1. Sodas, chips, and snacks.

    Okay so I’ve mentioned before, but my family eats a lot. I mean, sheer volume of food intake. But the thing is, as a kid, most of the food I ate was relatively healthy. Lean meat, chicken, vegetables, tofu, rice, water, and orange juice. 

    Sometimes, there would be a Canada Dry or Sprite in the fridge, but mostly my dad just drinks that because he says it makes him feel refreshed or hydrated after doing yardwork - which is totally not how soda works, but whatever.

    We never had chips or candy in abundance, and so everything was pretty much ok. We ate too much, but we ate too much of “whole” foods.

    After my brother started growing up, some of those food habits changed. I guess he has more “American” or Westernized tastes, and I can’t help but find this singular anecdotal experience of mine comparable to the studies that have been done following people/obesity/health through generations in America. The American diet is just…so so bad? I mean, duh.

    My brother started asking my mom for chips and soda because that’s what his friends ate and that’s what he thought tasted good, and my mom sometimes has a hoarding/”sale” shopping problem so we started seeing more and more junk food in the house.

    The thing is, my family already eats a lot like I mean eating-full-to-bursting a lot - meaning past satiety. Add junk food to that mix? Junk food, high fructose corn syrup, etc. - there have been studies showing that there’s decreased satiety when it comes to these foods, and that’s one reason it’s so easy to snack on junk food or drink Supersize sodas without feeling full and even sometimes wanting to eat more (high sugar load preps the body for food).

    I just…I’m not comfortable with all the junk food in the house. To be honest, I really hate it. I know people like how it tastes, and processed foods are kind of the American way-of-life now, and it’s about convenience and instant gratification and freedom of choice…but I hate all that too??

    Yes, it’s your freedom of choice to eat shit foods. Yes, it’s your freedom of choice to smoke. Yes, it’s your freedom of choice to do drugs.

    It’s your freedom of choice to slowly kill yourselves, and maybe that’s for the better with our overpopulation/overcrowding - except for the slowly part, which really is just a big drain on tax, insurance, and healthcare dollars.

    I was going somewhere with this post, but mostly I am just grumpy that my mom won’t stop buying junk food (“Just because I buy it doesn’t mean you have to eat it” - That’s not the point, mom! I don’t want anyone to eat it!)

    One day, I’m going to be a food tyrant. No fast food, no high fructose corn syrup, no corn-fed beef (and while we’re at it, let’s make meat production more environmentally-friendly please), no processed convenience food overabundance!

    Also, puppies for everyone! (Not for food.)

  2. gaboddr:

    1997 v/s 2013

  3. oh-deir:

    ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY REALIZES

  4. angergirl: AU CONTRAIRE MY GRANDMA GOT ALL A’S IN “ETIQUETTE” (YES THAT WAS AN ACTUAL CLASS IN HER HIGH SCHOOL) AND SHE TOLD ME, “DEAR,” SHE SAID, “YOU NEVER CROSS YOUR LEGS, YOU CROSS YOUR ANKLES. BUT THE GREAT THING ABOUT YOU LIVING IN THIS GENERATION IS YOU DON’T HAVE TO FOLLOW MY GENERATION’S RULES. SIT THE WAY YOU WANT. IF SOMEONE LOOKS UP YOUR SKIRT, JUST TELL THEM YOUR AUNT MARY WILL KILL THEM.”WHICH IS TRUE MY AUNT MARY HAD A SWITCHBLADE IN A SPECIAL POCKET OF HER NIGHTGOWN UNTIL THE DAY SHE DIED the moral of this story is 1. Sit the way you want. 2. My great aunt Mary was a fucking badass.

    angergirl:

    AU CONTRAIRE

    MY GRANDMA GOT ALL A’S IN “ETIQUETTE” (YES THAT WAS AN ACTUAL CLASS IN HER HIGH SCHOOL) AND SHE TOLD ME, “DEAR,” SHE SAID,

    “YOU NEVER CROSS YOUR LEGS, YOU CROSS YOUR ANKLES. BUT THE GREAT THING ABOUT YOU LIVING IN THIS GENERATION IS YOU DON’T HAVE TO FOLLOW MY GENERATION’S RULES. SIT THE WAY YOU WANT. IF SOMEONE LOOKS UP YOUR SKIRT, JUST TELL THEM YOUR AUNT MARY WILL KILL THEM.”

