Food or Frankenfood?


Yum - my!


This is why I don't eat at these places anymore, nor do I eat any type of chicken nuggets or pre-made burgers from the grocery store.
 
Pappy said:
Oh my gosh Phil....looks like pink python stuff. I knew the snakes were bad in Florida but didn't know that it come to this.

Two McBoas please.
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When I first saw it I thought of Dairy Queen and their soft ice-cream machines ...

Then I thought of the spray-foam insulation that comes in a can ...

Finally I just became ill. :(


It just continues to amaze me how our society has been hoodwinked into thinking that what they're eating is food. Regular restaurants and the food you get at the grocery store are bad enough, but fast food takes it to a new 'nuther level.
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Yet I'm just as guilty, because even after I stopped eating it I always let my kids eat it, my justification being that it was easier that way than fighting them. I tried to limit their visits to those places to once a month or so, but as always unless BOTH parents agree the kids will find a way to wiggle through the gaps.

And there were gaps.
 
That is why I just hate to go grocery shopping! Have to look everything over, like how are they trying to poison me with this?
Then the labels ..... unless it's something I pick up all the time, I have to read every single word on labels..

And then there is the grocery store wisdom of .. shopping the very top shelves, and the very bottom ones. Stay away from the middle, which are the more expensive items and/or products being promoted by companies and the stores.. the worst choices in general.
So what used to take an hour to do, now seems to more than double in time.

So it's off to go grocery shopping this morning ... with my magnifier and a dictionary (for those big words)
 
Mom, it might be easier and faster just to hire a tiny little chemist. He could sit in the shopping cart swinging his legs as you push him down the aisles, and every once in a while you could give him a food item to analyze ...

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We haven't purchased anything from burger joints in years, opting for Quizno's classic subs, instead. The sandwiches taste better and I do not have to strip off 2 inch thick fry batter to find the meat. I get cravings for McDonald's filet o' fish sandwiches about twice a year, though. Their fish patties do not have the thick batter found on Burger King fish sandwiches or on KFC's chicken.

We look for unusual food when in the mood for take out or drive through food, so we tend to eat a lot of curries from our favorite Indian restaurant. We found a chain of restaurants -actually it's 3 restaurants owned by the same company - modeled on the British pub concept and selling fish n' chips so they moved to the top of our list of acceptable restaurants and fast food establishments.

We try to avoid the ground or blended foods offered by so many eateries, by ordering un-breaded, whole foods. I'm sure that even "frankenfood" could be healthy if the processors weren't so bent on profits. Until that day comes, we'll stay as far away from frankenfood as we can.
 
SifuPhil said:
Mom, it might be easier and faster just to hire a tiny little chemist. He could sit in the shopping cart swinging his legs as you push him down the aisles, and every once in a while you could give him a food item to analyze ...
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Why do I picture him looking like the Keebler Elf?
 
We have definitely gotten further away from eating real food, and most kids nowadays wouldn't drink mill fresh from a cow if it were offered to them, they think it just comes automatically made in that gallon jug.
There was a story about the woman in California that was protesting about hunters, and their shooting deer and ducks, and such. She objected to the senseless killing of animals, and said that they should get their meat at the grocery store, where no animal was harmed. And this was an adult ...

I was just reading that the USDA has now passed a ruling to allow horse meat to be sold for human consumption here in the US. There is a plant opening up near Atlanta, and two more planned for, one in Missouri, and one in Montana.
Many people are against eating horse meat for Biblical reasons, or simply because they don't like the idea of eating a horse, but the truth is, that horses have been used as food for thousand of years, and it is only fairly recently that we stopped eating them.
When I was growing up, back in the fifties, a lot of horses were shipped out for use in other countries.

I am not sure how well it will go over here in the US, but we have a lot more people from countries that might be willing to have horse meat, so I guess we will see how it works out.
 
We always ate small game and venison as a youngster. My family were hunters and pheasant, rabbits and more were very often on the menu. I suppose any type of meat is eatable if you can require a taste for it. Although skunk doesn't rate too high on my list.

Check out the latest in frozen dinners.
 
Well, people ate head cheese, blood sausage, oxtail soup, didnt waste anything. I can't see eating horsemeat, unless I were really, really, hungry.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
I was just reading that the USDA has now passed a ruling to allow horse meat to be sold for human consumption here in the US. There is a plant opening up near Atlanta, and two more planned for, one in Missouri, and one in Montana.
Many people are against eating horse meat for Biblical reasons, or simply because they don't like the idea of eating a horse, but the truth is, that horses have been used as food for thousand of years, and it is only fairly recently that we stopped eating them.
When I was growing up, back in the fifties, a lot of horses were shipped out for use in other countries.

I am not sure how well it will go over here in the US, but we have a lot more people from countries that might be willing to have horse meat, so I guess we will see how it works out.
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I recall seeing horse meat items in the market in California in the early '70s...wasn't interested in buying and eating it then, and not now.
 
I think horses bred for slaughter would not be much different than cattle. I know back in the late 40s there was horse meat in some lunch meat sold around our area. No one noticed the difference. The people were caught because the price was so low it made other meat companies suspicious.

These were nags that were bought cheap and butchered on the farm to keep them hid.
 
rkunsaw said:
I think horses bred for slaughter would not be much different than cattle. I know back in the late 40s there was horse meat in some lunch meat sold around our area. No one noticed the difference. The people were caught because the price was so low it made other meat companies suspicious.

These were nags that were bought cheap and butchered on the farm to keep them hid.
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I remember hearing that; even then, things were done for profit without regard for safety or anything else. As far as the animals having medications, chickens are not supposed to have meds for a few days or more before slaughter, IIRC. Really, who knows if Tyson or any of the rest abide by that.

Still wouldn't want to eat horsemeat. As Ozarkgal said, it's rather like eating dogs or cats - they are pets.
 
I do not want to eat horse meat either, and the more I see about the inhumane treatment of ALL kinds of creatures that we eat for food, the closer I am to becoming a vegetarian. I have actually pretty much stopped eating meat, and it has gotten to where , just walking past the meat section in the grocery smells bad.
I still eat it, but it is on the way out of my diet, and I feel better without it.
Veggies and some of the high protein non- meat foods are working fine, and I don't have to think about how it died.
 
Good for you, Happy! Hope you hop on the bandwagon soon. I feel a lot better since I've given up eating fellow inhabitants of the earth, plus I've lost about 40lbs!
 
janfromflorida said:
Good for you, Happy! Hope you hop on the bandwagon soon. I feel a lot better since I've given up eating fellow inhabitants of the earth, plus I've lost about 40lbs!
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I respect your choice to not eat meat, Jan, but aren't carrots also our fellow inhabitants of the earth??? Sorry, can't help it... I'm just always thinkin' about stuff...
 
That Guy said:
I respect your choice to not eat meat, Jan, but aren't carrots also our fellow inhabitants of the earth??? Sorry, can't help it... I'm just always thinkin' about stuff...
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Funny how humans have this arbitrary scale of sentience that allows them to eat one living thing but not another ...

"Funny" weird, not "funny" ha-ha. :rolleyes:
Ozarkgal said:
Jeff...shhhhhh...or you'll have PETA with their bikini clad babes out there protesting eating veggies next.
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One can only hope ...

janfromflorida said:
I'll check. If I get a carrot to blink at me I won't eat it!
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Don't know about carrots, but an onion made me cry once when I tried to eat him.
 

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