Eating out at restaurants and food quality

Roosh

Cardinal
Orthodox
It is a disaster in the US. There is a strange phenomenon where the urban people can appear (and probably in many ways are) more healthy than those in the rural areas. The rural areas are poorer and most rural people eat fastfood and walmart quality (or lower) food. The old school tough guy mentality (which I appreciate) that still exists in rural areas is unfortunately completely penetrated by destroying the food. They don't get it. It seems to be death by vax in the cities and death by food out in the country.
Proof of this is when you look at restaurant dining options in conservative areas. They are content with diner fare.
 

RedLagoon

Pelican
Orthodox Inquirer
I don't really care as I haven't been able to afford to go to a restaurant in many years. Upside is my cooking has become restaurant quality with ingredients I know are local and without any trash in them. I also don't like being in public anymore after the fiascos of recent years.
 

JCSteel

Robin
Other Christian
There's nothing better than homecooking for health and quality but due to my living situation and work schedule I eat out almost everyday. For $10 I got a salad and personal size deep dish pizza at Unos today. It was comforting, filling, and affordable, although I wanted to leave work so I could take a nap.
 

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Maddox

Kingfisher
Protestant
There’s this app that I use called Seed Oil Scout that lets you know whether a restaurant uses seed oils or not. There’s not many out there that don’t, but if they exist, they’re on the app.

Thank you for posting this. This is exactly what I was looking for as I may need to eat out with a friend or date but I had no idea on how to do this without consuming seed oils.

I will definitely put this app to use.
 

Cynllo

Ostrich
Orthodox Inquirer
Just took a look at the founders of this company.

Here are the founders -

- Herbert Irving, buried in Mount Ararat Cemetery Jewish Cemetery in East Farmingdale, NY
- Harry Rosenthal - can't find info on him, but here he is clearly a Jew
- John F. Baugh - baptist




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It's goy-slop again.
 

Max Roscoe

Hummingbird
Orthodox Inquirer
Only the top tier restaurants in the big city in my state will have non-Sysco food. I mean the award-winning restaurants you should only be eating out for a birthday or special occasion. They work directly with farmers. Actually there is ONE smaller cafe with lunches <$10 that buys from a local farm, but they are the exception. The food is excellent and they have a line out the door and are able to survive on lunch alone.

The rest all use the goyslop that comes out of the same giant truck.

Even healthy-presenting restaurants are using Sysco. I ate lunch at a cafe today that sells their own baked goods. I ordered a sandwich. I asked where they bread came from and they told me "Sysco." This is a place that sells their own croissants baked in house, but they buy sandwich bread from Sysco. Extremely deceptive.
 

Tom Slick

Pelican
Orthodox
Cooking your meals at home is the only way to eat clean. Use an app like Yuka to identity problematic ingredients. https://yuka.io/en/
It's not easy to give ratings based only on objective criteria (it gave my best Himalayan salt a fail because all salt bad), but I'd like to see this category:

Used to be good, was bought by lizard people, now totally pozzed.*

* for example, Braggs apple cider vinegar and other products.
 

bucky

Hummingbird
Other Christian
It's not easy to give ratings based only on objective criteria (it gave my best Himalayan salt a fail because all salt bad), but I'd like to see this category:

Used to be good, was bought by lizard people, now totally pozzed.*

* for example, Braggs apple cider vinegar and other products.
I wouldn't touch it if it's saying salt is bad. I realize that diet and nutrition are only slightly less controversial than politics and religion, but for what it's worth, I've been following PD Mangan's advice to basically have all the salt, butter, and cheese you want for years and my health is excellent:

 

Blade Runner

Crow
Orthodox
I wouldn't touch it if it's saying salt is bad. I realize that diet and nutrition are only slightly less controversial than politics and religion, but for what it's worth, I've been following PD Mangan's advice to basically have all the salt, butter, and cheese you want for years and my health is excellent:

I can tell you, a lot of this is outreach based on people who doctors see, which are by definition unhealthy people. Healthy people can metabolize or process high protein, high salt, etc (as long as they drink water and are in good shape) without a problem. The stories and anecdotes are far more about the people you know, who are old or average (or worse), who are telling you what doctors tell them regarding their poor health status. Remember that.
 

GodGiveMeStrength

Robin
Orthodox Catechumen
Use an app like Yuka to identity problematic ingredients. https://yuka.io/en/

While Yuka has doubled the time my grocery store trips take, I can't recommend it enough. Even for soap and shampoo you can see what you're putting on your skin and it's surprising (or maybe not) the number of "organic" foods that are comprised of seed oils or the "clean/basic" soaps and lotions that contain harmful chemicals. Kids hate it though since we stopped buying some of the foods they enjoyed lol.

And yes make sure to check whether foods have bioengineered ingredients. I regularly eat bagels and a lot of the time the store brands contain them even when they advertise "no high fructose corn sugar," which deceptively gives an impression that they're a healthier option. (Dave's bread/bagels appear to be the way to go if anyone is curious.)

