Makin’ Bacon
Everyone loves bacon.* Thus, I thought the vid below – on how the stuff is made – was pretty interesting… if not particularly appetizing. No, don’t worry: unless you’re a vegetarian, it’s not particularly gross. It’s just… so clinical and sterile. Not to mention, I feel kinda sorry for the workers – to spend hours each day tending a greasy, bacon-smelling assembly line would be...
Must Be Snowing in Hell Today
… Because I’m actually posting a link to an article defending McDonald’s against frequently-occurring charges that its food is so loaded up with preservatives, it won’t spoil. The truth is pretty prosaic: while the “food” certainly contains some preservatives (like many other processed food products), they’re pretty tame (like citric acid and calcium propionate). The actual secret...
When East Meets West…
Needless to state, Americans – particularly those with a prediliction for alternative medicine – are fascinated by traditional medical remedies, and the more exotic, the better. If an herb grows in the abandoned lot next door… well, so what?! But if an herb or “superfruit” comes from the Far East, the Amazon rainforest, or the South Pacific – whoa! It’s gotta be miraculous! So – under...
Baby. Carrots. Extreme.
This is a screech… from the AP: NEW YORK — Baby carrot farmers are launching a campaign that pitches the little, orange, crunchy snacks as daring, fun and naughty — just like junk food. A group of 50 producers hopes the ‘Eat ‘Em Like Junk Food’ effort starting next week will double the $1 billion market in two or three years. The goal is to get people to think of baby carrots as a brand they can get excited...
Unbelievably Gross
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been keeping tabs on the news about the recent egg recall. While the initial reports noted previous sanitation and safety violations at the implicated farms, these pale beside the latest findings. According to CNN, FDA inspectors found… Rodents, piles of manure, uncaged birds and flies too numerous to count were found by investigators at Iowa farms at the heart of the recall of more than half...
A Candwich to Go
My degrees are in Food Science, but I’m rather glad that I ended up in research vs. an industry job (like most of my fellow grads). As fascinating and fulfilling as studying food tech was, the prospect of spending my life making junk/snack/convenience foods had zero appeal. Even then, I was too much of a “foodie” to enjoy product development. Novelty drives the market, so no product idea is too far out… unless...
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