Egg salad

The pork rinds I have bought are not low fat, for a 1 oz serving they have
10 grams of fat, 7 of protein.

In news:[email hidden],
Doug Freyburger <[email hidden]> stated
|
| Depends on how you define junk food, so I will offer a definition
| that fits: If a food only has one type of macronutrient then it
| is probably a junk food. If a food is nearly devoid of vitamins
| then it is probably a junk food. It's not a particularly good
| definition, but accept it and pork rinds are junk food.
|
| Pork rinds are from an animal so they are so low in carbs it
| would take fancy instruments to detect the amounts. Pork rinds
| are fried in very hot oil and heated while they are drained. As
| a result nearly all of the oil is removed, and they end up maybe
| even qualifying as low fat. So as far as the three types of
| macronutrient are concerned, pork rinds are almost pure protein.
| Pork rinds have also been fried enough to destroy most of all of
| the vitamins and soaked enough to remove most or all of the trace
| minerals.
|
| Calling a food that is almost pure protein a junk food is definitely
| an extremist stance, but it isn't completely without justification.
|
| How many low carb plans are high protein, though? Protein Power
| for example. The body can only handle about 40% protein calories,
| so you wouldn't want to make pork rinds a major part of your diet.
| No one that I know of endorses them as anything but a snack food
| though.
|
| Personally, I can't overeat pork rinds. The first few taste okay
| to me but as I eat more they build up some sort of cloying effect
| and I like them less and less. I burn out on them before the end
| of one of those small sacks I see in snack assortments. I am sure
| others can overeat them, but no one should over eat anything. In
| the case of pork rinds, I'm glad I have another food I can have
| with no danger whatsoever because I can't overeat them.

Doug Freyburger wrote:
|| Roger Zoul wrote:
||| The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:
||||| Roger Zoul wrote:
|||||| Lybbe wrote:
|||
|||||||| I think too many people rely on pork rinds. Face it - they're
|||||||| empty calories. If you don't like them - don't look for ways to
|||||||| disguise them...LOL
|||
|||||| Do you know what pork rinds are? What makes them empty?
||
|| If the skin from chicken and so on is supposed to be good, so should
|| the skin from pigs. That's what a pork rind is, pig skin sliced
|| thin enough to be easy to eat then fried enough to be crispy not
|| chewy.
||
||||| dude, they're JUNK FOOD. yes, they're low carb but so what?
||||| they're STILL JUNK FOOD.
|||
||| Prove it.
||
|| Depends on how you define junk food, so I will offer a definition
|| that fits: If a food only has one type of macronutrient then it
|| is probably a junk food. If a food is nearly devoid of vitamins
|| then it is probably a junk food. It's not a particularly good
|| definition, but accept it and pork rinds are junk food.
||
|| Pork rinds are from an animal so they are so low in carbs it
|| would take fancy instruments to detect the amounts. Pork rinds
|| are fried in very hot oil and heated while they are drained. As
|| a result nearly all of the oil is removed, and they end up maybe
|| even qualifying as low fat. So as far as the three types of
|| macronutrient are concerned, pork rinds are almost pure protein.
|| Pork rinds have also been fried enough to destroy most of all of
|| the vitamins and soaked enough to remove most or all of the trace
|| minerals.
||
|| Calling a food that is almost pure protein a junk food is definitely
|| an extremist stance, but it isn't completely without justification.

Well, looking at the bag I have in front of me, a serving, 0.5 oz (8 serving
per bag) has 70 calories, 5 g of fat (1.5 from sat fat) and 8 g of protein.

Based on that, I wouldn't personally consider them junk food.

However, the ingredient list does say partially hyrdogenated vegetable oil
as the fifth ingredient.....so that would tend to push them more toward the
junk food side of the scale for me. However, one doesn't have to live off
of rinds.

||
|| How many low carb plans are high protein, though? Protein Power
|| for example. The body can only handle about 40% protein calories,
|| so you wouldn't want to make pork rinds a major part of your diet.
|| No one that I know of endorses them as anything but a snack food
|| though.

Or as a coating, or as a substitute for other foods.

||
|| Personally, I can't overeat pork rinds. The first few taste okay
|| to me but as I eat more they build up some sort of cloying effect
|| and I like them less and less. I burn out on them before the end
|| of one of those small sacks I see in snack assortments. I am sure
|| others can overeat them, but no one should over eat anything. In
|| the case of pork rinds, I'm glad I have another food I can have
|| with no danger whatsoever because I can't overeat them.

Same here. Eating 0.5 oz is really quite not a problem. However, even
unroasted, unsalted almonds are something I can very easily overeat.

So is bacon junk food? The nutritional value is not much different.

In news:[email hidden],
The Queen of Cans and Jars <[email hidden]> stated
|
| they're deep-fried animal skins. if you are unable to see the
| inherent problem with that, then there is nothing i can say that will
| change your mind.
|
| i don't care if *you* want to eat them, but trying to convince people
| who already don't like them that they're a worthwhile food? lame,
| roger. very, very lame.

"FOB" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:y0Dbd.7980$5b1.5597
@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:

Quoted message said:

So is bacon junk food? The nutritional value is not much different.

One cup of mozzarella cheese has more fat, sodium, and carbs than does one
cup of fried pork rinds. It also comes from an animal.

I suppose this means cheese is junk food too.

Oh [censored]. It seems all I eat is junk. <g>

Cate

The Queen of Cans and Jars said:

Roger Zoul said:

The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:
|| Roger Zoul <[email hidden]> wrote:
||| The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:
||||| Roger Zoul <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

|||||| Do you know what pork rinds are? What makes them empty?

Quoted message said:

||||| dude, they're JUNK FOOD. yes, they're low carb but so what?
||||| they're STILL JUNK FOOD.

Quoted message said:

||| Prove it.

Quoted message said:

|| pick up the bag and look at it. if you can't see it yourself, i
|| can't help you.

Quoted message said:

I didn't think you could.

they're deep-fried animal skins. if you are unable to see the inherent
problem with that, then there is nothing i can say that will change your
mind.

i don't care if *you* want to eat them, but trying to convince people
who already don't like them that they're a worthwhile food? lame,
roger. very, very lame.

{I don't like it, therefore it is junk food.} Lame, Queen, very lame.

No one is pressuring anyone to eat pork rinds, but calling them
junk food just because you don't like them is ridiculous. I will
offer a similar example.

i dislike mayo. the stuff is made from goo and ooze, no wonder it
comes out so revolting. if you are unable to see the inherent
problem with that, then there is nothing i can say that will
change your mind. i don't like mayo, therefore it is junk food.

It's ridiculous for me to assert that mayo is junk food, so I
don't. I am well aware that plenty of people view mayo as a
mainstay and I'm not about to try to turn them away from it.
More for them far as I'm concerned. My avoidance of the
disgusting stuff doesn't make it junk food, it just reduces the
competition for the many low carbers who do like mayo. And no,
I don't think adding sugar to it to make Miracle Whip makes it
any less revolting ;^).

It doesn't matter that I dislike mayo because there are plenty
of other low carb options available to me. Sour cream makes
better tuna salad (and salmon salad too!) anyways, at least to
someone who dislikes mayo.

It doesn't matter that Queen dislikes pork rinds either.

My dislike for mayo does not make it junk food. Queen's dislike
for pork rinds don't make them junk food either.