Where is the point where youth expires?

I am known to eat what I want, when I want, and in large quantities. I have always felt that the 3rd level of super-size was an appropriate development of the fast-food franchise. I do not approve of McDonald's bending to criticism from liberal yahoos who videotape themselves having a panic attack and gaining weight. The food is still bad for you! It's not like the regular size will make you thin. Super-sizing is a qualified judgement call for people already able to eat the food.

The persistent question remains: is anyone who cares about their cardiac health allowed to eat that stuff in any quantity?

According to a new article in the NY Times hammering home the Mediterranean diet, "no." The US and Finland, two countries with excellence written all over them, kill themselves with saturated fat and not enough vegetable fat.



Over the years, as people gladly filled my plate for the third time, I had a very, very small voice wondering if I was doing something bad for myself. But people like my parents would reassure me, that at this point, in my youth, it was OK to eat in large quantities.

Unlike when I was twenty, nowadays I think that part of my youth is coming to nigh. Oh, the Mediterranean regime will be difficult for me, but I think this is the next step in the Wellmus "Life Playbook."



As long as the Feta comes in large quantities, I may survive.

Terribly Good Food, Part II

Archway Cookies, the big, cheap cookies that were forever soft, has gone out of business.

They had a cult following but I don't know if people connected over their love of these chewy (though I would say mediocre) cookies.

Story from a site that seems to ship out 'specialty' foods.

By far my favorite item from their collection, though, and I am lamenting big time here, is their Circus Animals with the delectable soft icing. These were, by far, my favorite kind of cookie as a child. Sorry mom!

What's for dinner? Terribly good food. Part 1

White Castle is delicious, otherwise people would not eat it. There are so many other choices! It's a ridiculous restaurant idea to serve burgers much smaller than would fill any appetite, unless you eat at least four. And yet, like so many ridiculous things such as the "Las Ketchup" song or the "Milkshake" song, it gets stuck in your head for days. In the case of Spain, "Las Ketchup" was on repeat for at least a year.

The burgers taste great. The point is to eat slowly enough that you don't feel sick by eating one or two too many.

Adult Female - 3-4 burgers (to start)
Adult Male - 4-6 burgers

The fries are decent crinkle cut and in my experience they are not fresh out of the fryer when you get them. They do not add the flavorings like McDonald's, which puts beef flavoring, sugar, and salt on their shoestrings to make them "perfect." Needless to say, if you can do without fries, just get two more delicious burgers.

Click here to find the White Castle near you. Note how many parts of the United States do not have White Castle Restaurants.

Be careful of the Church's Chicken attached restaurant, though. I chose the chicken over the burgers one night and it had been sitting under the heat lamps for hours, most likely. White Castle's specialty is burgers, and due to their size they cook them pretty much when you get there.