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[pmccarthy]

Wonder how they'd go fried in batter.

[Marty_d]

Is that your Scottish heritage coming out?

[red750]

I saw a video clip on Facebook the other day where the guy stuck a stick in the end of the Tim Tam, dipped it in marshmallow, and toasted it over an open fire.

 

He also dropped an Oreo into a cup, covered it with milk, popped it in the microwave for a couiple of minutes then  ate it.

[onetrack]

Heart attack on a stick, like so much American-style food.

[facthunter]

American life expectancy is not that high and is getting worse. Nev

[onetrack]

Heart attacks and cancer take out 1.2M Americans every year, they are America's biggest killers. A lot of that can be put down to their rubbishy, ultra-processed food, full of toxic additives.

If you pick up a factory processed food and the ingredients label reads like a biblical text, or an extract from a science article, put it back.

 

The food processing additives are nearly all industrial by-products, or based on petroleum-orgin chemicals. The worst part is buying food that says it has no additives. Not in their factory, anyway.

Then you find out they are importing food ingredients from other countries, that have had illegal, un-approved or dodgy additives added, in that other country.

 

Orange juice is an example. You buy Australian-packaged orange juice, it says, "no additives, just 100% orange juice". Then you find out they're importing orange juice CONCENTRATE from Brazil, where additives not approved here, have been added to the concentrate.

So you're getting un-approved additives in your juice, yet the manufacturers here, tell you you aren't. Our food labelling system is as dodgy as a 3 dollar note.

 

Another interesting angle is seed oils. RFK Junior, despite his crazyiness, does have some relevant points with his crusade against seed oils. Here's an example. Cottonseed oil is the most common frying/cooking oil used. It's used in every commercial kitchen, cafe and restuarant. Why? Because it's cheap, and no food business will pay a lot more, for better quality oils.

 

The rub with cottonseed oil is - cotton is not recognised as a food crop. Food crops have all sorts of laws banning certain pesticides and weedicides from being used on them. Not so with cotton.

Cotton is attacked by hordes of bugs, they love the stuff. So the cotton growers use millions of litres of highly toxic pesticides, and weedicides to assist in cotton growth - and half of them are not allowed in food production.

 

But the cotton seeds are then processed to yield lots of cheap oil, which is then sold as cooking and frying oil. It is idiocy.

 

I read an article the other day, where a cooking guru was lamenting the cooking show chefs, and their lack of attention to good, healthy cooking oils.

 

The writer talked about how the celebrity chefs went to great pains to select premium foods and indulge in celebrated food preparation processes - then they reached for cheap, shitty cottonseed oil, to cook it all in!!

[Jerry_Atrick]

I read Aus has high cancer rates that has the scientific community stumped.. 

 

Could that be one contributing factor?

[facthunter]

Where did you read that? We have a lot of skin cancers due to sun, U/V, exposure. Over heating cooking oils of any Kind is not recommended. Nor is burning fat on meat on a flamed barbecue. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

There have been a few different articles focusing on different cancers... "ironically", none I recall on skin cancers. 

 

Here's one: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/cancer-diagnosis-rates-under-50s-rising-causes-four-corners/105495620. 

 

It is mainly around the gastroenterinal cancers from memory. 

 

Given we have been burning fat on meat for decades if not more than two centuries, the rise in the rate has scientists stumped, apparently. 

 

 

[facthunter]

Stews (And Soups) are easier to keep available and you can chuck almost anything in it and get away with it. Nev