Airing of Grievances: I Am A Self Centered Fatso
Usually these posts are reserved for complaints about lunch spots, but just to show I am a good sport who is not immune to criticism- here’s a complaint I received yesterday in regards to my I’m-a-fat-guy-who-hates-health-food post about Recharge, the health food lunch spot opening where Good Portions used to be:
“People (like me and a lot of others) who have moderately high blood sugar levels must watch their carbs and sugar intake, lest they become diabetic. And diabetics are even worse off. Not to mention that a diet rich in carbohydrates and unrefined sugars is just simply bad for you, I’m talking about specific, necessary restrictions that are very common.
It’s not a goddamn fad, if you can get that through your wide-bodied veil of self-centrism. Some people who eat healthy food aren’t born to hippie parents and hate the taste of hamburgers, some people have no choice. And it’s fucking hard enough to find something to eat that is reasonably inexpensive, relatively tasty, and not packed with carbs/sugar, without rotund blowhards bloviating on the internet about how inconvenienced they are by one out of thousands of restaurants in NYC to offer a few menu choices that allow people with dietary restrictions to eat something that isn’t miserable or unaffordable. I’ve never heard of this place, but I assure you, you have plenty of food options available to your gaping maw.”
And then it gets personal…
“By the way, I got my blood sugar levels high by eating like you do (poorly and a lot) for about 30 years. So when your doctor lets you know you are giving yourself diabetes, maybe you will be a little bit less smug about how goddamn inconvenient it is that other people might have the opportunity to eat something that won’t actively and directly impact their health in the short term.
You sound like a rich guy complaining about how poor people don’t pay enough taxes. In other words, you sound like a clueless asshole. Thought you might want to know that. – Matt”
I eat a healthy and balanced meal for breakfast and dinner. Does that make up for it? I don’t even know where to begin with this… maybe I’ll just leave it to you guys.
Got a grievance you’d like to air? Feel free to send it to zach@midtownlunch.com
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:15 pm, December 10th, 2008 under Airing of Grievances.
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Matt: you’ve now been outed to the world of midtown lunchers as a humorless knob. Where do you get off calling ANYONE smug?
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i don’t understand why people choose to continuously read this blog if they thought it was written/geared towards a bunch of assholes… wouldn’t that make you just plain stupid?
i’d rather be an asshole than stupid. nobody’s forcing you to read this and it seems like you’re wasting your own time. get a life.
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(1) To be serious for a minute: Matt, you think it makes sense to demand compassion and empathy while at the same time trashing fat people? Get the log out of your own eye, my brother.
(2) Seriously, you sound like a dry drunk. Zach isn’t the enemy here. He isn’t the czar of lunch menus. I’d be happy with some tasty healthy food in Midtown myself, but let’s be realistic. Food around there is driven by office workers looking for speed and cheapness, neither of which are really consistent with tasty healthy food. You know what you need to do if you want to eat healthy in a zone like Midtown. Pack your lunch. (By the way, if this were a personal finance blog, everybody would be judging *you* for being a spendthrift and wasting your money eating out! Take a deep breath. Eat a pomegranate. Relax.)
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To me, this blog is about good food. Period. With an emphasis on affordable lunchtime fair.
The truth is that, more-often-than-not, health food joints suck and are only edible because you have to in order to fight fat or some health problem. They are often similar in their blandness, so just close your eyes and pick one. Go get some tasteless sludge to nourish your day and move on. Hard to review on a blog about tasty eats.
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Oh. and Matt should start a blog about health food joints for all the diabetes kids. From the comments there seems to be a bit of interest in it.
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Um, I’m kind of late to the game, but I just wanted to point out to Brian that this isn’t some site that claims to be objective or anything… This is Zach’s food site where he expresses HIS opinions about food. For first time readers, it’s helpful if they stumble across a review, to know where he’s coming from as a self-professed fat guy (even though Zach, you’re REALLY not fat, a lil chubb to hug, but not FAT – ummm, was that inappropriate? I meant it in a nice friendly way, not skeevy weirdo way), to understand why something that appeals to him might not appeal to other people. Zach tries really hard to bring perspective into play for people who can’t or don’t want to just try every place he talks about before deciding if it’s for them or not with his “Plusses (what people who like this place might say)” and “Minuses (what people who don’t like this place might say)”. That’s above and beyond what a lot of sites (including my own) do, to encourage objectivity.
Anyway, Zach, that guy Matt? Thesaurus much? I hate when people bust out the pompous words to make themselves seem smarter or loftier, but then sprinkle expletives within the very same commentary. It’s like… dude. You sound like an a-hole, with or without the large vocabulary (that you’re probably faking).
PS I wrote a novel about the Atkins scam, I mean diet. It’s all about how the egg and meat commissions (fictional commissions in my world) put a “hit” out on the bread/carbs commissions and were very successful until… the bread/carb commissions put a hit out on Dr. Atkins. Hahahahahahaha.
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Yvo – you better watch yourself or arp is gonna get angry.
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ESNY – Not at all. I’m cool with satire and humor. Not so cool on misinformation.
DocChuck once put his head up my ass. Sometimes, it is a good thing that I am made of flexible materials and cannot feel pain. I wish the pay were better, though.