Eastern Europeans getting fat????

kwinabeeste · 17-05-2007 08:58PM

i always wondered about this! I have worked in US for weeks at time a good few times. This usually involved eating out in the evenings and a rake a drink in the evening with co-workers. I never put on weight and in some cases i actually lost weight. Dunno why but i am convinced that its to do with the food and drink! Chemicals in water or hormones in food....its a funny one!!

Tha Gopher · 17-05-2007 09:53PM

The Scientist wrote:

I was in Riga just over a month ago, a city well over the size of Limerick which has one McDonalds. Diet is hugely important to those wimmin. It shows too. They are all hawt...

You trawled every suburb too? Anyway its bigger than Limerick.

In fairness proportionately most EE women are as decent as Irish. Irish and EE both whack Western Europe mainland out of it.

And all of the above are beaten by the Slovaks. Fcuking Hostel standard crackers the most of em

With so many working in the food industry and getting free fast food at work, Id say it has a bearing on it.

faceman · 17-05-2007 09:55PM

racist thread alert!! :eek:

Pigman II · 17-05-2007 10:00PM

What sort of factory do you work in Boozy? It's not a Chocolate factory by any chance?

cailinoBAC · 17-05-2007 10:10PM

I don´t know what it is, but it´s true. I lived in Eastern Europe for a year and did no specific exercise, ate as much as here and lost a load of weight (though I didn´t really notice until I came home cos I still looked like a cow beside the average Eastern European) and then proceeded to put most of it back on. Some of the girls I knew there had lived in Ireland for a while and put on weight while they were here. One of them claimed it was because the food here is a lot more processed, I don´t know, could be. Still I went to Russia for just a few weeks a few years ago and even in that time my clothes were a lot looser at the end of the holiday.

tampopo · 18-05-2007 12:19AM

My wife is foreign too and has put on a lot of weight since living here, though she won't exercise at all at all.

She eats a fair bit of her own food too, so I don't think it's only the diet. She doesn't eat meat, much.

Deffo lack of exercise isn't helping..... sigh

Kintarō Hattori · 18-05-2007 12:33AM

lukegriffen wrote:

I know when I went to Poland a lot of their traditional dishes (perogies - yum) are quite fatty, yet all the young people are all very slim. Maybe it's national service.

I'm pretty sure they don't have national service in Poland anymore.

Owen · 18-05-2007 12:36AM

lukegriffen wrote:

I know when I went to Poland a lot of their traditional dishes (perogies - yum) are quite fatty, yet all the young people are all very slim. Maybe it's national service.

Mmmm, Pierogi *drooooool*. It's the type of eating Polish people do too, we sit down at a table in her house, with various meats, breads, cheeses, and conversation can go on for an hour or so while people slowly eat the food in front of them. It's like eating a little, just often.

There's a Polish Restaurant in Cork now, 'Gospoda', the portions are anything but small!

Kintarō Hattori · 18-05-2007 12:46AM

Hmnnn Pierogi - I can't say I'm a big fan of it, occasionally the meat based ones, but oh god the veg ones are foul.
Polish cottage cheese on the other hand is amazing stuff, a billion times nicer than what we have here.

Fruit and Veg in Poland are extremely high quality, much more so than they are here. They are plentiful and relatively cheap. The pic below I took last year in the south and was at a local market and this was just one small section of fruit and veg. There are tons of stalls like this with each person selling their own fruit and veg.

It's simply much healthier stuff.

Owen · 18-05-2007 12:46AM

eo980 wrote:

Hmnnn Pierogi - I can't say I'm a big fan of it, occasionally the meat based ones, but oh god the veg ones are foul.
Polish cottage cheese on the other hand is amazing stuff, a billion times nicer than what we have here.

You haven't had the Strawberry ones with brown sugar on the outside then?

Kintarō Hattori · 18-05-2007 12:51AM

ned78 wrote:

You haven't had the Strawberry ones with brown sugar on the outside then?

