Taste.. People.. Taste.
The topic of tonights discussion is taste, and what made me think of that is the slowly changing choice of music that sits on my iPod every week. But this could be attributed to anything in day to day life, like the sandwich I used to find tasty from Marks & Spencer is now quite bland, and a similar Sainsburys one is twice as good (and half the price). Things change over time, for sure, but I often wonder just how permanent these kinds of changes are:
Music
I brought up my ipod before, and the reason I did this, is that anyone who knows me (or those who don’t and are devote readers of this HD911 prodigy, I’m a huge trance music fan. In fact, since I got this handy little music device over 18 months ago it would have been cleared on average once a week, and contained anything but trance/electronic/DnB music ever so occasionally. I now find myself on a half Trance/half Other basis, which is a big shift in Dynamic, as it’s a huge difference swapping from Armin van Buuren’s set at LoveParade 2008 straight to Johnny Cash, The Shins, Damien Rice or any other slow rock hit that sits between the uplifting euphoric forest.
Loveparade - It’s even better, with sound!
Yes, I did just say Johnny Cash, whom seems to stand out like a sore thumb even from the older music I’ve liked in the past. But it’s no surprise, I seem to have taken a liking to a bunch of music that my Mum listened to when I was a kid, and I just thought was the same old country crap… I’ve liked Dad’s music for years, from Beatles, Dire Straits, The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel, Genisis/Peter Gabriel/Paul Collins, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Bread, America, etc It’s about time I picked something out of her music collection right?
Gotta be better than Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion or Patsy Cline, anyway.
Lame Web Idea: www.whatsonmyipod.com
The Sandwich
I’m making an effort to eat healthily at the moment, I’m still not doing very well mind you (nothings changed), but after seeing this news article on TV the other night (similar to this) about false labels, unhealthy and downright bad for you sandwiches that are available in London, it got me thinking. I love most of the sandwiches available from the nicer shops, (i.e M & S, Sainsburys & Pret a Manger), but according to this article most all of these lunch treats are packed full of Salt and Saturated salt, even when you’re under the assumption they’re relatively healthy.
Pret - Home of the tastiest lunch time snack in all of England
Stupidly, there’s a sandwich from Pret which I assumed was at least relatively healthy, which is the roasted tomato and cheddar cheese on grain bread. Really, if I wanted to eat unhealthily, I’d make the trip to a McDonalds and get a large Quarterpounder Meal. You can imagine my surprise when the man in the television claimed that this particular sandwich was worse in salt and saturated fat content than the Maccy D’s meal. I get it, there’s nothing specifically healthy about any type of cheese (especially cheddar), or tomato’s that have been dried and stored in oil since last year, but you don’t go out for a sandwich expecting it to be that unhealthy.
Which begs the question, what on earth are you supposed to eat, whilst on the go in a big city, which won’t add to the body’s fat content. A stick of Celery perhaps? Nope, probably not good enough, it’s probably had salt artificially added to it. I’m realising that added salt is this invisible villian, but then I wonder why it’s been added in the first place? Personally, the only food I’ll ever add additional salt to is Chips/Fries, and don’t see why it needs to be added to other foods, especially not a roasted chicken sandwich.
Yes, the connisours (spelling?) will probably say that its not tasty enough, but I don’t notice the difference in taste. Seems the only way I’ve got of winning the health war is to make my own lunch, though I think the Salmonella and other harmful bacteria/disease acquired by chicken bits on my 30 minute train ride to the city and 10 minute in the tube/sauna is probably a whole lot worse than even Salt anyway.
Celery it is, just hold the salt… OK?
August 6th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Figures it’s not anywhere near me! All we have is Subway, Barbecue, and good ol’ southern cookin’ that’s a heart attack on a plate but it’s damned good!
August 7th, 2008 at 4:32 am
hahahaha, Pret a Manger? that sounds hilarious!
I don’t know much about the off the shelf sarnies you’re talking about, but I’d imagine that the preservatives in the off the shelf products need to be masked somehow and that’s where the salt comes in.
Vote 1 packed lunch.
You need Mr Bird’s MYO!
Sumo Salad (http://www.sumosalad.com/) are my current favourite lunchtime healthy alternative, they have a lentil and couscous salad that rocks. It’s just a pity that the Oriental Kitchen does a bigger box of dodgy chinese food that’s 25% cheaper…
August 7th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Believe it or not, we actually have a Mr Birds over here, about two blocks away from work. I’ve had the wraps a few times, but they never seem to fill me up properly.
Must learn to eat smaller portions.
On the topic of smaller portions (not) there’s a burger chain here called Ultimate Burger, which has a burger called the Sunday Roast, which is Roast Beef, gravy, veggies and a Yorkshire pudding jammed into a burger bun..
Mmmmmm.
I bet there’s no salt in that one!
August 8th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Bloody hell, they might as well call it sunday lunch, it seems to have all the rest of the meal in there as well!
My ultimate healthy sandwich dicotomy is the chicken schnizel sandwich. It has salad and fresh bread…and then a whole shnitty in there.
for some reason I always think of it as a step healthier than the junk food option.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Where do you find this mystical schnitzel sanga?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:44 am
At this sandwich shop called “fancy fillings”.
It’s pretty new and shiny to Canberra, but it’s pretty much just a good sandwich shop, were you can have them make things up fresh, or just go with the pre-made foccacias.