Last night we made the mistake of watching Food Investigators on SBS. I should have *known* it was going to shit me to tears, with inaccurate scare-mongering about saturated fats being TEH EVILS and etc, but little did I realise just how inane and stupid it would actually be. Among other things, the story on preservatives in wine was completely inaccurate - they said it's not possible to get preservative-free wines.
Um, yes, it is. As even doing a google search would have showed you, you pack of airheaded dolts.
Here's a red. Here's a white. Another white - and at less than $12.50 a bottle it's not too exxy either. Here's a whole freaking website.
Srsly, don't you people have researchers??? Are their googling fingers broken?
Also, your piece about hamburgers was crap. Like we needed a reporter to tell us McDonalds burgers are higher in fat than home-made. Sheesh.
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We had a glass of preservative-free wine while watching the show... and while my professional opinion is that it's better than other health/food shows on the commercial channels, it drives me up the wall with the amount of inaccurate/misleading crap it includes.
When the commercials advertising the comming of this series first aired, I though t it look a promising show, and though I made a note-to-self to check it out when it finally did come to air, I never got around to watching. Until, that is, after many weeks when I finally did catch one episode. Huge disapointment: simplistic to the point of wrong (or even just plain wrong) grating and annoying presenters. Never watched it again.
As you summed it up, Bek, inane and stupid. And the concept behind the programme had such potential.
I thought saturated fats were dangerous - or is the Heart Foundation wrong?
Jack, the heart foundation's wrong. Check out the cholesterol myth - make sure you read the second page as well.
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