Be Excellent To Each Other

This is tonight! Pre-yay because I'm excited.

It's been 17 years since I last went to one, but as I'm old now I've booked a seat rather than join the groundlings.

A whole box of America's finest. Extra yayage because I had totally forgotten I even ordered it so wondered why the door bell had gone off.

Ooh, I love that green tea. Someone gave me a couple of bottles once. The bottles themselves are almost too nice to throw away

Yeah AZ green tea with honey and ginseng is awesome. It used to get so so hot out there that if I tried to drink soda my body would almost reject it. Nothing like popping into Walgreens and getting an ice cold GT out of the cooler

I wish that you could get the 3l bottles of it over here.

I don't know if you ever get groceries online, but Tesco stock it, too. Currently 2 for £2 on the 500ml bottles

Good price. These are 591ml? something like that (20oz IIRC). Just checked, £1.39 per bottle.

American sweets closed down last year so I haven't ordered anything since I was in Dorset (about three years). However I got an email the other day saying they were open again and their prices are lower now which is cool.

http://www.americansweets.co.uk/product ... =green+tea

I can definitely RMM (recommend me Mimi) the peach one. It's lovely.

FYI if you have a big Tesco near you they often have an international isle with lots of American stuff

Hmm we do as it goes (Littlehampton). Might have to pay the place a visit ! cheers for that Mike

Interestingly someone just posted a similar picture on Reddit - a little out of focus but you get a better idea of what else is there and it does include your green tea stuff at the bottom

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinterest ... l_british/

My eldest son got his A-Level results today. He needed ABB to get into Manchester University to study Philosophy and Politics. He got an A in English, a B in History and a B in Maths. He also did something called an EPQ, which he got an A in.

He's been really stressing over these results, so hopefully he will able to enjoy the rest of the summer, without worrying too much about actually going to university.

He currently out celebrating with his friends, so expect to see him much, much later...

Well done him!

That is awesome

Congrats!

Well done Malc Jr! Get your kilt out lad!

No teabagging

That's awesome Malc, congrats to him

Great stuff!

He'll have a ball in Manchester. Brilliant city to be a student in.

Brilliant!

Second only to Liverpool, but I am legally obliged to say that.

I'm off work next week! Not sure how restful it's going to be, mind.

Liverpool is nice but the people are utterly incomprehensible.

I like manchester, it's like Leeds, but without the class.

Congratulations to Mini Malc!!!

Well done Master Malc!

Tell him the Hacienda is flats now though

He won't know what the Hacienda is, old man.

If you can remember the Hacienda, you weren't there man.

Mamma Mia, congrats!

I may have mentioned this before, but I spent one New Years Eve at a Hacienda reunion. It was in an underground car park right next to the old Hacienda.

I should not have had that burger...

Limelight and the Hippordrome for me (dirty southerner).

Interesting factoid. Edd China from Wheeler Dealers used to go raving with us and DJ. His favourite club was Limelight, hence why in near on every episode you ever see he has a Shaftesbury Ave sign up on the wall. He nicked it on a night out

He also used to have an enormous python and for a while lived in my mate's car spares shop. Had a few mad nights with Edd and co at my mate's dad's house in Wallington

Top bloke.

Got a ticket for FRANK TURNER's Oxford concert in late November. For where's the harm in spending an evening manning the old barricades?
Yay!

Bought a juicer on Friday. Had to take some flack from my wife around another kitchen gadget etc etc (well deserved in my case)

Main reason was to get some more veg into my son, Really pleased to find that he loves Orange and Carrot juice and has happily had 2 glasses every day since Friday

Also owning one of these grants you access to the cheap end of life fruit shelf at the supermarket, picked up 2 punnets of organic Strawberries today for 65p (normally £2.50 each)

They are a bit soft but will be find juiced tomorrow with a couple of apples

The problem with juicing is that you're basically eradicating all the actual benefits to fruit & veg and turning it into a big glass of sugar.

I'm laughing but it's true

Great! No wonder he likes it so much!

Does juicing remove all the vitamin and mineral content, then?

