indyfabz

So did my dad. I don't.

He would also eat the "knuckles" off the ends of chicken legs and suck out the marrow. Peanut butter, bacon and hot sauce sandwiches were another treat he loved. He died at the ripe old age of 64.

Velo Vol 

Might as well eat unpeeled carrots.

Velo Vol 

wut

BillyD

From a wee lad I’ve been an animal lover, still am. But I hate deer. 3 reasons.
1) They come in your yard and eat plants you spent hard-earned money raising in your yard.
2) They come in your yard and bring disease-carrying ticks that drop off in your yard to wait for you to pass by.
3) They have a nasty habit of feeding near roadways and spontaneously stepping in front of moving cars . . . for no discernible reason.

I remember driving on interstate 84 about a month after just moving to the country, after having spent my entire early years living in the big city where there are no deer. But I had heard stories. You know what’s coming next, right?

All of a sudden I see a large antlered deer decide to bolt directly across the 6 lane highway. Why, who the hell knows? Did the grass smell greener over there? I know he made it at least to the median, I zipped past him and couldn’t see the rest, but I pray that some poor guy with kids in the car didn’t plow into that dumbass deer going 65 mph. That s not something you want to see.

So I say all that just to reveal that yes, every time I see a deer I wish somebody would shoot him. Sorry.

Bah Humbug

I can't imagine wearing one out. I never got close, and that's me.

abshipp 

I'm not vegetarian, but I'd say at least 19/20 meals we cook at home are.

I love not having to worry about whether I've cooked my food enough to not be dangerous to me, or whether I've cross-contaminated my veggies.

Plus, meat is messy. And expensive!

datlas 

I don't mind eating them. As long as they have been scrubbed clean.

Actually, mrs datlas sometimes buys a 1 pound bag of carrots and I typically eat the whole thing in one sitting.

BillyD

You seem to have inadvertently overlooked the ample carrots and beetroot, superfoods both. But yeah, I do believe improving my overall nutrition can be beneficial, because after all you are what you eat. But if not I’ll have to look elsewhere.

LesterOfPuppets

Today was a perfect day for riding gravel on 23s

genejockey 

Yeah, and people smoke for decades and die of something else.

BillyD

Unless I’m active I avoid, puts on weight.

Oh?

seedsbelize 

Wow! That's a review worth paying attention to.

Velo Vol 

All those things you're eating are good to eat. I'm just wondering how eating an unnatural amount of them (via juicing) is supposed to help with anaemia. Remember, I have this problem too, so it's not a theoretical issue.

gnome

I was wondering how on earth a vegetarian pseudo meat can have fat in it. I looked online and they don't use fats, they use oils. They call them "fats" but that's misleading advertising.

WhyFi

Don't you know it's EightyTwosday? Jeez.

WhyFi

In a brilliant move that might otherwise be seen as slightly paranoid, Bah Humbug dulled the impact of my double metric century sneak attack with a preemptive imperial century of his own. Well played, sir. Well played.

WhyFi

I'm back in the red!

Velo Vol 

Nope.

seedsbelize 

A slow rolling thunderstorm, with a gentle rain. Idyllic. I could stand one like this weekly. Alas, we have them a couple times per year. I plan to ride home from Merida tomorrow afternoon. It could be more of the same

genejockey 

"Saturated fat" is what you call a lipid made up of fatty acids with no double bonds, so coconut oil is an oil, but it's 90% saturated fat.

MoAlpha

Actually, there is no chemical distinction between "oils" and "fats." Colloquially, we tend to call the ones that are liquid at room temperature oils and those also tend to be the "unsaturated" ones.

Velo Vol 

Do you have a special family potato recipe?

indyfabz

No problem. They are tasty.

As you probably remember, I’ve done a lot of riding in Montana. Deer are almost as numerous as pigeons in the big city. In 2017 I passed a motorist who had just hit one. Her hood was buckled. No visible external damage to the animal, but the thing was dead as fried chicken. People with expensive truck often have guards on the front, which I assume are to protect the vehicle in case of a deer or elk strike. On the last day of my 2019 tour I left my hotel in town early. There were several grazing by the side of the road by a gas station/convenience store. A couple of them wandered into the road without looking. The locals know to expect stupid behavior from them.

genejockey 

"Go to garden to pick potatoes. Find all of them dead. Move to America."

BillyD

I have no solid evidence this will help my anemia. I think it was effective a couple months ago where I felt more energetic, but since I was pretty inactive due to the hernia I can’t connect the two with any validity. I know whenever I ask my pcp about it he recommends liver and other food items, and I’ve beat the liver thing to death in the past, so now I’ll try the other food items. And I’m not consuming these in unnatural amounts, the 50 ozs I made yesterday should last me a week - 7 ozs a day. Maybe I should double that to twice a day.

Beef liver is very tasty when prepared properly, ever tried it?