4 More Foods the Government Should Ban
2. Plums
Because I’m allergic and in the name of equality you must give them up, too. Egalitarianism’s a bitch.
No plums for you!
1. Corn
Farmers gonna hate, and I’m sorry, but why is corn (or soy bean — and don’t get me started on legumes) in every single product on the shelves in the U.S. these days? What happened to good old fashioned sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, or healthy fats instead of corn oils that the body just doesn’t process well? Why are Americans fat cows? I dunno — could it be the corn oils and syrups in everything we buy? What do we feed livestock to fatten them up? That’s right…CORN!
We fed this giraffe corn and look what happened.
Real sugar also tastes better. Have you ever tried what has become known as “Mexican Coke”? Mexican Coke is not just an illicit drug, it’s a Coca-Cola with real sugar in it that’s sold in Mexico. It tastes like Coke tasted in my childhood and is much more delicious than modern Coke, which began using high-fructose corn syrup instead of sugar in 1980. You can find it in Mexican markets in any major city, because Mexicans know it tastes better so they import it. Now Pepsi and Mountain Dew have come out with a product line called “Throwback” made with real sugar instead of corn syrup.
In the name of better tasting foods and less obesity, corn must be banned.
Banning Foods, A Possible Problem
Does it concern you that every year we seem to get a new study debunking some nutrition science from last year and claiming some new benefit or harm? Coffee’s good for you, no it’s bad for you, no it’s good for you, no it’s bad for you….The question I have is what if the government gets it wrong and accidentally bans all the healthy food?
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#5
My mom’s tuna casserole. Think Superfund.
But I love tuna casserole! Whether my mon’s or my wife’s.
OTOH, tuna casserole served onboard ships of the USN is horrible and should be banned. Maybe that’s where your mon got her recipe!
You ate tuna casserole from the mess decks? I salute your courage while simultaneously chiding your stupidity.
@1
Good to see I’m not the only who hates their mother’s tuna casserole. If your mom’s is as bad as my mom’s, I wholeheartedly agree with #5.
At least your mother MADE tuna casserole!
I grew up on TV dinners because my mother could (and did) burn water. Literally. At least 2 or 3 times a year she’d put a small pan of water on the stove to boil for her horrid freeze-dried instant coffee, forget about it, and burn out the bottom of the pan.
Dad and I ended up buying an awful lot of small pans over the years. Not to mention portable fans to clear the smoke out of the kitchen…
What’s wrong with tuna casserole? Campbell’s Mushroom Soup, green peas, rice, and a little tuna. Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1959! Or drop in some sliced jalapenos and top with some avocado and call it California Surprise.
And nothing wrong with squid (in modest amounts) if you just *fry* them first.
Probably the most bannable food on the planet is the hot dog, processed, fatty, just chase all those street vendors out of Manhattan, or have them switch to filet mignon. Then you can move on to the knish, and maybe noodle kugel.
Rice? Everyone knows the base for good tuna casserole is macaroni and cheese!
Sent to fast…I meant to say that macaroni and cheese is, indeed, the healthiest of health foods, made only healthier by the addition of free-range tuna fish and wild peas…
Anything cooked by my sister. The church had to notify the emergency ward of every potluck they had in case she brought something, so they had the stomache pump on stand by.
“but why is corn (or soy bean — and don’t get me started on legumes) in every single product on the shelves in the US these days?”
I know this is all tongue-in-cheek, but stuff on shelves is corn because
1) The chemical properties of HCFS and corn starches make processed foods last longer at room temp without spoiling. Processed corn and soybeans are what make “Add water to this box, nuke, and eat!” possible in the first place. (Corn syrup was actually a boon for the candy industry in the early 20th century; it’s chemical properties are different from that of cane sugar and molasses and that allowed confectioners to create candies that weren’t possible before.)
2) Federal subsidies for corn and tariffs on cane sugar make HFCS cheaper than real sugar.
3) All that “reduced fat” crap…they replace the fat with starches and HFCS. Get the real sour cream, it’s better for you.
