Posted on 06/01/2014 5:45:14 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Last month, I ate a strawberry. The taste exploded in my mouth as my throat was bathed in rich juices. The meat of the berry was soft and succulent.
I was in France.
Last week, I ate another strawberry. There was a slight reddish flavour, which combatted the petroleum essence of the packaging. The meat of the berry was corky, dry and flavourless.
I was in Canada.
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Obamafood has risen about 20% in just the last year
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And...the content is shrinking in many products so even if the price hasn’t changed much,there’s a good chance that you are getting less for your money.
Inflation is definitely here and far worse than the government will acknowledge.
Actually most of what eat here as “chocolate” is milk chocolate. Not the same thing. I’ve had REAL chocolate from Switzerland and it is definitely much better. Same goes for licorice. What we eat here is licorice flavor not real licorice.
“And...the content is shrinking in many products”
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I find that extraordinarily annoying. For years we knew how many we could feed on a pound of bacon or a can of tuna.
No more.
I’d rather they kept the original size and just raised the prices.
Do they thing we’re all fools?
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I have read that before about French food. Tastes so rich and good you eat less from the flavor rather than just eating until you are stuffed. Now I want a strawberry. From the local farm.
When McDonalds cooked their fries in beef tallow most customers were satisfied with a small or medium sized portion. Now that they use they dis-whatevered-vegetable oil a “supersized” order still leaves you feeling hungry.
We are are the preeminent sedentary nation of the world. We’re #1! ;)
What "man" talks like this?
Whoa! Isn't "makes it taste better" a benefit, with value?
There is more to food than fuel.
We bought strawberries from the grower, right beside the fields last week. They were wonderful!
Farmers’ markets and locally grown is so much better than from the grocery stores where it comes across country or South America.
Do they thing we’re all fools?
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That has to be a rhetorical question! ;)
They KNOW most of us are gullible fools and will fall for anything. Obama figured this out too.
“There was a slight reddish flavour”
Ya lost me there, Limey.
Most Americans have no idea what things like tomatoes, strawberries, peaches, plumbs are supposed to taste like.
I grew up on a farm in East central Texas where we grew or own- and they were heavenly.
Tomatoes, peaches, strawberries, plumbs, etc that you buy in the grocery stores are shipped green and lose their natural delicious flavor. They bear no resemblance to the original. Taste like cardboard.
It is, but it’s still crap and it’s hiding that the rest of it is crap too. That’s my only point.
I eat more than my fair share of it when I’m on the road because it’s cheap and quick — I see in my spending notes for May that I ate at Burger King, Long John Silver’s, Popeye’s, and twice at Taco Bell — but I always keep in mind that I’m there just to fuel up with whatever I think looks best and tastes best and then get back on the job.
I understand that description. I love real, fresh strawberries, but I find that most processed *strawberry flavored* items simply taste *pink*. It’s the best way I can think of to describe artificial strawberry flavor. Under-ripe strawberries actually taste, more *green*, to me.
I know and love Katz’s. Grimaldi’s I don’t know.
I’ve been to Paris several times and I never thought the portions were small. And, they like course after course - including dessert and a cheese plate. Lunch goes on for hours.
A French-loving Metrosexual...
Good example. Chocolate vs carob, cream vs “creme”, etc.
I have a neat book called “Bad Food Britain” which is about how the Brits can’t really deal with cooking or food - but it sometimes applies to Americans as well.
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