Hey, I like them that way too. An oven baked potato with a crisp potato
skin is really good.

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I eat potatoes without putting anything on them. I also eat cooked
oatmeal without adding anything else. What you are describing is what I
call the dog turd theory of food. If you start with a dog turd and add
sugar, cinnamon and butter to it, it might be palatable. Could it be
that some people really don't like potatoes, but just the stuff they
put on it?

"Most people" in this case are everyone posting here so far including
you who are hostile to vegetarianism I guess and prefer nonsimple
foods. Not a problem. I just like simple food best and think its better
for me. I also do not cook unless heating oatmeal in the microwave is
called cooking. I'm pretty healthy far as I know, too.


It's not hostility to vegetarians you're seeing. Rather, we all seem to be
opposed to the careless use of words like "non-cooked", as well as an
extreme and unscientific promotion of a certain type of diet. Anyone who
actually reads more than one book or article about vegetarianism will
realize that you haven't studied the issue well. I'd suggest you begin with
what is still considered the bible for vegetarians: "Diet for a Small
Planet". At least it's grounded in reality.

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Hey, I like them that way too. An oven baked potato with a crisp potato
skin is really good.


But, you said "non-cooked" in your subject line.

Actually, rolled oats are not processed. They are whole oats that have
been rolled so they cook quicker, then they are boiled in water and
dried, so that they can be prepared more quickly. There is nothing else
in Quaker oats except oats. Same with shredded wheat. Everything other
cereal you see on the breakfast aisle including those that say 100%
this or that, are made FROM whole oats, whole wheat or bran, etc. but
they contain lots of other things. Oatmeal and shredded wheat are not
processed food, IMO any more than canned green beans are. If the
ingredients list says green beans are because they have been boiled and
canned.

[W]e all seem to be opposed to the careless use of
words like "non-cooked"

His post is mired in confusion, and rather than debate this, he should
scurry home and not return until he can make sense. Because as another
poster says, homemade salsa is *terrific* on a baked potato, and,
contrary to OP's claim that simple food is healthiest, it's better for
you than a *plain* baked potato. (Which, also contrary to an OP claim,
is COOKED.)

I ate very simple, marginally-cooked vegetarian food for years. I
don't now because IT'S DULL AS DISHWATER. OP should have announced his
allegiance to simple, low-fat foods and asked for recipes rather than
paraded in like he was bearing Wonderful News for the high-fat heathens.

wrote in message
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Hey, I like them that way too. An oven baked potato with a crisp potato
skin is really good.

OK, just to get you going again --haven't you heard that skin is really,
really, really, really bad for you?
GIYF,
Dee Dee

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[W]e all seem to be opposed to the careless use of
words like "non-cooked"

His post is mired in confusion, and rather than debate this, he should
scurry home and not return until he can make sense. Because as another
poster says, homemade salsa is *terrific* on a baked potato, and,
contrary to OP's claim that simple food is healthiest, it's better for
you than a *plain* baked potato. (Which, also contrary to an OP claim,
is COOKED.)

Every time you eat salsa on a baked potato, you add one year to your life.
I'm 52. I had the aforementioned food combination a year ago. This proves my
theory (if you squint and never took a science class).

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Actually, rolled oats are not processed. They are whole oats that have
been rolled so they cook quicker, then they are boiled in water and
dried, so that they can be prepared more quickly. There is nothing else
in Quaker oats except oats. Same with shredded wheat. Everything other
cereal you see on the breakfast aisle including those that say 100%
this or that, are made FROM whole oats, whole wheat or bran, etc. but
they contain lots of other things. Oatmeal and shredded wheat are not
processed food, IMO any more than canned green beans are. If the
ingredients list says green beans are because they have been boiled and
canned.


Rolled + boiled = processed. Sorry.

wrote:
Actually, rolled oats are not processed. They are whole oats that have
been rolled so they cook quicker, then they are boiled in water and
dried, so that they can be prepared more quickly. There is nothing else
in Quaker oats except oats. Same with shredded wheat. Everything other
cereal you see on the breakfast aisle including those that say 100%
this or that, are made FROM whole oats, whole wheat or bran, etc. but
they contain lots of other things. Oatmeal and shredded wheat are not
processed food, IMO any more than canned green beans are. If the
ingredients list says green beans are because they have been boiled and
canned.




Perhaps you need to either use the right terminology (like maybe
"minimally processed"?) or else define the terms that you've hijacked.

Best regards,
Bob

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I eat potatoes without putting anything on them. I also eat cooked
oatmeal without adding anything else. What you are describing is what I
call the dog turd theory of food. If you start with a dog turd and add
sugar, cinnamon and butter to it, it might be palatable. Could it be
that some people really don't like potatoes, but just the stuff they
put on it?


It's telling that you have to insult and denigrate other people to make your
point.

There is some validity to your last sentence, however. I have seen many
people who won't eat a baked potato unless it is drowned in butter, sour
cream, bacon bits, cheese, and so on. But covering up a flavor is not the
same as enhancing it, and the art of cooking over the centuries has been an
effort to discover complementary flavor combinations. Your approach gives
you a few hundred flavors, perhaps. My approach gives me tens if not
hundreds of thousands. Guess who is ahead?

If you had merely posted "this is how I like to eat" you would not have had
so many hostile responses. But you posted "this is how I like to eat and it
is superior to any other way."

Peter Aitken

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:24:28 -0800, dkw12002 wrote:

I eat potatoes without putting anything on them. I also eat cooked
oatmeal without adding anything else. What you are describing is what I
call the dog turd theory of food. If you start with a dog turd and add
sugar, cinnamon and butter to it, it might be palatable. Could it be
that some people really don't like potatoes, but just the stuff they
put on it?

"Most people" in this case are everyone posting here so far including
you who are hostile to vegetarianism I guess and prefer nonsimple
foods. Not a problem. I just like simple food best and think its better
for me. I also do not cook unless heating oatmeal in the microwave is
called cooking. I'm pretty healthy far as I know, too.


In regard to your turd theory.. have you checked into what a microwave may
do for you? If you really want to get into roulette.. do you drive a car?

http://www.relfe.com/microwave.html

I had my annual 5 year check up yesterday. The doctor I went to last time
died. I have never seen a ..veg.. that looked healthy. We used to hire
them but they always called in sick. What I like about the -veg- worst of
all is they are always trying to convert others. When they lose the
healthy argument they always "git going on PETA."

Beef..it's what's for dinner.. G

haven't you heard that skin is really, really, really, really bad for you?

Don't tell me I'm actually going to *learn* something in this thread.

I thought potato skin was GOOD for you. Something about all the iron
and minerals in dirt working their way into the skin.

Wow: it's sounding stupid to me and nobody's even responded yet.

what's this dog turd theory? *I'm hostile to that kind of description of food.

It's a disgusting version of the Escargot Theory: that is, you could
cook a pencil eraser with butter and garlic and end up with something
just as tasty.

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haven't you heard that skin is really, really, really, really bad for
you?

Don't tell me I'm actually going to *learn* something in this thread.

I thought potato skin was GOOD for you. Something about all the iron
and minerals in dirt working their way into the skin.

Wow: it's sounding stupid to me and nobody's even responded yet.


A lot of the fungicides used on potato crops lodge in the skin. But, I don't
care. I'm convinced that these dangers are outweighed by the joy of eating
the skin. :-)

Dee Randall wrote:


OK, just to get you going again --haven't you heard that skin is really,
really, really, really bad for you?


They are??? There is a toxin in the eyes and in the greenish coloured skins
of young potatoes, but I was under the impression that they were actually
pretty good for you, and a quick Google search confirmed that.