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Fox outraged at the poor having access to coffee

By on December 3, 2011 in Bad Taste Theater, Culture, Economy, Food, Impotent Modern Media, Politics, Television

Another typical FOX affiliate hatchet-job on the poor, this story is much smoke with little heat.

While we can all agree that supplemental food income should be restricted from $5 coffee beverages, NO WHERE does FOX quantify this practice.

FOX12 in Oregon? How many people spend $5 of their small food income on these drinks? Do you have a number? Is it in the hundreds? Thousands? Is it six?

What FOX really wants is for its under-brained viewers to equate ability with action. Just because poor people CAN waste $5 of their food budget on these drinks doesn’t mean they DO.

Food stamps are for boring, inexpensive things — like bread and milk and apples. The subsidized tokens certainly aren’t for buying expensive coffee beverages that come in cheerful holiday cups.

via Food stamps for Starbucks? Outrage ensues | Seattle’s Big Blog – seattlepi.com.

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The reason I eat granola bars

By on November 30, 2011 in Food, Personal

Hockey puck! No, I’m not suddenly channelling Don Rickles (look him up, kids), that’s what I’m.having for breakfast this morning.

Also known as a Starbucks “Everything Bagel with Cheese”, this hockey puck is hard and chewy,slightly warm and comes with way too much cream cheese stuff*.

Seriously, an ounce and a half of schmear is too much but I’ll be damned if I’ll throw it out.

I forgot my granola bar this morning and nothing else in the food case looked appetizing or particularly wholesome. I went with the puck like I’ve done before. I guess that makes my disappointment all my own doesn’t it?

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Shiro Kashiba: Seattle’s sushi sensei

By on November 28, 2011 in Food, Local

Unfortunately, raw fish is not on the average Filipino menu and so isn’t on my wife’s radar. I love most sushi, though, as well as a good read.

You’ll have to settle for the read.

 

HOLDING COURT in Belltown, Shiro Kashiba’s eyes, darting under expressive brows shaped like Mount Fuji, miss nothing. And that’s saying something. Three days a week you’ll find Seattle’s pre-eminent sushi chef right where he wants to be: standing behind his sushi bar, celebrating the fact that at 70, he’s doing what he dreamt of doing as a grade-school boy in Kyoto.

via Pacific NW | Shiro Kashiba is Seattle’s sushi sensei | Seattle Times Newspaper.

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Pre-cut, gassed and packaged salad might kill you

By on November 19, 2011 in Business As Usual, Food, Healthcare

(cue Pink Floyd)

If you don’t eat your corporate greens, you can’t have any E.coli!

How can you have any E.coli if you don’t eat your corporate greens?!

 

Ready Pac Foods has recalled more than 5,000 cases of bagged salad because of a possible E. coli contamination.

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that the bagged romaine lettuce and salad mixes were distributed to 15 Western states.

via Ready Pac recalls 5K cases of bagged salads – seattlepi.com.

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Grower on Washingtons State’s red side sells moldy applesauce to schools and food banks

By on November 5, 2011 in Business As Usual, Food, Scumbag System

You might imagine that a company from Washington State’s traditionally Conservative (Red) side would put profit ahead of food safety laws but even I have a hard time with this one.

I don’t know which is more frightening, that a company would be so hell-bent on profit that it would take a chance on compromising  the health of children or that moldy applesauce and fruit puree is allowed to be “reprocessed” for human consumption.

This is a culture that has a “five-second rule” for things dropped on the floor. How many people realize that we may be eating “reconditioned” food?

 

“Your firm reprocesses moldy applesauce product … using a method that is not effective against all toxic metabolites,” read the FDA letter sent to Jimmie L. Davis, Snokist’s president. “Several foodborne molds may be hazardous to human health.”

via FDA says Yakima company that supplies schools repackaged moldy applesauce | KING5.com Seattle.


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McPuke!

By on November 1, 2011 in Business As Usual, Food, Healthcare

Sure, it isn’t “health food” and only by din of heavy corporate lobbying power does it qualify as “food” at all, but the question is: “Why?”

Why isn’t McDonalds food healthy for you?

Why would you run a chain of restaurants and tell people that they shouldn‘t eat there every day?

Why would you add an essentially poisonous bleaching agent to the flour that goes into your bun?

Why would you take a simple barbecue pork sandwich and make it into some kind of over-processed Frankensandwich, crammed with fat, additives, chemicals and colorants?

Why, when I can make a perfectly good barbecue pork sandwich at home using actual slabs of pork and a real bun for a fraction of the cost and at a fraction of the fat, calories and chemicals of your McPuke?

The only answer to the question, “Why?”, is, “Because profit matters more than people.”

 

“…azodicarbonamide, a flour-bleaching agent that is most commonly used in the manufacture of foamed plastics like in gym mats and the soles of shoes, is found in the McRib bun.”

via McRib sandwiches contain same ingredient as yoga mats, shoe soles | Hot Topics – seattlepi.com.


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You stupid, polluting Republican bastards! What have you DONE?!

By on October 15, 2011 in Business As Usual, Culture, Food, Politics, Republican, Science, Tea Party Loons

Oh! The humanity!

 

Starbucks is warning of a serious threat to world coffee supply – due to climate change – which could mean the caffeinated beverage loved by millions is on the verge of extinction, according to news reports.

via Starbucks warning: World coffee supply could evaporate | KOMO News.

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Healthy eating too costly: report

By on August 4, 2011 in Culture, Food, Social

This has been known for YEARS!

In America, the poor eat from the McFood $1 menu because broccoli is $2.49 a pound.

 

People who ate the most junk food paid the least for groceries but were the furthest from meeting the recommended intake of healthful nutrients. They also exceeded the recommended levels of saturated fat and sugars, which have been linked to chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Those who spent the most on groceries ate the healthiest, coming closest to meeting the dietary guidelines.

via Local News | Study: Healthful diet may be too costly for some Americans | Seattle Times Newspaper.

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Japanese “dancing squid” dish a hit.

By on August 2, 2011 in Culture, Food

And totally creepy.

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