Fries and living in harmony with nature

If you don’t like fries, you are a bad person living against nature.
Seriously
Maybe you are a cyborg according to the prophecy of Bogdan Mielnik from Antrovis (one of two contemporary Polish sects, associated with several unexplained deaths of followers).
Why do we like fries?
Have you ever wondered why we like fries
And many different dishes that are not necessarily good for our health.
What are fries? Carbohydrates, fats, salt.
A high-calorie dish which, apart from calories, has no nutritional value, but far too much salt. And in general, it slowly kills us.
And we salivate at the very thought, like lunatics!
Because our taste preferences are pre-programmed from the moment of birth or earlier, by evolution. Evolutionarily, those who stuffed themselves with carbohydrates with a large amount of fat, in times of constant food shortage, that is, for over 90% of the history of the homo species, had a greater chance of survival than kale connoisseurs.
That is why the healthy and normal reaction to “kale chips” is to say “fuck off”.
For the same reasons, we like sweet and fatty things. Like ice cream, bars, and similar. Doughnuts! Everyone loves Fat Thursday! That’s part of being human!
An interesting issue is salt, which we all have in excess in our diets today. The fact that something is salty, in times not only of shortage but also of zero nutritional knowledge, means a greater chance of providing not only calories but also microelements. For example, magnesium necessary for the proper functioning of the nervous system.
So the best food is fatty, salty, and full of sugar…
Well, that sounds like a recipe for diabetes, obesity, and a heart attack after forty.
I am only a cook, not a biologist, but this coincidence is screaming.
Man is not the goal of evolution. Man is a side effect of evolution. Man is a vehicle for evolution. And the whole point is passing on genes. Not. The idea that the strongest survive. The naive idea of evolution that the strongest survive has nothing to do with reality. Those who survive are those who effectively pass on their genes.
And what about them once they pass them on? Around forty, the offspring are already grown up, and as we age, we inevitably begin to be a burden. So from an evolutionary point of view, it’s time to wrap it up. Cancer, heart attack, diabetic coma… Right after forty
And that was life (and death) in harmony with nature.
So, of course, thousands of diseases today are harmless or even unknown that could kill you, tigers, cold… a hundred other causes that today we can’t even imagine while writing or reading this at home, on a bus, train, car (ugh!), waiting room…
Well, ****, even a simple flu killed massively just a hundred years ago. The Spanish flu wiped out a few percent of the population.
Yeah, **** the good old days and living in harmony with nature, so I don’t know if not living in harmony with nature makes me a bad person. But it certainly makes me a reasonable one.

I love the history of food, I love stories about food, and most of all, I love when they are anchored in everyday experience.
And the story about sweet, salty, and fatty is as anchored in our everyday experience as few others. Yesterday I made a favorite cake. Of the English queen (hak-tfu), which consists mainly of sugar and fat.
And what would you eat? Such a cake or kale chips? (Yes, if someone thinks I have something against kale, then yes, they are ***** right)
Because this kind of diet based on kale chips and hummus (that’s ok) with celery and raw carrot is, you know… better not cut that carrot, just… You know… at least there will be some pleasure.
To a large extent
This is largely what the whole concept of comfort food is based on. It also shows us that all restrictive diets without sugar, without carbohydrates, without fat are also for this reason an aberration. And an act of violence against oneself, one’s own nature, one’s own humanity
So instead of fighting with the grace of an elephant, it’s better to apply to your diet an approach more like Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
And even more like modern drug policy, called harm reduction.
Using the knowledge of what and why tastes good to us.
We like things that are fatty, salty.
We also like crunchy (so the previously mentioned carrot is not entirely pointless), because it means it is fresh, so we won’t poison ourselves.
So those who preferred fresh and crunchy also survived and passed this preference to us in genes.
And for example, a good way to make such a dish more valuable is to add protein to it and base it, which is important, on unsaturated fats.
Falafel, whether we mean the “cutlet” made from chickpeas, deep-fried, or we mean the whole dish, in pita with a huge amount of vegetables (many colors and textures are also an evolutionary preference), with a fatty and salty sesame sauce.