Lies! All lies!!

[SteveShaw]

One of my tea mugs full serves two.

That's all well and good for you to say, but how am I supposed to know the conversion factor for this? Remember, we don't use metric over here.

[djm]

Ah, now Steve, you're just mugging for the camera.

djm

[jsluder]

Ah, now Steve, you're just mugging for the camera.

djm

*mugshot*

[Darwin]

Looks very similar in size to the big C&F mug. (No, I'm not referring to Dale.)

Hey, Steve. You mentioned coffee as a fruit, but the beans are just the seeds. The fruity portion is stripped off in processing. http://www.gardfoods.com/coffee/coffee.coffee.htm has some fun stories about it all.

[Nanohedron]

Does this mean no-one can actually tell me what the cheese puffs tasted like?

It's sort of like trying to describe the taste of salt. You have to experience it, really, but I'll give it a go all the same for you:

First, they're generally not unlike severed fingers in their shape, and the texture is a light, almost ephemeral sort of crunchy. If you keep them unmolested in your mouth, they eventually melt. This puffy subtrate is usually made from corn (maize) flour, and covered with a powdery, deep orange flavoring agent that gets all over your hands, and anything you handle without first washing will bear the evidence. Your doctor will know what you've been up to, for example. As for the flavor itself, think well-aged cheddar on steroids with some other shadowy cheeses thrown in to broaden the experience.

And like I said, I almost never eat them. Really.

[Lambchop]

Sorry, but your whole rant sounds a bit silly. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last thirty years, you should know by now that chips, puffs, etc. are all garbage, aptly named "junk food". To sit there knowingly stuffing in junk food and complaining about which parts of the junk are junkier than the rest seems a bit pointless.

If you really cared about what you were eating you wouldn't be eating this stuff in the first place. There is no such thing as an "okay" amount of junk food.

djm

Exactly! Well put, I might add. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Care to join me for a nosh of steamed grains and spring mix salad, Deej? I can do up a bit of wild Alaskan red salmon, too, if you'd like.

And perhaps you could bring some of those chocolate bars from last night?

So you missed the point, too.

I might have . . . what was it, exactly? You were annoyed that food labels were deceptive?

But you'll notice that I'm not the one having to read that sort of deceptive food label, because my foods aren't processed. They just say things like "rice," "hard red wheat," "lettuce," and "wild Alaskan red salmon." Oh, and "mushrooms." Not much to hide in there, I'm afraid.

[jsluder]

But you'll notice that I'm not the one having to read that sort of deceptive food label, because my foods aren't processed. They just say things like "rice," "hard red wheat," "lettuce," and "wild Alaskan red salmon." Oh, and "mushrooms."

And "lambchops," and "mint," and ...

[Nanohedron]

Good for you, Lambchop. That's the way to go, really.

I'm afraid that I do have such things as prepared spaghetti sauce on hand, but like yourself, I prefer as little tampering as possible, too.

As it happens, I didn't have to read the stuff on the bag. It was my friend's purchase, his treat (bleh), and I was idly curious. Hence this thread.

[izzarina]

and here I thought this was going to be a thread about your socks

[djm]

Oh, and "mushrooms." Not much to hide in there, I'm afraid.

Some guy tried to sell me some "organically grown" mushrooms. He said something about them, sounded something like he grew them in a bin in a silo. Anyway, they sounded interesting, though a bit pricey. Should I send some your way in a plain brown package?

djm

[izzarina]

Some guy tried to sell me some "organically grown" mushrooms.

This made me think of maple syrup. I was at the natural food store, and they were selling organic maple syrup. How on earth do they manage that? Weren't the trees more than likely already there well before they decided to tap them? How can they assure us the maple syrup is organic? I don't get it

[jsluder]

Oh, and "mushrooms." Not much to hide in there, I'm afraid.

Some guy tried to sell me some "organically grown" mushrooms. He said something about them, sounded something like he grew them in a bin in a silo. Anyway, they sounded interesting, though a bit pricey. Should I send some your way in a plain brown package?

djm

Like Leslie Nielson's "magical medicinal mushrooms" in Men With Brooms?

[Nanohedron]

Some guy tried to sell me some "organically grown" mushrooms.

This made me think of maple syrup. I was at the natural food store, and they were selling organic maple syrup. How on earth do they manage that? Weren't the trees more than likely already there well before they decided to tap them? How can they assure us the maple syrup is organic? I don't get it

Lies! All lies!!

[SteveShaw]

Looks very similar in size to the big C&F mug. (No, I'm not referring to Dale.)

Hey, Steve. You mentioned coffee as a fruit, but the beans are just the seeds. The fruity portion is stripped off in processing. http://www.gardfoods.com/coffee/coffee.coffee.htm has some fun stories about it all.

I knew that but I wasn't specific enough - I stand corrected!

Steve

[djm]

How on earth do they manage that? Weren't the trees more than likely already there well before they decided to tap them? How can they assure us the maple syrup is organic? I don't get it

Maybe they mean it isn't watered down and then mixed with with artificial fillers. This is done whith lower-grade maple syrup (grade C and D).

People use the term "organic" to mean "all-natural", when it actually means "carbon-based". Since petroleum is carbon-based, doesn't that mean that they can use petroleum based fertilizers and still call their product "organic"?

djm