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Jul. 4th, 2007 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ragdoll13I spent yesterday at home (new home) mostly resting. As much resting as one can do in a black fury of frustration. Due to some mysterious digestive malady, I got zero work done. Well, no... I got grocery shopping done, renewed my tabs, bought coffee and stocked up on cigarettes. But I got nothing done in the old house, the very thought of which makes my stomach gnaw.
I've found that with the exception of Alton Brown, I spend a lot of time heckling the people on Food Network. It's a good thing my roommate was at work yesterday, or he would have been astounded by my vehement shouting. Things like, "the original ketchup was NOT made of vegetables! It was a fermented fish sauce from Indonesia called 'kecap'!" or, "that's not a sear! Loki, she's not searing it! Why does she say that she's searing it when she's not!"
The roomie (he's a cool guy) thinks that potato chips are a side dish and that potatoes are a vegetable. I tried to have a talk with him about colon cancer and hypertension, but he insists that he's gonna be the guy to prove all that wrong. Fuck science, I guess. I'm not mad, just astonished. Most people I know at least pretend to care what they put into their bodies, but he just chooses not to believe, I guess. This kinda got me to thinking... isn't that how industrial food producers want us to think? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so don't worry about that. But it's cheaper to produce food with crap, and so the fewer people that know (or care) what they're eating, the more garbage they'll be able to sell us, with a greater profit margin.
So is giving a shit about what you eat anti-establishment? I don't know or really care too much. Unfortunately the human body is built to reward us for eating high-fat, high-sugar foods, so to stay healthy in the sedentary era in which we live, vigilance is required. Maybe that fat-reward system will be bred out as more and more of us die from obesity related disease.
I saw someone make a blackberry mojito on the food network last night with no booze and I threw a pillow at the television in disgust.
I've found that with the exception of Alton Brown, I spend a lot of time heckling the people on Food Network. It's a good thing my roommate was at work yesterday, or he would have been astounded by my vehement shouting. Things like, "the original ketchup was NOT made of vegetables! It was a fermented fish sauce from Indonesia called 'kecap'!" or, "that's not a sear! Loki, she's not searing it! Why does she say that she's searing it when she's not!"
The roomie (he's a cool guy) thinks that potato chips are a side dish and that potatoes are a vegetable. I tried to have a talk with him about colon cancer and hypertension, but he insists that he's gonna be the guy to prove all that wrong. Fuck science, I guess. I'm not mad, just astonished. Most people I know at least pretend to care what they put into their bodies, but he just chooses not to believe, I guess. This kinda got me to thinking... isn't that how industrial food producers want us to think? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so don't worry about that. But it's cheaper to produce food with crap, and so the fewer people that know (or care) what they're eating, the more garbage they'll be able to sell us, with a greater profit margin.
So is giving a shit about what you eat anti-establishment? I don't know or really care too much. Unfortunately the human body is built to reward us for eating high-fat, high-sugar foods, so to stay healthy in the sedentary era in which we live, vigilance is required. Maybe that fat-reward system will be bred out as more and more of us die from obesity related disease.
I saw someone make a blackberry mojito on the food network last night with no booze and I threw a pillow at the television in disgust.