But I’m with you on soy. That stuff’s evil, and it’s everything except fresh produce, and I’m not so sure about that.
I love how some schools want to ban all kinds of things, then they give the kids lowfat cornsyrup sweetened artificially flavored milk like it is some kind of health food just because it is lowfat. I would rather my kids have the full fat version without the added crap, and that is what my kids prefer anyways. What the heck is the obsession with lowfat? The full fat stuff tastes better too.
As long as it’s not homogenized. That process should be banned!
I agree with everything said above. Raw milk is the best, but at least it should not be homogenized. Also, boiling it after buying it – if you just can’t get past the worry – is better than pasteurization. California can’t pass a ban on it so the gov’t is trying to run the only two raw dairies we have out of business. They may succeed. As it stands, even when they do their stupid quarantines we can still buy it as “pet food”. And then they legalize pot. One absurdity after another. (I’m all for legalized pot, btw, it’s just ridiculous in a state that’s doing it’s level best to ban raw milk.)
We do all of these things to food to make them last longer. We think it is convenient. But actually it is just to the advantage of grocers, and the food is in reality no longer food, just empty (or largely so) calories and toxic chemicals. That’s why obesity and diabetes have been sky-rocketing for years.
Hey Josh,
I have no problem with tuna casserole in general, it’s my mother’s version that makes me want to hurl. God knows what’s in hers, but your version actually sounds quite nice.
Mom does redeem herself by making an awesome lasagna though.
I say egg plants! I ate them once as a kid and the next day got a stomach virus, so now every time I eat them I gag and/or throw up… :p but I think they are beautiful to look at, so they should be for display only.
I would like to nominate durian.. a favorite of the Southeast Asian community (which includes my wife.. who I ask not to breath on me when she eats the stuff).
For those not familiar with the fruit, it tastes and smells like week old road kill mixed with something that would normally be wrapped in toilet paper.
More on durian here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQj-hFfmYkQ
I tried durian once. It sort of, kinda tasted like a very bland, slightly banana-flavored tapioca, and had that same consistency. However, I agree that the fruit itself smells like something died inside of it, so I’ll never try another one.
Bleh! Yes, ban durian!
The only thing that stuff should be used for is bombing terrorist training camps.
But come to think of it, that would probably violate the Geneva Convention or something.
Yes! Let’s ban corn. Then a huge underground cottage industry will sprint up to feed Arica’s corn addiction.
Does anybody know where I can score a 100W light bulb?
I’ve hoarded them. I’ll sell you one for $1000.
Mexico still makes them. I predict a new black market rising focused on selling people light bulbs that actually emit adequate light for reading! You can also still find the high-wattage 3-way bulbs, and they work as at least a 100-watt in ordinary lamps.
CFCs, btw, are bad bad bad for people on the autism spectrum; my autism is very mild, but when I walk into a room lit with CFCs I walk right back out. Really messes me up in an indescribable way. TG I started hoarding the 100s a year in advance of the ban.
I have stored up a few myself. I also heard that there will soon be 99 watt bulbs produced to beat the ban.
I vote for peanuts because my daughter has an anaphylactic allergy to them. I would rather she had some mexican coke (either version), because at least that would not kill her. Obviously I am kidding, I would not pass my daughter a crackpipe, but seriously peanuts are more deadly to her than big gulps and crack. So to me the nanny state just seems ridiculous. Obesity is nothing compared to your airway shutting off and dying. If I had to choose, I would much rather she was a little fatty than dead. It drives me nuts when I walk into a store promoting healthy foods, then one of the few foods that actually acutely kills people is sitting out in the open.
You know what? No. Peanut fascists make Bloomberg look like a libertarian, demanding that no peanuts be within the same zip code as their little darlings. They can just stay inside where the fearful seed can’t get them. Try to take my Reese’s Cups and there will be blood.
We must ban the potato.
The minute an American gets hold of a potato what does he do? Drowns it in butter, in frying oil, in mayonnaise, in creamy soup, in beef gravy, in cheese sauce, in (gasp!) bacon bits.
