Cracker Barrel sucks, try

[Metal head87]

Yeah. You never exactly hear about rednecks that are all that healthy.
Whenever I see places that try to promote their food as "comforting", "old fashioned", "real American" etc, I know to avoid it.
I don't mind if food has some fat in it, like the good fat (olive oil, lamb fat mostly), but I don't even want to know what those other places use.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

I fucking **HATE** "all american food" restaurants (although, home made American food can be yummy)
I think both you and I agreed on that one time a while back...
All that Ruby Tuesday/ TGI/ Cracker Barrel/ shitty places...

 

[deathstrike from hell]

Now THIS is redneck eating.

http://www.road-kill-cafe.com/roadkill.html

 

[Calamitas1786]

Chain Restaurants *shudders*

I think the only chain I can tolerate is Baja Fresh.

 

[deathstrike from hell]

outback ftw

 

[Metal head87]

I fucking **HATE** "all american food" restaurants (although, home made American food can be yummy)
I think both you and I agreed on that one time a while back...
All that Ruby Tuesday/ TGI/ Cracker Barrel/ shitty places...

What I really can't stand is how they make their food look good on advertisements. I know that all places do that, and it's obvious why, but it's just so blatantly deceptive. Yet people still eat this shit.

Now THIS is redneck eating.

http://www.road-kill-cafe.com/roadkill.html

hahahahahahahahahahah

 

[deathstrike from hell]

this is for you anvil.

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We have removed Hitchhiker Burgers, because of the Canadian Human Rights
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Thanks to Patricia, for this JUICY Canadian Special!

 

[Dead_Lioness]

Chain Restaurants *shudders*

I think the only chain I can tolerate is Baja Fresh.

The only one I can tolerate is Chipotle
and really, only because their chicken in Naturally grown and the food is always fresh
heheh

 

[Calamitas1786]

I've sworn off chicken. I hate it. Being a chef, I'm around it so much I'm just disenchanted by how nasty it is.

I live by Whole Foods and Wegman's btw.

 

[Metal head87]

Pax is pretty decent. I could also think of a couple of other chains that I probably eat at, but the names escape me at the moment.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

haha, Whole Foods is my second home... I'm serious
I shop there so much my credit card bill is "whole foods, whole foods, banana republic, whole foods, whole foods, Murly Coffee, Whole foods, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Whole Foods "

hehehe

 

[deathstrike from hell]

i fucking hate the organic food trend though. sometimes theres nothing wrong with eating regular food.

 

[Calamitas1786]

I'm not really into the whole organic food thing, but there's alot of stuff you can get at Whole Foods you can't get from your Acme, Pathmark or Shoprite.
Not to mention Whole Foods have way higher quiality produce, meat and fish.

 

[Metal head87]

I don't really care if the food is organic or not, but I just enjoy whole, natural foods. I think it happens to taste better.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

Excuse me?
Organic food is excellent, "nothing wrong with eating regular food?"
yeah sure, go ahead, swallow those antibiotics, hormones, chemicals and crap they put in your milk and meat... no thank you.
I buy Organic meat and dairy almost religiously. produce: it depends...
Some produce items don't have many parasites, so no need for organic...
anyhoo....
I love my food whole, natural, fresh and with 0 preservatives...

 

[deathstrike from hell]

[FONT=TIMES NEW ROMAN, GEORGIA, TIMES]Are organic foods really better?[/FONT]

[FONT=ARIAL, TREBUCHET, HELVETICA]Facts challenge organic's benefits over modern agriculture[/FONT]

Recently the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture published a highly publicized study comparing two types of organic farming with two types of conventional farming. Initially (and to the delight of enviro's everywhere) newspaper reports claimed conventional farming to be the loser in at least 2 categories: That is, in its economic and environmental efficiency.

However when one pulls up the weeds from the research, one quickly discovers that reporters are playing fast and loose with the facts in order to show that organic farming is indeed more "efficient". The research actually, in fact, points to an entirely other direction.

