Last week, a few of my friends and I went out to a dinner for some quick food and good dessert. When it came time to order, my friends began, “Chicken ranch sandwich–Cappuccino”. Then it came to the next one of us who asked the waiter “Which would you recommend? The apple pie and ice [...]
Archive for July, 2008
An Evening At the Diner
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Cheeseburger of the Month: Canadian Burger
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Our Cheeseburger of the Month comes from a restaurant in Canada called The Admiral. As the reader who submitted it pointed out, the burger is to size in relation to the can of coke next to it, so basically its huge!
Keep eating cheeseburgers readers (and submitting them to tiffabees@yahoo.com:-). Thanks to all of you who [...]
Look Familiar Anyone?
Posted in Body Image, Culture, Media, tagged Culture on July 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Circa 1930’s
circa 2000’s
At a recent cafe, I came across African-American art work and some of it painted the scene of Jim Crow Laws. It reminded me of something I had seen before. The taxi cab in the pic above shows a “no-fatties” sign up, and although it is shocking to us at EAC and our [...]
Weight Discrimination AKA Fat Discrimination
Posted in Body Image, Culture, Fashion, Health, Models, tagged Body Image, Culture, Health, Media and body image on July 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Image Found Here
I was thinking a lot about the comments from last Friday’s Kool-Aid post. There were some who felt as though the post had a very negative tone towards thin women that constituted thin-bashing (one reader in particular wrote a post about it on her own blog). As I thought more about the discussion, [...]
