Start your day the delicious way
Below is the label from a food item at Orlando airport which was emailed to me this morning, and which I thought was worth sharing:
Unappetising, yes, but I suppose we can at least commend them for their detailing labelling!
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July 17th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Yuck!
July 17th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Come on Frog - they’re handmade!
July 17th, 2006 at 11:17 am
thanks for that, Frog.
At least we can see how easily and cheaply it’s done overseas! (the food labelling, I mean)
And as a secondary consideration, you’ve finally cured me of the croissant cravings I’ve suffered ever since I went wheat-free. Although I suspect a locally-made semi-french croissant wouldn’t have quite so many substitute ingredients… still gives pause for thought
Perhaps the food industry expects that our local population are well-read enough to understand such a label, and that foods would be rejected by our informed consumers.
Obviously no such fear in the USA.
July 17th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
vegan schadenfreude…..yet again….(stop it..!..i’m full…!..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)…
July 18th, 2006 at 12:06 am
how come no mention of the new record price of oil? - see chart
July 18th, 2006 at 10:47 am
maybe ‘cos it’s not really news stuey…(not fresh news anyway..just part of an expected curve..eh..?)…
and wot..?..should we gloat..?…
(there is little joy in being ‘right’ on this one..eh..?..)
so…wot’s to say..?
bring on the hybrids/alt fuels…i say..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 18th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I thought the Mericuns called it Folate, not Folic Acid?
Anyway, here’s what should be in such a Fresh Ready-to-eat deli item!
Wheat Flour, Egg, Olive Oil, Sliced Dry Cured Ham, Butter, Water, Yeast.
That would do it eh!
I tell you, this is exactly why the manufacturers don’t want to label stuff. Too many of us still remember what real food is. Maybe it’s too late for most of America, but it will be a decade or two here before ‘we’ forget. Unfortunately, this means we have to keep fighting for detailed labelling.
Did you notice the only way to heat it is with a Microwave? Anyone else still have no Microwave and no Telly?
cheerie.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
i’m with you on the no microwave….but you can hold the ham..the butter..the egg…
what are you trying to do..?…kill us all…?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 18th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Sorry, I was being literal.
Good point though, especially with the per/acre / per/calorie cost of ham…. I did assume it was all 5-acre permacultered though
bikemike
July 18th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
I’m still in the no telly/no microwave club.
Not sure about sourcing ham, but the you can get bacon from wild pigs (and other hunted meat) at Moore Wilson’s in Wellington - helps out the environment and supports local industry. Elsewhere you’ll have to catch your own.
July 19th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
sorry for thread hijacking Phil, but surely a new oil price record IS news. I mean it was worthy of comment by frog on August 10th 2005 when the new record was only $64.
http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php/2005/08/10/up-and-up/
Saturday’s new record was $78. I mean I agree that if the price goes up it is not news, but if the price goes up and reaches a new highest price ever in the history of the world … ?
July 19th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
yeah stuey…i feel somewhat guilty receiving an apology for thread hijacking…seeing as (ahem) i have been known to do that..once or twice..(double ahem..)
i think the point i was making was a world-weary one…in that what happened was no surprise…really…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 19th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
It’s only a record if you ignore inflation. Real oil prices peaked around 1980 and haven’t regained those levels yet.
July 19th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
OK, how about this food-related one?
the latest advertising on eggs
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/business/media/17adco.html
July 20th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
bikemike,
the microwave went five years ago, and the telly was abandoned two years ago.
neither are missed (except when I want to watch test cricket–you know, like watching the grass grow, very green).
after no tv for a year or so, when i do see it at someone’s place most (not all) programmes are utter cringe material. “idiot box” is not as far from the truth as we might think.