Looking for a quick unhealthy snack, what do you grab?
Junk Food World Cup
What would you rather eat today?
- Burger and fries
- Fish and chips
- Tacos
- Kebab
- Hot Dog
- Pizza
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I’m not working today, so… Burger.
If I was working today, I would’ve chosen… Burger.
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I find your lack of curry disturbing.
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It just happens that the curries I really like are particularly bad for you.
I like those ones too.
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Inspired by this thread, I just made a burger. Not the junk food variety, but the blue cheese variety. MMmmm….
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The hot dogs? Nearly as good as you’d get at the funfair in Porthcawl but they do the onions better.
As much as I love NYC, I have to admit Chicago is the best place to go for hot dogs.
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I am amazed at how much in-depth analysis of food this poll has prompted.
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Let me tell you this David. I went to a fish and chip shop in New Zealand and they charged to add vinegar. 10 cents.
Shocking.
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Over here the most common fast food is fries and some kind of deep fried snack, like croquettes or a “frikandel”, which is a type of sausage. Dutch croquettes are pretty tasty.
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Why did the chicken salt cross the globe?
For revenge. Obviously.
I was going to go with “to get to the other sides”.
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Speaking of weird Antipodean chip shop matters, there’s a company importing Australian “chicken salt” to the UK currently. It’s some yellow grit Australians put on their chips regularly but, get this, it’s nothing to do with chicken.
We’re very proud of chicken salt – you can find reaction videos (people tasting it for the first time) on YouTube. No serious charcoal chicken shop or fish and chip shop or kebab shop would offer hot chips without the option of chicken salt (you can still get plain salt if you want).
I voted pizza – had two of them yesterday as the wife was staying with her folks.
I’ll concede that pizza is not as convenient as the other options; sure there are kebab shops that sell slices, but when it comes to chains you will have to wait much longer than for a burger from a drive-through. Where pizza wins though is in neatness – burgers, especially the modern trend of overpacked, stacked-high burgers, are a nightmare to try to eat, ending up with all kinds of stuff all over your face and hands. I’ve been disappointed by so many burgers – pizzas much less so, even the $5 offerings I grabbed from Domino’s yesterday.
I’d say hot dogs are underrated – they’re not as easy to come by here, but I’ll usually give one a go at a community fair or food truck. Not a far cry from the “Democracy Sausage” on offer on voting days.
A kebab, I’ve never had (excluding felafel wraps). I hope to have one this year as one of my “mundane firsts” – I had a chicken burger (chicken sandwich for the US folks) early in the year, and a Big Mac a few months ago – not really impressed with either.
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I don’t think pizza is junk food. Bread, cheese, vegetables, possibly some meat or seafood – these are all staples. And on a pizza they aren’t overly processed (as meat is processed before it goes into a hotdog sausage, for example). And they are cooked in a fairly healthy way (baked, which is better than for example frying a burger patty). A pizza is simply a wholesome meal that’s served in a convenient form.
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I don’t think pizza is junk food. Bread, cheese, vegetables, possibly some meat or seafood – these are all staples. And on a pizza they aren’t overly processed (as meat is processed before it goes into a hotdog sausage, for example). And they are cooked in a fairly healthy way (baked, which is better than for example frying a burger patty). A pizza is simply a wholesome meal that’s served in a convenient form.
You’re junk food.
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Your face is junk food!
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You can also make food in a variety of ways. You can have grilled organic beef in the burger with plenty of veg. Kebabs can be the processed meat found at 2am joint in the UK or fresh lamb in the middle east.
The average takeaway/delivery pizza joint stuff is pretty bad. It rates very high in calories, salt and fat. You don’t have to make a pizza that way, you can make them very healthily but I doubt the meat/cheese etc in a Domino’s style pizza joint is any less processed than the one in the hot dog.
As I said earlier Subway is an example because you can decide the contents so you can have a vegetarian wrap but also the meatball sandwich which it has been pointed out is no better for you than a Big Mac. So I left it out because more than any of the others it can be very healthy or not at all.
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The average takeaway/delivery pizza joint stuff is pretty bad. It rates very high in calories, salt and fat. You don’t have to make a pizza that way, you can make them very healthily
So back to curries…
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Christel and I started watching Taco Chronicles on Netflix last night and we both wanted tacos SOOO bad. I think we may have some tonight.
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Over here the most common fast food is fries and some kind of deep fried snack
we have that in the US too
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A pizza is simply a wholesome meal that’s served in a convenient form.
We’re having homemade pizza tonight with some of the in-laws. Homemade pizza dough, homemade sauce, and fresh-cooked toppings including onions, peppers, arugula, etc., along with the obligatory cheese, pepperoni, and sausage. Everyone picks their own toppings and then the individual pies are cooked on the barbecue grill. Oops, excuse me, I just drooled on my keyboard.
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we both wanted tacos SOOO bad
If you know how I am about messy food, you can imagine where I stand with tacos. I like the components and flavour profile, but prefer enchiladas where you eat with cutlery, or partially deconstructed nachos.
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partially deconstructed nachos
That sounds like a white person solution to something that isn’t even a problem.
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Whenever I eat fajitas they’re partially deconstructed, but not intentionally.
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Deconstructed nachos? So… a bag of crisps?
No, that’s just regular nachos.
I think Andrew means this:
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partially deconstructed nachos
That sounds like a white person solution to something that isn’t even a problem.
There’s probably another name for them – it’s basically pile all of the non-chip components (beans, meat,”meat”, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, Cholula hot sauce, salsa, Sriracha hot sauce, and tomato sauce) in a bowl, and use the chips to scoop up the food.
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partially deconstructed nachos
That sounds like a white person solution to something that isn’t even a problem.
There’s probably another name for them – it’s basically pile all of the non-chip components (beans, meat,”meat”, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, Cholula hot sauce, salsa, Sriracha hot sauce, and tomato sauce) in a bowl, and use the chips to scoop up the food.
It’s called “chips and dip”.
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I tend to think of dip as a bit more consistent. I mean, it’s like this google images result (but smoother guac rather than avo cubes), but with the chips taken out.
This way the chips aren’t soggy by the time you get to the ones at the bottom, and your hands stay relatively clean (or at least dry). This isn’t an Australian thing, mind. It’s a me thing – I don’t like getting my hands dirty when eating.
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I picked Burger and Fries. Honestly don’t eat a lot of red meat anymore, so it’s a treat for me.
But I have noticed for the last few years that I’m sleepy after a good burger.
Once or twice can be excused, but it’s enough that I’m hesitant and depends on the evenings plans.However, staying at home means who cares what happens!
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