Then he adds salt. Or ketchup (sugar sauce.)
THE POTATO MUST GO!!!!!
Loaded potato skins (which are deep fried on top of all that other stuff) — yum!
Hey now, that’s hitting a bit too close to home for this Idahoan. You’ll get my spuds when you pry them from my cold, dead, carbohydrate stiffened hands!
#3: What, you don’t like calamari? How ’bout substituting octopus here instead? No matter HOW you cook it, it has the taste & texture of a rubber band. (not to mention those suckers on the tentacles — GROSS!)
#2: If you LIKE the flavor of plums but can’t eat ‘em b/c of allergy, have you tried plucots? They’re a cross bwtwn plums & apricots. I know, b/c I’m allergic to the apricot side of the equation, but I CAN eat plucots — go figyah.
Apricots are just nasty. Ban ‘em, I say. Right along with liver and okra, two things I will never eat.
Spinach. It should be banned. It’s the gateway to pipe smoking, and it mimics the effects of steroids, only much quicker, albeit temporarily.
And when cooked it’s gross.
Popeye is my hero, Bluto must be yours. Olive Oil is the deciding vote
More of the raw milk bullshit? Pasturization stops the threat of a bunch of dieases including tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and Q-fever and kills Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli. The CDC reports even the small amounts of raw milk sold in the US today have 86 food poisoning incidents leading to over 1600 illness.
So yeah, let’s make it legal and let everyone sell it. Of course, that will drive up the cost of milk, make storage less safe, and make it spoil faster. All for unproven benefits. We all know no one would cut corners on cleanliness to make a buck. No one does that now.
Tongue in cheek aside, having the government outlaw anything is anti American.
You and/or the government may think pasteurizing milk is better, but shouldn’t it be my decision what I choose to eat and feed my family?
By all means,have third party processors pasteurize if you must, but I should be able to milk my own cow (or goat) or buy milk from my neighbor or the farmer down the road without government interference.
And Tuna casserole is good no matter who makes it if it’s covered with shredded cheese.
And I recommend that if you are going to eat raw squid, don’t do it in Korea. Apparently they don’t remove the sperm bag (whatever that is)there.
I’ve been drinking raw milk for almost 4 years. I get my milk from a dairy that is tested by the USDA every other day. My whole family drinks it and my kids are the healthiest kids I know (and they are in day care.) There are ways to safely produce raw milk. If you ever get a chance to try it, I suggest you do. It tastes divine and has real health properties that pasturized milk just doesn’t have.
And for anyone bashing broccoli and okra, I challenge you to grow them in your own garden and then see what you think! Fresh-grown broccoli or okra is a totally different vegetable from store-bought.
As are most home-grown veggies. Store tomatoes? They call those pink, hard softballish-shaped things tomatoes? (or tomahtoes, if one prefers)
And by the way raw milk actually spoils much more slowly that regular. It keeps for ages in the fridge and if it sits at room temp it turns into curd and whey which you can eat if you like (I don’t like it, but it won’t hurt you.) Because all the beneficial bacteria have been retained, they actually “fight off” any invaders leaving a harmless separated product. It even smells fine, unlike spoiled regular milk. I’ve found sippy cups from my 2-year old that were lost for weeks under the bed, that smelt just fine. I dare you to try that with regular milk and not vomit.
Pasteurized milk spoils about twice as fast as raw milk, and becomes quite toxic when it spoils.
Raw milk merely becomes cheese.
Raw milk used to be legal in California. The permissible bacteria count was FAR lower than the permissible bacteria count for pasteurized milk.
This was easily achieved for two reasons:
While I agree about the spoilage facts, don’t go spewing that enzyme bs. Enzymes are merely catalytic proteins, and, as proteins, are broken up on the digestive system into shorter amino-acid (aka peptide) chains. Pasteurization merely de-natures the protein, but removes none of it’s benefits.
His argument was that the enzymes have a benefit before ingestion, keeping the milk from spoiling, and it’s true. Go get some raw milk and some regular and do a side-by-side test.
