Dinner last night was an inexpensive cut of steak pan fried with potatoes on the side.
The potatoes initially diced, spiced, mixed with onion slices, drizzled with olive oil, put in the oven to cook most of the way, and finished by frying in the pan with the remaining steak drippings.
I think back to about age 12, watching television, it was probably that show called “The Doctors”, either that, or it was something similar.
A man, a stocky rancher in his 50s, was being berated for his diet consisting of three squares of, to near exclusivity, meat and potatoes.
A bunch of females and the effeminate were nagging him over his saturated fat and cholesterol intake on national television complete with canned noises while talking up his wife’s thoroughly with the times low fat salad based diet.
He said something along the lines of “the meat and potatoes is always what I’ve had a taste for, like my father, and grandfather before me, I’ve never had a taste for no vegetables”.
My instinct then was the thought “but it sounds and tastes so good” hearing of his go to meal of pan fried steak with home fries while the so called “authorities” berated it.
Sitting there as a youth thinking “how could the instinct not be so”.
Looking back I knew, the instinct was there, correct as it always is.
Now, more and more, I’m going back to that instinct.
What the establishment puts out on health invariably is to make you dumb, weak, and unhealthy…a slave.
Follow it’s advice with the above in mind.
(Most follow it’s advice.)
A man won’t go wrong on meat and potatoes.
My ancestors thrived on such simple fare, modernity does not make it any different for me. The human condition is one and the same.
If we’re being honest, who was healthier, you, or your grandfather?
How were your ancestors, even in recent memory eating? Prior generations were of more stout stock.
My grandmother once related the story of a neighborhood father, a “Mr. Murphy” every Thursday walking home from work whistling (I don’t remember the tune) while bringing home to his family of wife and ten children, slung over his shoulder, a sack of 50 or 100lbs of potatoes like clockwork week in, week out.
With all the so called advances in dietary and medical knowledge, has humanity gotten healthier?
(No.)
Me? I’ll stick to my meat and potatoes, heavily spiced, with some dairy, and fruit.
(For example : I melted some cheese on the home fries, and drank grape juice.)
Hearty and simple fare, what instinct knows, and another time knew to be the true health foods.
You can listen to the mainstream, I’m not. Make your own decisions, no one is forcing you either way.
I choose to be robust, eating hearty foods.
Persistence & Tenacity