All joking aside, I avoid processed foods like hot dogs like the plague. Same reason I won't eat frozen or pre-packages foods. 

Just now, vikas83 said:

All joking aside, I avoid processed foods like hot dogs like the plague. Same reason I won't eat frozen or pre-packages foods. 

That's exactly why I won't eat them or chicken wings. Terrible for you and give very little sustenance.

Just now, Paul852 said:

Ok, so your typical BBQ then  How chicken, hamburgers and kielbasa don't have "poor people" stigma in your mind is beyond me.

I just associate hot dogs with kids. Plus, I won't eat something processed like that where I don't really know what's in it. My diet is based around fresh meat, veggies and eggs, so eating something like that makes me feel AWFUL.

Just now, Paul852 said:

That's exactly why I won't eat them or chicken wings. Terrible for you and give very little sustenance.

I think if I told my nutritionist that I ate a hot dog, he may have a stroke.

2 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

I think if I told my nutritionist that I ate a hot dog, he may have a stroke.

I'm not sure but I think it might literally be the worse food to eat. Bologna might be up there too. 

Just now, Paul852 said:

I'm not sure but I think it might literally be the worse food to eat. Bologna might be up there too. 

Yeah...anything that processed is just AWFUL for you. Hot dogs, cold cuts, and sadly...bacon. Even if I eat something like a cookie, I won't buy packaged products like Keebler -- I'll just get one from a bakery that is made fresh. 

I eat healthy for every meal other than...dinner on Friday. Getting myself a cheeseburger and carrot cake tonight, but still from a place that makes them from scratch.

52 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

Took my kids to Great Wolf Lodge for the weekend a couple years ago. It's an indoor water park/resort. The taste and smell of chlorine lingered for days after I got home...it was awful. Never again.

Yeah it's that same smell, but it's not real and stuck with you for weeks. It's was definitely the worst part for me.

3 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

I just associate hot dogs with kids.

 

 

     

9 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Yeah...anything that processed is just AWFUL for you. Hot dogs, cold cuts, and sadly...bacon. Even if I eat something like a cookie, I won't buy packaged products like Keebler -- I'll just get one from a bakery that is made fresh. 

I eat healthy for every meal other than...dinner on Friday. Getting myself a cheeseburger and carrot cake tonight, but still from a place that makes them from scratch.

That sounds delicious. Enjoy!

FYI, cheeseburgers are for poor people.

1 minute ago, Paul852 said:

That sounds delicious. Enjoy!

FYI, cheeseburgers are for poor people.

Not from the place I order from...

7 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Not from the place I order from...

Kobe beef?

 I'm just posting this here to trigger people.

 

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Column: My sixth-grader may never give up her mask. If only adults could be this grown-up

This is how the mask mandate is going in our house:

On Monday, the sixth-grader, who wore her surgical mask all day at school, including when she ran a mile in P.E., came home and plopped onto the couch to start her Mandarin homework.

"You can take off your mask now,” I said.

"I don’t want to!” she said. "It’s so comfortable.”

This is not unusual. My 11-year-old niece is better at following public health directives than most adults I know.

About 10 months ago, when we picked up our new puppy in Carlsbad, a far more politically conservative area than Venice, the maskless man of the house looked at my niece and said: "Can I ask you a question? Why are you wearing that mask?”

"I like to,” she replied. "It makes me feel safe.”

What could he say? Take it off, I don’t want you to feel safe?

He just shrugged.

Recently, when public health officials advised that cloth masks were not as effective in reducing the transmission of the Omicron variant, my niece switched from her beloved fabric masks, which were a pain to keep clean, to disposable paper ones. With zero complaint.

I think about this when I see posts on social media that are variations on the same whiny theme: Few football fans appeared to be wearing masks at the Super Bowl on Sunday — clips of various unmasked celebrities are making the rounds — but children all over Los Angeles will be forced to wear masks when they return to school on Monday. How unconscionable!

Oh, please.

Kids, as my colleague Karin Klein wrote last year, have adapted. It’s the grown-ups who stomp their feet and act like petulant tykes.

As we’ve learned in these uncertain times, pandemic knowledge and rules are constantly evolving. You cannot hold the changing advice against the scientists. Just when we thought we’d wrestled COVID to the mat last year, a new variant popped up. Mask mandates, which had been relaxed, tightened back up.

