Fresh vegetables
January 2, 2016 at 10:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2016 at 10:52 pm by Aractus.)
Okay, so I was making some pumpkin soup earlier when I remembered what someone once told me. In America pumpkin comes in a tin. That's the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard (well the next digesting after tinned meat/SPAM, also invented in America), even if it were available - who the hell would buy tinned veggies anyway?? And why? Why would you buy tinned stuff instead of fresh?
So I went down to Woolies earlier (the supermarket) and checked. They sell all kinds of tinned shit, but certainly not tinned pumpkin. Same with Coles. I was happy, however, to see that the aisle space given to tinned vegetables was not a lot. About one quarter of the length of one side of the aisle. Then there's various forms of pre-packed soups (given close to twice the space of the tinned vegetables), and then all the condiments (bar the spices) that woolies sells. Of course I'm assuming in America you can get tinned broccoli, tinned coliflour, tinned lettuce, and tinned celery as well.
Now I can imagine only one possible purpose for these foods: so that men can show they can't be trusted by their wives to do the shopping. "Didn't you get any of the vegetables I asked for?" "I got them all! Here they are, 20 tins of chopped veggies ready to cook! I got everything you could want, green beans, asparagus, baby carrots, potato, and of course tomatoes."
This reminded me of a time a couple of years ago when I used to work with an islander colleague who used to eat take-away seven times a day. For breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon smokeo, evening snack, and finally dinner. But occasionally he'd make his own food, "hey do you like corned-beef" he asked? I said "yes I love it" and he said "oh well you'll have to try some" - little did I know that his idea of corned beef was scooping it out of a tin and spreading it on white bread. "Uh no that's OK" I said. "This is the real corned beef" he said, insisting that the cured meat you might buy in the supermarket, or the home curing you might do to create it is not real corned beef. The next day his morning tea was SPAM sandwiches.
So I went down to Woolies earlier (the supermarket) and checked. They sell all kinds of tinned shit, but certainly not tinned pumpkin. Same with Coles. I was happy, however, to see that the aisle space given to tinned vegetables was not a lot. About one quarter of the length of one side of the aisle. Then there's various forms of pre-packed soups (given close to twice the space of the tinned vegetables), and then all the condiments (bar the spices) that woolies sells. Of course I'm assuming in America you can get tinned broccoli, tinned coliflour, tinned lettuce, and tinned celery as well.
Now I can imagine only one possible purpose for these foods: so that men can show they can't be trusted by their wives to do the shopping. "Didn't you get any of the vegetables I asked for?" "I got them all! Here they are, 20 tins of chopped veggies ready to cook! I got everything you could want, green beans, asparagus, baby carrots, potato, and of course tomatoes."
This reminded me of a time a couple of years ago when I used to work with an islander colleague who used to eat take-away seven times a day. For breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon smokeo, evening snack, and finally dinner. But occasionally he'd make his own food, "hey do you like corned-beef" he asked? I said "yes I love it" and he said "oh well you'll have to try some" - little did I know that his idea of corned beef was scooping it out of a tin and spreading it on white bread. "Uh no that's OK" I said. "This is the real corned beef" he said, insisting that the cured meat you might buy in the supermarket, or the home curing you might do to create it is not real corned beef. The next day his morning tea was SPAM sandwiches.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
