We are bombarded with advice from self-appointed experts on the subject of what we should eat.
Disregarding the fact that our eyes both face forwards, indicating a predator,
or the fact that we have a carnivores dentition and digestive system, or the fact that we behave like predators (how many wars have there been?), we are told we must eat veg.
O.K., I confess I like mash with my bangers.
Ah, but we are supposed to eat 5 veg a day.
O.K., so I'll mash 5 spuds.
But they now say the veg have to be different colours !!.
I got that sorted too, food colouring, 1 mashed spud coloured red, 1 green, 1 yellow, 1 blue, and 1 black.

Everybody happy now?? Can I eat my dinner in peace?.

"Tim Perry" wrote in message
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We are bombarded with advice from self-appointed experts on the subject
of what we should eat.
Disregarding the fact that our eyes both face forwards, indicating a
predator,
or the fact that we have a carnivores dentition and digestive system,
or the fact that we behave like predators (how many wars have there
been?), we are told we must eat veg.
O.K., I confess I like mash with my bangers.
Ah, but we are supposed to eat 5 veg a day.
O.K., so I'll mash 5 spuds.
But they now say the veg have to be different colours !!.
I got that sorted too, food colouring, 1 mashed spud coloured red, 1
green, 1 yellow, 1 blue, and 1 black.

Everybody happy now?? Can I eat my dinner in peace?.



Yes. Don't put too much Butter on those mashed potatoes. Bad for you

Mike

On 20/08/08 04:43, Tim Perry wrote:
We are bombarded with advice from self-appointed experts on the subject
of what we should eat.
Disregarding the fact that our eyes both face forwards, indicating a
predator,
or the fact that we have a carnivores dentition and digestive system,
or the fact that we behave like predators (how many wars have there
been?), we are told we must eat veg.
O.K., I confess I like mash with my bangers.
Ah, but we are supposed to eat 5 veg a day.
O.K., so I'll mash 5 spuds.
But they now say the veg have to be different colours !!.
I got that sorted too, food colouring, 1 mashed spud coloured red, 1
green, 1 yellow, 1 blue, and 1 black.

Everybody happy now?? Can I eat my dinner in peace?.





LOL! ur so right on the button Tim.

Me, I don't know if I eat 5 a day as the Thought Police recommend. I
just eat seasonally from my allotment. So some days, yeah , I'm stuffed
with spuds, runners, sweetcorn and courgettes. Other days, maybe just
a bit of cabbage. But I do like meat but cant grow a cow or pig or lamb.

Went to a veggie restaurant recently with a mate, ordered my meal but
wanted a side plate of steak!! They were not amused!!

But I do drink 5 pints a day!! So I'm getting the benefit from all that
barley and hops!! I also practice beer-rotation: as new brews come
into my bar each fortnight, I switch. It's like crop rotation. Oh, and
maybe often I have a bottle of wine in the evening to provide the grape
juice; they say it is good for the heart. And I love gin, so then I'm
also getting the benefit of the juniper berries as well.

So Tim, I reckon we should eat n drink a whole lot of different foods.

So, grow what you love; eat what you grow.


Cheers,
Ed

"Ed" ex@directory wrote in message
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On 20/08/08 04:43, Tim Perry wrote:
We are bombarded with advice from self-appointed experts on the subject
of what we should eat.
Disregarding the fact that our eyes both face forwards, indicating a
predator,
or the fact that we have a carnivores dentition and digestive system,
or the fact that we behave like predators (how many wars have there
been?), we are told we must eat veg.
O.K., I confess I like mash with my bangers.
Ah, but we are supposed to eat 5 veg a day. O.K., so I'll mash 5 spuds.
But they now say the veg have to be different colours !!. I got that
sorted too, food colouring, 1 mashed spud coloured red, 1
green, 1 yellow, 1 blue, and 1 black.

Everybody happy now?? Can I eat my dinner in peace?.





LOL! ur so right on the button Tim.

Me, I don't know if I eat 5 a day as the Thought Police recommend. I
just eat seasonally from my allotment. So some days, yeah , I'm stuffed
with spuds, runners, sweetcorn and courgettes. Other days, maybe just a
bit of cabbage. But I do like meat but cant grow a cow or pig or lamb.

Went to a veggie restaurant recently with a mate, ordered my meal but
wanted a side plate of steak!! They were not amused!!

But I do drink 5 pints a day!! So I'm getting the benefit from all that
barley and hops!! I also practice beer-rotation: as new brews come into
my bar each fortnight, I switch. It's like crop rotation. Oh, and maybe
often I have a bottle of wine in the evening to provide the grape juice;
they say it is good for the heart. And I love gin, so then I'm also
getting the benefit of the juniper berries as well.

So Tim, I reckon we should eat n drink a whole lot of different foods.

So, grow what you love; eat what you grow.


Cheers,
Ed


This 'health' thing does have its advantages, had to have my blood pressure
checked yesterday. Rather a nice Practice Nurse did it :-)) She wants to see
me again ;-)

Have to offer to take her out one night for breakfast ;-)

"Tim Perry" wrote in message
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'Mike';811162 Wrote:
"Tim Perry" wrote in message
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We are bombarded with advice from self-appointed experts on the
subject
of what we should eat.
Disregarding the fact that our eyes both face forwards, indicating a
predator,
or the fact that we have a carnivores dentition and digestive system,
or the fact that we behave like predators (how many wars have there
been?), we are told we must eat veg.
O.K., I confess I like mash with my bangers.
Ah, but we are supposed to eat 5 veg a day.
O.K., so I'll mash 5 spuds.
But they now say the veg have to be different colours !!.
I got that sorted too, food colouring, 1 mashed spud coloured red, 1
green, 1 yellow, 1 blue, and 1 black.