Today, in what California Gov. Gavin Newsom dramatically described as a "date with destiny,” the state was scheduled to drop its rule that vaccinated people must wear masks in indoor public spaces. (The unvaccinated still must wear masks.)

This relaxation of the rules does not apply to schools, which will be under a statewide mask mandate until at least Feb. 28, although local health officials can impose or continue tougher rules than the state requires.

In Los Angeles County, for example, health officials say they will lift indoor mask mandates when coronavirus transmission levels drop to what’s considered a "moderate” rate for two weeks in a row — or two months after children 5 and under can be vaccinated.

I find the metrics dizzying, but since I am a journalist, not an epidemiologist, I respect the consensus of experts. I don’t, as so many anti-mandaters proclaim, "do my own research” in an effort to contradict the doctors and researchers whose knowledge I can never duplicate.

In any case, The Times reports, both thresholds are expected to be met by March or April. If a virulent new variant springs up, however, all bets are off.

Although the county’s mask mandate was in effect for the Super Bowl, officially an outdoor "mega event,” the widespread flouting of the masking rule raises a significant question: Do public health mandates even work?

Well, it raises two significant questions, the second being, just exactly how long can Eric Garcetti hold his breath, anyway?

Our mayor came in for some brutal criticism after posing maskless with Newsom and sports legend Magic Johnson at the NFC championship game between the Rams and 49ers on Jan. 30.

Public officials should not have to be reminded that if they tell people to wear masks, and are witless enough to be photographed with a naked face, they are undermining all the hard work that our health officials have invested in educating the public about mitigation strategies.

By the time the Rams head-butted the Bengals at the Super Bowl two weeks later, Garcetti wasn’t holding his breath anymore. He was photographed chatting with other maskless VIPs, including his dad, former Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti. The photo was posted on Twitter by a self-styled media watchdog.

Garcetti spokesman Alex Comisar was neither apologetic nor defensive. "He was wearing a mask the whole game and removed it briefly to have a drink, which is allowable under the rules,” Comisar told me. This is absolutely true, and it’s probably not worth the effort to pick on the mayor for this one. He’s got enough troubles.

As for the question about whether mask or vaccine mandates work, the answer is an unequivocal yes. They do.

While mandates and restrictions enrage small segments of the population — Canadian truckers, would-be Michigan kidnappers and, yes, histrionic parents — they have been shown to be effective in boosting vaccination rates and lowering COVID-19 transmission rates.

Masking has been "a valuable tool” to keep schools functioning when transmission is high, California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said Monday during a news conference. California, he noted, has 12% of the nation’s schoolchildren, and had only 1% of school closures.

L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, who has withstood vicious criticism, is on the same page: "I will say, unequivocally, that we should not be lifting the masking mandate when we’re reporting thousands and thousands of new cases every day,” she told The Times last week. "That doesn’t make sense to us here at Public Health.”

Doesn’t make sense to me, either.

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we have more control over transmissible diseases than we realized. When the annual flu season comes around, I’m sure we won’t be the only family whipping out our masks. That is, if my niece ever deigns to take hers off.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-16/mask-mandates-garcetti-super-bowl?fbclid=IwAR0PMxtqU_5ftyA4xY7043QX3mOapfwmGo1-Pt6iqbYl7mAPU7l7_QewK74

 

59 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

You can state these things as fact if it makes you feel better about your heresy, but it doesn't make it correct. Both ketchup and mustard belong on hotdogs, and if you disagree, you're a communist.

I do a little ketchup, mustard, little relish and diced onion.

37 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Eating hot dogs regularly above the age of 12 is inexcusable.

But enjoy being poor.

I only eat them at CBP or the Linc.

25 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

I think if I told my nutritionist that I ate a hot dog, he may have a stroke.

Ah, so you're a recovering fatty. Makes way more sense now.

2 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

I do a little ketchup, mustard, little relish and diced onion.

 

Yup, perfect in my opinion. If I have two dogs, I usually do one with yellow mustard and the other with brown or German mustard.

4 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

Yup, perfect in my opinion. If I have two dogs, I usually do one with yellow mustard and the other with brown or German mustard.

I typically do Grey Poupon, cause I'm not a poor.

9 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 I'm just posting this here to trigger people.

