Thailand to become like America?

[sargeant]

quote myself a loong loong time ago on this thread

I see that with your paranoia over street food in hot weather (gawd elp us)
plus your paranoia over washing and drinking water (gawd elp us)

this thread is now full circle but we got there

[blue05]

One thing that is noticeable is the thais are getting bigger/fatter certainly in the last few years, get rid of the macdonalds and kfc I say pure muck

[Takiap]

MisterClean, in all due respect, could you please make up your mind. You started this thread warning all of us to be weary of street food and drinking water, but now you seem to be advocating a street food culture, or am I missing something here.


It would however be interesting to know just how clean/drinkable mains water is here in Thailand because in the US, a good few brands of bottled water are routinely found to have higher concentrations of pollutants and toxins than tap water, from pesticides to pharmaceuticals.

Are health and safety standards any better with brand name bottled water than they are with the regular drums of water you buy for about 13 baht.


As a side note........hoping to live for another 65 years is very ambitious indeed, especially if you intend doing so in Thailand.

[Takiap]

One thing that is noticeable is the thais are getting bigger/fatter certainly in the last few years, get rid of the macdonalds and kfc I say pure muck

Yes, I have noticed it as well, but I wouldn't blame it on MD's or KFC for that matter. Very few Thais frequent MD's, and those that frequent KFC usually only do so in moderation. I think it has more to do with Thais eating more and more of their home grown junk food. Sit outside any Mom and Pop shop and look at the way they tuck into all the little sweets and cakes. If you watch them buying street food, you'll also notice how often they are buying things like fried chicken, and junk processed sausages which of course are also fried. In the cities at least, I honestly don't think the average Thai has a healthy diet anymore, and it certainly doesn't help that people are pedaling junk food in virtually every single school playground.

[sargeant]

Takiap you are a bugger got my humour going again when you wrote

As a side note........hoping to live for another 65 years is very ambitious indeed, especially if you intend doing so in Thailand.

and especially having guns pointed at him i just dont think there are enuff supercops with kryptonite badges around to save him every time

[MisterClean]

Takiap you are a bugger got my humour going again when you wrote

As a side note........hoping to live for another 65 years is very ambitious indeed, especially if you intend doing so in Thailand.

and especially having guns pointed at him i just dont think there are enuff supercops with kryptonite badges around to save him every time

Hey you're talking 'bout a Blessed ex United States Marine Corps 0331.

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No man is an island, no man stands alone!

[MisterClean]

MisterClean, in all due respect, could you please make up your mind. You started this thread warning all of us to be weary of street food and drinking water, but now you seem to be advocating a street food culture, or am I missing something here.


It would however be interesting to know just how clean/drinkable mains water is here in Thailand because in the US, a good few brands of bottled water are routinely found to have higher concentrations of pollutants and toxins than tap water, from pesticides to pharmaceuticals.

Are health and safety standards any better with brand name bottled water than they are with the regular drums of water you buy for about 13 baht.


As a side note........hoping to live for another 65 years is very ambitious indeed, especially if you intend doing so in Thailand.

Yes let me clarify, I believe the right to sell on the street should not be infringed, bad egg or no, and the right to clean water should be enforced in all tax collecting nations. Call me crazy...

[sargeant]

Mr Clean Wrote

Call me crazy...

okey dokey then your request granted

You ARE crazy

anything to oblige no need to thank me you are welcome

[sateeb]

I blame Agent Orange

[sargeant]

for gods sake sateeb you will have the unmentionable with a ct thread

[Winkie]

Yes, I have noticed it as well, but I wouldn't blame it on MD's or KFC for that matter. Very few Thais frequent MD's, and those that frequent KFC usually only do so in moderation. I think it has more to do with Thais eating more and more of their home grown junk food. Sit outside any Mom and Pop shop and look at the way they tuck into all the little sweets and cakes. If you watch them buying street food, you'll also notice how often they are buying things like fried chicken, and junk processed sausages which of course are also fried. In the cities at least, I honestly don't think the average Thai has a healthy diet anymore, and it certainly doesn't help that people are pedaling junk food in virtually every single school playground.

I do not frequent McDs or KFC that often, but when I do, certainly in Bangkok, the customers are predominantly Thai, maybe 90%+. However, in KFC especially, its mainly rice-based dishes that they are eating. But I do think that the fast food craze has really hit Thailand badly. Not just the burgers, but ice creams, donoughts etc... too. Its a shame, Thai food is mostly very well-balanced.

[Somchai Turdsak]

Egg-zactly. That's why I boycott Tesco Lotus. All those pies and candies and chocolates and donuts and fizzy drinks and aisles of cakes and deep fat fried foods are making the heretofore slim and fit Thais fat and sloppy.

Horrible influence that Tesco.

[Pleng]

Egg-zactly. That's why I boycott Tesco Lotus. All those pies and candies and chocolates and donuts and fizzy drinks and aisles of cakes and deep fat fried foods are making the heretofore slim and fit Thais fat and sloppy.

Horrible influence that Tesco.

And the buckets of deep fried chicken they've been eating long before Tesco and KFC were around have nothing to do with it...?

[Gregjam]

Perhaps the reason there is a noticeable increase in 'larger' Thai's is due to a number of reasons. As Thailand develops people are able to get access to more nutritious food cheaply. Local markets and shops sell a lot more cheap junk food snacks and with a 7 11 on each corner they do not have to go far for it. Add in that kids rarely walk or cycle to school (kids on motorcycles is dealt with in a few other topics) and the growth of computer/arcade games and you have a better fed population that do less exercise. Perfect recipe for a larger population as amply proven by all western nations.

[Somchai Turdsak]

Absolutely -- it's due to the rising number of garbage outlets of TESCO LOTUS crap stores selling garbage volumes of pure, unadulterated shit products. The British population stands around biting their lips and rubbing their hands, pointing to McDonald's or KFC, where Thais eat once a month, but turn a blind eye to the doughnuts and chocolate cakes and aisles of candies and crates of fizzy drinks and aisles upon aisles of pure fukkin garbage their lovely benevolent stores are giving to the poor brown people. You make me laugh.