Smoking is bad for you and everyone else, but eat all the fried food you want!
Had an odd thought today and wanted to bring it up, as well as at least one response I received from it.
I had to drop by the hospital today to pick something up for my dad. It's the hospital he had his surgery in and still goes to on occasion to see the one doctor. So I have some experience from hanging out in this place about what's up in there.
So I see signs all over the hospital happily proclaiming that the entire grounds are now smoke free (meaning you can't smoke outside) for the health of everyone around. They originally had specific areas you could smoke at outside that were away from the entrances and general human traffic and they were the only areas where smoking was allowed, but they did away with them. Which is great, it is, after all, a heart hospital. Promoting good heart health is a good thing.
But I got this feeling. I remember from visiting dad, so I had to check this thing out. Before I left, I walked into the cafeteria to see if anything had changed since last time. It hadn't.
Their cafeteria is immense. However, most of the food is fried. I kid you not; you are hard pressed to get something to eat there that wasn't deep fried or in some way saturated in lard. The one time me and mom ate there we both ended up with a bowl of lettuce and a few tomatoes (not really a salad; you couldn't get a carrot or a cucumber to save your soul, and tomatoes were tough, too. We got our "salad" from, literally, a fixings bar) and a glass of water because neither one of us really enjoys fried food. And that was all we could get.
Sure enough, it was the same story today. They even have a fast food restaurant in there, a chicken place, where all the chicken is fried. It's Chik-Fil-A. I have only eaten there once and realized the breading on the chicken tasted like a zepoli. For those who do not know what a zepoli is, think funnel cake, but instead of it being in that waffle like pattern it is just globs of dough. Which means this is some sweet tasting fried chicken. Not sweet meaning "sweeeeeet!" but sweet meaning sugary.
I brought my thought up at the front desk. "I noticed your signs stating smoking isn't allowed on campus."
"No, ma'am, we are very concerned with the health of everyone here, being a heart hospital."
"Uh huh. And being a heart hospital, why is it that 98% of the food in your cafeteria is fried? Every Joe Blow knows fried foods aren't exactly good for the heart. Enough fried everything will kill you faster than someone smoking 100 feet away from you."
I mentioned this to my mom, knowing she would recall our battle for something non-fried to eat there. "Well, right now it is politically correct for you to jump all over smokers and the overweight."
And she's right. Of course, they haven't, apparently, taken the overweight battle on yet, either. Their concern for the health of everyone there is bullshit. If it wasn't, they would focus on more heart healthy foods in the cafeteria where all their nurses and doctors (and I mean all) eat. Your guests and even some of the more mobile patients all eat there. Having a few fried things is fine. But when you have to jump over the counter and strangle someone for a piece of lettuce because it is the only thing in the area that isn't fried, then your claims of heart health concerns are bullshit. You just don't want to hear Mary Lou GranolaBar bitch about someone smoking in their car in the parking lot a mile away from the hospital. So admit it. And it isn't like there is anywhere for these people to drive for lunch. There is nothing around the hospital. The nearest thing to them is a strip mall a few miles down the road, and that requires you to sit in near stand still traffic on a major road near an exit for a major highway. No one has a long enough lunch period to do that. And doctors and nurses can't risk it in case of an emergency.
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What a smart mother you have. A politically correct band wagon is exactly where we're headed. Joe and I were acosted by a man holding up a petition to make the city of Colorado Springs non-smoking. When neither of us would sign it, he said, "hey, look, I'm a smoker, but I think it's a good idea." Where did he get off?
I DO NOT smoke, but Joe does. I did smoke years ago, and it was difficult for me to stop, but I had a baby growing inside me and decided to quit for him. I remain a non-smoker because I just don't want to smoke anymore.
Joe still smokes, and it's his right to smoke a legal substance. The problem I have is when we went into a Cracker Barrel restaurant where the place was filled with smoke from their huge fireplace, but people still bitched about the smoking area. What kind of moron is that?????
Although I prefer to sit in a non-smoking area when my friend and I go out to eat, we have accepted the smoking area to get a table quicker. I've NEVER smelled or been bothered by anyone else's smoke.
The people in this country are like lemmings. They just want to be right behind the first lemming so they can go over the cliff first.
As for fried foods, we don't eat them. We had burgers awhile back--his from McDonald's and mine from Wendy's--and neither of us could eat them. All we could taste was the grease. We bake our 'fried' chicken. We bake our fish as well. We use olive oil and real butter, and we both started losing weight without changing much else. You are absolutely right about fried foods, and I'll stand behind that as well as a person's right to light up as long as he doesn't blow it at me on purpose. We're slowly but surely losing evey right we have in this country and sitting back and allowing it to happen. One man and woman were taken to court by a snoody neighbor and her mother for smoking in their own home. They now have to go 25 feet away from their home to smoke. What kind of crap is that!!!!!
I say let them smoke if they want and allow them to their own smoking area like they had. Ft. Worth has passed a smoking ban in businesses. Bars may lose their rights to allow smokers as well. I don't drink any more either, but a good stiff one always went down easier when followed by a drag off a good cigarette.
I'll get off my soapbox now, but I agree with you 100%!!! Hugs, Patricia
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