 

 

Oof.. Causing phobias and obsessive compulsive behavior isn’t healthy and mature - it’s sad for these kids who are going to have major issues with anxiety. 

Just now, binkybink77 said:

Old… Causing phobias and obsessive compulsive behavior isn’t healthy and mature - it’s sad for these kids who are going to have major issues with anxiety. 

 

The girl in the article didn't seem particularly anxious, just more comfortable wearing a mask.

4 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

The girl in the article didn't seem particularly anxious, just more comfortable wearing a mask.

Yeeahhh.. masks aren’t comfortable. She’s "more comfortable” likely because she’s become obsessive about having it on. "It makes me feel safe” absolutely sounds like it’s coming from a place of anxiety. 

11 minutes ago, binkybink77 said:

Yeeahhh.. masks aren’t comfortable. She’s "more comfortable” likely because she’s become obsessive about having it on. "It makes me feel safe” absolutely sounds like it’s coming from a place of anxiety. 

 

Individuals have all kinds of phobias and idiosyncracies that make them do all kinds of quirky things to make themselves feel "safer" or "more comfortable," but masks seem to be pretty unique in that even the individual choice to wear one seems to bother other people.

I would agree, especially since she wears it in the home.  

Daughter is a reading specialist and it is really, really bad.  The thing is it is not so much the kids, but the teachers and administrators. I do hope the schools will also lift their mask mandates if transmission rates continue to decline.  Maybe they can come together and salvage this last semester.

Actually, since she's at home, that could mean that this is coming from less of a place of anxiety since being at home would be the spot with the least amount of risk and more so just a personal preference since she's gotten used to it.

2 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

Individuals have all kinds of phobias and idiosyncracies that make them do all kinds of quirky things to make themselves feel "safer" or "more comfortable," but masks seem to be pretty unique in that even the individual choice to wear one seems to bother other people.

Creating mass hysteria, anxiety and obsessive compulsive behavior among an entire generation is a little beyond a quirk. I support wearing masks, wear one myself even when it’s not called for, and find the politicizing it infuriating. I also see kids who are truly suffering from major anxiety from this whole thing and I don’t think a child who is claiming she’s more comfortable wearing a mask when just relaxing at home or says it makes her feel safe should be hailed as some example of maturity. She sounds like a little girl who needs to speak with a professional who can help her cope with the fears and anxieties this pandemic has created. I’ve seen it happen within my own family. 
 

I myself have had anxiety over this. I say this as someone who has been quarantined away from my daughter for 2 days because of a massive head cold or sinus infection. I’ve been testing for 2 days and it’s been negative but I’m still afraid of getting her sick. But it’s also not healthy for baby girl to not have her mommy. This pandemic has made a lot of us neurotic. 

3 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Actually, since she's at home, that could mean that this is coming from less of a place of anxiety since being at home would be the spot with the least amount of risk and more so just a personal preference since she's gotten used to it.

A personal preference  

ok 

4 minutes ago, binkybink77 said:

Creating mass hysteria, anxiety and obsessive compulsive behavior among an entire generation is a little beyond a quirk. I support wearing masks, wear one myself even when it’s not called for, and find the politicizing it infuriating. I also see kids who are truly suffering from major anxiety from this whole thing and I don’t think a child who is claiming she’s more comfortable wearing a mask when just relaxing at home or says it makes her feel safe should be hailed as some example of maturity.

Some kids are definitely suffering anxiety as a result of the pandemic, I'm just not sure that this girl is an example. It might seem odd for her to be more comfortable in the mask at home, but the reality is that, if you do something, anything, for such a long time, it will begin to feel normal to the point that the old normal feels weird. So, if you've worn a mask every day for two years, it becomes something you don't notice, but when you're not wearing a mask, it becomes very noticeable to a person who's used to wearing one. It's like always having a phone in your pocket, and then one day, you leave it in the other room and you can't stop noticing how empty your pocket is.

2 hours ago, Paul852 said:

What do you eat on your hot dogs? Turkey hoagies?

What self hating psycho puts mustard on turkey hoagies?

I don't eat turkey hoagies mainly because they're awful (proper Italian with oil+vinegar ftw) but I'd never put mustard on them.

Yellow mustard is bleh. Spicy mustard on a soft pretzel, dijon or "old style" mustard with actual mustard seeds on chicken cordon bleu is good though.