Posted on 08/13/2014 6:28:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For San Franciscans who've been trying to eat healthfully, your efforts are being recognized. The city earned the top spot in a ranking of the healthiest eating locales in America.
Yummly data scientists analyzed the 2013 culinary search habits of more than 100 million people. They computed "healthy eating scores" for the 25 most populous U.S. cities based on the nutrition in recipes residents searched.
San Franciscans aren't big on meat of any kind. Our residents searched for recipes with meat substitutes, like tofu, more than any other city.
San Francisco was second to last in searches for poultry or pork recipes and dead last for beef.
The city is also the No. 1 searcher of vegetarian recipes, No. 2 for vegan, and - by far - the most excited about kale.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
“San Franciscans aren’t big on meat of any kind.”
there’s a joke in there somewhere.
A good diet balances out the huge AIDS numbers.
They can have all the tube steak they want.
healthy for who?? CATTLE???
kale? I dont know that ive ever seen Kale...on a restaurant menu...
I dont know that I’ve ever inadvertently eaten any kale for that matter.
All of this is fine, but the parallel question must be: do the people in the three California cities (San Francisco, LA, and San Diego) have healthier lives, measured by issues such as obesity, chronic illness, and mortality, than the three Rust Belt cities (St. Louis, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh) rated as the least healthy?
Well, if you consider “vegetarian = healthy” perhaps. People, like bears, are omnivores.
Does this have anything to do with the city policy of allowing naked people to walk the streets and sit down in the restaurant right next to you and your family while dining?
That’s right. The’re not big on meat but apparently they also left the 30,000 homeless bums and for those who pay an average of $1600 a month for rent out of the survey. Those people can’t afford to buy meat and those that can afford to buy meat aren’t chewing it, they’re hiding it so to speak.
It's great in salads and omelets, but then, I grew up in San Francisco.
How well I remember walking past the chinese markets..and seeing vegetables I didnt recognize....
And some of them you probably didn't want to. :-) There's no telling where they get some of that stuff.
There was a really cool Chinese restaurant, I believe on Greary Bl. near Larkin St., one that I miss from time to time: Soo Chow. This was the real deal greasy spoon Chinese restaurant. It was in a sort of half-basement under a late 19th Century multi-story building probably consisting of flats. Inside, was a room with a low white-painted ceiling with exposed wiring all over the place lit by two rows of green porcelainized steel lamps with bare mogul bulbs. Down the middle was one aisle, lined with real "booths" about six feet high so that when you entered, all you saw was white booth walls and Chinese red entry curtains down the center, with the exposed kitchen at the end. The booth walls were old growth redwood wainscot coated with so much white paint over the years that the wires stapled to them had disappeared, so much paint that, in a pinch, they could probably have made ammo from it. Ah, if those booths could talk, the stories they could have told.
Inside the booths were picnic tables with linoleum surfaces and aluminum edging (the benches too), probably ca. 1940. The tea came in an old blue-speckled enameled steel coffee pot, my guess at least 80-100 years old (back then in the 70s). The menu was ALL Chinese except for the prices (which in a way, makes that Chinese too :-). Never mind what you ordered, you got what they were cooking (and don't ask).
That was the San Francisco that was America. Unless I'm mistaken, the area was redeveloped long ago into corporate blob. I'm sure the former owners made buckets of money selling out and sending their kids to college, but I do miss it.
Those were the days!
Names I cant remember....the memories of so many similar places I wont forget soon.
Chinese restuarants in :Chinatown” a couple of Russian restaurants...in the Richmond.
the last greasy spoon in Marin county closed a few years ago...
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