Do you eat junk food?
 

Do you eat junk food?

Personally, I f%*c@#ng LUV it, give me a pizza, burger, etc!

The 'definition' I'm using here, goes something like this;

This is from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_food

For a while, I worked out of town with a crew, and we ate fast food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I ate most of my lifetime share of fast food. Now I don't tend to get the urge to eat that stuff. Every so often I'll indulge but the outcomes are usually what I expected ("This is how I remember it being. Ugh.").

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I just noticed this is a poll, among which is the option: "Nope, I'm a vegan!" I just wanted to say that as someone who has investigated eating a vegan diet, it's definitely possible to eat vegan junk food. One of the people who got me interested even makes the case that, "Oreos are vegan!"

Rarely (about one time a month or less); and it's usually Chinese food (takeaways). I can't remember when was the last time I ate a burger, probably more than one year ago.

Never. Yesterday's dinner was grilled gammon with potatoes, broccoli, and cauliflower, followed by a satsuma and dates. The gammon came from free-range pigs and the potatoes were organic.

Authentic Mexican roll tacos or a Chimichanga, if you haven't tried them you haven't lived life..

Of course. What ELSE would you do with it?

Had there been an option for "rarely," I'd have selected that.

If an American-style pizza is "junk" food, then your idea of junk is very broad. It also does not correlate with the definition you quoted. Perhaps the cheeze in unhealthy? By this standard it could be argued that a peanut butter sandwich is junk food. Your poll would bere useful if a stricter definition was used. Such as, food high in calories but with little or no nutritional value. What makes junk food junk is no nutritional value. The fact that most of it is also high in calories or fat compounds the junk factor.

Your options are also ridiculous. It suggests that only plants are healthy food.

If humans were intended to be vegetarians, they would not have incisors.

I said a pizza, not an "American-style pizza" (whatever that means). Pizza's (among some other foods) are generally considered by most people (if not anyone I know) 'takeaway' or 'junk' food. In other words, you should not eat them every day, as this could be considered unhealthy.

The 'definition' I'm using is from Wikipedia, which I did NOT write, it clearly says "Junk food is a pejorative term for cheap food containing high levels of calories from sugar or fat with little fiber, protein, vitamins or minerals."

Possessing cullinary and/or nutritional knowledge is advantageous when creating a poll concering food.

What is "generally considered" is not necessarily true and is often completely wrong. As in this case. Takeaway and fast food are not synonymous with junk food. Takeaway is simply food that can be bought or delivered from the place it is prepared. How does that make it junk? Fast food is food that is quickly prepared. It can be garbage like McDonald's or very good. (Fast, good-tasting and nutritious food is the norm where I currenty live, both in restaurants and from street vendors.) The people you know are obviusly not very knowledgeabe about nutrition.

If I cared about what is on Wikipaedia, which I certainy do not, their definition is at variance with your useage, since it does not describe your "junk food" of choice, pizza. There is also nothing inherently bad about hamburgers. The quality of meat and how it is prepared determine how healthy or unhealthy they are.

Yes and too much just like the list of ingredients on the junk... the "FDA" kill$ more than the "army!"

My parents are vegan( the healthy kind ;)).

I eat well when not being lazy (was a cook for eight years) the vending machine at work is no help. :doh:

While I'm not going to argue the point with you or, what is or is not junk food, if your saying that most people would not consider pizza, burgers, etc as being junk food, like most people I know (and I know a LOT of people), I could not agree with you.

If you would like to believe different, that's your problem.

That was where I got the 'definition' from and the one I'm using for the purposes of this thread. I could not careless what you think about Wikipedia, or whether or not, you agree with their definition. Once again, your problem.

I never said pizza was my "junk food of choice", I said it's ONE "junk food" I eat, so get your facts right.

More to the point, if you don't agree with Wikipedia's 'definition' of junk food, why are you replying to this thread for??? ...are you looking for an argument??

Why not just ignore this thread, if you don't agree with the definition???

BTW, I think you need to turn on your spell checker, I've counted at least 4 (if not 5) spelling errors.

Teachers* hate Wikipedia like Bill Gates may Linux?

All things teach but do they learn...

My *zza hated pain and tried to convince me I couldn't eat 12 pieces: "so only cut me into 6," it pleated!

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Most of my food at the moment is non-junk, the meat is lean pork from well-kept, locally reared pigs. At least, they were well kept until I shot and butchered them.

As it happens, there are no burger chains within about a hundred miles of my house, and most of the burgers I can easily buy I would not consider junk. We do have takeaways selling deep-fried, battered chocolate bars though, so I can get a junk fix when needed. Which, at times, has been frequent. :p

A few years back I managed to "impress" my lab colleagues by eating a pack of 8 of the cheapest available sausage rolls for lunch. They were definitely junk, though whether they were "food" might be a point for debate. A couple of them told me about when they'd done experiments involving human blood: if it was taken in the afternoon and the the donor had had a large, meaty lunch, there would be a thick layer of yellow fat on the top after they'd centrifuged it. Didn't put me off, though. :D

While I agree that pizza is not inherently a junk food, both my local supermarkets stock plenty of pizzas which do contain "high levels of calories from sugar or fat with little fiber, protein, vitamins or minerals." The ones that are advertised as being American-style tend to be the highest in fat, though to be fair they have a fair amount of protein and sodium too. Either way, thanks for bringing it up - it's been too long since I made a pizza, now I think I know what I'll be eating tonight! :)