Things My Husband Would Eat
Mary alerted me to the existence of the blog “This Is Why You’re Fat,” which features pictures of extremely unhealthy, often disgusting-looking, food. Some highlights include “Deep Fried Peanut Butter-Covered Brownie Wrapped In Cookie Dough” and “French Fry-Encased Hot Dog On A Stick.” Cripes.
The title is unfortunate, conflating unhealthy food with fat people (remember the Krispy Kreme cheeseburger?) but I sense that they’re going more for “catchy” and “witty” than for anything more deep and meaningful. It’s kind of gross and fascinating, really.
I suggested my own title for it (see, um, title), because I have a feeling Ian would try every single thing on that blog plus the bacon donut. And he’s thin, by the way. For what it’s worth.
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Heh, note the fact that you aren’t able to comment on anything.
But to be honest, some of that stuff is a bit ridiculous. I don’t know anyone who has a hankering for baconaise. I just… ugh. I am a man who enjoys good food, but there is a line, and baconaise crosses that line and pisses on it mockingly.
I find it really timely and interesting that you post on this now, because I thought of something related to this when I watched the Jimmy Kimmel show clip with your husband and his Mac and Cheese boxes that you posted. (your husband is adorable and looks so FUN btw)
I remember watching it and thinking “you know, it’s a good thing he’s thin, because a fat man that collects mac and cheese boxes would probably get a whole lot more ridicule and less awe in regards to his collection. Probably the assumption and comments relating to the idea that he eats all of the damn mac and cheese before ‘collecting’ the box.”
Now, I may be like overboard hyper sensitive here, and perhaps I need to turn down my cynicism meter, but it was the first thing that jumped in my mind, when Kimmel asked him if he ate a lot of mac and cheese. I just imagined the tone would have been much less joking and funny, had he not been so thin.
I’m not sure the point I’m trying to make here, except you hit the nail on the head I guess. Here is your thin husband who would eat all manner of horrifying foods that would clog up an artery in no time, and the assumption by most of the world would be that he is a salad eating vitamin taking jogger or something. (i’m not saying he doesnt jog, but i mean a krispy kreme donut? ugh)
Most of those items are not anything I would eat in a million years. I am fat for a lot of reasons, and none of them are because I eat things like that. But if I were ever to indulge in something featured on this site, just out of curiosity (the same reason most thin people would eat any of the items on that site), I would spend the entire experience thinking that people were looking at me and whispering, “See? That’s why she’s fat,” and laughing because I ordered a Diet Dr. Pepper as a drink. Or worse, thinking that some “researcher” like the ones in the Chinese buffet “study” were watching me and counting how many times I chewed each bite and whether I had my napkin on my lap or on the table.
I am a runner and quite thin, and I would totally try any of those things just to say I did! Most of them have been created for the “whoa! crazy! how much can we fit in one dish?!” factor anyway :)
And I also think your husband is adorable – what a cute couple you make!
I would try each and every one of those foods. I’m a fatty and I love foods like that. The crazier and messier the better.
That IS why I’m fat (amongst other reasons) and I’m cool with that. I’m the dreaded fat stereotype! Run from me, I don’t eat salads!
I saw the link to that site on the Consumerist blog yesterday. (But the entry was made, like, Wednesday.)
Oh. My. God.
The whole thing is half “Who the hell would eat that?” and half “Damn, I bet that’s good.”
The bacon ice cream…it makes me curious.
the one at the (current) bottom of the first page? the garbage plate? that’s from my hometown. every dive restaurant has a variation on it. i can proudly say i’ve never eaten one. looking at one makes my tummy twisty.
The hubby and I are health-conscious (he’s thin, of course; I’m fat) and never eat crap like that. We drove 9 hours to the place where we were going to get married and were exhausted. We picked a nearby pizzeria out of convenience and split an appetizer of deep-fried mushrooms, fries and a small pizza. I was so, so sick to my stomach afterwards because I’m just not used to eating fried and greasy foods. I think the stuff on that website would probably put me in the hospital.
My husband’s family is from the midwest and they sprung a dessert on me called Gooey Butter Cake. I don’t ever ever eat stuff like that and it felt like a rock in my stomach for days.
Ew….that’s all I can say. Ew. I saw this linked elsewhere a couple days ago and I’m still sick from reading it!!!!
Granted, Chicago deep dish and cheesecake on a stick don’t really fit in with the rest of it IMO, but they’re still things I can only eat small amounts of without being physically ill (which really sucks, who WANTS to have to share their cheesecake to avoid the portapotties at the street festival?!)
These are things that my boyfriend would eat. Most of those things I would never eat, they would set my IBS out of control, LOL. Just looking at them makes me feel queasy.
I must be the only bad fatty in the entire world who eats junk food. It seems like every fat person on the fatosphere is a chubby Jack LaLanne. Am I in the minority here or is the “Fat and Fit!!!” crowd just more vocal on the interbleghs?
