"...according to datamonitor, snacking now accounts for nearly half of all "eating occasions."
"in fact, one has to be impressed with the way food manufacturers now routinely re-create flavor form the cheapest of commodities; corn, for example, provides meal fro bread and crackers, starch fir adding bulk to processed meats and burgers, hydrogenated oils to replace butter in fillings and baked goods...and of course high fructose corn syrup, or hfcs, a cheap substitute for sugar in many processed foods." paul roberts, "the end of food"_____________________________________________________well...this particular extrusion should certainly contain the hydrogenated oils and the hfcs is surely there...that this is a "manufactured" product is equally indisputable...seventeen months in and the "golden sponge cake' still rebounds to the touch and the hydrogenated oils in the "creamy filling" have not dulled in their snow white brightness...no oozing...no stench...there is nothing natural about this...inorganic...possibly inert...of no nutritional value....and focus of many "eating occasions"...i am compiling a glossary of the "special vocabulary" of industrial food and its pr arm in the media as they distance us from "meals" and "food" and steer us towards lonely "snacking" from cellophane and plastic packages...it is time to slow down and have meals again...with people we like and care about..to talk...to see a face...to share...the i u northwest community garden is building another bed tomorrow...stop by if you can.
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