Edwardian Supersize Me

As well fed as he is well dressed

Once a long while ago an American made a documentary about the effects of only eating fast food, this ended somewhat predictably with a high speed fattening and some near organ collapse. Sometime later, presumably,  an Englishman saw it, and then informed the  fine people at the BBC.  The civilizing effect of the British Broadcasting Corporation is evident in their new one off show, a year old now but new to me, Edwardian Supersize Me.  In the words of one of the participants….

“There can have been no better time for a chap like me to be alive. So what an enormous stroke of luck that the BBC were looking for someone to send back to that very era — to live, dress, exercise, eat and drink like an Edwardian man of means — to find out what it did to his girth, his arteries, his inner organs, his digestion, his mood, his very soul. Some guinea pigs might have been daunted by the prospect of four whopping meals a day, rivers of grog and hardly any fruit, vegetables or water for an entire week. But not I. “

(Tip of the Hat: Serious Eats)

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