Chapter 2013 Lighting up the Dream in Your Heart (VIII)

American fast food is almost the simplest way to cook food in the world. If it is meat, just fry it; if it is vegetables, pour some salad on it; if it is sauce, squeeze it as if it is free; if it can be added with sugar, pour it with a sack.

There is a phenomenon that the food eaten by the poor and the rich in the United States is actually completely different.

In the United States, there is a supermarket called organic supermarket. Note that many people think that the things sold in the supermarket must be very healthy when they hear the name of this supermarket.

But in fact, only organic supermarkets sell ordinary fruits, vegetables and meat that meet EU standards, while other ordinary supermarkets sell vegetables and meat that are downgraded and only meet American standards. In short, there is no restriction on the addition of clenbuterol and ingredients with unique pesticide testing standards.

So in the United States, any wealthy family will definitely go to the organic supermarket to buy ordinary ingredients with extra money.

And many times, only organic supermarkets have ingredients that can be cooked by themselves, while ordinary supermarkets have many semi-finished canned and frozen foods, which also contain lethal amounts of oil and sugar.

You have to pay extra to buy food in organic supermarkets. If you don't have money, you can only buy things in ordinary supermarkets, and you have to endure a high-oil, high-salt, and high-sugar diet, which is also the reason why the obesity rate in the United States is the highest in the world.

Another reason why most ordinary people cannot have a light diet is that all restaurants outside, especially the fast food restaurants that ordinary people eat most often, have a large amount of cheap fried food, put lethal amounts of seasonings, and thick sugary drinks are unlimited.

The lethal amount here is definitely not an adjective. Although many people may think that Coke is sweet enough, almost no gourmet fast food restaurant will dilute the Coke syrup according to the guidance standards. They will put less water, otherwise they will be complained that the Coke has no taste.

If the oil does not burst in your mouth when you bite into fried chicken, then this store will definitely not last long. If you can't taste the rich syrup in any pie or tart, it will definitely go bankrupt soon.

The first feeling Stark had when he took a bite was salty, choking salty, and the second feeling was greasy. I don't know where the fragrance came from, it went straight up, just like swallowing a whole piece of butter directly.

Stark had to spit out the food in his mouth.

To be honest, if it wasn't so unpalatable, Stark wouldn't have done such a slightly rude thing. Although he seemed very rebellious among the rich, he was a product of elite education after all, and more importantly, he didn't want to lose face.

But he really couldn't stand it. After spitting it out, he had to hold the burger in front of his eyes to confirm that he had taken a bite of the cheeseburger and that the chef hadn't mistakenly stuffed the burger with butter and salt.

He took a closer look and found that there were three slices of yellow salty cheese in the burger, and the slightly cold meat on the edge was turning white. That was the trace left by frying the meat with a lot of butter, and he had never seen such a scene in a cheeseburger before.

Steve sighed, took a bite of the burger and swallowed it, then said, "I don't know if I should tell you, but the cheeseburger you treated me to last time at Stark Group is very different from what ordinary Americans eat."

Steve showed Stark the cheeseburger in his hand and said, "There is only one kind of cheese in it, most of it is cheddar cheese, and a few are mixed with mozzarella cheese, but because the quality is very average, you can only put more to have the rich aroma of cheese."

"And the burger you eat will have at least three kinds of cheese in it, and there will be a mixture of fresh cheese and semi-dry cheese carefully adjusted by the chef to enhance the aroma."

"And the steak, this is just an ordinary beef steak, put 300 grams of butter and fry it, so that the beef stuffing and the crust are all soaked in butter. Some stores will also use 100 grams of butter to fry the bread embryo, also to enhance the aroma."

"And the meat patties made in the kitchen of Stark Group are not only To select the quality of beef, they don't use a meat grinder to make meat stuffing, they cut it by hand, and most of the oil comes from the fat of good beef itself. "

"The bread dough is also baked with carefully formulated flour, and occasionally fried lightly with olive oil. Even the sesame seeds sprinkled on it are carefully selected, and each grain is intact. "

"The pickles here are mostly canned products, which are taken out of the cans and sliced ​​and put in." Steve pointed to the pickles sandwiched between the bread dough and the steak, and then said: "The pickles and peppers in the Stark Group kitchen are pickled in the Mexican way, and both the storage temperature and the timing of use are just right." Steve picked up an onion ring with his fingers and said: "The structure of the thing and the flour form on it are to absorb more oil, and this potato wedge is also."

Stark looked at the cheeseburger in his hand with an embarrassed look. He felt that he would never be able to eat it, but he was too embarrassed to waste food.

"And your concept of food." Steve shrugged, put down the food in his hand and said, "Throw away what you can't finish. There's nothing embarrassing about it."

Stark's eyes scanned the table and finally stopped at the apple cinnamon pie. He said hesitantly, "There can't be so much oil in it, right?"

