Dont I know it mate. My dad always comments on how good the meat is down here when he comes to visit,.
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Yeah it’s cause of WW2.
We had to over farm during WW2. We get as much from the land as possible. But at reduced quality.
Our tomatos are pastel red and our meat tasteless.
More worryingly we are too used to it. I had an genuine free range eggs last year. The taste almost made me sick. To eggy.
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I was today years old when I learnt:
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I was also today years old.
I did know that our steaks are pretty tasteless, overpriced and crap unless you’re willing to pay insane prices.
Yeah the number of cultural hand overs from WW2 and even WW1 is insane. Things like the reason Germans and Japan as such engineering power houses now is because of sanctions in the 1940’s. We told them - no military engineering. So their best engineers, paid for by their governments went into things like cars and electronics.
80 years after being fucking screwed over, they are two of the most powerful economies on earth. Out striping all but one of the winners of the war.
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I’d make a case that they were the only winner of the wars. Certainly none of the European allies won in anything but name.
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Ain’t this the truth. Think in the UK there was more rationing immediately after the war than during
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Britain went from owning 1/4 of the globe to a country in which the basics of life were rationed. The last of the war debt was paid off in 2006. Doesn’t sound much like a win to me.
Well the Nazis were defeated so not all bad…
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Absolutely. A war fought for the right reasons.
1950 something rationing ended. Crazy right.
BTW obesity in the UK is linked the rationing. Our grandparents lived in an tie when food was scarce. If there was a left over roast potato you ate it. Full or not. This emotional hang up over food is still in our parents. We (people between 40-25) are starting to see that we do not need to make our kids eat every last crumb at the table. And so there is hope obesity in the uk will at least slow.
FYI - the only person to “win” at war was Geroge Lucus when he sold Star Wars to Disney for $4billion. AFTER the prequels. How the fuck did he do that?
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We have the same issue in the US with the “clean plate club” due to the Depression. It’s rough having my MIL over with my kid, because the former is VERY against “wasting food” whereas we are raising our kid that, when you’re not hungry, you stop eating.
There was a LOT of guilt used over food back in the day.
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My BIL has a similar attitude now, although citing environmental reasons. They go about it in a slightly different way though, their fridge looks like a Tupperware show room.
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My MIL has put an individual leaf of lettuce in a ziplock bag and put it in our fridge “for later”, haha.
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Yeah - its odd how these things that happened well out side of living memory still effect us today. But I find it fascinating.
I’m a bit like this. But because I was brought up not so well off. I REALLY struggle to throw food away.
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It’s funny: it’s less the finances and more the “fat kid instincts” that get me.
My kid loves stuffed crust pizza. I mean, who doesn’t? You can’t just get a slice of that stuff: you get a whole pizza. My kid can’t eat a whole pizza, and we don’t ever get through all the leftovers.
It still breaks my heart, EVERY single time, to throw away that leftover pizza, haha. I KNOW when I was my kid’s age that it wouldn’t have stood a chance. I’d be having it for breakfast.
Ha - I will admit there is a lot of gluttony in there as well.
Growing up I was a BIG eater. at 9 years old I would eat a microwave meal for 4 (Marks and Spencers Spaghetti Bolognese for the British in the crowd. My nan brought them as we did not have the £££ for that). Eating big was - still is - part of who I am. I will say 100% this is part of the reason I’m so big. Its hard to think of myself as someone that does not just eat big all the time. however i was never fat as a kid.
At age 11 I found rugby and LOVED it. I used to play all the time. At age 15 I played for the school and 2 clubs. I could have 4 games a week. And trained 3 times.
Monday off
Tues - club training
Wednesday - school game or training + 2nd club training
Thursday - club training
Friday - Off
Saturday - School game, 2nd club game
Sunday - club game
I was a bean pole. 12 stone at 6ft tall. I could eat what every I wanted. Got some really bad habbits.
Fast froward a few years and I got an office job and gave up sports - boom I gain 40lb in 9 months and its never left.
Until now.
FYI - 109.8kg today. First time under 110kg for a while. I’m gonaa see out lent and I think 107 is on the cards. Maybe 106. After that a 2 week break - no lose or gain and then time to get under 100kg.
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60kg squat x10
60kg log X5
7 mins
6 sets
Good job I re watched this. 5 sets…
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That just sounds like an extra ingredient for my garbage can chilli. Quality
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So weight is down to 109.3kg for 2 days in a row. 2 out of 3 days or 3 in a row is my cut off for “this is now my new weight”.
If I’m 109kg tomorrow then boom. I will call myself 109kg.
I will add in absolutely starving today. I knew I was gonna be “lighter”. My gut feels empty. Today’s leg work out well be “fun”. I plan to start that about 15:00 or 2h time.
Also whoop whoop - 1000th post!
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