[Sca-cooks] Cook's Night Out

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

The problem is that I've heard that pretty constantly - from people who 
claim to be *on* the diet...

Yes, I understand that you and several others I know are doing this 
rationally. And I'm willing to accept that this is as written. But 
that's not most of my experience.

Remember, I do food sampling professionally. I've been scolded for 
offering a cheese sample on a cracker, because the person couldn't eat 
one Carr's - "he was on Atkins." (Couldn't eat the cheese off the 
cracker, either, it seemed...)

I was doing a promo for baby food, and had a woman pick up a jar of 
fruit and react with horror - "This has carbs in it! Don't you have any 
good food?"  (It was 100% fruit - oh, a little water to mush it up... no 
added sugar.)

There's a new milk product out with lowered carbs - I don't even want to 
know how they accomplish that one - I did manage to get out of sampling 
it, so far - nearly got it yesterday. I think food should pretty much be 
real food...

When people who aren't on it react negatively, please understand that we 
are often reacting to what we're being told by people who say they're on 
it... just as you are to the Weight Watchers story. I've been on Weight 
Watchers, and that is not the way they do it these days...  or for quite 
a few years... but there are fanatics in any area.  But you know someone 
with that experience, so, reasonably, that's all you know, and you 
believe it generally true, even though it is not at all, in my 
experience.

AEllin


M. Traber wrote:

>>
> Well.....how often have *you* heard that low carb means absolutely no 
> carbs at all, for ever and ever and ever? and told that since you low 
> carb all you eat is meat and fat, and never any vegetable matter at 
> all...and thant 'why no, i have never read his book...'?
> 
> <insert foul grumbling here>
>