Comments | meleah: Food

meleah

Food

Apr 27, 2007 13:48

So lately people wandering into my house newly in from Oz have been a bit 'oh.. you've gone organic crazy'. To which I respond generally that American food terrifies me. Which isn't quite true. American food is both crazily wondrously fatty and delicious in terms of local delicacies and pretty much the same as Oz, except somewhat blander, which is ( Read more... )

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gadge April 27 2007, 23:28:15 UTC

Air French Band? They get the win at all times, for All I Need, if nothing else. And, there's much, much more than that one song, but it represents a greatness that trumps Arcade Fire, even though I think they are also aceness.

murphus April 29 2007, 04:05:24 UTC

Ditto.

meleah April 30 2007, 15:31:29 UTC

Ah, but the only person who'll go with me wants to see Arcade Fire.. now I'm stuck. If only i were rich enough for both..

murphus April 30 2007, 21:49:38 UTC

Too many bands... damn!

zandperl April 28 2007, 02:16:50 UTC

I take it you heard of the melamine pork? I'm not sure if the farms fed the cat and dog food to the pigs before or after the recall...

meleah April 30 2007, 15:34:08 UTC

*sigh* Yup.

Which is the other reason to opt out of Agribusiness. Between that, the spinach, the E. coli.. I've lost track of the number of americans who appear horrified that I like my egg yolks runny.. "but but but" they stutter "the salmonella!". Except for one strange case in Europe recently, EGGS DON'T NATURALLY HAVE SALMONELLA! Buy decent eggs, from happy chickens. Stop supporting an industry that doesn't care if it makes you sick or kills you! wake up!

madkap April 29 2007, 06:53:01 UTC

Umm NYC veggies are freaky and the cheese and the well everything. But then so is Canadian and UK food. All these places the only way to get something that looks, feels, smells and tastes even remotely similar to what we know food as (even crap Coles veggies) is to get your organic.

Go organic. Make them get veggies at the Deli across the road, then they'll get it!

ior April 29 2007, 09:57:24 UTC

I concur with you on the food subject. It is precisely the shifty qualities of U.S. agribusiness that scares me about most food available for consumption in the American marketplaces.

As for bands: the only choice is Air. Arcade Fire is nice and all, but the one time I saw them play (at the Hollywood Bowl), they had an absolutely terrible engineer. So bad, in fact, that the music was nearly unlistenable-to (yay prepositions). Not knowing whether this was the fault of the house engineer or the band's traveling engineer, I cannot assign blame, but it gives me pause to recommend any of their live shows.

kitling April 30 2007, 01:02:51 UTC

Complete tangent - love the new icon.

Part of me is scared to ask what high fructose corn syrup is and the other part having watched lots of american tv wants to know what this cream is they put in coffee and tea and how different to milk it is.

meleah April 30 2007, 15:30:42 UTC

HFC is the sugar isolated from corn - so not what we would normally think of as sugar (glucose) but fructose instead. Its existence is basically the result of the corn lobby. The big three crops in the world are corn, soy and wheat. Any processed food with added fats is probably the result of soy. Anything with sugar is corn, in the form of high fructose corn syrup. If you drink softdrinks, from coke all the way through, you're drinking high fructose corn syrup, even in Oz (unless its passover in NY, in which case one can buy special sugar-coke, as there's some weird dietary restriction about corn during passover). Here, its taken to such ridiculous extremes that when one gets 'jelly' (jam) for putting on one's toast, a quick scan of the ingredients will determine that there is no fruit involved, instead its simply high fructose corn syrup with some flavouring. And so on. One becomes a compulsive label reader after a few instances of finding HFC hiding in what you thought was food ( ... )