Posted on 04/26/2015 10:33:43 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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In the town of McPherson, Kansas, there is a butcher shop called Krehbiels Meats, where, not long ago, an elderly woman bought a chicken that moved her to tears. The chicken had longer legs, a smaller breast and yellower skin than regular chickens, and on the back appeared two words the woman, who was in her 70s, would not have seen in a very long time: “barred rock.”
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She had every reason not to be excited. During the course of her 48 years of marriage, chicken had only ever brought disappointment. The problem was chicken and dumplings. It was one of her husband’s favorite dishes, but every time she made it his verdict was always the same: “Not as good as my mother’s.”
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“When I was young, gradation of beef changed. The better beef is in the restaurants now.”
I can make a much better steak at home than any I can buy at the most expensive restaurant. I don’t need Buffy or Jody to “take care of me”.
I’ll choose and grill my own steak, thank you very much.....
Kosher Coke Contains Real Sugar
http://brokensecrets.com/2013/03/08/kosher-coke-contains-real-sugar/
Then the big firms like Tyson moved in and started mass-producing chickens. Suddenly they took up most of the space at the supermarket and were cheap.
It is difficult for me to eat the breast meat of supermarket chicken as it's so bland and tasteless. Still plenty of flavor in the legs and thighs so I'll grab those and let the others fight over the breast.
I know things don’t taste like they used to and I am losing my sense of smell.
Maybe the fact that I will soon be 75 has something to do with it.
I have always wanted to open a restaurant.
“Tastes like Chicken”
serve all the things that people say “Tastes like Chicken”.
“Mom, the tuna doesn’t taste as good as it used to.” - Weemsco Tuna
“Maybe the fact that I will soon be 75 has something to do with it.”
A friend of mine likes to make real deserts. They take hours. They bring tears to my eyes. They taste like I remember. I’m 61 and, probably part of the loss is my own. But the greater part is the food itself.
Store bought tomatoes are hydroponicaly grown and taste like water.
Good article.
Although MSG is not something unrecognizable. It is kelp extract. The chemical name Monosodium Glutinate is used because westerners won’t eat seaweed if they know it is there.
Current commercial chicken requires about 2 pounds of feed to produce a pound of meat. It used to take more than twice as much feed to produce a pound of chicken.
Aging taste buds, different chicken breeds, confinement raising, and specialized feed add up to a lot of differences.
...How did these miracle chickens taste? No one knows. The judges didn’t measure flavor. The point of the contest, after all, was to create a chicken that looked like a wax model. The very principle demonstrated at the Chicken of Tomorrow contest would go on to doom the flavor of chicken and dumplings for decades to come: Chickens can be changed through breeding.
You can still get a stewing chicken.
Just douse your wife with a bucket of water.
Then she’ll be....
...mad as a wet hen.
:D
I used to make my own French bread (with a bread machine), using yeast, a little sugar, egg whites and bread flour. That took some preparation, even with the machine. I admit I've gotten lazy and buy the bread from a bakery. So laziness may play a part in not having the tasty food we used to enjoy.
“So laziness may play a part in not having the tasty food we used to enjoy. “
It’s not laziness. Half of the married pair used to service the home and the family. Now that half has to work and pay bills and deal with what amounts to a family business. The other part is to buy real ingredients may make a cake cost $30 just for the makings.
“Low fat” is one way they’ve taken the taste out- and people don’t mind because people think all calories are bad!
Skinless breasts are inedible by themselves yet they’re always in the coolers.
What does the food industry do with all the fat they take out of everything?
They must make more money using the fat in something else but I’ve never figured out what.
My local Aldi store has pretty good sirloin steaks. They are just about the right thickness. Too many competitors either have them too thick or too thin. Also, Aldi has them in air-tight plastic. That keeps them days longer than with other stores. Also, when the slab of steak comes out of the plastic, it is larger than it appeared while wrapped.
I have not seen the kosher Coke, but will keep an eye out for it. About 20 years ago I was on vacation in Mexico, taking a day trip on a tour bus. For refreshments they served us Coke. The first sip brought it all back, a real taste memory that slammed the senses back in time and made me realize why I had seldom drunk Coke in the intervening years.
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