Pretty much. The vast majority is in the more fibrous matter that a juicer just dumps.

So really we should be walking around with little tobacco tins of mulch for us to chew on?

Well, yes. Or eating fruit and veg

You can save the pulp for cooking, in stocks and what-not.

I'm surprised at that. I remember the days when people touted the benefits of juice bars specifically because of the vitamin and mineral content. I do t know how home juicers work, though (beyond one of those spiky lemon squeezer things... and I don't even know if we have one of those). I guess it's different from a normal blender if it removes the fibre content, though.

Well, Asfish, put it this way. Probably still far better for mini fish than fizzy drinks. At least it's natural, and as with anything, enjoyed in moderation is ok and may help minifish to enjoy the taste of the fruits/vegetables that the juices come from!

While I very much agree with everything else you wrote there, there's no inherent value to something being 'natural'. Polonium is natural.

I agree and still think they are more healthy than drinking pop, as the sugar is natural rather than refined.

I tend to blend rather than juice.

ah, good point. I was conflating something like a nutribullet with a juicer.

Something like a nutribullet is good, a juicer is bad?

And if I add steroids to my nutribullet, am I still juicing?

Fructose is by and large worse for you as an energy source than glucose or sucrose, because it suppresses the leptin response in the body which is responsible for making you feel sated when eating. This is why high fructose corn syrup is particularly bad for you. Fructose isn't designed to be good for you. It's designed to be tasty, so animals and birds eat fruit and spread seeds. Natural is meaningless.

There's not really any health difference between "natural" and refined sugar, though. It's still sugar.

It's not like the only options for drinks are juice or fizzy pop, either. Are we forgetting vodka?

Sorry, I meant water.

re: getting veg into your kids food.. if they're having bits of veg here and there I don't think it's worth stressing about. Mine will eat cucumber, carrots, broccoli, peas etc so I just serve a little bit more of them and don't stress too much about cabbage and other 'stronger' veg which they might change their mind about later on.

If I'm feeling really sneaky I chop stuff up super fine and put that in foods - like the mushroom in the cottage pie I made yesterday - which nobody noticed (mostly because Izz was too busy moaning about the chunks of onion which she alternately found "delicious" and "horrible").

Next you'll be recommending salad. As an alternative to bacon.

You say that, but cop a feel of these puppies

*thrusts hairy bosom at Craster*

TIL broccoli and peas are gateway veg and inevitably lead to the hard stuff in later years

Fruits and vegetables are natural food sources, polonium is not. Natural in this context being from a source of sustainance in nature, in its whole form, before being processed. I understand that juicing is processing itself, in a sense, but straight from the fresh fruit and vegetable rather than with added stabilisers, preservatives, flavourings and coloursnts.

Though you may not see any value in the distinction between something grown from nature as a food source and something more processed and with additives for whatever end, I know that a lot of people do prefer to eat with fewer additives. I'm sure Asfish mentioned once that his partner wanted to help jnr stay as free from additives and preservatives as possible when growing, so that was just a little positive for him, rather than any agenda or belief for everyone.

Which is fine, but there's absolutely nothing whatsoever that makes a natural food source better for you than an unnatural one. Fruit is evolutionarily positioned to make its consumers want to eat as much of it as possible, hence the suppression of satiation. In humans, especially given our current lifestyles, that's not by any means an ideal food source.

"Food A is better than food B because it has no additives and is natural" has no basis in reality. "Food A is better than food B because it doesn't have harmful additive C" is absolutely valid, and makes perfect sense.

Ok, in all honesty I was posting because Asfish was posting in the yay thread about his awesome new thing that he was happy with, but all responses were very negative, pretty much like they are to any post where someone is happy with their purchase, when people like to tell each other just how wrong they are and why their own thing is better. I was just trying to give a bit of yay back to his yay, because everything turned into nays and people saying they were laughing (?)

Which is fine, and I very much take your point that this thread is very much for sharing something that cheers you up. There's so much bad science and fad science out there about food that I think it's fair to call it out though, and I don't think Asfish is the type to not carry on happily with his juicing fun because people have called out some of the concerns.