Everybody happy now?? Can I eat my dinner in peace?.

-

Yes. Don't put too much Butter on those mashed potatoes. Bad for you

Mike

Hi Mike
Humm, Butter, yes, nice and rich and salty. None of that nasty
artificial
stuff that tastes like something between polystyrene and candle wax.
Healthy,? it won't make you live forever, just makes it seem that long.




--
Tim Perry

SALTY?????

Ooooooooooo bad for you ;-(

Hi Mike
Humm, Butter, yes, nice and rich and salty. None of that nasty artificial
stuff that tastes like something between polystyrene and candle wax.
Healthy,? it won't make you live forever, just makes it seem that long.

Hi Ed,
A kindred spirit, speaking of which, mines a navy rum.
Here's an idea, feed all the veg scraps and weeds to a rabbit,
make lots of manure to grow more veg, and best of all -
EAT THE RABBIT.
You know how it goes ;- Watership Down, you've read the book,
seen the film, now try the pie.

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SALTY?????

Ooooooooooo bad for you ;-(

Quite.

But it's his funeral...

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Rusty
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Funeral ? Steady on. My old Mum is 94 this year, we always had real
butter.
Notice how many foods that served our olds just fine, are now supposed
to be almost toxic. I suspect it's more down to the fact that people today
are just not made of the same stuff, too wrapped up in cotton wool.
They worked much harder than we have to, so perhaps it's down to a lack of exercise, sitting on your butt all day.
Here's a tale,
The prophet sat on a rock, and up walked the devil. "Where are you going"
said the prophet. "I'm going to the next town to kill 50 people with plague"
said the devil. Some weeks later they met again, " Hey devil, you lied, you said 50 yet 10,000 are dead". " I did not lie, prophet, fear killed the others"

The message
from Tim Perry contains these words:

Funeral ? Steady on. My old Mum is 94 this year, we always had real
butter.

Ah, real butter! (Good for you.)

Notice how many foods that served our olds just fine, are now supposed
to be almost toxic. I suspect it's more down to the fact that people
today
are just not made of the same stuff, too wrapped up in cotton wool.

Yup. All sorts of allergies. I must have consumed my peck of dirt as an
anklebiter, let alone a lifetime.

They worked much harder than we have to, so perhaps it's down to a lack
of exercise, sitting on your butt all day.

On average, (from several months' pedometer records) I walk about four
miles a day, except in the shooting season (when I do a bit of brushing)
when the average distance goes up by 50% and the terrain by a
stick-in-the-mud factor of 5.

Here's a tale,
The prophet sat on a rock, and up walked the devil. "Where are you
going"
said the prophet. "I'm going to the next town to kill 50 people with
plague"
said the devil. Some weeks later they met again, " Hey devil, you lied,
you said 50 yet 10,000 are dead". " I did not lie, prophet, fear killed
the others"

Probably Jeremiah...

--
Rusty
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Tim Perry writes


Funeral ? Steady on. My old Mum is 94 this year, we always had real
butter.
Notice how many foods that served our olds just fine, are now supposed
to be almost toxic.

The average life expectancy has increased over my lifetime. There are
always exceptions, and they do not prove anything. But you know this, of
course, and are just trying to inflame things.

--
Kay

echinosum writes

No. Although it is plainly vegetable matter, potato doesn't count
towards your 5 veg a day. I bet you aren't surprised to learn that
sugar doesn't count either, even though its vegetable too.

What about lemon meringue pie?

--
Kay

No. Although it is plainly vegetable matter, potato doesn't count towards your 5 veg a day. I bet you aren't surprised to learn that sugar doesn't count either, even though its vegetable too. Nor bread nor breakfast cereal nor rice nor pasta, all made from vegerable matter. They all count as carbohydrate, not vegetable, for the present purposes.

At the end of the day it is advice, not something you have to do if you don't want to. If you want an unhealthy diet, that's up to you. Some people do live long on an unhealthy diet. Like Eubie Blake, a chain-smoking jazz musician who reputedly drank nothing but whisky, and who said on his 100th birthday, "If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have looked after myself better, dad." But statistically, he is an unusual case.

O.K., thanks for the amusing exchange, although I do feel it rather missed
the point I was making, ie- What is a natural diet.
It's like the ads for dog food that include carrot, sweetcorn and apple.
Said to be 'Better by nature', but I cannot recall ever seeing a pack of wolves stalking a carrot field, or African hunting dogs chasing a corn on the cob.
Yes, I love all fruit and most veg, but that was not my point.

This thread has probably gone on long enough, and I think we will have to agree to differ, but there is a danger in blindly accepting as gospel everything the latest trendy 'expert' says. Please, don't abandon your own common sense.

Greetings Kay,
Me ? trying to inflame things?. Perish the thought!
Actually, I do enjoy a good debate, but not to the point where people
start getting upset about it. So I must apologise.
In mitigation, I should explain that I am not a 'Modern Man', I have
just the one stomach, and never chew the cud.

Oxford Dictionary;-
Joke. n. thing said or done to cause laughter.