Sushi is immensely complicated, to the point where you need a 2 year degree to be a true sushi chef. It is as healthy as you get. EXPENSIVE AF but healthy.
Hummus with meat is very healthy, it tastes really good and isn’t boring. Other Middle Eastern stuff is too.
A properly prepared ultra-high-end filet mignon at a top steakhouse is 500 calories! The truffle mashed potatoes with it are I think 230 calories. The starter salad with it is 500 calories. This is a 50+ dollars per plate thing, it makes your tummi rejoice, and though it is premium taste and ingredients and will keep you filled for the rest of the day, it’s literally the calories of a McDonald’s meal.
Healthy food is not boring, it’s expensive. One of the unfortunate divides between the rich and poor is how much easier it is for the rich to stay in good shape for this reason.
Yeah, a medium McDonald’s fry here in the States is an extra large in other countries.
Israel is also the size of Illinois, so like other tiny countries like Switzerland, a lot of people from there go traveling abroad and become “worldly.” America is so huge you can spend your life without leaving its borders because New York is so vastly different than, say, small town Arkansas.
Don’t blame the doctors for that lol. It’s cultural. We’re conditioned to think that we’re getting a better deal by getting more bang for our buck. For example, if you are buying Windex, a 20% free jumbo bottle is preferable to the normal bottle. Food portions are the same way. At the very apex of the food industry are the 600 per plate French restaurants, these are where you take your girlfriend to when you plan to propose to her. The portions are so small in these restaurants that some people on Yelp joke about having to go out and get gyros 2 hours later. So, yeah, the common complaint with these ultra-high-end food places is tiny portions. I can’t imagine how that part of our culture was manufactured by health care rather than cultural preferences.
This is Ruth’s Chris, they have a combo. The other top steakhouse Iv’e been to (though not recently) was Morton’s, I think theirs was like 60.
If what I had was not top steak, I gotta admit, they had me fooled. My family doesn’t go there often, but when we have a truly special occasion, like anniversary, we do.
I’m not blaming the doctors, they are little people in the grand scheme of things.
More like the CEOs, and cfos, of blue Cross, blue shield, Aetna, united healthcare, and the drug companies making money off of americans being unhealthy.
Why then do you think we have gotten so fat and unhealthy? We didn’t have this problem 50 years ago.
We are spending about 3.5 trillion a year on health care, that is like 17-20% of this countries gdp.
I’ve also read that obesity and obesity related diseases are the leading cause of death in America.
Both have good and expensive steaks, but there is a tier above that that arent generally chains like these two, and that what I thought you were referring to.
I am not sure how a steak can be better than Ruth Chris or Morton’s, but I’ll take your word for it. I’ve never been to that tier above you’re talking about. In the unlikely case I ever need to propose to a girl I guess I’ll find out.
My family just goes to Ruth’s Chris for super special dinners, we’ve never been to a 100 per plate place. We’ve got nthing to complain about, so we don’t mind.
Can you say no when your dog gives you the puppy eyes?
all that said - if I have an otherwise equal (same prices, same food quality, etc) choice between a chain and a single proprietor place - whether it be a steakhouse or whatever - I will almost always go with the latter. Thats not shade on chains, just how I am
Yup, I love Ruth Chris. The best part is it’ a chain so if I am in another part of the country and need a go-to for this level of cow, I know where to go.
Well, I am going to get skinny now. After not being able to hold down food for 3 days and puking 10 times, I can’t even look at that sort of food anymore.
My apartment is in Chicago proper, but my mom and dad live in the suburbs ,where basically everything shuts down at 9 pm. All the really nice stuff is in downtown, but since chunks of ice fly off the skyscraper tops, I try to keep my visits there to a minimum. I once saw a guy in front of me nearly get hammered by a falling chunk of ice, thank God he was wearing a hard hat.
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