He opened the outer packaging and poured out the pie. He didn't see any traces of butter coagulation on the crust, so he took a small bite, then another small bite, and then spit it out again.

This time it wasn't because it was greasy, but because it was sweet.

The filling inside was completely melted sugar. In addition to being wrapped in syrup, the apple pieces were also pickled with sugar, which made Stark cough violently.

He grabbed the Coke next to him in a panic and poured it into his mouth. Steve immediately dodged to the side, and Stark spit out a mouthful of Coke.

Steve quickly patted his back to prevent him from choking. When Stark recovered, he looked at the Coke in his hand in disbelief and said, "Is this Coke? When did this company secretly change the formula behind my back? How can it be so sweet? And why is it flat?!"

"Most of the Coke in fast food restaurants is flat, and generally these fast food restaurants will put double the syrup." Steve shrugged, wiped the table with the paper towel next to him, and then said, "Sugar is also provided next to it, you can put it in yourself."

"This meal probably provides me with the calories I need for a week." Stark stared at the table in disbelief and said, "It's terrible."

Then he looked around and found that the strong Steve was not conspicuous in this restaurant. There were big guys here.

It's just that Steve has thick bones and muscles, while most of the others are simply fat.

Suddenly Stark's genius inspiration flashed again. He put his hands on the table and looked at Steve and said, "Could dietary structure also be a prerequisite for the birth of superpowers?"

In just one second of speaking, Stark had sorted out his thoughts. He said, "You see, we have almost never seen very fat superheroes."

"Of course I'm not saying that fat people can't be superheroes, but we have recruited so many young heroes for the Avengers' reserve, and none of them are fat."

"According to Matt, the young heroes he recruited in the Bronx and Queens, especially those who awakened their own superpowers, were relatively agile before awakening, and there were almost no extremely fat or extremely thin ones."

"Interesting." Steve commented, he said, "But according to common sense It makes sense. If Peter is a fat man weighing two or three hundred pounds, will the Osborn Group accept him as an intern? Then will he still have a chance to be bitten by a spider? "

"For example, I had no chance to join the army because of my thinness. If the doctor hadn't given me a break, I wouldn't have had the chance to become Captain America."

"To put it bluntly, extremely fat and thin people will lose a lot of opportunities, and these opportunities may be the cornerstone of their becoming superpowers, not to mention many people who are too fat or too thin to be hospitalized. They have fewer interactions with the outside world, so naturally they have fewer opportunities."

"But we don't actually need to make the food so high in calories, right?" Stark pointed to the food on the plate with both hands and said, "It's neither delicious nor healthy, but they are used to it. Isn't this something? What a good phenomenon. "

Stark sighed and said: "According to the statistics of SHIELD and SHIELD, the proportion of awakened superpowers in the United States is the lowest, while Southern Europe, East Asia and the Middle East are the highest, which are all famous food birthplaces. "

"And in these places, most of the awakened superpowers are ordinary people, which shows that their overall health index is higher than that of the United States. "

"The attention of various civilizations in the interstellar to humans mostly comes from the great achievements made by powerful individuals among humans. We have always believed that there is no regularity in the awakening of human superpowers, but now it seems that a healthy body is a necessary cornerstone. "

Steve also put his hands on the table and looked at Stark and said: "Are you going to adjust the dietary structure of Americans? But if I may be frank, this is difficult. "

"Even if the people The tastes of different people can be adjusted within one or two generations, and the dietary structure also comes from good cooking methods. The United States has almost no local cuisine of its own, and the cooking methods of foreign food have also been greatly simplified. We are a society that emphasizes efficiency. "

"Ingredients will also be a problem. If you want to be healthy and delicious, the ingredients must be of high quality so that you don't need so much salt and sugar to season. If you want high-quality ingredients, you have to adjust the production standards."

"You should know better than me that this is the lifeblood of class division. The United States has always been a class-segregated society. In addition to the location of residence, it is also based on the level of diet. The upper class cannot accept that everything is bad, so you can only make everyone better."

"Even if you have such technology, they will not agree to let you change, just like when you built the air transportation system. "

Stark's face gradually darkened. When the air transport system was mentioned, he had a lot of resentment that he had nowhere to vent.

In short, they have money, people and technology, but they are restricted and constrained everywhere, as if all those who have the power to approve the construction are very opposed.

Because of the pressure brought by Schiller, they dare not cause accidents as blatantly as before, and then control public opinion and publicize it to create panic.

But they still say one thing and do another, praising technological progress and boasting about the country's strength in the media, but turning around and delaying and secretly making trouble.

Unfortunately, politicians are still politicians, and Iron Man is no longer the same Iron Man. A broader stage will give people greater ambition and firmer determination.

Stark's eyes flashed with coldness. He did not explain more, but said briefly.

"America is the golden wheel of Noah's Ark. When we sail into space, we either carry all mankind together or are crushed to death together. There is no other choice."