We milked our own cows and drank raw milk for all of my childhood and I have no clue how anyone could say it doesn’t spoil or doesn’t smell when it does spoil. It spoils and when it does, it stinks. Granted, refrigeration wasn’t as good then as now but milk spoiled pretty quickly so any excess was quickly turned to butter and buttermilk or fed to the hogs.
Unless some super cows have been bred or some super secret feed is now available for dairy cows, raw milk spoils rather quickly, develops a bad odor (blinked milk is what the old folks called it), and tastes like what I would think cat puke tasted like. Ever have a kid burp on your shoulder? That’s what spoiled raw milk smells like.
people who advocate raw milk secretly think even if they get sick it will just be nausea and the next day they’ll be fine. no one has told them to consider polio. or, a variety of other terrible diseases that can put you in a wheelchair or a hospital bed for your life, such as it is.
these are the same folks who like holder, and do not hold him in contempt as do I. also, don’t mind getting beat and robbed and raped for being whitey; and likely the ones who make death threats to george zimmerman and his wife. or, loan the new black panthers their phones to use.
sometimes you just know a thing. or two.
You are nuts. Most raw milk drinkers I’ve met have been conservatives/libertarians who don’t want gov’t messing with their food. If you’ve never had raw milk and don’t want it, fine- more for me and my super-healthy family who never gets sick.
“these are the same folks who like holder…” NO, I DON’T.
“…also, don’t mind getting beat and robbed and raped for being whitey” WRONG
…”and likely the ones who make death threats to george zimmerman” WRONG AGAIN
“…loan the new black panthers their phones to use.” NOPE, WRONG AGAIN.
Well, let’s see you were wrong on every one of your highly intelligent assumptions. You do know what happens when you ASSume, don’t you? I LOVE raw milk, and I think every person should have the right to choose to drink it if they wish. I am very conservative, was glad to see Holder held in contempt, hold tightly to my guns, think many blacks are the root of their own problems, (same goes for the “99%”,) grew up on a farm, and teach my children the meaning of HARD work.
Don’t ban Broccoli or Eggplant! I love these veggies and in fact heading for the store to buy both!
However definitely ban soy. Feeds cancer and makes boys into girliemen.
It messes with everyone’s hormones and this is NO JOKE! I will not buy any product with soy in it!!!
I’m definitely with you on soy “milk,” bleah. Although I know that those that are lactose intolerant swear by it. I love Lewis Black’s rant about how nothing should be labeled “milk” unless it actually comes from an animal.
Not just soybeans, but legumes in general, cause flatulence.
Just sayin’.
And flatulence means green-house gassses and global warming. BTW, if the IPCC people were serious about global warming they would ask for the extermination of Mexicans and similar peole whose diet is based on beans.
“Not just soybeans, but legumes in general, cause flatulence.”
In the immortal words of Woody Allen: “You say that as if it’s a negative thing”
Then again, I’ve always lived by the saying “Flatulence is its own reward”
Of course that only applies when I’m alone….
Vegetables grow in dirt.
Onions! are the invention of the devil. After ingestion, they emit smells from ALL the body orifices, as well as orifice-deprived areas. They cause tears in preparation, nausea during consumption, and stomach eruptions as they wreak havoc with a normal person’s metabolism.
Don’t get me started with WHEAT, as in WHEAT BELLY, by Dr. William Davis. Due to hybridization, it apparently causes obesity, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, cataracts, and a multitude of modern ailments. Ban onions & wheat, and the lamb will sleep with the lion (i.e. the veggan and the carnivore).
I eat an entire chocolate cake for breakfast, rehydrate after jumping rope with chocolate milk, and get the energy to climb volcanoes with Junior Mints.
Junior Mints! I’m going on that diet.
Broccoli (and cabbage) are non-no for peole suffering from cardiac arythmia. So let’s have them banned.
Never heard that before, … can’t seem to google to any mentions of this.
