Jordan~ wrote:The history behind it is really interesting. Like, we deep fry things because it's a cheap way of cooking that makes the food higher in energy, which is good if you live in a one bedroom tenement flat with five kids and draw one menial wage, but not so good if you can easily afford to come home from the supermarket with a full trolley of groceries twice a week. And deep frying things makes them sweeter, too, which appeals to the sweet tooth we've developed as a nation from only being able to eat fruit when it's preserved like in jam and marmelade. My gran remembers when supermarkets were first opening in Scotland and suddenly she was able to buy so much food so cheaply, but she just kept making the same stuff - buying fruit to make jam, condensed milk and caster sugar for puddings, potatoes for chips, etc.
America's health problems are mostly related to the high meat and dairy content of the American diet, which probably comes from the fact that frontier Americans depended a lot on their livestock for food because crops were unreliable; Scotland's are because we love sweet and fatty foods, a symptom of high density, low wage inner city living.
ursulabear wrote:Nobody can make better summer food than the Swedes. Cucumber and fresh fish (I don't eat fish anymore, but it was good), lemon cakes with berries (lingon and cloud), rose hips and gradde (clotted cream, I think. Not something you find in the u.s.). And pastries everywhere! Swedes love candy, so I went to this awesome candy store that is the size of my house almost everyday. And the pizza you get in Sweden, made by Middle Eastern men who can barely speak Swedish is so so so good! And all of the Swedes I know put ketchup on pasta. Gross. In Norway, I ate like I ate here because it was too expensive to eat out. In Holland, I had the best cheese and bread! Middelburg was such a lovely city. I love the weird dip they have for fries, too. Gerben, care to comment?
queenofnerds wrote:So guys and gals. Can you help a lonely single out. I want to to on holiday but not sure where to go. Have any of you travelled alone?
queenofnerds wrote:Thanks milki I'm gonna Google some places see what's good. I'm gonna have to Google couchsurfing as I don't know what it is!!
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