PLASTIC FOOD & SUCH

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PLASTIC FOOD and such

When did food start to go wrong? Was it when the noble small, luscious, juicy, and tasty strawberry became the giant dried lifeless husk of today? I’m not sure when this planet started producing foods that were littered with chemical, additive and weird stuff, but I do not want it.

I was craving a juicy peach the other day, so I tried this new White Peach variety. The shape and colour was wonderful, the aroma the peach presented was “peachy,” so I purchased six. After returning home with my new found treasure, I waited patiently until the right moment. You know, when the fruit is just ripe to perfection, and your palette is craving the goodness. Well I was “gob stopped”, it tasted like dry, plain cardboard, “spit spit yech”.

I live in Alberta, next door to a province that produces great fruit, which is British Columbia. Having recently been on vacation there, sampling the home grown product, I ask myself, “Why are we buying bland and favourless fruit from south of the border?”

This plastic food syndrome has impregnated our entire lives for over 30 years, if not more. Remember the kerfuffle of GMF “genetically modified foods” or Frankenfoods. Chickens have been laying eggs the same way since I was a boy. Now we have omega eggs, fake eggs in a carton, and organic. “Enough,” I say, “ENOUGH.”

When we made soup, it contained meat (chicken, beef or ham), celery, carrots, onions, potatoes, salt, pepper, homemade broth. Now, read the contents of some canned “healthy soup:” monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed soy, caramel, and products I cannot pronounce. And who needs that much salt?

Fish now contains mercury and PCBs. What is that all about? The health industry says eat wild salmon, because the contaminant levels are low enough for human consumption. Okay, I don’t know about you, but who is this person who decides what levels are safe for human consumption? Maybe he enjoys children with 3 eyes. Not me. This is starting to get out of hand; the acceptance by society to reheat processed food, consume plastic products, and deal with health issues.

When was the last time you went to a restaurant and ordered some dessert? All that nice dairy topping, chocolate filling, and decadent frosting on your dessert. Did you enjoy the dessert or was there an odd aftertaste?

Give me my good old fashioned healthy, natural food any day, and I will be better off, live longer and really will enjoy the fruits of my labour of cooking.

ADDENDUM by HP

I SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!!

What have they done to my ice cream?  Have you read the ingredient list lately?

My favourite “all natural vanilla with vanilla bean bits” has been infiltrated by a list of plastic-sounding ingredients.  What used to be a royal treat made with cream, sugar, and bits of vanilla-beans-of-love, has trans-morphed into a Plastisorbate 80-carageenan-guar gum-cellulose gum nightmare.  Oh, and what are those modified milk ingredients?  Modified how?  Modified into what?  And how about those mono- and diglycerides?  Is that some kind of mutant fat?  Why would I want that in my ice cream?  I wrote to the manufacturer (which shall remain nameless, to protect the guilty), and was told that customers want a creamier texture.  Creamier?  What could be creamier than cream??  You be the judge.