“Well, My Doctor said…”
Since you are diabetic, diet is a crucial factor in your continued existance. Avoid excess carbohyrates particularly sugars and starches, emphasize green and cruciform veggies, that would be the cabbage family, and beans etc, etc. … ”
And My Other Doctor said…”
Have to watch the Saturated Fats and Oils, Red Meat, Butter, cheese and Whole Milk and all the other good stuff that gums up the arteries …”
And my own opinion is, … If I became a slave to ALL of the restrictive diets reccommended, I would most likely die of starvation before any of these other ailments caught up with me. The final answer is MODERATION! And Accomodation!
My blood glucose readings are generally within the safe range and the BP level would be if the UberLibs and SuperSized Governments could be brought to heel.”
A final word on banning food and drink. The Noble Experiment and the Law of Unintended Consequences. Granted that alcohol can be detrimental to ones health under some conditions, the creation of an illegal or black market and the organization of the criminal element power structure profiting from that law was far worse than the evil it was to curb.
if you’re gonna ban anything, ban mayor bloomberg
Bingo!
How about “don’t elect him”?
Mexican coke is the perfect beverage to wash down a Danger Dog, another great Mexican invention.
For those who have not had the pleasure a Danger Dog is a hot dog wrapped in bacon and deep fried served on a bun and covered with onions and chili sauce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_dog
Eating stuff like that is just all the more fun with all of these food nazis going haywire because now it is subversive.
I’m with you on corn. It’s not even food unless you have four legs. No one can digest the stuff. (Witness the results the next day). I wrote Campbells and asked them if they could replace the corn that shows up in so many of their soups with small rocks because they’re identically nutricious and easier to pick out. As for the very popular corn on the cob, I refer to that as a butter and salt delivery system. Slather butter and salt on almost anything and it will taste pretty good. You’re wrong about broccoli, however.
It’s not digestible for cows either. Cows eat grass.
Nor for dogs. I feed mine a vegetable mixture with her kible and the only one that survives the round trip is the corn. Picking up poop is gross enough without being able to identify a food.
Cucumbers. Ugly name. Weird-looking. Awful taste. And they cause one to expel wind through the oral orifice.
Cottage cheese….bad! Ate it once when I was 4, threw it up. Not had it since.
Ban liver – the toxic waste dump of the body. How anyone can consume that vile organ is beyond me.
With bacon and onions, of course.
I say ban mangoes. I happen to love that particular tropical fruit, but I’m highly allergic to the fresh ones because of the urushiol in the skin. Know what urushiol is? It’s the same hive-causing stuff that poison ivy secretes.
This nutty stuff started with the “Progressive” movement of the late 19th century and found a home among dilettantes with enough money to have spare time to worry about such foolishness as the cleanliness of one’s colon. The rest of the world worried about getting enough to eat and money to clothes the kids.
Ban potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and peppers. They al have a toxin called solanine. Some people like my mother and me are sensitive to it, and eating green bell peppers and tomatoes picked while still green has very high levels of solanine (the solanine levels drop as the fruit ripens). Solanine gives us solanine sensitive people arthritic like conditions.
So let’s ban potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and peppers. No more french fries (good bye all fast food), tomato sauce (Good-bye Little Italy), eggplant (good-bye Thai food) and peppers (good-bye Mexican food and nearly everything else).
We can all sit around gnawing on organic, sustainably raised, fair trade, salt free, low-fat, reduced sugar Vegan nut and seed cakes (unless there is a nut ban because of allergies).
Weeee, we’ll all be skinny and miserable together!
Most of you young whippersnappers have never, ever eaten really fresh veggies or other foods. You have no idea what they are supposed to taste like! By fresh I mean five minutes off the stalk, out of the garden, right from the tree. And without additives, preservatives, adulterants and other major or minor chemicals. Milk still warm from the cow, eggs still warm from the chickens. How about tomatoes, asparagus, sweet peas that have been basking in the summer sun all afternoon? The other major complaint is the overcooking of all foods by most kitchens.
The one thing that deserves banning is the prechewed, predigested factory made dishonest tasteless pap that the politicians keep trying to ram down our throats on a daily basis.
