As an adult, I can bake as many cakes as I want, and everybody will want to hang out with me even more than usual because of all the delicious cakes.
I'm down to hang out with cake and you
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Some recent studies point that bacon is not that bad if you not mix it with a lot of carbos
It’s cured fatty meat.
Too much of it isn’t going to be great no matter what you do.
The thing is, fat isn't all that bad for you. The idea that fat is unhealthy is mostly dead outside of sugar lobbyists. It's sugar that you really have to look out for.
Salt is also likely not as bad as reporting used to make it out to be. It causes short term blood pressure increases, but potentially not long term and also we don't know the direction of causation with that and heart disease.
Basically, don't over-indulge, but bacon probably isn't going to kill you.
Fat isn't just one thing. There are absolutely fats that are very unhealthy.
Weren’t there studies that showed it’s linked to increased risk of cancer? Even all processed meat like hot dogs and sausages.
Yeah, nitrates can be a problem, I was thinking about saturated fat.
When I was an early teenager I realized with an epiphany that I could take my paper route money, go to the grocery store, and buy my own cookies! It was a light bulb moment. No mom to tell me how many I could have. An entire box of cookies all to myself! So I did it, and I ate half a box of Oreo cookies, and drank 2 cherry Cokes. I got so sick that I threw up and had to go to bed several hours early. At that point I realized that my mom wasn't just being mean when she told me "no" and put limits on me, and I started listening to her more. Of course a couple of years later my real teenage years started, and I completely forgot that valuable lesson.
Did the same when I got to college and ate three packets of pop tarts for breakfast.
In my early twenties I started getting into the habit of eating a couple Pop-Tarts every morning for breakfas and began to notice Pop-Tarts were giving me pain in my heart. Literal pain in my heart. I've always been a healthy fit person, those Pop-Tart pains are the closest thing I've ever felt to a heart attack, and anyway that's how I stopped eating Pop-Tarts.
I'm reminded of Paula Poundstone's routine on how she eats a box of Pop Tarts a day.
Ah, you see not everyone has a car.
I don’t have a car, I get the train or bus instead.
Because nothing will stop me having cake.
Not everyone needs a car, I can get a cake without driving!
One man can.
I was raised poor so even now that I can afford it, I feel something forbidding me from buying cake. That and knowing that I gain weight very easily and it takes me lots of hours to get raid of it.
Regular grocery store cake is usually not worth it anyway. You’re much better off making your own, or at least your wallet and taste buds are better off, even if your blood sugar is not
Do this enough, and physics will stop you from getting in your car.
Adulthood is being able to buy and eat as much cake as you want, but knowing that you really shouldn't.
That's kind of my problem. I wish I could stop myself from buying ice cream.
I shot up to 50 pounds above my healthy weight during 2020, and a big part of that I can attribute to the availability of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food at a nearby gas station
For me, the brand is Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream. They're pricey, but I ended up buying a couple of pints and eating them over the weekend. It completely undoes all my progress throughout the week too.
Aw, shoot. Maybe I need to cut out ice cream.
I've had a pint of Phish Food in my freezer for months now. I keep wanting to eat it, but that stuff is so outrageously high in calories, and I know I'll eat the whole pint the moment I open it!
Its only 1100 Cal per pint, what could go wrong?
edit: don't tell me you stop at half a pint, that is clearly impossible.
My wife manages to eat only one scoop of half-baked. She must be a witch.
I remember realizing this at about 20, and that if I bought my own cake ingredients I could make cake for startlingly little money. The most expensive part was probably the ready made frosting.
Anyway I started making cakes for friends and neighbours in my apartment building after work. I didn't keep it up for very long, maybe a year, but I'm convinced my reputation is still riding high, decades later, from the goodwill I sowed during that time.
If only bought cake were nearly as good as home made.
Yeah I bake cakes and sweet treats for my family. I am kind of worried about the consequences on all of us. Please help.
In my early housewife days I thought I was supposed to bake things so I did that and it didn't last long because baking is never really healthy and why would I want to sabotage my health and my family's health? I stopped baking.
My car doesn't have a bakery in it 😔
You need a bigger car, yours is missing critical features. I bet it doesn't have a bowling alley either...
You can, you absolutely can. The thing is now it's not just that cake at the bakery counter in the grocery store. You're going to commit to buying a 10,000 calorie pile of wonder. You need to make sure that you do a good job. You need to go find the best goddamn cake in your area. But then, that means you got to drive a little bit. And it's going to be expensive, and you already a couple of pounds heavier than you should be because you're out of time and dealing with the kids. Ah crap, the kids they're going to want some cake. I have to eat this in my car. Do you think the bakery has utensils? Damn now I'm going to have to go two places. Ahh screw it maybe the next time this is posted.
Yeah it makes me want to go out and get a cake. For about 30 seconds before I think about the logistics of actually getting a cake, having to pay for it myself, then eating like 2 pieces before I start feeling sick and overloaded on sugar and just leave the rest in the fridge until it goes stale.
Freedom is wasted on the old
Can you order cake like you can order pizza? This calls for further investigation.
Yes but it's up charged by the delivery app you use + tip to the driver so an $8 cake becomes $16 after taxes fees and tip.
On the other hand, cake.
I discovered that in my mid-20s. I enjoyed eating a whole cake all by myself whenever the hell I wanted a few times and then the consequences begin to show and that's how we learn our lessons about things like that and then we eventually teach our kids the right way to do things and then they get bored with that and they turn around and rebel and then they learn their lessons in their 20s and the cycle continues.
I have literally done this while watching Matilda
I think about that kid every time I'm sitting there eating a whole cake straight out of the box without even bothering to slice it up or anything.
Which is uh... not often >_>
Don't do it, it's a trick by big cake!!
Only if you have a car, otherwise you need to walk or take public transportation.
As an adult anyone can stop or hinder you from having a delicious cake
Whenever I want
Where can I buy a cake at 3am? That's when I want cake, but even as an adult with a car, I am unable to get cake. 😩
Well, that kind of cake. I can get a different kind on Grindr 24/7.
I live near a store that sells mini sheet cakes. I buy them whenever I'm in the mood.
In the mood for what?
Sheet cake.
That sounds pretty sheet
In the mood for sheets ofc.
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