Tasty

[Dane]

I got this from my mom, who in turn got it from the Nutritionist where she works (Vancouver General Hospital)

"Phoney Phood"

"It's a delicious new non-caffeinated hot beverage that's smooth, frothy, and deliciously different," gushes Tim Horton’s about the chain's new Hot Smoothees.

"And it's available in four unique flavours: Butter Caramel, Raspberry, Hazelnut, and Orange. Why not try one today?"

Go ahead. Try a cup of hot sugar, hydrogenated coconut oil, skim milk power, glucose solids, sodium caseinate, potassium phosphate dibasic, artificial flavouring, silicon dioxide, salt, mono and diglycerines, cellulose gum, xanthenes gum, Soya lecithin, and FC&D Yellow#5.

But wait! That's just the "vanilla base" (No Vanilla included.) Now comes the added flavours. For the "raspberry" for example, that means propylene glycol, glycerine, water, FC&D Red #40, and FC&D Blue#1. The "hazelnut"? Substitute caramel colouring and tri-acetin for the red and blue food colourings. No wonder the flavours are unique.

These moth watering ingredients should make a lasting impression on you, especially the calories (from 190 for a small to 450 for an extra large) and the sugar (5 teaspoons in a small, 12 teaspoons in an extra large). Best of all your arteries won't forget saturated fat, which starts at 5 grams for the small and ends at 13 grams for an extra large.

Nothing like some frothy, non-caffeinated non-food.

FROM: Nutrition Action Headquarters (Toronto, ON)
Vancouver General Hospital

[Retrovision]

Thank you, Dane! this is a subject that has worried myself as well as my family for years, in relation to the general population of North America. We are quite a health-conscience family to begin with, making our views a little biased, but those views are based on a combination of solid facts and connecting the dots.

All of my mom's side of the family lives in The States, my Grandparents having lived in (and my mom having grown up in) the Los Angeles area, where I've visited most frequently over the years. In fact, that's the city that I just returned from yesterday.

In the spirit of what Dane has started here, and what I'd call "Connect the Dots for yourself," I'd like to relay this news item that was shown on a local L.A. broadcast the other day:



Supersized Ambulance Hits The Road

KTLA News

March 29, 2006, 4:00 PM PST

LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas company has purchased a new extra-large ambulance designed to handle extra-large patients.

American Medical Response bought the 250-thousand-dollar bariatric ambulance at the request of the Clark County Fire Department.

The vehicle looks like a regular ambulance, but is extra-wide and has a larger gurney. The super-sized rig is also equipped with a winch and ramps capable of loading up to 16-hundred pounds.

Company official say in the last six months, ambulance crews have called 75 times for additional manpower to handle morbidly obese patients. The largest patient weighed more than 500 pounds.

The county's other ambulance provider, MedicWest, is awaiting delivery of a similar bariatric ambulance and recently bought four electric gurneys capable of handling patients weighing up to 750 pounds.

Federal and state health agencies estimate that 21% of Nevada's 1.7 million adult residents are obese.

[Starbucks Queen]

Read that - and it sounds disguisting bäh ! Eating chemicals right away. I must say I have travelled alot and I know when travelling abroad you might get in touch with some exotic foods. Not all is tempting but least tempting was the stuff in Canada and USA - unless you had a kitchen and decide to go to the market and prepare something yourself.

I could not resist, when I ordered a cappuchino and got some artificial stuff, in a restaurant near Seattle and answering the waiters question whether it taste good "It tastes good - THANKS TO THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY".

Cappuchino here: Coffee - well we do import something called coffee-beans from here. Hot water, Milk. Use steam to make the milk foamy and add a bit of sugar - white or brown one and it´ready. And it tastes real.

OK, and that´s one I like really


1. Only in America... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America... are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America... do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in America... do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in America... do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in America... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in America... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in America... do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Only in America... do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille.

[Mike C]

Good ones! Haha, you will only find these in America,

11. Only in America... someone/someone like George Bush is president.

[CN2972South]

dane said:

I got this from my mom, who in turn got it from the Nutritionist where she works (Vancouver General Hospital)

"Phoney Phood"

"It's a delicious new non-caffeinated hot beverage that's smooth, frothy, and deliciously different," gushes Tim Horton’s about the chain's new Hot Smoothees.

Go ahead. Try a cup of hot sugar, hydrogenated coconut oil, skim milk power, glucose solids, sodium caseinate, potassium phosphate dibasic, artificial flavouring, silicon dioxide, salt, mono and diglycerines, cellulose gum, xanthenes gum, Soya lecithin, and FC&D Yellow#5.

Vancouver General Hospital

Makes me want a to go get a large one! LOL

[Political Incorrectness]

mainlander101 said:

Good ones! Haha, you will only find these in America,

11. Only in America... someone/someone like George Bush is president.

12. Only in this world... people are screwed by their own governments.

[Scott]

Oh well, it tastes good:) Might as well enjoy life instead of trying to live past 80!!!

[Retrovision]

ferrymaniac101 said:

12. Only in America... politicans are screwed.

Correction:

"12. Only in this world... people are screwed by their own governments."

[Political Incorrectness]

Then the correction has been made

[Starbucks Queen]

admin said:

Oh well, it tastes good:) Might as well enjoy life instead of trying to live past 80!!!

Enjoying life is it for sure. Had more Caffe Latte than I should have had, today, ok cereals with fruits and chocolate afterwards... etc. I just don´t like stuff that tastes artificial like something that comes straight out of one of the chemical factories here, I mean stuff that is supposed to taste like strawberries - at least tells on the package.. but it does not taste like the strawberries I can pick up in summer, stuff that is supposed to taste of tomatoes but tastes more like something from outer space.

Health ? Eh - all these companies trying to sell you a vitamin pill for that, and another for that - gimme some grilled meat, smoked fish, potatoes etc. any day !

Since I am a very contradictory person, I must admit - I have a soft spot for Root Beer although it tastes SO chemical I must admit