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L'autista
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To Sam's point, I don't think he realizes that our American food supply is so over-ridiculously industrialized that people here get a boner when something they eat hasn't been shat out of a factory into plastic packaging.
 

Ford Prefect

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To Sam's point, I don't think he realizes that our American food supply is so over-ridiculously industrialized that people here get a boner when something they eat hasn't been shat out of a factory into plastic packaging.
I know it is, but it doesnt have to be and it does sound weird that you can actually brag about stuff that its just normal over here.

HFCS was something I found weird in america, bragging that it isn't in the product you're buying...its in barely anything here....asking chinese restaurants to not put MSG in your food :lol:. Its all a bit mad to a simple european :D
 

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L'autista
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I know it is, but it doesnt have to be and it does sound weird that you can actually brag about stuff that its just normal over here.

HFCS was something I found weird in america, bragging that it isn't in the product you're buying...its in barely anything here....asking chinese restaurants to not put MSG in your food :lol:. Its all a bit mad to a simple european :D
Everything I live near is "local, organic, sustainable" blah blah blah. The trouble is, San Francisco is viewed nationally as a freak show of overly precious types with too much money and too much hippie tendencies.

Yet I always rib people when I point out that India pretty much eats all organic, and yet it's not "elitist". You can't tell me that some poor, rural kid in Andrha Pradesh without shoes is doing it because he's a wealthy hipster.

Somehow factory farming became the "normal" and all the old food practices became the freak show. It's pretty sad how that happened, and yet food consumers were never consulted on the bait-and-switch.
 

Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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Everything I live near is "local, organic, sustainable" blah blah blah. The trouble is, San Francisco is viewed nationally as a freak show of overly precious types with too much money and too much hippie tendencies.

Yet I always rib people when I point out that India pretty much eats all organic, and yet it's not "elitist". You can't tell me that some poor, rural kid in Andrha Pradesh without shoes is doing it because he's a wealthy hipster.

Somehow factory farming became the "normal" and all the old food practices became the freak show. It's pretty sad how that happened, and yet food consumers were never consulted on the bait-and-switch.
Bad times, It was going that way here and for some reason there was a massive surge in livestock welfare and food standards in the early 00s and now its really hard to find battery (caged) eggs, all meat is not battery and mostly free-range. Even mcdonalds is free range and organic.

We still have a lot of shit pre packaged food full of adititves and preservatives, but i refuse to eat it. Im fairly sure it works out cheaper cooking fresh too.
 

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L'autista
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Bad times, It was going that way here and for some reason there was a massive surge in livestock welfare and food standards in the early 00s and now its really hard to find battery (caged) eggs, all meat is not battery and mostly free-range. Even mcdonalds is free range and organic.
As someone who was in London in the Spring of 2001, I know full well what that "for some reason" was. Mad cow disease was freaking the crap out of the entire UK. And I remember flaunting it by ordering a chateaubriand at a restaurant along the Thames. :lol:

That probably explains my mental state today.
 

ALC

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Everything I live near is "local, organic, sustainable" blah blah blah. The trouble is, San Francisco is viewed nationally as a freak show of overly precious types with too much money and too much hippie tendencies.

Yet I always rib people when I point out that India pretty much eats all organic, and yet it's not "elitist". You can't tell me that some poor, rural kid in Andrha Pradesh without shoes is doing it because he's a wealthy hipster.

Somehow factory farming became the "normal" and all the old food practices became the freak show. It's pretty sad how that happened, and yet food consumers were never consulted on the bait-and-switch.
When you eat food in Europe, Albania for me, it's so much better. It has a lot more taste and the fruits/veggies aren't as abnormally giant as they are here. Even the chickens and other meats are smaller in size and that's because they aren't pumped with chemicals. And over there it's the norm too.
 

Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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As someone who was in London in the Spring of 2001, I know full well what that "for some reason" was. Mad cow disease was freaking the crap out of the entire UK. And I remember flaunting it by ordering a chateaubriand at a restaurant along the Thames. :lol:

That probably explains my mental state today.
oh yeahhhhh, forgot about that one :D. The result of feeding diseased meat to a vegetarian animal lol

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When you eat food in Europe, Albania for me, it's so much better. It has a lot more taste and the fruits/veggies aren't as abnormally giant as they are here. Even the chickens and other meats are smaller in size and that's because they aren't pumped with chemicals. And over there it's the norm too.
When i watch Man V. Food and see the giant chicken legs and shit like that im just like....what?....that isn't natural lol.
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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When you eat food in Europe, Albania for me, it's so much better. It has a lot more taste and the fruits/veggies aren't as abnormally giant as they are here. Even the chickens and other meats are smaller in size and that's because they aren't pumped with chemicals. And over there it's the norm too.
Eggs yolks are actually yellow and chickens aren't pumped with hormones to look like porn stars with breast implants. Whaddya know. ;)
 

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