Ehh no, I can't say I have. Hmnn I'll have to raise this issue with herself in the morning! I don't know why I wasn't told about these.

simu · 18-05-2007 12:51AM

eo980 wrote:

Fruit and Veg in Poland are extremely high quality, much more so than they are here. They are plentiful and relatively cheap. The pic below I took last year in the south and was at a local market and this was just one small section of fruit and veg. There are tons of stalls like this with each person selling their own fruit and veg.

It's simply much healthier stuff.

Aye. A lot better than the shrivelled "fruit and veg" you find in your typical Irish Centra.:(

Kintarō Hattori · 18-05-2007 12:54AM

simu wrote:

Aye. A lot better than the shrivelled "fruit and veg" you find in your typical Irish Centra.:(

Absolutely, I used to get bits and pieces from Moore Street but after seeing the high quality in Poland and the generally crap quality in Moore Street I stopped that. And don't get me started on the price of fruit in the supermarkets!

brianthebard · 18-05-2007 01:39AM

Have you tried the farmers markets? They are generally of a better quality than the supermarkets, although of course they are dependant on the seasons.

BoozyBabe · 18-05-2007 09:03AM

eo980 wrote:

would the reason be a wee thinge of jealousy that they look fatter to you?

Oh, yea, that must be the reason for it!!! :rolleyes:

No honestly, I'm quite happy with myself, of course I'd love longer legs etc, etc, but I'm not about to get bitter over it & wish everyone else fat!!!! :eek:

No, like I said, when they first arrived, you could easily say about 99% of them had gorgeous thin figures.

As I've looked around lately, that figure has easily dropped to around 60%.

This is only in the space of a few years

Kintarō Hattori · 18-05-2007 09:34AM

brianthebard wrote:

Have you tried the farmers markets? They are generally of a better quality than the supermarkets, although of course they are dependant on the seasons.

I can't say I have, where would I find one of those in Dublin city centre?

simu · 18-05-2007 11:12AM

brianthebard wrote:

Have you tried the farmers markets? They are generally of a better quality than the supermarkets, although of course they are dependant on the seasons.

There is a good market near where I live but the point is that you should be able to get good fruit and veg all over the place and not need to go to a special market.

ScumLord · 18-05-2007 11:46AM

Irish produce can be excelent in my town all the meat is from local farmers and you won't find better meat any where else in the world.

Supermarkets stock the ****iest foodstuff they can find, it's cheap for a reason. We have two fruit a veg men in the town too with organic or at least very good fresh veg. I can get a bag of everything (inc. apples, oranges, grapes, potatoes, carrots, a good variety and enough to feed a family for a week) for €15. Find a supermarket that can beat that.

The Eastern European chicks are putting on weight, I have a friend who went to Slovakia with his girlfriend for a few months and all he did over there was go to the gym or go swiming, you have to walk everywhere too.

Kintarō Hattori · 18-05-2007 11:52AM

simu wrote:

There is a good market near where I live but the point is that you should be able to get good fruit and veg all over the place and not need to go to a special market.

Most definetly agree with you on this.

peasant · 18-05-2007 01:33PM

KTRIC wrote:

My other half is German and she's expierienced this first hand since she came here 7 years ago. All her German friends and collegues are the same. Once they hit Irish shores the pounds just pile on

The strange thing is when I go to Germany I eat like a pig and drink a lot more beer than I would have here, but when I get home I've actually lost weight. Last christmas we spent 2 weeks in her mums house in Bavaria and I lost 3 pounds !!! AT CHRISTMAS !!!

Has to be diet related.

My guess is that it is sunshine related. Vitamin D and all that ..

I lost 4 kgs during sunny April without any change to diet, habits or excercise. I DID notice that my appetite had decreased somewhat.

Now that it's gone dull, damp and cold again, my body tells me to put the hibernation fat back on again and I've already put one kilo back on again ...once again without change to diet, habits or excercise.

