326: Carne Idiota

[moooo566 (taylor's version)]

Maybe these guys can finally tell us what the Fifth Meat is?

[I Liked That Joke]

This episode is so good, there's something really funny about being so dumb that you've reintroduced scurvy as a consistent problem in modern life.

But I also got to defend sous vide. Sous vide steak is really good, it comes out perfect and tender and rare every time, searing it in a cast iron pan is super quick and low-effort compared to cooking it on there all the way. And sous vide ribs are incredible.

[Great Joe]

Or hey, maybe just fry your steak on a pan. It's easy.

[EYE OF ZA]

Reading up a bit more about the Inuit diet that the Arctic explorer went crazy for, it worked because they ate a wide variety of animals, the meat tended to be high in fat, and  they'd eat any part of the animal that was edible, not just the meat. It's totally possible to survive like that. Pounding nothing but ground beef and bacon, not so much.

Oh also, this reminds me of my favorite bit about the guy who made Soylent.

So before he did Soylent, he worked out what the optimal food was using some nutrition-per-dollar metric he came up with himself. It was frozen microwave pizzas. He was just eating frozen microwave pizzas day in and day out, and then switched from that to his bespoke protein shake formula, and suddenly he didn't feel like absolute shit, and decided it must be that Soylent is magic, and not that literally anything is preferable to microwave pizza.

[EYE OF ZA]

All I'm saying is that it's really interesting how all the diets internet nerds come up with involve eating shit they already like.

[Dr. Buttplug]

Maybe these guys can finally tell us what the Fifth Meat is?

I had a skin crawling feeling throughout that this ep was like a throw away joke on Beef and Dairy made real.

[Puppy Time]

Keto cheat mode

I feel like "Chocolate Peanut Butter Blast" is what you do in the toilet on these diets.

[Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop]

Keto cheat mode

I feel like "Chocolate Peanut Butter Blast" is what you do in the toilet on these diets.

As ron james dio said, "lifes a never-ending wheel"

[Shell Game]

Ahem... Meat cute. That's all.

[Mix]

Ahem... Meat cute. That's all.

he was a boy. she was a steakhouse. can i make it any more obvious?

[Seth "Slimy" Rollins]

one of the more stressful episodes. thank you!

[Ugly In The Morning]

Salt guy was definitely pissing all the time because of the salt- when you have a super high concentration of something like salt or potassium your body tries to get rid of it in the easiest way possible, piss. It’s also why diabetics have kidneys that are so fucked up- glucose does the same thing, but it’s a bigger molecule so it just shreds the hell out of your kidneys.

[LINDA]

there is some big dog food energy from some of the meals described in this episode

[Antivehicular]

there is some big dog food energy from some of the meals described in this episode

I can't get over the guys who are literally just eating beef tallow. A lot of the terrible meals described are things I can kiiiind of understand, like the dudes trying to come up with "healthier" steak preparations, and even the raw beef dudes I can understand from the perspective of "someone told this idiot that you need to eat your meat raw to preserve the vitamins," but... beef tallow? Just eating straight-up fat, without even the pretense of actual food being involved? How the hell did this even happen?

[Great Joe]

Well, it's disgusting, and therefore healthy.