Food Ruination by Corporations!
Is nothing sacred?
At a farmer's market, boxes of Jalapeños. A hand-lettered sign above them: HOT!
Fried one up tonight to put on a sausage. NO FLAVOUR. Not hot. Nothing. Not even any AROMA. A green bell pepper has more flavour. Like eating grass clippings.
Commercial tomatoes became uniformly horrible decades ago. I know, shelf life, truck trips, to hell with flavour. Peaches that are sour when ripe. Etc. But hot peppers without the heat?
This started years ago, but this batch is just perfection for some breeder. Probably you could ship it to Mars without a bruise.
But I will never again buy them.
People who've been reading me for a while may know I really like #hummus.
A while back, I posted about buying a different brand when I was shopping at a different store than I usually go to. It was a brand called Fontaine that I wasn't familiar with - made in Quebec, I believe.
It was awful. Actually inedible. I had one bite and had to throw the container away.
Well, yesterday I was at my local Real Canadian #Superstore - the local flavour of big #Loblaw grocery store - and all the space in the cooler normally occupied by #Sabra hummus - the brand I usually buy, and quite like - was instead taken up by "President's Choice" (house brand) stuff which I don't recall them having before. And there was also Fontaine-branded stuff, which I've never seen there before.
And, uh-oh, the President's Choice stuff is the same sickly pale colour as the Fontaine stuff. Could it be made by #Fontaine for them?
I needed hummus, and those were the two brands available, so I got the President's Choice. And yep, I would bet it's made by Fontaine, although the packaging has absolutely zero info about the source on it, other than "prepared in Canada" [1]. It's #inedible, and I threw out another container.
I guess I'm going to have to make my own. There are a million recipes out there - any favourites you'd care to share?
[1] Read this as "not made in Canada". They probably import chickpea paste and the other ingredients and just put them through a mixer in Canada.
La folie végane / Vegan madness / ビーガンの狂気 #詩 #食べ物 #食べられない #food #poem #inedible
donc dans la section des surgelés–
des pâtes aux légumes j’ai acheté–
avec sauce marinara alors ajoutée–
au micro-onde j’ai dû la échauffer–
mais une fois la cuisson terminée–
aucun légumes j’y ai donc trouvés–
là les pâtes en étaient composées–
mais c’était quoi alors cette idée–
les vegans sont devenus capotés–
les pâtes de blé ou au gluten retiré–
...
What actually is inedible?
I suppose rocks are ...
Until you've ground them up small enough to swallow ...
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