    WHICH IS TRUE

    MY AUNT MARY HAD A SWITCHBLADE IN A SPECIAL POCKET OF HER NIGHTGOWN UNTIL THE DAY SHE DIED

    the moral of this story is

    1. Sit the way you want.

    2. My great aunt Mary was a fucking badass.

  6. bonappetit: The 14 best chocolates in America: { 1, 7 } Xocolatl de David; Portland, OR { 2, 4 } Cacao Atlanta Chocolate Co.; Atlanta { 3 } Eclat Chocolate; West Chester, PA { 5, 8 } Askinosie; Springfield, MO { 6, 11, 14 } Ococoa; Los Angeles { 9, 13 } Nunu Chocolates; Brooklyn, NY { 10 } Cocanu; Portland, OR { 12 } Cacao Prieto; Brooklyn, NY (shot by Stephen Lewis)

    bonappetit:

    The 14 best chocolates in America:

    { 1, 7 } Xocolatl de David; Portland, OR

    { 2, 4 } Cacao Atlanta Chocolate Co.; Atlanta

    { 3 } Eclat Chocolate; West Chester, PA

    { 5, 8 } Askinosie; Springfield, MO

    { 6, 11, 14 } Ococoa; Los Angeles

    { 9, 13 } Nunu Chocolates; Brooklyn, NY

    { 10 } Cocanu; Portland, OR

    { 12 } Cacao Prieto; Brooklyn, NY

    (shot by Stephen Lewis)

  7. friendswithfangs:

    50 lil pixel foods (there should be a part 2 forthcoming EVENTUALLY)

    does anyone have any suggestions for other foods to attempt?

  8. littlevoyeurs: and i was like baby, baby, baby oh

    littlevoyeurs:

    and i was like baby, baby, baby oh

    • Dr. Cameron: Is it so wrong for them to want to have a normal child? It's normal to want to be normal.
    • Dr. House: Spoken like a true circle queen. See, skinny, socially-privileged white people get to draw this neat little circle. And everyone inside the circle is "normal". Anyone outside the circle needs to be beaten, broken and reset so that they can be brought into the circle. Failing that, they should be institutionalized. Or worse - Pitied.

  10. thepensivebrony:

    “you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”

    finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever

  11. uss-special:

    tinycartridge:

    Here’s what a complete Japanese GBA collection looks like, all 795 cartridges lined up and put up for auction. You could own this divine set for just $5,800!

    Buy: GBA games and stuff
    See also: More Game Boy Advance posts
    [Via @Analogueint]

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  12. biscottea: sugar—-milk: いろいろなトースト

    biscottea:

    sugar—-milk:

    いろいろなトースト

  13. littlevoyeurs: sweet spot

    littlevoyeurs:

    sweet spot

  14. bobbing-for-hobbies: Travel | Mister Donut, Taipei, Taiwan The Mister Donut craze in Taipei has finally dwindled, but several locations still stand. After eating hot pot and shopping, I wanted a mochi donut as a snack so the four of us opted to share three donuts. After the inhalation of the donuts, my aunt decided she liked my strawberry mochi donut (pictured above) so much that she went and bought two more. And, that is how good that donut was.

    bobbing-for-hobbies:

    Travel | Mister Donut, Taipei, Taiwan

    The Mister Donut craze in Taipei has finally dwindled, but several locations still stand. After eating hot pot and shopping, I wanted a mochi donut as a snack so the four of us opted to share three donuts. After the inhalation of the donuts, my aunt decided she liked my strawberry mochi donut (pictured above) so much that she went and bought two more. And, that is how good that donut was.

  15. afragmentcastadrift:

    Some sort of bliss known as mochido - the mochi donut.

    And now Mitsuwa is added to my list of places to visit when I am next in CA.

    (courtesy of NotCot)