France that was basically two pieces of bread completely covered with an inch of gruyere cheese and two fried eggs with a side of fries. It was pretty tasty even if I couldn't finish the bastard. Not a big fan of Gruyere though.
 
DietRob

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i've been begging for over 5 years.
ITT: Health.com is too lazy to look up real regional foods so they resort to chain restaurants.

List is LOL.
 
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Shito

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TheLastCandle said:
I had a croque madame in France that was basically two pieces of bread completely covered with an inch of gruyere cheese and two fried eggs with a side of fries. It was pretty tasty even if I couldn't finish the bastard. Not a big fan of Gruyere though.
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You're probably forgetting of the ham that was inside it. That or you had a really crappy Croque Madame. ^^
 
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negreenfield

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Shito said:
And yup, beignets are wonderful, but that is WAY too much sugar on them.
And that's a guy putting way too much sugar on everything that is telling you this.
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Well, you can take some of it off (I sometimes do)

You actually have to be careful, I've breathed that stuff in a few times trying to scarf one down. Not a pretty sight!
 
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makingmusic476

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HylianTom said:
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Mmmmm. At 530am, when the neighborhood is (relatively) quiet and cool, these are perfection.
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QFT.

Love me some beignets.

Zoe said:
Then it's no longer a beignet.

I get beignets every time I go to New Orleans <3

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At Morning Call you put on the powdered sugar yourself
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And Morning Call is quite close to my house. Darn it. I'm starving and it's 9 am. Now I seriously want some beignets.
 
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TheLastCandle

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Shito said:
You're probably forgetting of the ham that was inside it. That or you had a really crappy Croque Madame. ^^
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Naw, there was ham and dijon inside as well. But there was so much damned cheese on the thing the hame was more of a garnish than anything else. :lol
 
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Zoe

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Shito said:
And yup, beignets are wonderful, but that is WAY too much sugar on them.
And that's a guy putting way too much sugar on everything that is telling you this.
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The majority of it falls off anyway. And I remember reading somewhere that Cafe du Monde adds something to the powdered sugar to make it look like that.
 
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Shito

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Zoe said:
The majority of it falls off anyway.
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Yeah, it falls off because there is TOO MUCH! ^^

Speaking about cheese and "fat" european food, do you guys know about "raclette" in the US?
I'm sure you'd love it!
 
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Degen

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YuriLowell said:
At least you didnt have Ham as your food.
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u mad? :lol

Naw but seriously, it's by far the most famous food that the average person would associate with Virginia. and it's soooo good.
 
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Kunan

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Hugbot said:
Corn Dog my ass, not with all the deep fried lard we get at the state fair.
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Yea lol :lol . And I call huge bullshit on the fattiest food of Virginia being fucking Ham.
 
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Zoe

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Ryuukan said:
Oil.
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Seriously?

Shito said:
Yeah, it falls off because there is TOO MUCH! ^^
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Not really. Going back to what you said about them being sweet on their own, they're really not. They just taste like bread otherwise. Maybe a little buttery, but I think that comes more from the oil.
 
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Buttchin

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Trent Strong said:
That lecture is bullshit. This guy is trying to sell books. If you burn more calories than you eat you will lose weight. Burning more calories than you eat, and yet somehow gaining weight, would violate the laws of physics.




Really? Because I eat fructose everyday and I'm not dead. (I also have been the same weight for 15 years, even though I eat HFCS in nearly every meal.)
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there is a reason i didnt bother arguing with the person about the lecture... i know the author was not a dietitician... I knew while some of the things he said are accurate others are just BS...
 
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Zoe

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Ryuukan said:
They are sugared as soon as they are cooked and then the powdered sugar absorbs the hot oil and steam from the pastry and clumps.
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Ok, that would make sense why Morning Call's doesn't do that since it's already cooled a bit by the time it gets to you.
 
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Dyno

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What I find interesting is the recepies themselves. The same ingredients appear again and again. Vegetables seem to have been done away with. Frying is certainly the cooking method of choice. American cuisine seems to have 'refined' itself to a very narrow type of food.
 
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f3niks

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Kunan said:
Yea lol :lol . And I call huge bullshit on the fattiest food of Virginia being fucking Ham.
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I can only speak for NoVa but I know that a few slices from Mario's have to be more fattening than a serving of ham.

I also call bs on the fact that they have a bunch of national chain food on this list too.
 
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Monroeski

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kottila said:
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Why would someone put 300 grams of powdered sugar on something that's already sweet?
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So when you take a bite the breath from your nose blows it all over you and you look like a snowman.
 
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Hugbot

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Dyno said:
What I find interesting is the recepies themselves. The same ingredients appear again and again. Vegetables seem to have been done away with. Frying is certainly the cooking method of choice. American cuisine seems to have 'refined' itself to a very narrow type of food.
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High Fructose Corn Syrup is kind of like a vegetable.