@ Stella:
Heck, I don’t eat salads either, except very, very occasionally if I’m at a restaurant that has a really tasty-looking salad bar. And when I do eat a salad, I totally load it up with dressing and croutons. And I certainly do eat “junk” food–pizza, the occasional meal from McDonald’s or Subway, pasta, whatever. Right now I’m in love with the Otis Spunkmeyer frozen chocolate chip cookie dough you can get at Costco. Mmmmm, chocolate chip cookies….
My point in responding to this post is that eating huge amounts of greasy, fried foods is not why I’m fat. Sometimes I eat greasy, fried foods, but not in huge quantities and no more often than the average thin person who eats greasy, fried foods. That is the point most of the “Fat and Fit!!!” crowd is trying to get across to the world. We are no more or less healthy, in general, than thin people who eat the same kinds of foods and get the same amount of exercise, just because we are fat.
Stella, I am a fatty who does like a bit of food with a high fat content. Only I don’t really care for stuff like deep-fried pizza on a stick, I like fancypants cheeses and other Snobby Gourmet Treatz. ;) For a while I had a hangover from my dieting days of TINY AMOUNT OF OLIVE OR CANOLA OIL ONLY OMG, but as I get more and more in tune with intuitive eating, not only did it turn me vegetarian but I also started eating more fat, including vegetarian saturated fats like coconut. And guess what, I did not in fact gain weight or raise my cholesterol levels from eating a considerable amount more fat, even despite having a disorder that affects metabolism (hypothyroidism). My cholesterol levels went DOWN, also interesting for someone with hypothroid. The food I’m now eating feels more satisfying and wholesome to me.
I’d say that I’d try a bite of any of those (except no chives on my hot dog please), just to see what they were like. My husband wouldn’t eat any of them – LOL.
RE: Fantine & La di Da,
There isn’t anything wrong with liking salads or anything of that nature. I actually do enjoy vegetables quite a bit and I was just giving in to a bit of hyperbole back there.
However I occasionally feel like I fail at being teh fatz because I don’t embody the ANTI-Fat stereotype that most fat activists seem to. My fat is due in part to my genetics (large, german farmers!) and also because of my kind of crappy diet and general dislike of most exercise. But as you pointed out MANY thin people love deep fried cheese as much as I do and hate the StairMaster with a similar passion, however I’m the one who gets chided for it, not the thin person.
It is interesting to me that on fat acceptance blogs, most of the comments about that site tend toward, “eww, gross… and totally not why I’m fat.” There is a thread about it on the snopes message board right now that has a few fatties in saying “eww gross, and also that title is rather offensive,” but for the most part, it’s full of thin people going, “That looks good… I would try that… I have tried that, it was great…”
This is interesting because it actually just came up at my work a few days ago when a co-worker, who is actually getting into interesting conversations with me lately about all of the concepts around self-acceptance/fat acceptance/HAES, etc, suggested this site as “Hilarious”. I personally don’t find it hilarious, maybe cause the title conflating Eating This Stuff with Being Fat just makes me roll my eyes. Otherwise though I find if fascinating just to scroll through and see what these folks have deemed “Vile” and “Over the Top”. Seeing as such terms are subjective I kinda wish folks COULD comment on things because I’m sure there is stuff there that just looking at makes my stomach roil when others would be happy to take a bite. Likewise I know a few items on the first page even made me think, “Hey, those flavors would probably go well together!”
I couldn’t even get all the way down the page. Eeeek.
The only thing I would consider trying is chocolate covered bacon, but that’s really more a morbid curiosity than actual interest.
I’ll cop to eating some of the things on that website and wanting to eat some more of them. The fried mac and cheese nuggets are AWESOME – Sonic had them for a while, and I was very sad when they went away.
Some of the stuff is really nasty, however.
I think if the website had a different title I would like it more.
Not only would I eat all those foods, I invented chocolate-dipped bacon! I just forgot to patent it.
For what it’s worth, yes I am thin. If I had been fat, and Jimmy Kimmel make a fat joke at my expense, I would have called immediately HIM out as a fat person and told him he shouldn’t have gone there.
Also I really should edit before I click the Submit button.
Last night I saw Man V Food on the Travel channel and fell in love with the show. It’s also about intensely crazy, fatty, amazing ‘grub food.’ This guy travels throughout the country and eats very big, very American junk food. Pizza slices bigger than a baby, crazy big burgers loaded with insane toppings. It’s like the opposite of this site, but a similar shock value.
Nik, I love that show! I would love to be part of that guy’s entourage, so I could try (but not be expected to finish) all those crazy eats.
Ian, I think we should try to incorporate fresh jalapeno with the chocolate covered bacon. Add a vegetable and that makes it a salad, right?