I mentioned carbs too. I just made the point that the elites didnt eat that many. But you snipped the part where I said the Roman Empires plebs ran on bread and circuses and that wheat and indeed rice from eqypt were major imports
The only think you links added to that was that legumes and leeks were also popular.
I don't understand bifocals/varifocals (which I assume is the same as progressive). I don't read a book through the bottom half of my vision, and definitely not a computer screen, I move my head. Pretty much everything I look at at any distance is done through what would be the centre of the glasses if I wore any. The only time they might work is car dashboard/out the windscreen (if I cared about my speed), or typing looking at the keyboard and looking at the screen.
You said "No carbs at all"
That's silly. Everybody eats carbs. Roman street vendors sold veggie and meat handpies, the ancient version of fast food.
But the elites didnt eat at street vendors any more than the King frequents McDonalds
No, that was popular in novels but cold showers aren't big killers.
But the old novels were full of death, young widows and widowers and dead children. That was real.
Life spans, from birth, have roughly doubled since Pride and Prejudice was published. About half of newborns didn't survive to 5.
How much time have you spent in the USA? Where did you go?
I've spent maybe six months in europe, including the USSR and Ireland in the definition. Mo lived in Germany for a year and has spent non-tourist time in Italy and China.
Americans do get around a lot, visit and live in other places.
I may have a new customer in Paris. That could be fun. It's much better to hang out with locals and not be a tourist.
Once again you spout unadulterated crap. Research your claims before engaging hand to keyboard.
I can assure you better than 2-3 living beyond 30 out of 4-5 would have made it from their teenage years.
There might be better articles, this was simply the first I could find to debunk your silly claims.
We're all accustomed to the drivel you spout.
French cheddar?
The Philly cream cheese is good for all sorts of things, like making strawberry dip or the topping for Guinness Cake. It takes muscle to make that topping so that's boy's work.
I spent 3 months with an unlimited Greyhound pass in 1973. Coast to coast. I spent about anotrher 3 months on business and in an RV taraveling across the Mojave, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and, of course, Califuckyou.
But they always behave like Anericans and dont make any effort to understand anything.
Try it then
It was sufficiently common to treat it lightly:
Most people do hold books well below eye level, so bifocals or varifocals work for reading them. But they don't work for computer screens, which are supposed to be slightly below eye level. So we're back to two pairs of glasses.
"In 1801 up to a third of Londoners died from TB" Yeah, very lightly I am sure.
People today just don't know what poverty and pollution are.
That was probably at a low notch in culture. But it sounds like you didn't enjoy yourself, didn't make many friends.
Don't be silly. We have 50 states, all sorts of cultures, and there is no stereotypical "Anerican." We have no racial majority here, and I hear people speaking Spanish next door, right now. They are construction guys, and I bring them beer every day about when they are done.
Good grief, we're almost out of beer!
I will, if I can help them. The science might turn out to be important. They, unlike some I could name, seem to like Americans.
It's still made in a factory Wisconsin.
Strawberries are fine on their own. No dip required.
Every few years we make cheesecake. That's about all the cream cheese I use.
Or a girl with a stand mixer.
On the contrary I had the time of my life. It answered my burning question of 'Why are all the Americans I have met in England such arrogant assholes"
The answer was 'because they had money, but no culture or class'
I got on best with the lower middle classes of black and italian extraction, and the good ole boys out in the western plans.
There is a stereotypical American traveller to Europe. And Mexico too. As a narrow representative of Usians, they are all in denial about the narrow class they actually come from.
Oh I like Americans, They are like small children, Bumptious and ignorant, but one has compassion. You just have to lower yourself to their level
Just because someone said something...
Its pretty good on smoked salmon, once a year at Christmas
Or an electric drill with a paint stirring attachment. D-I-Y rules, OK?
Some people are afraid to go off the path of tourism a bit. Sure, I've been to some of the tourist spots, unavoidable to see some things, but just a block or two down a side street is so much different.
Get to know the local grocer and coffee shop
Progressive lens works great for computers. Be sure to get the Transitions that go dark in the car too. One pair of glasses does everything.
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