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| What's your favorite carb in a meal? |
| Rice is the best! |
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| Potatoes. I just love 'em! |
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| Bread. Gotta have it every time! |
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coffeeman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: POLL: Rice, Potatoes or Bread |
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We all know which carb the Koreans would choose. How about you? What is your favorite carb in your meal?
My answer is potatoes. I don't know why. Maybe it is because of my upbringing. We often ate them. They're such a flavorful food. They taste different whether your fry, boil or bake them.
Rice is not so exciting to eat for me. Sometimes I fry it with spices, but even that doesn't help it a great deal.
I love bread, but I can do more things with potatoes. |
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SirFink
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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4) None of the above
Potatoes flavorful? Ever eat a plain potato? No salt, no butter, no pepper, etc.? Like eating spackle. Same could be said of most starchy "staple" foods. Just bland empty carbs that aren't doing you a bit of good... and in fact are probably doing you some harm. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I like and enjoy all three. But if I had to pick a favorite, it has to be potaotes. Baked, fried, mashed, boiled, scalloped, roasted...shot out of a cannon...I don't care. I love potatoes. |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I can live without potatoes, but I love bread and rice (as long as it's not the white crap). |
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coffeeman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| SirFink wrote: |
4) None of the above
Potatoes flavorful? Ever eat a plain potato? No salt, no butter, no pepper, etc.? Like eating spackle. Same could be said of most starchy "staple" foods. Just bland empty carbs that aren't doing you a bit of good... and in fact are probably doing you some harm. |
Sorry, you have lost me here. Who eats raw potatoes or uncooked rice? I guess if we had to eat one of these three raw, it would be bread because it is a finished product.
And by the way, potatoes aren't empty carbs.
"A plain, seven-ounce baked potato eaten with the skin provides nearly 50 percent of vitamins C and B6 recommended for adults each day, as well as plenty of potassium and nearly 5 grams of fiber--all for only 220 calories and zero grams of fat." - Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.kidsnutrition.org/consumer/archives/potatoe.htm
The problem is the way most people eat them. They throw away the skin where the vitamins are. Potatoes are also a slow-burning carb, something which is necessary to give you energy throughout the day. |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| Any of the above are merely platforms above which one places the real food: they all serve as a useful dietary supplement to the actual meal you're eating, but alone, they are just variations on starch. |
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SirFink
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:34 am Post subject: |
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| coffeeman wrote: |
| Sorry, you have lost me here. Who eats raw potatoes or uncooked rice? |
"Plain" not "uncooked." Go ahead and bake a potato, boil some pasta, steam some rice. Now eat it. No sauces, no spices, no salt, no butter, no hot sauce, etc. Taste good? No. It's wet cement. We added these to our diet long ago simply for the nice boost to blood sugar levels they give us (ahhhh...sugar buzz!). Every culture on Earth figured out that eating wet cement wasn't very tasty so various sauces and spices and even meat (*gasp*) is added on top of these starches so they are actually palatable.
My point is: when people say "I love pasta!" I think they're really saying "I love the sauces that are put on pasta." |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| coolsage wrote: |
| Any of the above are merely platforms above which one places the real food: they all serve as a useful dietary supplement to the actual meal you're eating, but alone, they are just variations on starch. |
See the post above yours by coffeeman. Potatoe, with the skin, is not just a variation on starch! |
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Cohiba
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: Snore |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| SirFink wrote: |
4) None of the above
Potatoes flavorful? Ever eat a plain potato? No salt, no butter, no pepper, etc.? Like eating spackle. Same could be said of most starchy "staple" foods. |
| coolsage wrote: |
| Any of the above are merely platforms above which one places the real food: they all serve as a useful dietary supplement to the actual meal you're eating, but alone, they are just variations on starch. |
When I was a kid I used to argue with my parents about this. What is the point, I asked, of being from an affluent culture if we still have to eat the filler crap. Sometimes the staples taste okay if they're mixed in or up or with other, real food -- but on their own they suck. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| SirFink wrote: |
4) None of the above
Potatoes flavorful? Ever eat a plain potato? No salt, no butter, no pepper, etc.? Like eating spackle. Same could be said of most starchy "staple" foods. Just bland empty carbs that aren't doing you a bit of good... and in fact are probably doing you some harm. |
Ever eat a Yukon Gold potato plain? Yum! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Damn, they are all good.
Koreans don't believe me when I say I ate rice growing up. Sure, but we had it in rotation with potatoes and pasta. (Didn't eat bread at dinner time growing up.) I first had fried rice when my father joined Appetite Control. It was in the cookbook. (N.B.: Appetite Control only works if you actually eat the portion size listed.  ) |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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bread, if the meat is between it.
rice, if the meat is mixed in with it.
potatoes, if the meat is next to it. |
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mdokupilkr
Joined: 30 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Bread is my favorite food. Seriously I could survive weeks with nothing other than bread. Two thumbs up.
Rice..*scratches head*...no flavor. I dont think it tastes good, unless it is masked with something such as red pepper paste (and plenty of it), or is heavily decorated like pibim pap. I am not picky so I eat it.
Potatoes: Who doesnt love potatoes? A potato is like playdo...you can make a million different things with it. I respect the potato very much. |
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