Plissken1 · 18-05-2007 04:28PM

It's because they have all started eating that famous Irish dish called ....
the SHNAACK BOX !!. "Grease is the word" this should be our national anthem.

tampopo · 18-05-2007 06:06PM

Plissken1 wrote:

It's because they have all started eating that famous Irish dish called ....
the SHNAACK BOX !!. "Grease is the word" this should be our national anthem.

Classic. So true, too!!!

boffin · 18-05-2007 06:12PM

eo980 wrote:

I can't say I have, where would I find one of those in Dublin city centre?

Good quality veg in the city centre - fallon and byrne on exchequer st or the fruit and veg stop (near solas) on camden street -

brianthebard · 18-05-2007 06:20PM

eo980 wrote:

I can't say I have, where would I find one of those in Dublin city centre?

I know I've heard of some, but I'm not in Dublin so I don't know. Off to the Dublin forum with you.;)

simu wrote:

There is a good market near where I live but the point is that you should be able to get good fruit and veg all over the place and not need to go to a special market.

That's what supermarkets were supposed to be about, but in reality they just brought everything together for convience, while dropping the quality on everything. You will never find as good a steak in a supermarket as in a good butchers, the same with fish, fruit and veg, etc. I know what you are saying, but you can't trust corporations to do what you want, they are only there to serve themselves.
Besides the photo eo980 took seemed to be in a market yard or something, if someone can tell me that the supermarkets in East Europe sell better quality fruit and veg than here then fair enough but I doubt it.

megadodge · 18-05-2007 07:08PM

Reminds me of a time a girlfriend of mine told me about this Dutch guy that a gang of them (Irish girls) were in the company of. After a while chatting they asked him what he thought of Irish women.

He said "Irish women remind me a lot of Italian women, with one major difference"

"What's that ?" they said

"Italian women wait til they're 30 before they get fat".

My Hero !

Red Alert · 18-05-2007 08:06PM

I still think the eastern european women look great, but more importantly they don't carry on with the stupid mind games and over inflated sense of self importance that Irish women are prone to.

Tha Gopher · 18-05-2007 08:08PM

megadodge wrote:

He said "Irish women remind me a lot of Italian women, with one major difference"

"What's that ?" they said

"Italian women wait til they're 30 before they get fat".

My Hero !

Too bad young Italian birds generally dress/have hair and glasses like 35 year old Irish women did in 1987

Which is a crying shame, as I work with quite a lot of them.

Maybe its only northern Italy (vast majority that I know are from here), perhaps the mob heartlands of the south are more stereotypically Italian so to speak.

DublinWriter · 18-05-2007 08:11PM

megadodge wrote:

"Italian women wait til they're 30 before they get fat".

My Hero !

You know what Vinny, it's funny cuz it's true, capice?

Kintarō Hattori · 18-05-2007 10:06PM

brianthebard wrote:

Besides the photo eo980 took seemed to be in a market yard or something, if someone can tell me that the supermarkets in East Europe sell better quality fruit and veg than here then fair enough but I doubt it.

Actually you can get fruit and veg which is just as nice in the supermarket. For example Auchen is a massive french hipermarket and they have a huge fruit and veg section and it is all as good as the stuff in the pic I took. Just it is a little dearer than the 'street' traders but equally as nice.

Blush_01 · 19-05-2007 04:54PM

eo980 wrote:

I can't say I have, where would I find one of those in Dublin city centre?

Farmer's market in Meeting house square on Saturdays, as far as I know. Used to be on wednesdays during the summer too. Haven't gone in ages though, so may not be there/at the same times anymore.

Farmer's market in Stillorgan shopping centre on Wednesday mornings/early afternoons.

Anyone in the Donnybrook area, Roy Fox's opposite Spar (near Kwik Fit) is fantastic and great value. MMhm, raspberries!

Eastern Europeans getting fat????

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