Is "Riding Giants" the one where they also go to Wisconsin and surf Lake Michigan? If so, I think I saw part of it OnDemand and meant to go back later.
As for Supersize Me, it's been a while since I saw it and little of it has actually stuck in my gourd, so forgive me if this isn't fleshed out too well.
I think my main problem is it left me wanting something more insightful or researched. It seemed to be afflicted with the backwards compatible method of documentary making which finds a position and then works to build the movie to support this position, rather than starting with a problem and hypothesis and working forward to a conclusion.
I thought the premise was amusing, but just fell flat. He wasn't seeking to show why or how moreso than complain about his physical ailments that are frightening yet unquantifiable (see: headache, fatigue, loss of libido) and suddently develop chest pains, which, rightfully or not, I tend to believe were added for dramatic effect.
I may be wrong, but I also didn't buy the whole fry experiment. If memory serves, I remember reading an article about McDonalds fries years ago that offered up one reason why their fries taste different than other fast food joints. This article stated that McDonalds dehydrates the potatoes before processing them into fries, while other restaurants do not go through this extra process.
If that is the case, wouldn't it be a reasonable assumption that with a lower concentration of water plus more salt, a preservative, heaped onto a shoestring potato fried crispy in oil would make the shelf-life considerably longer than that of another non-fast food restaurant's steak fry? The steak fry would be thicker, containing less oil and likely less salt, plus the potato would have a higher concentration of water with the lack of dehydration process.
To me, to act as if the fries are otherworldly somehow for their lack of decompsition is disingenuous. He acts as if they are still in their original state months later, yet if you picked one up and ate it, I'm sure that assumption would fly out the window immediately. It would be stale, it just appears to be in the same condition.
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