Woman Who Only Eats French Fries Panics Over Rice

[ErikJ]

It seems impossible.

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Erm...is that a picture of the family cougar?

French fries may be the least of her affectations.

[dipsydoodle]

2. There's a woman in the UK

who nothing other than Cadbury's Fruit & Nut chocolate.

[Siwsan]

3. I admit that I really, really like Cadbury Fruit and Nut chocolate bars, but.......

I'd have to supplement them with french fries.

[lobodons]

4. maggots?

They chose a bowl of maggots for her to eat? Should have went with the raisins.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Maggots are high in protein.

[Scootaloo]

5. Well, you can be perfectly healthy living on just potatoes and milk

Potatoes actually cover most of the nutritional needs, with protein and vitamin D from the milk. Her other beverages help, of course, but the inca were an entire civilization that for the most part lived off of potatoes - occasional input from anchovies and corn aside.

This sounds like the opposite end of the spectrum from pica.

[ErikJ]

7. There are lots of goat herder societies in Asia

that live mostly on milk and the occasional slaughtered goat for special occasions. Then the potato is higher in nutrition than I thought.

Health Benefits

Potatoes are a very popular food source. Unfortunately, most people eat potatoes in the form of greasy French fries or potato chips, and even baked potatoes are typically loaded down with fats such as butter, sour cream, melted cheese and bacon bits. Such treatment can make even baked potatoes a potential contributor to a heart attack. But take away the extra fat and deep frying, and a baked potato is an exceptionally healthful low calorie, high fiber food that offers significant protection against cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Our food ranking system qualified potatoes as a very good source of vitamin B6 and a good source of potassium, copper, vitamin C, manganese, phosphorus, niacin, dietary fiber, and pantothenic acid.

Potatoes also contain a variety of phytonutrients that have antioxidant activity. Among these important health-promoting compounds are carotenoids, flavonoids, and caffeic acid, as well as unique tuber storage proteins, such as patatin, which exhibit activity against free radicals. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=48

[Scootaloo]

9. Probably most fully pastoralist societies

The maasai for instance, live entirely off of blood and milk.. .at least traditionally. I think beef is a rare addition (since cattle are currency in that society, it'd be a hell of a splurge!)

Probably all the old pastoralist societies of the near and middle east as well - thus why the Bible includes prohibitions against the sonsumption of blood, since most of those laws were meant to distinguish the Israelites from nearby tribes

[nomorenomore08]

11. A potato-based diet might be too high in carbs for most people, but otherwise you're probably right.

I once went through a phase of eating home fries and eggs for breakfast several days a week, though I suppose that's the kind of thing you can get away with when you're 25.

[Scootaloo]

12. Not at all

Unless of course, you're eating potato-on-white-bread sandwiches chased with a milkshake and a fistfull of jolly rangers before settling down to a plate of fries and two beers for dinner

When i say "they ate potatoes" I mean that's pretty much ALL they ate, it wasn't generous helpings of mashe potatoes on top of fried chicken and a dozen biscuits with a coke.

[nomorenomore08]

13. Yeah, I realize that. And I know people's nutritional needs vary.

Though it is surprising just how little, nutritionally speaking, a lot of folks can get by on. Decades ago they did a study somewhere in rural Mexico, where they found that even some of the poorest children - whose diet was primarily beans and rice - were surprisingly healthy (i.e. not malnourished) because those two foods together happen to provide a complete protein.

[TBF]

8. Is that Ann Coulter? nt

[Scootaloo]

10. Is that a joke? n/t

[jtuck004]

14. No. This is a real person. n/t

[TBF]

17. ...

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. That's stupid....

Coulter only feeds on children.

[TBF]

16. I stand corrected -

that is much more believable.

[lady lib]

18. They said she drinks liquids without a problem,

so why not have her try a smoothie? Wouldn't that make sense? She could conceivably get all of her nutrition that way.

[bitchkitty]

19. I can relate.

I'm not as bad as her, but I was a very picky eater, to the point of obsession. I'm better now, but would definitely panic if I had to eat something I find really disgusting, like clam chowder or boiled cauliflower.

[EuroStyleSocialist]

20. I feel for her

I hate to admit this, but reading the headline I was prepared to be a little snarky and feel just a little superior. I LOVE food and love exploring new things. But I didn't always.

And the thing that stands out here is fear. You can think it's a ridiculous fear, but that doesn't mean it's not powerful.

I learned to try new things because my first summer in college in a foreign country, living with a host family. I HAD to eat whatever was put in front of me. And I wasn't going to embarrass myself by saying, "I can't eat that." When you surrender to it, I think you find you like a lot more foods than you thought you would.

But I feel this woman's pain. I haven't watched until the end, so I'm hoping she makes progress!

[Chellee]

22. Welcome to DU.

[kyburbonkid]

21. I had a friend just like her.

This is funny, because I could never understand it, but I had a friend who did exactly the same thing. He would only eat french fries. He never eat anything else as far as I ever saw. His favorite was McDonald's fries but he did the same thing, hold the salt. If we went to a good restaurant, he would specify how to make the fries. It was weird, but he was also one of the smartest people I ever met. He got his master's at MIT and PhD at Stanford, I always thought he was just being eccentric and weird but who knew. I still wonder where they get their protein from. To this day, he's still that way.

[Chellee]

23. Welcome to DU.

[ErikJ]

25. She does drink milk it said.

Which has protein. Did your friend drink milk too?

[valerief]

24. How is she alive? How do the teeth stay in her head? What does she drink? nt

[ErikJ]

27. She's a Freegan. She drinks milk too though.

And who knows, she might drink protein drinks and/or smoothies too.