Opinions on Erik Karlsson's pre-game meal?

[SeanMoneyHands]

If I was making millions of dollars every year like Erik is and can afford to eat anything and as much as I want, I would be eating the finest of foods and have my own nutritionist to make sure I live a long and prosperous life and am in peak form for overall health. Even more so if you're an athlete. Diet is everything. Just look at Nathan MacKinnon and compare him to Phil Kessel.

 

[Buck Naked]

If I was making millions of dollars every year like Erik is and can afford to eat anything and as much as I want, I would be eating the finest of foods and have my own nutritionist to make sure I live a long and prosperous life and am in peak form for overall health. Even more so if you're an athlete. Diet is everything. Just look at Nathan MacKinnon and compare him to Phil Kessel.

Yeah, one is an ironman, the other one regularly unhealthy and not able to play.

 

[Primary Assist]

This thread has inspired me to create my own diet, "Ketochup." I will only eat ketchup and dishes covered in ketchup. Part of the diet also includes telling strangers on the Internet that I'm in better shape than them

 

[Kahvi]

Ive been a chef for a decade now and I find it hilarious that a multi-millionnaire would eat like this. He's basically eating the same food I was as a 12 years old cooking for myself.

They eat to get fuel, not to enjoy. This is a pre-game meal, not their off season Saturday with friends.

 

[Mrb1p]

They eat to get fuel, not to enjoy. This is a pre-game meal, not their off season Saturday with friends.

You can "fuel" yourself up with good food. It doesn't have to be god-awful baked 14 years old levels of bad.

 

[Signupnow]

Honestly though. Not to defend ketchup but what does Americans know about food. I lived some time in Canada and USA and Canada especially water down every forign diah, such as Indian food for example until it taste nothing.

I had to go to some Ethiopian restaurant near freel st next to the grocery store in Ottawa to actually taste something that doesn't resemble water.

Moreover tim horton sucks as well.

USA is a little bit better but likewise there, you go to an Asian restaurant and you'll get some can food thing in oyster sauce. The milk taste bad, not good butter, the diary products in general.

In Ralph's, probably the best you can get is the potato soup at the soup counter with a baguette.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

No. Bread is not toast.
Atleast to us germans.

Toast is not considered real bread.
And you usually don't toast real bread. Its a wheat bread. And we call it toast, even if its not toasted.

I'm really confused, yet curious. How can I find out more about this untoasted toast that isn't bread?

 

[Kahvi]

You can "fuel" yourself up with good food. It doesn't have to be god-awful baked 14 years old levels of bad.

It's probably what they are used to, and dont want to change it

 

[Edenjung]

I'm really confused, yet curious. How can I find out more about this untoasted toast that isn't bread?

You made me laugh out loud.

Ok let me rephrase it.
By definition its bread. Plain simple white bread. You buy it and can toast it.
It is sould under the name of toast. Because well it is commonly toasted and eaten.
If you ask a german what toast is he will show you this:

(buttered toast)
White bread.

Now to why many germans don't consider this actual bread, even though it is by definition.
Well when we think about bread we think about sour dough bread, full wheat bread, dark bread, Komissbrot (even though nobody calls it that here) and so on. We are not that into white wheat breads. They are seen as unhealthy and associated with mass production (this does not include baguette and various other white bread types from italy).

Basically if a bread looks similar to this:

or this

Its conssidered real bread. Of course the personal preference also plays a role.

But overall white bread thats shaped like wonderbread is associated with unhealthy massproduced food.
Which doesn't mean that every white bread is considered Bad. Only the shape

 

[SwissFan12]

That's like diplomatic-incident level abomination

But hey, if he likes it, good for him

 

[Hansen]

There is a psychology case study to be had here, long term effects of trying to find comfort eating buffet food in high stress pre game situations

 

[kingsholygrail]

No. Bread is not toast.
Atleast to us germans.

Toast is not considered real bread.
And you usually don't toast real bread. Its a wheat bread. And we call it toast, even if its not toasted.

See, this is why we really went to war.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

People are more healthy now than at any time in human history, get some perspective. The live expectancy pre-agriculture was something like 30 years old.

That's a myth.
If you made it pas childhood diseases you lived to a ripe old age.

People are shorter, sick and unhealthy now vs. pre-agriculture human.

