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The Not So Healthy Option
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I have been watching Heston Blumenthal on C4 and one of the thing he liked as a kid was Pot noodle. He got the company to make them exactly as there tasted back in the 70's ie more slat and all the E numbers we are told were not good for us.
This got me thinking.......this is way of the wall but.....I find a lot of the food i remember when i was younger tasted much better than the blander less salt, fat sugar equivalents we get today.
My question is unless there is a clear health risk (ie E numbers and additives that have been found to be very harmful), shouldnt shops offer people a choice of the not so healthy option products with more taste from yesteryear with more salt sugar fat etc if thats what people want. We all seem to have been forced to conform to these "less" foods without given a choice. After all we havent gone down the road of low calorie alcohol or healthier cigarettes yet.
I cant be the only one who hankers for the taste of older foods rather than whats on offer today.
This got me thinking.......this is way of the wall but.....I find a lot of the food i remember when i was younger tasted much better than the blander less salt, fat sugar equivalents we get today.
My question is unless there is a clear health risk (ie E numbers and additives that have been found to be very harmful), shouldnt shops offer people a choice of the not so healthy option products with more taste from yesteryear with more salt sugar fat etc if thats what people want. We all seem to have been forced to conform to these "less" foods without given a choice. After all we havent gone down the road of low calorie alcohol or healthier cigarettes yet.
I cant be the only one who hankers for the taste of older foods rather than whats on offer today.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well, the option is, to do it yourself!!! Add more salt if you want, cook with salt. Have real butter on your toast, it's up to you! I come from farming 'stock', my uncles lived on fat bacon, eggs, suet puddings, dairy butter, bread and dripping, white bread and full fat milk - and everyone of them lived well into their 80's, and they all smoked 'plain' cigarettes, and liked a drink everynight!
The reason why people ate hight=er fat foods,yet were not as obese as folk are now,is due to several things. They worked a hell of a lot harder than people do now....physical work-not sitting at a desk all day. They also probably ate LESS in proportion to physical activity.
We try to make up for it by going to the gym...it doesn't work.
There IS a health risk to too much salt,sugar and fat....heart disease,diabetes,and all the associated costs of obesity.
If you'd had foods with less salt,etc years ago-you would not be able to tolerate it now. I know I have never added salt to cooked food-and little in the cooking....I hate it.
We try to make up for it by going to the gym...it doesn't work.
There IS a health risk to too much salt,sugar and fat....heart disease,diabetes,and all the associated costs of obesity.
If you'd had foods with less salt,etc years ago-you would not be able to tolerate it now. I know I have never added salt to cooked food-and little in the cooking....I hate it.
Even things like bacon and chicken taste different these days,so I wonder if the way the animals are bred has a bit to do with it.I tried a happy free range corn fed chicken a while ago and it tasted more like the stuff I had as a kid,but the price!
I am also fed up of all the white water that comes out of bacon,I don't remember Mum having that,and I know its put in to up the weight.
Yes,I would like a choice,adding a bit of salt just doesn't do it.
p.s I add soy sauce and gravy granules to my beef and tomato Pot Noodle.It helps.
I am also fed up of all the white water that comes out of bacon,I don't remember Mum having that,and I know its put in to up the weight.
Yes,I would like a choice,adding a bit of salt just doesn't do it.
p.s I add soy sauce and gravy granules to my beef and tomato Pot Noodle.It helps.