These ideas are certainly unpopular around here:
- Kid’s menus at restaurants and kids meals at fast food places should be banned! Kids should eat the same things as adults but smaller portions. When I was a kid my parents would request an extra plate for us kids and share their food.
- Fake meat is worse for you than meat because it is very processed
- Gluten free foods are only better for people with Celiac disease or other real gluten issues. Somehow gluten free became an advertising claim that has no significance to most people. But the general public seems to think it’s “healthier”
- I understand Organic but according to WHO if the entire global population decided to eat only organic there is not enough farmable land mass on our planet to feed the population. So I have a hard time justifying eating organic.
- Most “natural” claims made by the food industry are false. I trade in “natural” chemicals made in factories.
I first heard this on an episode of "Chopped". It was flung at a contestant who had dared to do such a thing, during the course of a show whose very concept is the bringing together of food that doesn't belong together. The judge, who I believe was Scott Conant, was horrified. Indignant. He snapped at the contestant and wilted the poor man. In typical contrarian mode, I snarled at the tv: "Oh yeah? Ever heard of a tuna melt? Ever heard of bagels and lox with smear of cream cheese?"
The same judge had railed against raw red onions some time before this. So in my fantasy as hostess to this pick person, I would serve him a pasta dish of salmon with parmesan cheese, and sprinkled with raw red onions. And as a good guest, he would have to force it down.
- Gluten free foods are only better for people with Celiac disease or other real gluten issues. Somehow gluten free became an advertising claim that has no significance to most people. But the general public seems to think it’s “healthier”
I'm not a "gluten free" person by any means but I am so glad the gluten-free market exists because now there is a wider variety of pasta available made with peas and beans; these usually have a much higher protein content per calorie so when I'm cutting they come in handy. True, some of them taste like wet newspaper but there are brands that I actually like (mostly the Banza chickpea-based pastas.)
I hate cabbage - in ALL forms. Cooked it smells like nasty feet. Raw it's like chewing rubberbands. NO. Thank. You. My hubs loves cole slaw, and I can't even fathom why ANYONE would like that nasty stuff.
- Fake meat is worse for you than meat because it is very processed
This only makes sense if you're starting from the position that processing, in and of itself, makes something "worse" for you. I don't adopt that as a default starting position.
- Fake meat is worse for you than meat because it is very processed
This only makes sense if you're starting from the position that processing, in and of itself, makes something "worse" for you. I don't adopt that as a default starting position.
Beyond just being processed, as that is a pretty broad definition, it is about the INGREDIENTS in meat subs. Soy, corn, oils, gums, stabilizers...appalling
- Fake meat is worse for you than meat because it is very processed
This only makes sense if you're starting from the position that processing, in and of itself, makes something "worse" for you. I don't adopt that as a default starting position.
Beyond just being processed, as that is a pretty broad definition, it is about the INGREDIENTS in meat subs. Soy, corn, oils, gums, stabilizers...appalling
I'm pretty cool with corn. I'm literally eating some right now.
- Fake meat is worse for you than meat because it is very processed
This only makes sense if you're starting from the position that processing, in and of itself, makes something "worse" for you. I don't adopt that as a default starting position.
Beyond just being processed, as that is a pretty broad definition, it is about the INGREDIENTS in meat subs. Soy, corn, oils, gums, stabilizers...appalling
Not all the newest at all. Beyond meat is much better. Im vegan but don't really ever use fake meat- if at all really.
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- Kid’s menus at restaurants and kids meals at fast food places should be banned! Kids should eat the same things as adults but smaller portions. When I was a kid my parents would request an extra plate for us kids and share their food.
- Fake meat is worse for you than meat because it is very processed
- Gluten free foods are only better for people with Celiac disease or other real gluten issues. Somehow gluten free became an advertising claim that has no significance to most people. But the general public seems to think it’s “healthier”
- I understand Organic but according to WHO if the entire global population decided to eat only organic there is not enough farmable land mass on our planet to feed the population. So I have a hard time justifying eating organic.
- Most “natural” claims made by the food industry are false. I trade in “natural” chemicals made in factories.
I first heard this on an episode of "Chopped". It was flung at a contestant who had dared to do such a thing, during the course of a show whose very concept is the bringing together of food that doesn't belong together. The judge, who I believe was Scott Conant, was horrified. Indignant. He snapped at the contestant and wilted the poor man. In typical contrarian mode, I snarled at the tv: "Oh yeah? Ever heard of a tuna melt? Ever heard of bagels and lox with smear of cream cheese?"
The same judge had railed against raw red onions some time before this. So in my fantasy as hostess to this pick person, I would serve him a pasta dish of salmon with parmesan cheese, and sprinkled with raw red onions. And as a good guest, he would have to force it down.
(This is about as dark as I get.....)
I'm not a "gluten free" person by any means but I am so glad the gluten-free market exists because now there is a wider variety of pasta available made with peas and beans; these usually have a much higher protein content per calorie so when I'm cutting they come in handy. True, some of them taste like wet newspaper but there are brands that I actually like (mostly the Banza chickpea-based pastas.)
But...but...we need them for olive oil.......
This only makes sense if you're starting from the position that processing, in and of itself, makes something "worse" for you. I don't adopt that as a default starting position.
Beyond just being processed, as that is a pretty broad definition, it is about the INGREDIENTS in meat subs. Soy, corn, oils, gums, stabilizers...appalling
I'm pretty cool with corn. I'm literally eating some right now.
Not all the newest at all. Beyond meat is much better. Im vegan but don't really ever use fake meat- if at all really.
truth
right, but given that kale is marketed as a "superfood" .. as is basically any fruit or vegetable with $$ behind it.
Kale is barely food...