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Everything We Love to Eat Is a Scam
New York Post ^ | July 10, 2016 | Maureen Callahan

Posted on 07/16/2016 11:41:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Among the many things New Yorkers pride ourselves on is food: making it, selling it and consuming only the best, from single-slice pizza to four-star sushi. We have fish markets, Shake Shacks and, as of this year, 74 Michelin-starred restaurants.

Yet most everything we eat is fraudulent.

In his new book, “Real Food Fake Food,” author Larry Olmsted exposes the breadth of counterfeit foods we’re unknowingly eating. After reading it, you’ll want to be fed intravenously for the rest of your life.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: clickbait; food; foodies; foodquality; foodsafety; nutrition; tease
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To: kalee

Thank you. That explains it better than any other explanation I ever heard. You are chewing and you . . . hope this is not too disgusting . . . finally get to something that can’t be chewed up. That must be the glue.


41 posted on 07/17/2016 4:13:21 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Gaffer

Spam Musubi


42 posted on 07/17/2016 4:13:31 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: randita

My grandmother cooked with olive oil, not too much but enough to make the food taste like it was supposed to. When I was going away to college, she said they won’t be cooking with olive oil so be sure to eat a tablespoon of it every day.

She picked dandelions in the park (you have to get them when they first appear, otherwise too tough), and we had cooked dandelion greens once a year. She also drank the pot liquor that greens were cooked in.

I always loved her cooking and later found out (from Marcella Hazan) that it sounded like real Italian cooking. My father’s was a bit heavier. She was first-generation, so a bit closer to the real thing. It is light and not too fancy. It’s hardest to cook simple things right.


43 posted on 07/17/2016 4:22:09 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: nickcarraway
Here's my real food I harvested just yesterday morning.

Eating some fresh tomatoes with homemade goat cheese this morning...

44 posted on 07/17/2016 4:22:10 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

NICE!


45 posted on 07/17/2016 4:31:03 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: GOPJ

Thanks for the link to the Tampa article on “farm-to-table” restaurants. Interesting reading and worth the time for anybody who eats.


46 posted on 07/17/2016 4:31:20 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: nickcarraway

Bookmark


47 posted on 07/17/2016 4:31:41 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

The deer that pass through my yard every night would have a feast on that!

All I can manage are a few cherry tomato plants on the deck. I’d have to build a 6 foot deer fence in my yard to have a garden.

Looks wonderful. Are those black cherry tomatoes?


48 posted on 07/17/2016 4:32:52 AM PDT by randita
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To: Gaffer

Lots of google hits for “Spushi”.

Never cared much for Spam after seeing the Viking Chorus.

;^)


49 posted on 07/17/2016 4:37:17 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: nickcarraway

I’m with them, I’ve pretty much given up on eating.

Much healthier now...


50 posted on 07/17/2016 4:44:08 AM PDT by BobL (If Trump is DENIED the nomination, Republican Officeholders WILL GO DOWN in flames)
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To: nickcarraway

bfl


51 posted on 07/17/2016 4:48:25 AM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: firebrand; Vaquero; Dr. Ursus; miss marmelstein; randita

“Farm to Fable
How to tell if your ‘local’ food is actually local”

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/consumers/


52 posted on 07/17/2016 4:51:32 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Diveristy" was a by-product of those yearning to be free coming here - it was NEVER the goal.)
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To: Gaffer

“Spushi”

That’s the funniest new word I’ve heard in years. It almost sounds like what Hillary & Huma have regularly.

“Where’s Cankles and AbbaDabba?”

“Don’t ask. They’re doing spushi. You don’t want to know more.”


53 posted on 07/17/2016 5:23:06 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: lizma2
Fish farm, China. Yum.


54 posted on 07/17/2016 5:24:28 AM PDT by Daffynition (Who will stop her?"We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: elcid1970

Definitely not my invention but I took an immediate liking to it.


55 posted on 07/17/2016 5:25:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Just a bit of hyperbole there huh?

While TPN is great while you’re NPO (medical TLAs - isn’t that cool? There’s a three letter acronym for three level acronyms - NPO translates to “nothing by mouth,” and TPN is “total parenteral nutrition,” or in other words, IV feeding.

While it saved my life while I was completely bed-ridden and NPO for more than a month, I wouldn’t recommend it.

Mark


56 posted on 07/17/2016 6:00:17 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: nickcarraway
Eat my own beef

My own chicken

My own vegetables.

Catch my own fish

Make my own bacon and sausage

Do not go to these over priced, largest waste of food and the biggest waste of my money soup kitchens until dragged kicking and screaming by my wife into one.

AND that is not very dang often

57 posted on 07/17/2016 6:03:07 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: nickcarraway
the FDA said its testing discovered that some dairy products labeled “100% Parmesan” contained polymers and wood pulp.

Oh good grief, the wood pulp (sometimes labeled as cellulose) is usually listed on the ingredients list. It is NOT being added to save money on cheese. It is added to keep the cheese from clumping. Shall I turn in my friends who put rice in the salt shakers?! Get whole Parmesan and grate it yourself or get the store brand at the Italian delicatessen if you get worked up about it.

Scare article for the most part.
58 posted on 07/17/2016 6:07:14 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: Sheapdog

Until I started waitressing a year ago I never snacked after supper. I now work through supper and eat around 11:00 pm. I wonder if that will affect me, despite the fact that I’m moving quickly and constantly for hours on those nights. Last night I was quite hungry and ate two plates of Ceasar salad and a bowl of soup at 11:30. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but I probably shouldn’t have eaten that much. It might have been the glass of wine that tainted my judgment.


59 posted on 07/17/2016 6:13:26 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: Bigg Red

Mark


60 posted on 07/17/2016 6:23:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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