“How about tomatoes, asparagus, sweet peas that have been basking in the summer sun all afternoon?”
There’s definitely something to what you’re saying. Back when my mother still kept a vegetable garden, shelling peas was almost as big a treat as her fresh bread. I really enjoyed eating the peas which I had just freshly shelled, so much so that I probably ate half of what I shelled.
Fresh bread is still made today; BUT, there may be some law against it, since it is fresh and uses YEAST which is found in D-I-S-I-E-A-S-E !!!!!!!!
Hasn’t YEAST been a featured perp on “AMERICA’S MOST WANTED”?
Don’t get me started on YEAST!!!
No Yeast = No bread except chemical cardboard substitutes.
No Yeast = No beer
No Yeast = No Wine
No Yeast = No decent cheeses
No Yeast = No Vinegar for the salad
And that’s just off the top.
…and to get to the BOTTOM of it…
No Yeast = No gut activity!!
So, whatever you do ingest will not contribute to your well being.
Say OldTimer; Ever hear of “vegetarians”?
FIBER does wonders for “gut activity”.
Nope. Can’t ban squid as food.
Why not?
Because it’s not food !
Things with tentacles are not meant to be eaten. QED.
And don’t touch my plums or I’ll drown you in high-fructose corn syrup, lady. You’ll die fat and diabetic.
So there.
I imagine when Bloomberg leaves office – that can happen you know – I expect him calling 911 from time to time to report horrid food experiences. Kind of like a grass roots tactic preparatory to banning the food.
I bet if it happens none of his supports will read backwards into his reign that he was nuts. Nuts are bad for you too, I think. Its the oils, you know.
I am glad you started your essay with some complete lies. It gives us all an insight into your character. Food safety is no small issue. Many still need to learn the facts on protecting their family. Liar.
Home grown tomatoes should be banned. They taste so incredible that they make the supermarket ones seem like red baseballs. They are ruining it for agribusiness! Any tomato that can’t pass the bounce test should be outlawed.
Mayor Bloomberg looks pail in the pic with all his banned containers. He’s fed us so much bulls**t he’s a couple quarts low. It’ll take him four sixteen ouncers to refill..poor guy.
Don’t lose sight of where this all began! – SMOKING BANS!!
Did you believe all the propaganda that claimed smoking was the biggest killer ever? Many still cannot break free from the brainwashing about tobacco smoke. This is understandable as it has taken decades to condition an unsuspecting public. Allow this precedent to stand and expect to lose many more individual freedoms as we gradually pick up speed down that proverbial slippery slope. Expose the tobacco fraud and the rest of this crap disintegrates!
Check out this new website – Tobacco CONTROL tactics;
http://tctactics.org/index.php/Main_Page
Does anyone have a recipe for “FOOD POLICE” ??? Solve that problem quickly and feed the poor==2 birds – 1 stone
Whole grain donuts?
Fried mozzarella sticks, and marinara sauce.
Hot glazed donuts for desert.
Wash ‘em down with Grand Marnier.
Enough fat and carbs for a triathlon.
Anything that Irish Catholics eat.
Read the book, “Wheat Belly’. It contains persuasive arguments that wheat is detrimental to our health.
No wheat means no Eucharist. So let’s quit all this talk of banning stuff and use some common sense.
Ban Corn and the price of Moonshine will skyrocket. Granny says Harlan County is sending a “deligation” to Congress. Aint Clara says, “You kmow Appalachia ain’t heard nothin from the Kennedys since that Palestinian runt kilt our friend, Bobby.”
Leave my liver alone! Well, not MY liver, but that fried pork liver-n-onions I crave every time someone mentions it. And please don’t touch my raw goat milk, either.
Fruitcake. Maybe that way, liberals can find themselves banned as an unintended consequence.
Things that resemble food and should be banned:
1. Free-range chickens (and their eggs).
2. Tofu
3. Organic produce
Outlaw these three things, and within a year every liberal will have either starved or died in a gun battle with a FDA SWAT team.
