[HPforGrownups] Howarts Food

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 19438

Yes. It is time for another food debate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Scott: <<<This was mentioned hundreds of messages ago, but I just have to add,
because I love food disscussions, and it's about time we had another one.>>>

I do agree. We can sit around here and discuss food all day long and still not
get bored with it. I cannot remember when the last decent food discussion was.
We have been missing out.


Scott: <<<I am suprised that the trio aren't so fat the had to waddle up the
stairs. Of course it is fiction, so as realistic as the characters may seem
they can still eat as many helpings of pudding as they can hold and not gain
an inch. (sigh).

In the immortal words of Fleur- "It is too 'eavy all zis 'Ogwarts food, I will
not fit into my dress robes!">>>

I have been left with the impression that magic must take a lot of energy and
so a lot needs to be eaten to take account for this. Something must be
happening for them to be able to eat such large meals. Or is it that they do
not?

Is the case of them having second helpings and so on a mistake. The only meals
we see them eating lots at are the big feasts (start and end of year,
Christmas and Halloween). I personally always eat lots at special meals, which
is my take on these feasts. I do not think that we can be so sure that they do
eat lots at the normal meals.

During the day the students get a fair amount of activity walking between
lessons, added to my comment above about magic taking lots of energy to
perform, then we can assume that they are able to eat a bit more than the
average teenage couch potato.

As for the trio. Well Harry eating more would be a good thing. The only reason
he does not look stick insect thin is because he is so short. Ron is so tall
and thin. Based on comments about some of the other members of his family,
Arthur for on, then I would guess that he is fairly like me and able to eat
lots without having any real problem about putting on weight [0].

Hermione? As she is a girl I, totally unjustifiably, take the 5th amendment
and say nothing.


Scott: <<<Besides being a vegetarian I try my hardest not to snack or eat
anything between meals or to eat sweets that often, and I try to buy organic
foods, and eliminate most fat from my diet, BUT sometimes I just get a craving
for pastries and ice cream and...you get the idea. In other words I have very
little will-power, so that if I just don't have the foods I don't eat them. I
can't imagine being at Hogwarts where delicious food just continually appears
on the table in front of people at every meal!>>>

Not a veggie and would like to eat more organic food, but cannot afford to do
so [1]. I make little effort on the elimination of fat from my diet, but do
not regularly eat fatty foods [2]. I am at the moment eating absolute tons of
food, but I put this down to being a student revising for exams.


Scott: <<<Simon said that he likes cooking for himself which I can't
understand, because though I love to cook for other people, I can't stand
eating my concoctions myself. I don't know why, they are perfectly delicious,
but something about making it takes away my appetite. Hmmm, to tie this back
on topic I don't guess that the common rooms have kitchens, but I'm suprised
that they don't have anywhere for food, since they must want a midnight snack
sometime.>>>

I do not think they would trust the students with kitchens. Remembering that
some are only 11 years old I do not think it would be safe to let them near a
kitchen on their own. Do people think they have tea/coffee making stuff up in
the common room and if so how does it work? No electricity and all.

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Footnotes
[0] At least not in the getting fat sense. In the getting tall sense he has
probably put on lots of weight.
[1] On the topic of food cost, I was scandalised to realise that my local
supermarket charges more for chicken than my local organic butcher. I have
since moved to buying my chicken from the organic butcher not just because it
costs less but also because it actually tastes nicer.
[2] The exception being my sausage/bacon butties on Sunday afternoon with a
friend.
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Simon (well it had to be a food related sig in the circumstances!)
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" Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food
groups - alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat"
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