Recently State of Missouri made an announcement about repealing some old ban on “yellow-tinted imitation butter and the other restrictions imposed on the sale, possession or shipment of substitute sandwich spread that is a different hue”. The question is why would anyone want to eat this crap in the first place. I understand that the law was written for different reasons but I wouldn’t mind them actually enforcing it to get fake products out of our grocery stores. And while they are at it, they might as well get rid of
- disgusting turkey bacon
- any food that has the word “flavored” in it’s name
- products that have ingredients that can’t be explained
- things that have artificial coloring (I wonder what their real color is)
- fruits and vegetables possessing some unnatural characteristics such as crunchy tomatoes and strawberries
- breads that can be compressed to 1/10 of original volume
- anything in green packaging, green doesn’t mean healthy, it’s just a color
- no-fat sour cream
- rename rice- and soy-milk into rice- and soy-juice or whatever; it’s not milk even if it’s white
- non-dairy dairy products
- artificial powdered coffee creamer, WTF is that made of anyway
- cheese in a can and powdered cheese
- stop McRib comebacks
I am not a believer in things that are “good for you”, or “locavores”, or “slow foods”, or whatever else is in fashion right now. I do believe that if you want butter, you should eat butter, not some yellow crap in a tub. If you are unable to eat some foods due to health reasons, just enjoy something else, don’t eat fake chemical concoction designed in the lab to fool your senses.
In these times when most of our activities had been replaced by imaginary and virtual things, maybe we should draw the line at fake foods. Homey don’t eat that crap!
UPDATE: How could I forget the scam that is organic food. Thanks, L.L.!
Since Cliff’s CABG surgery, we make compromises. We use real butter when necessary, and healthy fake stuff when it tastes good. We buy skim milk, but we buy whole milk and use it like we used to use cream on our oatmeal and cream-of-wheat.
When it’s life or death to someone you love, your views change.
Well, I don’t have to have butter, so I would probably just cut it out. Same with other things, I’d just eat what I am allowed but no fake stuff. Many fake things I never tried in my 16 years here, never had TV dinner, never tried “I can’t believe it’s not butter” etc. Margarine is ok for baking, other than that I can do without.
While we’re at it, can we ditch all this crap about “organic” food? It costs more and the word doesn’t mean anything. Jeez, Pennzoil is organic. Tastes like poo on a salad, though.
Amen! Give “In Defense of Food” a read. Informative and interesting. I agree, stay with the real deal as much as possible.
McRibs?
Don’t you mess with my McRibs!
I was with you most of the way man, but I gotta side with Old Fart om McRibs. Every time they come back I HAVE to have one. Then I realize that it isn’t as good as I remembered and I can hold out another year.
Powdered cheese is beautiful. How dare you?!?
As a person who loves dairy, but hates what it does to her skin, I have to protest against your inclusion of the “nondairy dairy products” on that list. They’ve come to a point where they are MUCH more enjoyable than they used to be – trust me – and I sincerely appreciate their existence. Particularly the nondairy sour cream available from Tofutti. In fact, I’m slowly trying to reintroduce dairy products into my life, hoping I’ve reached an age where the zits they used to cause me to get don’t happen anymore, and one of the ways I’m doing it is by eating small quantities of regular dairy sour cream a few times a week with stuff. And it doesn’t taste as good to me as my Tofutti. Which is sad.
Get that off the list. If you don’t have to eat it, then you shouldn’t have an issue with it, dammit! I’m glad they exist. You don’t know what a life without even fake dairy products is like, man!
Mc Rib is to die for. Shame on you, Meesha. They’re America at her finest.
dude, I’m with you a 100% I know there are a lot of detractors, but it was the same way for frugal people before the economic collapse. You may be a food visionary.