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On the very rare occassions I go to a restaurant, I'm not too bothered about the food or service, I'm just glad I don't have to cook it & wash up after.
That's, what the nursing personnel arguments here, too. They say, that the people with dementia are almost always diabetics. But, medicine has not proven it, finally.
I can count on three fingers the number of times I've eaten at Outback. The first time was when they first opened restaurants here in southern California, just to check the place out; the other times were at someone else's insistence. All three times, at different locations, my experience was the same--I got a piece of meat that was about 25% gristle, overcooked, and about as easy to chew as an old tennis shoe, and the sides (whatever they were) were lukewarm at best. They could have knocked 50% off of whatever they charged us and those meals still would have been overpriced.I will gladly pay $48 for a top notch steak, cooked to perfection. What I won't do is pay more than 39 cents for that garbage they serve at Outback. I'd rather eat dirt.
I can count on three fingers the number of times I've eaten at Outback. The first time was when they first opened restaurants here in southern California, just to check the place out; the other times were at someone else's insistence. All three times, at different locations, my experience was the same--I got a piece of meat that was about 25% gristle, overcooked, and about as easy to chew as an old tennis shoe, and the sides (whatever they were) were lukewarm at best. They could have knocked 50% off of whatever they charged us and those meals still would have been overpriced.
Yes, gastronomy is mainly scam, traditional, I think.
..... And ultimately that $7.50 steak is going to end up in the same place as the $48 one.
Denial has been around quite a while too. .....as with most potential health risks, they don't exist until they touch us personally.
In the absence of concrete proof either way, is it not wiser to err on the side of caution ? without being fanatical about it of course, though I would have thought it was common sense to reduce the ingestion of toxic metal nanoparticles, as much as possible.
That's kind of the way I look at it. Food is sustenance, not some sybaritic indulgence. If I really want a good steak, I can go up here to the grocery store and for $7.50 I can buy a very nice cut of meat and then I can come home and cook it myself exactly the way I like it in ten minutes and be fully satisfied. And ultimately that $7.50 steak is going to end up in the same place as the $48 one.
And ultimately that $7.50 steak is going to end up in the same place as the $48 one.
If you can get a high quality cut of steak for $7.50, you live a charmed life indeed. Even here in cattle country, that steak is $20, minimum.
$7.50 gets me a nice slice of ribeye that cooks up fine, tastes good, and satisfies. Anything else is angels dancing on the head of a pin.
And quite a few of those things people believe to be causation are actually correlation.I'm not advocating eating aluminum as a health benefit, I'm saying that's a far cry from "if you wrap your sandwich in aluminum foil, you'll get Alzheimer's". We take risks every day we get out of bed, and believe it or not, even on the days we don't. There's a huge difference between "common sense" and "paralyzing paranoia". I'm not against the former, it's just that too many people are too quick to dismiss science because they read something on the internet or heard it from a celebrity hairdresser.
I know we've been talking about aluminum, but wasn't there a period in the '70s when microwaves were supposedly killing us? Also, hand held hair dryers, if memory serves, had some event (maybe asbestos was the issue) back in the '60s or '70s - right? The asbestos thing, if that was it, sounds real. Was there anything real to the microwave scare?