Also I don't know why you're taking a list of the unhealthiest/fattiest foods as representative of food in America as a whole?
 
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Ryuukan

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Dyno said:
What I find interesting is the recepies themselves. The same ingredients appear again and again. Vegetables seem to have been done away with. Frying is certainly the cooking method of choice. American cuisine seems to have 'refined' itself to a very narrow type of food.
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If you want to base your view of American Cuisine off of an article about the 'fattiest foods in the US' go right ahead and keep that shortsighted view.
I'm sure you would consider doner kebab and curry to be cornerstones of British Cuisine.
 
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RiggenBlaque

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I don't like how they say that the Garbage Plate is a New York thing. That's mainly a Rochester and Buffalo thing and they really only have them in Buffalo because so many people go to college there from Rochester.

Also, to Garbage Plate haters, you gotta get good ones. There are about a million clones of them from every diner or "hots" place in the city, but very few are actually good. I know my first one was in High School and it was from some shitty hots place in the suburbs and it was awful. I then went to the place where they were originally made and that was far better (but not even that was the best).

You'd think a plate of homefries and burgers slathered in grease wouldn't be very difficult to make it taste good, but surprisingly it is.
 
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AqueousTransmission

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I'm from Michigan and I was surprised to see BLT listed for us, I didn't think it was more common here than anywhere else? And I have never seen a BLT like THAT :lol

I would have expected to see some Mackinac Island fudge or Rice Krispy treats at least (considering Kellogg cereals were born here).

Also, do people actually eat turducken?! I thought it was just a joke food!
 
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Vandiger

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Typical comfort food. Nothing bad if you consume it in moderation. Life would be fucking dull without some guilty food pleasure.
 
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funkmastergeneral

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Buttchin said:
there is a reason i didnt bother arguing with the person about the lecture... i know the author was not a dietitician... I knew while some of the things he said are accurate others are just BS...
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What do you disagree with? And with studies to back it up.
 
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teh_pwn

"Saturated fat causes heart disease as much as Brawndo is what plants crave."
Trent Strong said:
That lecture is bullshit. This guy is trying to sell books. If you burn more calories than you eat you will lose weight. Burning more calories than you eat, and yet somehow gaining weight, would violate the laws of physics.




Really? Because I eat fructose everyday and I'm not dead. (I also have been the same weight for 15 years, even though I eat HFCS in nearly every meal.)
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And there's plenty of smokers that didn't get cancer. You're not proving anything with anecdotal evidence. If you response to an argument that is "caloriesIn-caloriesOut does cause fat gain under certain circumstances, but doesn't explain cause" is "you're violating physics by saying caloriesIn-CaloriesOut doesn't matter" then I really don't have anything else to say to you. That's a logical fallacy from the get go.

You can call Taubes stuff bullshit if you provide scientific evidence that insulin is not the fat storage hormone, that leptin is not the appetite hormone. You'll probably selectively ignore half of what I say again, and post some tabloid media science article that makes a bunch of assumptions with no data to back it up.


Fructose increases fasting triglycerides:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17158419

Fructose induced hypertension (it's not the salt, but society won't get this for years...i mean really meat has been cured with tons of salt for ages, why would it suddenly cause problems now?):
http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v74/n4/abs/ki2008184a.html

Cutting carbs more effective than calories at practical weight loss in insulin resistant women:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100619173919.htm

Fructose causes fat cells to enlarge/mature faster in children
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100621091203.htm

Weight loss associated with reduction of insulin:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17335828

Bacteria in the gut control appetite:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100304142232.htm

Here's a study that muses the idea of the first law of thermodynamic being broken, when really simply saying caloriesIn-CaloriesOut violates the 2nd law:
http://www.nutritionj.com/content/3/1/9

Ketogenic (very low carb) diet vastly improves blood lipid profile:
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/132/7/1879

So what is your response to this? Are these studies stuff made up by researchers? Does it not matter because you personally have not experienced the results of these tests?
 
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teh_pwn

"Saturated fat causes heart disease as much as Brawndo is what plants crave."
I also think the premise of this thread - that saturated fats or dietary fats in general are unhealthy - is flawed. These show that satured fat has no correlation with heart disease and cancer:

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.29146v1
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.27725v1
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2008.26285v1

If anything too much omega6 fats causes inflammation and consequently other issues. Ie, it's the grains and industrialized seed oils (soy, corn, canola, etc) that are the problem.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12578976?dopt=Abstract

Or another way to look at it is that lack of omega3 fats. If you get enough omega3, omega6 becomes less harmful:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/05/eicosanoids-and-ischemic-heart-diseas.html
 
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elrechazado

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Trent Strong said:
Really? Because I eat fructose everyday and I'm not dead. (I also have been the same weight for 15 years, even though I eat HFCS in nearly every meal.)
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I know people who smoke every day, and they're not dead. Ergo, smoking isn't a poison.
 
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