We thought ALL food was healthy.

No, there is that much stupidity running around. That quote is perfectly believable.

Here are some questions and statements I have been asked or have overhead, right off the top of my head, made by adults, some of which have children:

Can you get sunburn from the moon?

If everyone in the world turned on their air conditioners, and opened all their doors and windows, wouldn't it make outside cooler?

It doesn't matter what I eat, I'll just poop it all out, I won't get fat. (said by 300lb man)

I can eat what I want, all the salt I want, I take my pill. (his high blood pressure pill, when confronted about the 2 instant soups he eats for a snack before lunch)

Oh, we aren't worried about AIDS or any other STDs, I'm on the pill.

We don't use birth control, the rhythm method works fine (got girlfriend pregnant only a few weeks later)

I won't have kids, I pull out. (has 2 now)

So, in short, even though this stuff is all common sense, and some of it is taught in school, and even reiterated all throughout high school, these people don't pay attention or don't care. Or they are just plain stupid. Your call. But yes, people really are that stupid, or misinformed, or whatever other excuse you can think to give them.

Nice quotes stang87, they sound like quote from primary school aged children but they are probably from grown adults. It summs up the problem perfectly, people cant cook and they cant afford to pay someone to cook decent food for them. Cooking class should be mandatory like math and english

as Einstein said, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - so i definetly think that they believed in the all-healthy-food theory.
how intelligent can an obese family, that spends $70 on diabetes meds but won't buy broccoli for 0,99c, be? instead of eating less but healthier, doing some sports to loose weight and therefore ameliorate the expensive diabetes, they just sit around in their car and gulp soda and burgers. some people are beyond help...

Trust me, I've met one person who made that family seem just mildly misinformed. He told me some of the most idiotic things most of which aren't believable. Here are some things he's said

"I stayed up for two weeks playing video games." (as if that's possible.)
"I'm gonna join the army, and shoot everyone, even my own men."
"I ate 10 hamburgers and hotdogs and lost 20 pounds."
"I tried to hide from a police man in a police car."

There is a lot of stupidity out there.


"We do not inheret the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"

Yeah, that family honestly just made me sick.

I'm sorry, but forget the fact that 11 bucks could buy your family plenty of decent food at the store, but you CERTAINLY do not have to buy the large sodas. Why not ask the people at the drive-through for water?

There is no excuse.

I imagine there is a fair share of misrepresentation out there, but yeah, it did sound like they were making excuses to choose poorly. For the $11 they spent at Taco Bell or whatever, they could buy lots of rice, beans, frozen veggies, and some fresh fruit. It only takes 20 minutes to cook rice.

We're very easily influenced by advertising, and when you think about food ads, most of them are for processed crap or fast food. When's the last time you saw an ad for bananas or apples or carrots? I see the odd yogurt commercial but it's usually for the sweetened low-fat stuff which has that HFCS shyte in it.



You don't choose the soy sauce, the soy sauce chooses you.

Yes, it's very funny. People are distasteful, this video goes to show.

The part where the older kid tells the younger one they can't buy the fruit & the younger kid walks away disappointed seemed scripted to me.

DISPLAY thy breasts, my Julia!