Vanilla Frosting Isn't Diet Food

[Scanner]

Just thought I'd share with the forum. . .the radio jockeys were joking today that they overheard in the supermarket a wife yelling at her husband, "No, get the vanilla frosting. You are on a diet!"



This is why I support value added tax/consumption tax.

[boosami]

I had a friend in college whose comfort food was a whole can of vanilla frosting. Nothing to put the frosting on, just frosting and a spoon.

[disneysteve]

Just thought I'd share with the forum. . .the radio jockeys were joking today that they overheard in the supermarket a wife yelling at her husband, "No, get the vanilla frosting. You are on a diet!"

Welcome to my world.

I could tell you all kinds of stories about things patients have told me about the "diet" they are following to lose weight. Many of them seem genuinely shocked when I point out that things like bacon/egg/cheese breakfast sandwiches, fries, ice cream and regular soda are NOT going to help in their efforts to trim down.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Wow, incredible. Hey, I like frosting just about as much as anyone could, but that stuff in a can seems so weird to me. It's all those thickeners and emulsifiers.

So Scanner, you think some additional tax on it would keep people from buying it? It sure would have to be a whoppin' big tax.

[Broken Arrow]

Vanilla frosting is NOT diet food?! Oh no!

One of the jokes that a co-worker loves to tell is the time where he heard somebody order a super-sized fast food combo, with an apple pie, and then said, "but make that a Diet Coke, because I'm on a diet!"

I'm all for consumption tax as well. To clarify, I don't think of it as a deterrence, but rather, I would like to see that as a displacement for income tax. Yeah, by all means please tax me for buying doughnuts and ice cream, but please don't tax me just because I am working hard to make a living.

[rob62521]

Don't you just wonder why they think vanilla frosting is less calories? I love the Diet Coke idea too. Or, saying chips or french fries are their vegetable! Yikes!

[disneysteve]

Or, saying chips or french fries are their vegetable! Yikes!

Wasn't it Reagan who had ketchup classified as a vegetable for the school lunch program?

As for the diet coke thing, I used to laugh at that, but it really isn't such a bad idea. A 20 oz. Coke has over 260 calories. If you are going to splurge and get fast food, why make a bad thing even worse by adding another 260 calories?

[GREENBACK]

Wasn't it Reagan who had ketchup classified as a vegetable for the school lunch program?

I heard this on a radio show not long ago but thought this idea originated in the 60's. I do have a weakness for ketchup....any fried potato, eggs, burgers, etc.. I jokingly refer to it as "red sauce". now, knowing that it equals a serving of veggies makes me that much more comfortable about it

[kork13]

Vanilla frosting is NOT diet food?! Oh no!

uh oh.... I may have to re-work my diet............ What about chocolate?

[swanson719]

You mean I can't have an egg mcmuffin with OJ for breakfast, chinese take out and diet soda for lunch, and pizza and frozen yogurt for dinner, not see the inside of a gym for years, and expect to be healthy? You muct be joking.

[disneysteve]

You mean I can't have an egg mcmuffin with OJ for breakfast, chinese take out and diet soda for lunch, and pizza and frozen yogurt for dinner, not see the inside of a gym for years, and expect to be healthy? You muct be joking.

That would be an improvement over what many people tell me. It includes OJ, not coffee, diet soda instead of regular soda and frozen yogurt instead of ice cream. I'd consider it progress if I could get people to take those steps.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

It sure seems to me that this thread says something about the basic, basic, BASIC education many people miss out on. Disneysteve, you were telling in another thread about the kind of information your patients are needing about a disease they already have, and you rightfully see that as part of preventative medical care. But I would back the problem up at least as far as high school where students fail to learn basic human biology even if they do take the class! Indeed, I'd back it up to grade school where they fail to learn to read adequately and develop their desire to learn. I would back it up even further to parents and general surroundings that fail to pass on to children critical thinking skills, curiosity, and resourcefulness to take care of oneself and one's family. It is a kind of poverty that is not necessarily material poverty.

I am astounded again and again what basic competence many people are missing whether it be in nutrition, money, or other things. I don't think one should even need formal instruction in either to be competent on a basic level. As has been said here before, though, somehow there are people who cannot apply their 5th grade percentages, their 4rth grade fractions, their 3rd grade multiplication & division, or even their 1rst and 2nd grade addition & subtraction to their daily lives. I think nearly everyone is capable learning it and of doing it. So why don't they? What in the world happens? Brains get turned off somehow!

I think of people I've encountered who cannot read a nutrition label. Why? How can you get to be an adult without having read those things a thousand times? How can you get to be an adult with out learning at least some stereotypical info like: "Bones need calcium. I need to eat calcium for my bones, Calcium is in some foods. Calcium is listed on this nutrition label. Good, I'll eat this food and it might help my bones."

The food situation is much like the money problem: "I put $100 dollars in my new bank account. I have checks. I cannot write a checks adding up to more than $100, or else I will be in trouble."

[tzsgti]

Just thought I'd share with the forum. . .the radio jockeys were joking today that they overheard in the supermarket a wife yelling at her husband, "No, get the vanilla frosting. You are on a diet!"



This is why I support value added tax/consumption tax.

Are you serious?


I hope you are being sarcastic.

What next tax when you go to the bathroom?

[tzsgti]

Vanilla frosting is NOT diet food?! Oh no!

One of the jokes that a co-worker loves to tell is the time where he heard somebody order a super-sized fast food combo, with an apple pie, and then said, "but make that a Diet Coke, because I'm on a diet!"

I'm all for consumption tax as well. To clarify, I don't think of it as a deterrence, but rather, I would like to see that as a displacement for income tax. Yeah, by all means please tax me for buying doughnuts and ice cream, but please don't tax me just because I am working hard to make a living.

This is crazy on all diffrent levels

And one thing for sure. If this national health care gets approved you can pretty much bet something like this will happen. Pretty sad as to the direction this country is going towards.

[disneysteve]

Joan, you are so right with your comments. What many of us consider extremely basic information, common knowledge that anyone with half a brain ought to know, just isn't as widely known and understood as you might think.

Over the years, I've heard so many comments from people that I truly wonder what is going on in homes and schools across the country. And we all know that lots of folks have no basic understanding of money and personal finance. I'm not just talking about uneducated folks either, but even people with good jobs and college degrees. "Common" sense is far from common.