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Nauseate Me!

Aaagh...Foodie went to the local $1 movie house to see "SuperSize Me!," Morgan Spurlock's prize winning fastfoodamentary, and almost lost her dal and basmati rice right there in row four, feet up.
Seeing Spurlock stuff himself for 30 days with McDonald's finest offerings is as close to a horror film as she is likely to witness these days. Eating crap, while confined to a jammed urgent care lobby with teenybop top ten hits piped in for all eternity, and nothing to read but a three year old People Magazine, would be a true Foodie hell.
Back to the film---It's better put together and more riveting than "Farenheit 911"--it has the traditional beginning, middle and end, see--and the outcome is fraught with unknowns--will formerly healthy, vigorous Spurlock go into cardiac arrest climbing the stairs to his apartment? Will his three physicians have him committed? Will his mother rush to New York from West Virginia carrying a casserole?
Stats you would rather not know, even if you have NEVER eaten a Big Mac, come hurtling your way, sometimes via funny cartoons, sometimes from "the experts," including my favorite,wise and mellow Marion Nestle of NYU.
All those young kids lined up in the school cafeteria to get garbage.......Foodie cannot go on. She needs something cold, wet, something akin to, um, a beer, maybe one of those nifty, icy New Zealand beers waiting right there in the fridge..
Almost favorite scene--at the end, Spurlock and his nutritionist sit next to a Mount Fuji of refined sugar, precisely how much Spurlock took in during his 30 days.
See this flick!

Super Size Me: fast food documentary

Super Size Me, " a really great bad idea" is an examination of the obesity crisis in America in which filmmaker Morgan Spurlock experiments eating exclusively at McDonald's for one month. Spurlock, an otherwise fit and healthy American, gained 25 pounds?, had his cholesterol rise and damaged his liver.

The film, opening in theaters across the nation this week, is not just watching Spurlock consume endless egg McMuffins and supersized fries and sodas (McDonald's dropped it's long standing 'super size" promotion last month) but a look beyond just the easily targeted fast food industry to the roots of the problem. The film examines advertising, goes to school cafeterias and even blames the Bush administration's "Leave No Child Behind" legislation that has eliminated PE classes to make more time for test cramming.

Have you seen Super Size Me? What did you think of the film? Leave your comments here, join our conversation.

Brit Porkers Escape--Now a Film

"Tale of the Tamworth Two" is the latest in a genre of books and films about animals and things scheduled to be eaten....escaping. The pigs in this BBC drama were the subject of much cultural and press buzz back in the late 90's in the UK.

Here is the link to the multi-featured BBC website devoted to the broadcast debut tonight.

"CALENDAR GIRLS" BORED BY BROCCOLI

An early scene in the movie "Calendar Girls" starring Helen Mirren reveals Mirren and her pal played by Julie Walters attending a Women's Institute meeting at which the lecturer has just finished a presentation about broccoli. Clearly this was not a program from The Food Museum, because the ladies in the crowd are shown asleep....and later, rolling their eyes re the fascinating subject of broccoli.

Many films either feature great food scenes or touch on food. Any of you want to post some good foodie films? Please do.