Fruitist. You should be ashamed.
My dad called grits, Georgia ice cream.
And sweet tea was the house wine.
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I never counted calories and didn’t know anyone who did. What we ate was just as important as how much we ate.
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I’m more of a caveman.
But you realize they are similar sauces, right? That Bearnaise is basically Hollandaise with acidic vinegar instead of acidic lemon juice, plus onions and tasty herbs?
I didn’t realize Godzilla did Zumba.
You think Tejas is the only place that has barbecue? It’s a pretty old cooking technique. Every caveman knows that. You probably argue about beans in chili too, even though weightlifters sometimes know a lot about nutrition. 
Texas may not be Deep South. But it is sometimes the Shallow South. The Census Bureau considers Texas part of the South.
#MeToo posting, it’s the new cause of mental obesity.
Yes! And you could just change the composition based on goals. Pull out carbs to lean out: put them in go gain
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3? years ago, I had to cut out potato chips.
Last year, I had to cut out ice cream.
Getting old means it gets easier and easier to gain weight. Supposedly, when one gets really old, the appetite starts to go; I am hopeful I can then just eats chips and ice cream and not get fat.
Yeah - I’m locked in at about 2000 calories, have to consciously eat to gain.
Up at 4:30, nap at 11, getting old rocks!
I heard a great theory on this: muscle loss as we age paired with fat gain results in a negative body composition change, such that our bodyweight remains the same but we are poorly configured. And since fat is less metabolically active than muscle, it means we require fewer calories to maintain our weight.
The metabolism doesn’t slow: we are getting built worse
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Every southern comfort dish you can imagine, and in Louisiana gumbo and boudain plus all the other bayou foods.
I think both are true, that theory, and also that metabolism slows. Iirc the slowing of the metabolism is something that is meaningful on a decade long basis; so yes, the easy blame on the metabolism is overused, but it does occur.
The falling off the cliff wrt muscle loss occurs at the 75 yr mark on average. Peter Attia has shown the graph (based on evidence, not conjecture lol) that illustrates it many times.
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Yeah, I have heard the variance to be something like 200 calories. A serving of Oreos.
But, at the same point, its also true that most weight gained is just 1-3lbs over the holiday season. …but, if you NEVER lose it, and have 20 years of holidays, that adds up!
It’s like the “miracle” of compound interest -only 200 per day, but every day, over 12 months…etc, etc. etc. And voila! Skinny fat!
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The only place with bbq worth eating. Everywhere else may use fire to cook meat but it’s not bbq. It’s just outside cooked food.
When you add beans or tomatoes to chili you turn it in to soup, with chilis for flavor.
Texas Red is chili. And don’t even get started on chicken and lima bean soup with a radish for flavor.
True east of Houston and Dallas. Then it becomes the west with a decidedly western/Cowboy culture compared to the antebellum south.
In any case, if you’re eating more smoked brisket, biscuits and gravy or poutine than you’re burning you’re going to get fat. And people are super sedentary now.
Fried chicken is Scottish, biscuits are English (the word biscuit shares the same Latin origin as biscotti), barbecue is Caribbean.
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Any casserole dish with questionable food combinations is American.
Chicken fried steak is really just German immigrants making schnitzel with local ingredients.
Once again, Texans patting themselves on the back and telling themselves they are special.
I like Texas barbecue. But Kansas City, Carolina, Memphis, Kentucky, St. Louis, Chicago, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, Jamaica and the Yucatán would like a word.
You can tell how good or popular a food is by the number of variations, and by where it is available. You can get fried chicken in a lot of places, probably branded with Kentucky instead of Kaledonia. You can get barbecue in many cities and countries. When was the last time you had grits anywhere in Europe? Saw them outside the US? Why would that be?
Oh God. And eating in general is Mesopotamian in origin according to prevailing theory.
Of course fried chicken wasn’t just waiting on a Georgia hill to be discovered but I think we can agree the south has a definitive food type.
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I never knew what it was growing up. I heard the name but I couldn’t figure out if it was chicken or steak. Then I had it in when I was in Missouri. I’ll admit it tasted good but I thought, it’s basically a cutlet, which originated in France. But I did see a cooking show and they said that chicken fried steak, as you mentioned, was created by German immigrants in Texas.