Too Many Pizzerias And Carbs In Bsas Stop This Now

[polostar88]

Did you not read the explanations provided?

It's about the price of the parilla vs pizza. Just business.

Simple really. I would have thought....

It's not simple. As you can see from several posts there is a proliferation of "health food" stores and similar, which are very expensive, more so than parillas. These are luxuries, and so I don't buy the line that people have switched to this way of eating because they don't have money. In Recoleta and Palermo they certainly do have money by the way. They just choose to buy overpriced millet and soy burgers and bad pizza instead of their traditional food that has kept them lean and healthy for generations.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

It's not simple. As you can see from several posts there is a proliferation of "health food" stores and similar, which are very expensive, more so than parillas. These are luxuries, and so I don't buy the line that people have switched to this way of eating because they don't have money. In Recoleta and Palermo they certainly do have money by the way. They just choose to buy overpriced millet and soy burgers and bad pizza instead of their traditional food that has kept them lean and healthy for generations.

I get it, you have a hypothesis/axe to grind that you thought you could support with some vague anecdotal evidence.

I am gonna go out on a limb and ask you two things.

1. Would you say that dieteticas are more or less prevalent than pizza shops. Outside of Recoleta and Palermo like...?

2. Are you seriously suggesting that money is not a factor in eating choices? Do you know anyone here who earns in pesos? are you perhaps suffering from confirmation bias here? Little bit, no?

It's tough out there, beyond the bounds of dollar blue land. Trust me, not many people are eating millet burgers instead of lomo because os misunderstood concept of diet. You realise that pasta and bread have always been staples here?

Pizza is cheap, end of. Parillas are expensive. This whole conversation is based on some daft idea that Argentines think Pizza is healthy?

let it go.

 

[ElQueso]

OMG now the food police are coming here, too...damn, I just can't seem to get away from people who want to control what everyone else does or thinks. Bad enough here with the freaky economy and labor and laws and such but now not only does the US "export fat" to other countries (good lord can no one think for themselves? Always have to have someone to blame for their own country's changes, at least as far as diet goes? Did the US force everyone around the world to adopt high-fat diets like they are working with the EU to force banking policy world-wide?) but others have to come here and start trying to tell other people how they should look and eat.

And just as Buenos Aires is starting to really have some decent food available in some places! The food police would be tickled pink to see these places shut down too I suppose! Ah, the humanity...

All of the above is said with the best of intentions and a little bit of tongue-in-cheek

 

[Pensador]

OMG now the food police are coming here, too...damn, I just can't seem to get away from people who want to control what everyone else does or thinks. Bad enough here with the freaky economy and labor and laws and such but now not only does the US "export fat" to other countries (good lord can no one think for themselves? Always have to have someone to blame for their own country's changes, at least as far as diet goes? Did the US force everyone around the world to adopt high-fat diets like they are working with the EU to force banking policy world-wide?) but others have to come here and start trying to tell other people how they should look and eat.

And just as Buenos Aires is starting to really have some decent food available in some places! The food police would be tickled pink to see these places shut down too I suppose! Ah, the humanity...

All of the above is said with the best of intentions and a little bit of tongue-in-cheek

Seems the police are everywhere now days.. The what you think police, the what you say police, the you have to much money police, the food police, the you have to like everyone police, the were all the same police, the Yankees did this police, the vultures are terrorists police and many more which we all have to live with. But where are the corrupt politician police and the your ignorant police? Which if we had just those two types of police I think the rest of the police would not be needed and everything just might level out by itself.

Legalese - If you are the police no animals where harmed in the above post.

 

[Crema Americana]

....most people still believe low-fat high-carb is good. That's not just an 80's thing. You can see it on this thread too. People in Argentina believe that right now, as do most people in the US, because of government and corporate propaganda...the health effects are there to be seen.

What government propaganda? I haven't seen any PSAs about nutrition here. Nobody thinks pizza is healthy.

People's eating habits may have changed to preferring more fast food (pizza, burgers, pasta), but nobody thinks that's more healthy than asado. Cost, ease, and taste... that's all. You think Argentines would just give up or turn away from a staple of their culture? I haven't heard anyone speak badly about red meat... the complaints I hear are that it's too expensive to eat out at a parrilla and even when you do eat out, quality can be an issue... and cooking at home can be a pain.

Health food stores (dieteticas) are another matter... some people do want to stay healthy and may buy there once in a while for extras (grains, nuts, soy, etc) but that's not what's making people fat.

What's making people fat is simple - soda, pizza o milanesas with fatty cheese, and other types of cheap, processed, fast food -- all in excess. There's no secret to diet... stay away from junk and eat clean (whatever that means to you, which varies from person to person and seems to change every 3 years.) [Leave the Recoleta and Palermo area and you'll notice even more overweight people - I can assure you it's not because they're buying their food at expensive dieteticas.]


Some propaganda... (and people were still healthier back then.)

 

[Pensador]

Some propaganda... (and people were still healthier back then.)

Why did I watch that.. Now its looping in my head. :huh:

 

[Rich One]

Did you not read the explanations provided?

It's about the price of the parilla vs pizza. Just business.

Simple really. I would have thought....

Absolutely true.... just a matter of PRICE....Pesos.
Accoring to the Reataurant Association..." parrillas move to sell pizza and empanadas or, tartas...!! Vegans and other will try to see messages of Carbs vs Proteinns.... hahhahahah

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

rocas y lucas $$

Nada mas ni nada menos.

 

[bobsnowpuppy]

The diets of those who are poor consist of high carb low protein cheap foods that fill the stomach. what you have in the US is a prime example of ever increasing poverty alongside ever increasing obesity. As poverty increases in Argentina, I would think so would obesity. Of course in the US food stamps pay for food whereas in places like Africa, the very little "grain" the poor are able to obtain is not causing obesity - instead they are starving.

 

[Joe]

He has a point about the pizzeria explosion, the CIA sent me to Argentina to promote Fugazzeta and Flouride so as to adulterate the PBF (see Kubrick) of the Argentine populace. I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. The issue with smelly fat women in elevators is what we here at the Agency call "collateral damage".