 

[Kranix]

If I was making millions of dollars every year like Erik is and can afford to eat anything and as much as I want, I would be eating the finest of foods and have my own nutritionist to make sure I live a long and prosperous life and am in peak form for overall health. Even more so if you're an athlete. Diet is everything. Just look at Nathan MacKinnon and compare him to Phil Kessel.

Mackinnon already has high blood pressure and in retirement, it will be exacerbated by screaming at his clubs and family until his throat bleeds.

 

[Ozz]

Didn't think I'd come in here to see people arguing about what is/isn't toast...

 

[kingsholygrail]

That's a myth.
If you made it pas childhood diseases you lived to a ripe old age.

People are shorter, sick and unhealthy now vs. pre-agriculture human.

Certainly true about childhood diseases, but you forget about malnutrition in general. Human populations could not grow and thrive without agriculture.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Certainly true about childhood diseases, but you forget about malnutrition in general. Human populations could not grow and thrive without agriculture.

We overdid the growing thing.

Monocrop agriculture is part of the problem.

 

[StumpyTown]

I'd be sitting on the can in the dressing room all game if I ate that.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

You made me laugh out loud.

Ok let me rephrase it.
By definition its bread. Plain simple white bread. You buy it and can toast it.
It is sould under the name of toast. Because well it is commonly toasted and eaten.
If you ask a german what toast is he will show you this:

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(buttered toast)
White bread.

Now to why many germans don't consider this actual bread, even though it is by definition.
Well when we think about bread we think about sour dough bread, full wheat bread, dark bread, Komissbrot (even though nobody calls it that here) and so on. We are not that into white wheat breads. They are seen as unhealthy and associated with mass production (this does not include baguette and various other white bread types from italy).

Basically if a bread looks similar to this:

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or this

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Its conssidered real bread. Of course the personal preference also plays a role.

But overall white bread thats shaped like wonderbread is associated with unhealthy massproduced food.
Which doesn't mean that every white bread is considered Bad. Only the shape

Thanks for taking the time to explain that, I learned a cultural thing. Makes some sense, too.

 

[kingsholygrail]

We overdid the growing thing.

Monocrop agriculture is part of the problem.

Overconsumption is the problem, not overproduction and the overconsumption part goes back to the wars and the depression. It's a cultural thing.

 

[theMajor]

the most surprising thing is he said thats all he eats for the DAY ! what the hell

 

[Kamaya Painters]

Erik Karlsson is like Courtney Dauwalter.

He trains and competes on feeling but likes his routines.

Karlsson will eat whatever that he ate is called and Dauwalter's pre run meal would consist of black coffee and cinnamon toast crunch.

He'll play 25-30 minutes a game and score tons of points. She'll train 160 km a week and compete in races of 200-250 km.

His post-game meal is probably some pizza and her is nachos with beer.

Both of them are doing what they love and making money doing it while 99,9% of you who're giving Karlsson tips are browsing the web at your job instead of doing..your job..



Courtney is a beauty btw. Ultra runners are in 99,99% of cases.

 

[Edenjung]

Thanks for taking the time to explain that, I learned a cultural thing. Makes some sense, too.

No problem.
It may not be the perfect explanation.
But it has also to do with us adopting the word toast and then just using it for the bread that we toast in the toaster.

I always find little cultural differences interesting. Helps to understand each other a bit better ^^

 

[Lawzy]

Honestly though. Not to defend ketchup but what does Americans know about food. I lived some time in Canada and USA and Canada especially water down every forign diah, such as Indian food for example until it taste nothing.

I had to go to some Ethiopian restaurant near freel st next to the grocery store in Ottawa to actually taste something that doesn't resemble water.

Moreover tim horton sucks as well.

USA is a little bit better but likewise there, you go to an Asian restaurant and you'll get some can food thing in oyster sauce. The milk taste bad, not good butter, the diary products in general.

In Ralph's, probably the best you can get is the potato soup at the soup counter with a baguette.

You're describing Ottawa not Canada. I assure you Indian, Asian food in Vancouver, Toronto is anything but watered down.

Also I'm pretty sure you could get elected Prime Minister running on the slogan "Tim Horton's is garbage" so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there.

 

[GoldenSeal]

Some people can't afford skates or ice-time, should we stop talking about hockey?

Nah, what's one more rabbit hole in this thread, anyway?