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Monday, November 20, 2006
Stupid French Fries
Now after hearing the title of this post, the Little Boy would remind me that we should not use the word "stupid", because as he would say "If you call yourself stupid you can hurt your own feelings." Which he actually did once, and of course he cried because he had hurt his own feelings, but I digress. So with the stress of the week, I've been trying to be good, not eat any of the literally tons of delicious looking wheat products that have been brought over by friends. I've been good, my Beautiful Wife has been the dutiful Wheat Nazi. She sees me looking at the cake or pie longingly and gives me a smile and then says "No Wheat for You!". So yesterday, I thought, what the heck, I've been good, we are out and about at Disneyland and I've been walking for three hours, an order of McDonald's French Fries will taste good and can't hurt me too much. Even though I've seen
Super Size Me
and have read
Fast Food Nation
, I was about to rationalize this as something "okay" (imagine I used quotation fingers right then). First off, let me warn you, Disneyland only has the Super Size me, Meal Replacement, is that a bucket or a cartoon of French Fries size. So I eat what I later find out to be 580 calories worth of french fries. Now to give you a comparison on this, a In-N-Out Double Double Protein Style is 520 calories. Yeah, I know, right! So I eat this gianormous container of fries and they taste good and everything-thing. Then about 20 minutes later my stomach starts to hurt. I recognize this particular pain, this is the you've eaten wheat and now you must pay pain, I know it to well. So I have a little talk with my body about this.
Me:
Dude, I just ate french fries, potatos, you know POTATOS, no wheat really!
Body:
We are inclined to disagree, there was wheat in that last meal in which you partook.
Me:
No Man, they were french fries, you know Frenchie Fries, the stuff you loved as a kid.
Body:
Well I'm not going to argue with you, especially when I am right, I tell you what, when we get home tonight, go online and look up what was in those "french fries", that is all.
So I did look it up, if you can spend the ten minutes it takes to navigation McDonald's site, you will find the nutrional information and ingredients for most of the food. So I looked up
Large French Fries
of course what did I find "Contains derivatives of wheat and dairy." D'oh, Stupid French Fries!
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