The end is near: Fast Food now outsells all other restaurant food in France.

[Alexander's Horse]

one thing I noticed about "fast food" is most of it you can eat without any teeth, it is baby food for adults really

[snoopy369]

Sadly, not true. Teeth are required for eating the far majority of fast food. Hamburgers, french fries, chicken nuggets, none of that is edible without teeth (without massive knife/fork work or a blender, which is true about any food).

Anyone with dentures and/or a eight to ten month old knows this for a fact.

[Dinner]

I had to google some of Molly's spices and I rather like learning about new stuff. Thank you.

[Alexander's Horse]

Sadly, not true. Teeth are required for eating the far majority of fast food. Hamburgers, french fries, chicken nuggets, none of that is edible without teeth.

Mcdonalds is, those are the items I was talking about Snoopy, soft burgers, soggy fries, nuggets, which means no bones. It's just turns to mush in your mouth and a plug in your butt.

In fact after consumption it seems to turn rock hard and clogs me up, horrible stuff, gives me constipation, probably the unnatural additives.

[molly bloom]

I had to google some of Molly's spices and I rather like learning about new stuff. Thank you.

It's my pleasure. I've been busily rereading a book on Mediterranean cuisines (which generously geographically includes Iran, Armenia, the Yemen...) in preparation for a joint belated birthday celebration with a friend (and guests) next week.

Tomorrow as preparation we're cooking a Moroccan salad starter made with grapefruit, black olives, flat leaf parsley and coriander leaves, a side dish of scrubbed (not peeled) carrots cut on the diagonal in 1/4 inch thick slices, cooked in a scant amount of olive oil on a high heat so they char, then dressed with sea salt and balsamic vinegar, a main North African dish of chicken cooked with almonds and rosewater, and just to mix things up, a Thai dessert of pearl tapioca cooked in thinned cocnut milk, sweetened with palm sugar, and served with 'golden threads'- egg yolks whisked and streamed through 3 or 4 holes into hot sugar water, then placed on top of the tapioca. Any left over can be served with coffee.... We might also be cooking a date dish and serving it with fresh yoghurt or ricotta...


And damn, I'm hungry again. Should have had lunch before leaving, rather than just a handful of dates and a mug of masala tea.

A.H.- what's the local fast food where you are ? I know they like bats in Guam and in some of the Pacific island states they're into mutton flaps and turkey tails:

Mark Dolan’s controversial documentary, The World’s Fattest Families and Me, was broadcast recently.

Dolan journeyed to Tonga where he met Towa, 222 kg, and his daughter Sia, 133kg.

The documentary touched many when Dolan took Sia to the supermarket, and showed Sia the nutritional value in the fatty mutton flaps.

He told Sia New Zealanders did not eat this.

“This is the bit that they throw away,” he said. Sia broke down in tears.

The documentary exposed that there are no food export regulations in place

http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/09/critics-challenge-exports-of-mutton-flaps-turkey-tails-and-expired-eggs-to-samoa/

I saw the documentary a few years ago on Channel 4 here, and was mightily shocked....

[Sava]

mcdonalds is diahrea