Edit: additionally, Yuka doesn't seem to incorporate the use of seed oils into their food ratings. Something may score highly but still contain those ingredients so you still have to do a little label reading and, spoiler alert, they're in nearly everything that's not a plain fruit or vegetable.
 

DeWoken

Woodpecker
Orthodox Inquirer
Wow, this Sysco thing is interesting - not exactly surprising, but new to me. I don't eat out much these days. I make a quick sandwich with organic ingredients and eat it in my car or at the park when I'm out.

These days, I fast or coffee fast during the day and eat a hearty meal during dinner. In the mirror I seem like Ive lost a ton of weight but scale wise I’ve only lost 5 pounds.

Why is that? Must be the excess dead skin on my body.
It could be that your body composition has tilted towards muscle and away from fat - congratulations! Also if you are eating less carbs your body retains less water, or so I hear, so you might look less puffed out. I think a change in gut microbiome can also make a big difference in look (candida, sibo).
I've been following PD Mangan's advice to basically have all the salt, butter, and cheese you want for years and my health is excellent:
If you eat a lot of dairy you might want to look into "calcium overload". I think the test is via hair mineral analysis. But feeling good is feeling good :)
 

Thomas More

Crow
Protestant
(Dave's bread/bagels appear to be the way to go if anyone is curious.)
Dave's breads are great. I'm a big fan! When you read the ingredients, it's all whole grain wheat, whole grain rye, whole grain oats, etc., and all organic too.

Other so-called whole grain breads have enriched white flour. Likewise Dave's has no chemicals with hard to pronounce names. It's all real ingredients.

Besides all this, Dave is an ex-con made good, and he does his best to hire as many ex-cons as possible.

Oh, it's delicious too. Furthermore, the smaller thin sliced bread has only 11 net carbs after subtracting the high amount of fiber, so it's great for low carb diets. It doesn't get any better.
 

Viktor Zeegelaar

Crow
Orthodox Inquirer
It is a disaster in the US. There is a strange phenomenon where the urban people can appear (and probably in many ways are) more healthy than those in the rural areas. The rural areas are poorer and most rural people eat fastfood and walmart quality (or lower) food. The old school tough guy mentality (which I appreciate) that still exists in rural areas is unfortunately completely penetrated by destroying the food. They don't get it. It seems to be death by vax in the cities and death by food out in the country.
Isn't that interesting, the idea that people actually eat McDonalds, Burgerking, Wendy's etc, these fastfood chains, as regular dinner (or even more than that). In Europe that's very, very uncommon: yes people will drop by to fastfood every now and then, but it seems to be a largely American phenomenon that people actually have fast food as their staple, daily go to food. I see that almost 40% (!) of Americans basically live on fastfood. And let's be honest, even if it's ''only'' once a day, they don't have broccoli or kale in the fridge at home. Probably at home there's a bunch of trash too.


Besides that it's a tragedy simply from a taste perspective: healthy, good food is so much better than all this cheap stuff. It hits the salt, sugar, fat inclinements that we have, but you'll always feel down afterwards and non fulfilled. Whereas healthy food is so much better, how it's meant to be, and simply tastes better too and is actually fulfilling. Food probably is the most quintessential example of short term vs long term, as in short term gains equal bad long term results, and short term sacrifice equals good long term results.
 

Callixtus

Robin
Catholic
I've noticed a significant decline in quality and/or a significant increase in price at almost every restaurant. I'd given up eating out for Lent and have continued cutting back still. I can cook the same thing for half the price and twice as good at home, especially now that we're firmly in grilling and gardening season.
 

JCSteel

Robin
Other Christian
As I wrote in an earlier post I eat out a lot, probably too much. For $10 to $12 I can get a Chinese lunch which includes soup, a main entre, and rice. I'll only go to Chinese restaurants that serve fresh vegetables prepared without the sugary, salty oily ooze you find at most establishments. If you eat out you have to use discriminating taste. I avoid Chinese restaurants that list the menu options on the wall with decades old stock images of roast pork and chow mein since they are the ones that usually only serve globs of meat coated in corn starch, fried in dirty oil, and covered in a layer of revoltingly sweet and sticky sauce.

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SeekingTruth

Kingfisher
Catholic
As I wrote in an earlier post I eat out a lot, probably too much. For $10 to $12 I can get a Chinese lunch which includes soup, a main entre, and rice. I'll only go to Chinese restaurants that serve fresh vegetables prepared without the sugary, salty oily ooze you find at most establishments. If you eat out you have to use discriminating taste. I avoid Chinese restaurants that list the menu options on the wall with decades old stock images of roast pork and chow mein since they are the ones that usually only serve globs of meat coated in corn starch, fried in dirty oil, and covered in a layer of revoltingly sweet and sticky sauce.

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Honestly, the only Asian food I think you can trust is raw sushi. Anything else and you have no clue what you're actually getting.
Problem with sushi as well is that you have no idea where the fish is sourced from and it's probably full of micro plastics.
 
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