[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Originally Posted by bombadillo

I don't know how authentic these quotes are: most of these people seem to have a death wish by way of their gluttony. I do know, however, that each time I leave the US for a vacation, my weight plummets about fifteen pounds within a fortnight or so, without any conscious effort on my part. American food is denutrified -- grown on depleted soil, and hence lacking in essential nutrients. Plastic food in a plastic culture.

I remember when once my cousins came from America, they never sat in a restaurant, never ate any decent meal, except in cases when invited by others, but fed themselves on some dehydrated little balls from small plastic sachets. It was something very saturting, but completely tasteless. I don't recall the chemical composition of that, but inquiring more closely what was written on sachets, I read that those were some products that were obtained for free in the frame of some publicity campaign.