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February 21, 2022

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KC

Depends what you get, in my opinion, and whether one of the definitions of guilty pleasure includes "I didn't have to cook it" (or do dishes). Because yes, you can get steamed veggies with tofu and brown rice and just... no... on that being a guilty pleasure food otherwise.

That said, buying a full quart of won ton or egg flower or hot and sour soup and eating it all myself as a meal is one of my favorite things, which is possibly a guilty pleasure. But not really in the same league?

TheQueen

KC - I am inclined to agree with you. I think back to the days when McDonald's has no salads or apples, no vegetation anywhere, but at a Chinese food place had actual green and orange vegetables.

KC

Yes, when the closest thing you get to a vegetable is a garnish on a hamburger that you only get when you buy the fancy hamburger, there really isn't much of a nutritional comparison (unless you're looking for potassium, in which case fries have it in the bag, and ditto for salt)(actually, when I needed to gain weight and increase my salt intake about 10 years ago, McDonald's was the maximum salt and calories per unit of food consumed that I was able to find; I simply wasn't able to wedge that much salt and fat into anything homemade and still have it edible).

But the menus for Chinese food places: vegetables everywhere! And a wide variety, too!

But I'll also grant that Americanized sweet and sour pork is... not in accordance with general assumptions about health food, we'll say.

TheQueen

KC - did you try adding MSG (sold as Accent)? That would do it.

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