Mediterranean food uses wine :meow-tableflip:
czech diet:
beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, and multivitamins. full course meal right there
it exists but most people do beer and by a wide margin. i personally like it cause i think most beers suck. though there was this one an uncle gave me that i fucking loved, it was flavored a bit like honey and i couldnt fucking find the brand and he cant remember it either. every time i go to czechia i ask a bartender if he fucking knows what it was and he gives me something that is similar but isnt the one miracle beer that i like :agony-shivering:
Last time I was in Czechia everyone in Brno drank beer, and we went to a small town and everyone there preferred slivovitsa. I like to think this is the big Czech culture war.
i have a hard time believing a bed of romaine with tomatoes and cucumbers is ~500 calories
fried food and beer is jus the aperitif
Forming an american version of the aperitivo tradition that’s just a bunch of dinosaur chicken nuggets, some tater tots, a single corndog and then an icehouse 40 to wash it all down
Remember when it turned out that the Mediterranean diet was a bunch of horseshit because of the Americanization of European diets over the last 30 years and the biggest difference between the US and Greece was that Greece doesn’t have a massively dysfunctional health program for its citizens
Nah, mediterranean diet has a few silly aspects (insisting on whole wheat breads), but it’s absolutely one of the best for overall health (heart, liver, etc.) purposes. It can be difficult to stick to though, so I can see some cope emerging around that, and there is absolutely a ton of truth to the fact that American diets for kids are ABYSMAL compared to European ones a few decades back. The original mediterranean diet was proposed in the 60s after observing mid century diets of primarily Crete but a little Italy and Greek though, so your 30 year figure for “European” benchmark diets is not really relevant.
insisting on whole wheat breads
Could you elaborate on this? Is whole wheat bread not really beneficial compared to other kinds of bread?
Not to the degree they push it, and it’s often just better to omit breads and pastas when possible rather than just eat them whole grain. There was some bro science about whole grain being bad a few years ago but I think it was shown to be woo nonsense. Fact is, it’s often just better to keep bread as a sometimes thing, and pretending that whole grain breads redeem it entirely is just bad diet guidance.