Hey, I eat that stuff and the producers are often libertarian. Yet I don’t believe you’re an FDA troll. The FDA is also after Granny’s herbs.
Remember that you are what you eat; tofu is dense, colorless, and tasteless.
Just because they are liberal doesn’t mean they are complete idiots. I have to recommend Dr. Davis’ book too. Wheat belly. Just read it and compare to yourself. I changed my life with this book. Started at 320lbs with Hypertension levels that would make a cardiologist faint dead away. With type 2 diabetes and on two types of insulin by injection barely controlled. Stopped all grains. It was as bad as the heroin addicts say it is during withdrawal. Four weeks later I was a completely different person. Slept through the night, was not starving and hungry despite eating less calories. The insane cravings stopped. My weight dropped at approximately 1/2lb per day and without some insane exercise program. My allergies stopped. My headaches stopped.
My doctor saw me three months after I stopped grains and he was dumbfounded to be honest. I gave him a copy of the book.
Woman Sues City Of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden Posted: Jun 15, 2012
http://www.newson6.com/story/18802728/woman-sues-city-of-tulsa-for-cutting-down-her-edible-garden
I love broccoli. Broccoli cheese soup is my favorite. Never heard of eating it raw. Now I know why. Interesting.
Corn syrup is a scam. The only reason it’s used is because it’s subsidized by the government. That’s why sugar is still used in Mexico: sugar is actually cheaper as well as better tasting and better for us. Big Ag bribes Congress and gets their kickbacks in the form of subsidies. One of many reasons why we as a nation are now bankrupt. And we are bankrupt, not going bankrupt. We’ve been buying most of our own debt for years now; a scam that makes Bernie Madoff look like Mother Teresa.
I’m sorry you have never had the ultimate pleasure of a RAW VEGGY PLATTER. Bitesize chunks of RAW broccoli, culiflower, celery, carrots, zucchini, amd most favorite assorted mushroom slices, and cherry tomatoes, served up with a Bleu Cheese dip or other creamy style salad dressing.
You are on the money about corn though. The Corn Growers Union has one heck of a lobbiest! Corn was once the staple grain on the Americas before the invasion. Corn is versatile as to storage, preparation, nutrition. Until McCormick invented the Wheat Reaper, our ancestors lived on cornbread, cornmeal mush and any number of corn puddings and chowders, and hominy. Hominy is basically super-dried corn which has a forever shelf life, brought back to life by soaking a day or two in a LYE solution to soften up the hull. That would by the same LYE that grandma used along with LARD to make her famous LYE SOAP, reputed to clean by removing the first two layers of skin. It was a basic starch, very low on the taste scale unless served with red-eye gravy, Ham Drippings and water made into a porcine au jus. Cornmeal mush was the same dried corn ground into a coarse flour and boiled in water and lard like oatmeal. When cooled it ‘set’ and could be sliced and browned or fried in, Yep, LARD. If you noticed a connection here the average rural family lived on what they could produce on their hundred and sixty acres. The kitchen garden and corn from the same field that fed the horses was the carb side, chickens and hogs were the protein side. Game, and fruit and veggy gatherings from the wild rounded out the general diet.
Back to Washington (D C) and corn, one more thing for them to screw up, they now heavily subsidize the corn growers as a source of alcohol additives for gasoline, which damages the cars innards.
I’ve had many a raw veggie platter but, honestly, I don’t remember ever having raw broccoli. I found that little factoid interesting. I guess all things in moderation, as they say. I’m a pipe smoker and whiskey drinker so I’m not judging. But facts are facts. As I stated further up in the blog, some food just isn’t food any more. But the gov’t should stay out of it and let individuals and the market decide.
Now I’ve also learned what hominy is. Never knew. A friend of mine’s father eats it all the time. The way you described it I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole, but I’m sure it played an important role in the world before refrigeration. To each his own.
Interesting that of your two self-confessed minor vices, one was totally banned at one time, the other currently is undergoing the Chinese Death by a Thousand Cuts route to total banning.
