Indian Food. But is it really?

I ate Indian Food today from some place called Indian House or Indian Palace or Indian Playground -- it doesn't matter. What's important is that I didn't immediately have explosive diarrhea and was able to calmly walk into the bathroom and relieve myself like a normal human. What I'm not certain about is whether it was the source of the food or a growing tolerance to the wiles of this ever foreign cuisine.

Maybe there truly is a world beyond naan, a glorious palindrome and the sponge for my chicken tikka masala. Still, how can one country, which hold the cow as sacred above all others, use so much damn dairy? Cheese, cream, milk, yogurt; I'm sure there's a dish which contains all three four of these ingredients. Personally, I think people like this stuff because it's not really spicy, but has some kind of flavor and it's like eating fried ice cream but you can pretend it's healthy because it's ethnic. Any way you put it, it's always a pass for me, but sometimes you have to swallow your creamy, cheese curd filled fried yogurt milk potatoes and smile, or else they won't call you when they're going to eat real food like Lou Malnati's pizza.

Fooder's Health Tips: 8oz, 8 glasses, 8 days a week. Thanks Jake! Words to live by.

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Tomatoes are Evil

Ok, gotta write something about food... Here's something: Nightshades cause pain. I saw this on the old elevator news feed on my way to work; I'm still trying to verify this. I haven't seen any science on this, but as someone who suffers from chronic back pain, possibly caused by mild arthritis, the possibility of limiting or reducing this by cutting out tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, tobacco, etc seems like a hard, though reasonable trade-off. I'm curious if any one else has had any luck with this. Damn I'm going to miss tomatoes, though.

 Listen to this poor sap.
Zeus above, have mercy!
Jesus wept!  (He loves tomatoes)
And here's the winner: Tomatoesareevil.com Why is there a website dedicated to tomato haters? This goes deeper than I could have imagined. Dear lord, why???

This...this means...(too horrible to contemplate)... NO MORE PIZZA.

Oh, Odin, why have you forsaken me?