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LOLOL Great answer!

Higs, Katherine

OK, how long have you been married to m y Keith? I remember one summer when he swore that he wasn't eating anything but what I prepared and he kept gaining weight. Turns out he was DRINKING a minimum of two iced cappucinos every day!

Higs, Katherine

Oh my, that's positively side-splitting!

Doreen in Alabama

OMG (to quote the kids) I'm married to him too!

spampot spun a FINE 'yarn':

Bernadette spun a FINE 'yarn':

Pat in Virginia spun a FINE 'yarn':

Doreen spun a FINE 'yarn':

My other half was raised on similar cooking.. My cooking is not the "coronary blue plate special" (I am originally from the Northeast US and of strong celtic-irish heritage, and not at all prone to traditional "southern" cooking)...

It took him a very long time to adjust to not having everything fried in lard, with "milk gravy" on top.... (I still have no use for "milk gravy", "grits", or okra, which is one vegetable I abominate the texture of).

We had a period early on where I kept finding all sorts of "crumbs" in the car... Apparently he was stopping every morning on his way to work, and getting his morning's ration of BLEACHED FLOUR, SUGAR and LARD at the Krispy-Kreme (y-u-c-k)..... Yum, Yum. Animal fat, over-processed flour and over-processed sugar (ew).

You can try to stop them from "eating themselves to death" when they are off on their own.. It does not always work, but you can try.. It took me over a year and a half to put a stop to his morning grease brigade.

I send him to work nowdays with a muffin for his breakfast at work (bran with "light" cream cheese), and for his lunch a fresh salad... Lettuce, tomatoes, celery, and usually white meat chicken, with a low fat dressing (plain yogurt based).. As far as I know, he no longer "cheats" when he is out of my sight.

A friend commented that I should trade him in on two 25 year olds, and I responded that would be no bargain IMHO.... I finally got him broken in, and I did not fancy having to start over from scratch with whole new sets of bad habits (lol)..

me

You got it! Got to get it out before the drool hits. ;-))

LOL!

Murielle

What Spampot said! ;-))

Still laughing, Murielle

Well, he was telling the truth. He wasn't EATING anything. ;)

I tried everything and none of it worked.

I finally thought I'd hit on the solution ... I took away all his money, his ATM card, his credit cards, his checkbook, anything that could be used to pay for junk food. Didn't work. He'd hit up friends and co-workers that he needed to borrow gas money, and they always gave him the loan. And never knew that he was spending it at KFC instead of Chevron.

I feel my liver curling and my arteries clanging shut at the very thought... Sounds like deep fried fat with lard spread on it! :(

Unfortunately, despite a pretty healthy diet (home cooked and fairly lean on the fats and processed stuff) and plenty of exercise throughout his life, my dad died at 53 from a heart attack. His younger brother also died early with similar problems, as did their father...

I'm doing my best for James!

I usually just lurk but had to reply to this. LOL I grew up in northwest Florida and we had potted meat in our house. Potted meat and crackers for a snack--yum!! LOL

How lovely. However, it is entirely likely and probable that some of these products are regional in their offering. I never doubted anyone else in other places hearing the phrase, just know that in the areas where I've lived it wasn't used. And I have never seen in the grocery store in any of those places something labelled "potted meat" . I have seen Vienna Sausages, and SPAM - but not with "potted meat" on the label.

ellice

If you were really, really hungry then potted meat and crackers would be appreciated. However, my preference would be for tripe and onions.

Hey, the cappucino's won't do anything - they're just milk and some expresso. But, the extra junk if it's full of syrup, etc - that'll drive the calorie count way up.

Ellice

I don't know how "regional" distributed the products are, as I have lived all over the USA (both East & West coasts, in the North and in the South), and have found potted meat (labelled "potted meat" or "potted meat product") in grocery stores in every place I have ever lived. It is a pretty standard shelf item. You can even purchase it in "Super" WalMarts in their grocery section (which have their inventory entirely controlled & standardized at a corporate level). It is usually found in markets near the vienna sausages, and the "standard" tin is the same size. (It can also be purchased in "half" tins, which are half the height of a vienna sausage tin)

me