"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>>>> I think serving chili over rice is odd too. Or adding macaroni to
>>>> chili.
>>>
>>> What a strange, strange, sheltered life you must lead.
>>
>> No. I just think those things are overkill on the carbs. And they are
>> not
>> commonly eaten here in the PNW. I think they are more of a midwest
>> thing.
>
> Do you consider Oregon part of the PNW? I saw chili with rice and chili
> with macaroni countless times when I lived in Corvallis.

Really? At a restaurant? I've never seen it.
>
> There's also a difference between thinking something is "odd" and thinking
> it's "overkill on the carbs." You're more than old enough to remember when
> carbs were not considered evil.

I'm diabetic so they are evil to me. And actually I am old enough to
remember that they were in fact evil in the 1950's. Ever seen a diet book
from then? It is the carbs that they cut. I grew up being told that bread
was fattening.