Nutrition on the road - What, How and Why?

Have you actually read any of the research? There's some great studies out there.

In fact the ECSS Amsterdam is on now. As is a conference in Leeds that Scherrit's at.

You're a conference in Leeds.

But yes, I have read some.

There is some good research out there.

There is also a lot of noise, a lot of bad science (small data sets, poor controls, bad assumptions etc...), and a paucity of Cochrane-review-level validation or meta-analyses.

That noise translates into pseudo-axiomatic acceptance of hypotheses and observation as fact, all too often embraced by the endurance sport community, at both amateur level and professional level, and often with a zeal bordering on psychotic.

Tl;dr maccy D before evry ried, u be a'ight.