Advocates of organic farming claim that the study shows organic farming uses 50 percent less energy. However, this statistic does not take into account that the study also shows conventional farming to be 20 percent more productive than organic farming. Therefore, according to the study's own conclusions, "since crop yields were considerably higher in the conventional systems, the difference in energy needed to produce a crop unit was only 19 percent lower in the organic systems."

Another claim of organic advocates is that organic foods are far superior to conventionally produced foods. This study asserts, however, that there were only "minor differences between the farming systems in food quality." Also, the study did not test the organic system against the most recent form of conventional farming. No-till farming combined with genetically enhanced crops has been shown to be both better for the environment and more energy efficient than past conventional methods. If this method were placed up against organic farming, the 19 percent energy advantage of organic farming would, according to experts like Ron Baily of the Reason Public Policy Institute, likely disappear.
As for environmental benefits, conventional no till farming also matches the advantages of organic farming; such as less pesticide and fertilizer runoff, greatly reduced soil erosion, and a higher presence of beneficial insects, and it adds the other advantages of conventional farming such as higher yields.
Such higher yields are enormously important. They are not only economically beneficial to consumers in developed countries, but especially vital to the health and well being of those in underdeveloped countries who might well starve without such technology.
Little wonder that many scientists, such as Cambridge chemist John Emsley, believe that "the greatest catastrophe the human race could face this century is not global warming, but a global conversion to ‘organic farming'– [where] an estimated 2 billion people would perish."

 

[BlueSky]

outback ftw

yes!

 

[JenniferGentle]

HAHA that is genuinely amazing.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

[FONT=TIMES NEW ROMAN, GEORGIA, TIMES]Are organic foods really better?[/FONT]

[FONT=ARIAL, TREBUCHET, HELVETICA]Facts challenge organic's benefits over modern agriculture[/FONT]

Recently the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture published a highly publicized study comparing two types of organic farming with two types of conventional farming. Initially (and to the delight of enviro's everywhere) newspaper reports claimed conventional farming to be the loser in at least 2 categories: That is, in its economic and environmental efficiency.

However when one pulls up the weeds from the research, one quickly discovers that reporters are playing fast and loose with the facts in order to show that organic farming is indeed more "efficient". The research actually, in fact, points to an entirely other direction.

Advocates of organic farming claim that the study shows organic farming uses 50 percent less energy. However, this statistic does not take into account that the study also shows conventional farming to be 20 percent more productive than organic farming. Therefore, according to the study's own conclusions, "since crop yields were considerably higher in the conventional systems, the difference in energy needed to produce a crop unit was only 19 percent lower in the organic systems."

Another claim of organic advocates is that organic foods are far superior to conventionally produced foods. This study asserts, however, that there were only "minor differences between the farming systems in food quality." Also, the study did not test the organic system against the most recent form of conventional farming. No-till farming combined with genetically enhanced crops has been shown to be both better for the environment and more energy efficient than past conventional methods. If this method were placed up against organic farming, the 19 percent energy advantage of organic farming would, according to experts like Ron Baily of the Reason Public Policy Institute, likely disappear.
As for environmental benefits, conventional no till farming also matches the advantages of organic farming; such as less pesticide and fertilizer runoff, greatly reduced soil erosion, and a higher presence of beneficial insects, and it adds the other advantages of conventional farming such as higher yields.
Such higher yields are enormously important. They are not only economically beneficial to consumers in developed countries, but especially vital to the health and well being of those in underdeveloped countries who might well starve without such technology.
Little wonder that many scientists, such as Cambridge chemist John Emsley, believe that "the greatest catastrophe the human race could face this century is not global warming, but a global conversion to ‘organic farming'– [where] an estimated 2 billion people would perish."

Oh please... this article didn't say anything i didn't know already about the "energy" .... and that's only one article.... I have read a dozen that say otherwise.....
This article also has no word about some vegtables that have huge amounts of chemicals on them (such as tomatoes for example)
or no word about meat and dairy that is well known that organic is better (or "natural" )

 

[Metal head87]

Yeah, meat and dairy is definitely worth spending more on. Not only is it much healthier, I personally find it to actually taste better.
Even though I'm not really into animal rights, I wouldn't necessarily want to buy meat from companies that kill the animals in a very inhumane manner.