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#11 PorkLoin

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 08:08 PM

La Cookie of Serenity and Tranquility: You're the smartest piglet. Enjoy your gin!

(and kidding aside, YES ... we are meant to eat the whole, locally grown (when possible) fresh fruit, with it's fibre and vitamins intact ... not great big glasses of high carb, high glycemic, insulin surging and often low nutrient value, JUICE. Excessive consumption of fruit juice IS an obesity hazard ... especially in young children).

Yes -- I've always held that gin makes one smart. All BS aside, it's also not smart to drink too much booze - there is a cost, needless to say.

I hear ya on the juice. "Sugar water" as I see much of it, though obviously there can be quite a bit of good stuff along for the ride. I have one brother who to this day will drink three, maybe even four large glasses of orange juice with breakfast. He's really pretty healthy in his eating habits overall, and is 6' 7" and 200 lbs., a retired Major from the Air Force, so ya ne'er know.

But man oh man can some kids down the sweet stuff. A long time ago when I was a kid we raised calves, and we would mix up this formula stuff with water, then give it to the calves in mega-sized bottles, vastly bigger versions of human baby bottles. One winter it was below zero and the stuff tended to freeze and the calves wouldn't drink much of it, so my dad tried using hot water to mix with. The calves went nuts and would drink an apparently unlimited amount of the stuff since it was warm. "They're just making big pigs of themselves!," said my dad with exasperation.

Anyway, I do shudder to think of some of the carb doses that many kids get nowadays.

Locally grown -- nine years ago I dug two big trenches roughly 60' long by 2' wide and 2.5' deep, then filled them with with all sorts of stuff that asparagus plants love, the "crowns" of the asparagus plants to be planted going on top. Today I picked what will be the last harvest for this year. Heck, I can eat it raw in the garden. But steam it then eat it that way or use some butter and/or salt - good grief talk about a delicacy.

Got it steaming right now.

Doug