My love affair with raw or undercooked foods started with the ‘good old days’ the early 1930s. Last day of school the shoes came off and stayed off until the Tuesday after Labor Day, except for church. Out and about exploring, at the swimming hole or fishing in the river didn’t always allow time to get home for lunch. Local foraging or grazing was a wealth of fine fresh fruits and vegetables, again warmed by the sun but not cooked to death snd beyond. Fresh sweet peas have a taste like no other and young tender Field (Horse) Corn is excellent, and you didn’t even need a microwave which was good because it hadn’t been invented yet. Every kid carried a case knife, handy for clipping a bunch of big blue Concord Grapes from the vine or a summer squash or melon.
It was also a time when a ten or twelve year old could stroll down the back roads with a .22 rifle and return with a burlap bag of rabbits and squirrels for the family table. After dark a flashlight and a gig (small barbed trident) for taking frogs would help vary the diet.
Any of these normal activities today would have the local cops, game wardens, epa, fdc, and probably the National Guard and Homeland Security crawling up your backside. It was a freedom that allowed a family to determine their own destiny without labels, and relegated the Federal Government to defending our shores, delivering our mail and making sure we all had a level playing field.
It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t quick, but it was some great satisfaction knowing that you survived and made it through another year and the next one could be even better.
Amen, amen and amen! If you were tearing up the turf in the EARLY thirties then whatever you’re doing is A-OK. I retract whatever negative things I said about hominy. Do-gooders and power-grabbers first ban this, then that, then something else; in each case being proven to do more harm than good, eg.: Prohibition created organized crime, and it just so happens that moderate drinkers are healthier as a group than either heavy drinkers OR teetotalers. But do they learn? No. So on it goes: “You’re too dumb to make your own decisions, so I’ll make them for you.” Every generation has to continue the fight for freedom.
Eat fresh! Processed foods are making us fat. Our health care costs are skyrocketing because of all the diseases triggered by obesity.
Cybergeezer
“Say OldTimer; Ever hear of “vegetarians”?
FIBER does wonders for “gut activity”.
July 1, 2012 – 11:50 am Link to this Comment
Good comment!
My observation was the result of a high octane anti-biotic treatment a few years back that totally wiped out all of the fauna, flora, and undetermined origin organisims in the lower GI tract. Ingesting enough FIBER to spin a hawser for the QE2 didn’t help but a couple of little bricks of activated yeast got the system operating just fine. The funny part is a little bit of yeast did the same for my septic tank.
Stay YOUNG my friend, that’s the best medicine!
The standard regimen for restoring the bacteria after antibiotics is yogurt with active cultures.
A good Bavarian yeast, with a significant ABV is standard fare for me. My old beer bottles smell like a bakery after a few days in the recycle bin.
I’ve never done any home brew, but yeast can be a dangerous pest if not controlled in this process.
Without yeast, there would be more diseases without antidotes.
I’m well aware that we wouldn’t live as long as we do without yeast.
To your health, my friend.
Cybergeezer
“I’ve never done any home brew, but yeast can be a dangerous pest if not controlled in this process.”
Yes, so is FIRE, and where would we be without that?
Yogurt may be standard, but I am not your average bear as Yogi says. After a long painful session with the periodontist and friend, or so I thought, he told me to stop on the way home and pick up a six-pack of yogurt because I wouldn’t be able to eat anything solid for a while anyway. Being an overachiever, I picked up TWO six-packs for a wider assortment of flavors. Big mistake! Tried to get one past the gullet, but it wouldn’t go. Left to my own devices and getting hungrier as the Novocaine shots wore off, the first inspiration was an Irish Coffee Milkshake, Two scoops French Vanilla ice cream, two TBLspn high quality instant coffee two glugs of good Irish Whiskey in the blender, equals nutrition and anesthetic in one smooth frappe. Other favorites included Beef Burgundy over over-cooked rice, finely chopped chicken over well done noodles, and more versions of chile and chowders than thought possible.
Story end, gained ten pounds, wore out a blender, and regained respect for under cooked foods.