SteveShaw wrote:Rumour has it that the old-style cider makers used to toss a couple of dead rats into the fermenting vats to add a bit of character to the flavour.
We make hard cider and we have a friend who owns a winery and vineyard. We'd both would be afraid to remove the hundreds or thousands of wasps from the fruit before it's pressed. Loss of all those little bug guts would ruin the taste.
I once worked at a winery.. The part where they dump the grapes to be crushed. If it can’t jump out, slither out, or fly out ….. It’s.... WINE….Bon apa teet y’all…( haven’t touched the stuff since 88 )
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Yep. We had a vineyard and winery and it's just chock full of bugs and , the worst for me- spiders. That's why I'd never have a cup under the press to get some of that "yummy fresh grape juice" that neighbors just loved......
Once it's fermented- it's ok by me- love it.
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drruthless wrote:
I once worked at a winery.. The part where they dump the grapes to be crushed. If it can’t jump out, slither out, or fly out ….. It’s.... WINE….Bon apa teet y’all…( haven’t touched the stuff since 88 )
There is a quota on how many toes from the grape-stompers get left in.
Parts is parts…right?… no, never found any body parts but when we would empty out the tanks and clean out the muck on the bottom we would find flashlights, pagers, two way radios (cell phones weren’t that common yet ) tools, lighters, watches. It was not uncommon to find dead birds around the vent on top of the fermentation tanks though.. Bugs attracted by the smell would be over come by the Co2, birds flying by would spot an easy meal…= dead birds. Always had to be VERY aware of Co2 it’s heaver than air and does not disperse easily. You could walk in to some and the chances of you walking out alive are slim. It takes your breath away right then and there……
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sbfluter wrote:What nobody bothers to notice is that if you eat that silly yogurt you waste a container of plastic that will never biodegrade for about 6 spoonfuls of yogurt.
I buy big tubs of plain yogurt, dump some in a bowl, and stir in a little homemade jam for a good fruity yogurt. My teen daughter likes the individual pre-sweetened storebought ones so I do buy those for her sometimes. I hate all the plastic. (The big tubs are great, too, because they are reusable for lots of stuff, like storing dinner leftovers in the fridge.)
One of my pet peeves is the shrinking size of individual servings of yogurt. The standard size used to be 8 ounces. Now they've all shrunk to 6 ounces, and I've noticed that some are now down to 4 ounces. Why is it that they feel the need to shrink the size of a relatively healthy food like yogurt while junk food serving sizes grow?
Can't you recycle yogurt containers where you all live? I like the individual ones cause they don't spoil as fast as the big ones, and then I just put the containers in the recycling.
What bugs me about the small yogurt containers is that, for some reason they are not making the plastic lids anymore!!! So if my little boy decides to eat only half of his yogurt, I can't just pop the lid back on and save it for later, no, I have to go to the trouble to get some other container. Why did they stop making the lids????
Lambchop wrote:I think they call them nice names like that because otherwise they would have to just flat out tell you that they're putting poo bugs in your yogurt.
If you had ANY idea how many POO bugs that are allowed into the foods we eat…..you would give up eating….
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I once read on a PeTA website (which I don't necessarily believe, because, I mean, it's PeTA, after all) that there is a small percentage of field mice ground up in Cheerios cereal because of harvesting methods which use machines and are inexact.
That's because they give the Cheerios a great crunch. If you will look at virtually every harvested food, you will find that according to the rules that they are allowed a very small amount of what amounts to bug bodies, bug and critter poo, and other odds and ends that cannot be removed. It ain't just the Cheerios, but virtually everything that you buy and eat. And it isn't just in the US.
sbfluter wrote:What nobody bothers to notice is that if you eat that silly yogurt you waste a container of plastic that will never biodegrade for about 6 spoonfuls of yogurt.
I buy big tubs of plain yogurt, dump some in a bowl, and stir in a little homemade jam for a good fruity yogurt. My teen daughter likes the individual pre-sweetened storebought ones so I do buy those for her sometimes. I hate all the plastic. (The big tubs are great, too, because they are reusable for lots of stuff, like storing dinner leftovers in the fridge.)
One of my pet peeves is the shrinking size of individual servings of yogurt. The standard size used to be 8 ounces. Now they've all shrunk to 6 ounces, and I've noticed that some are now down to 4 ounces. Why is it that they feel the need to shrink the size of a relatively healthy food like yogurt while junk food serving sizes grow?
Can't you recycle yogurt containers where you all live? I like the individual ones cause they don't spoil as fast as the big ones, and then I just put the containers in the recycling.
What bugs me about the small yogurt containers is that, for some reason they are not making the plastic lids anymore!!! So if my little boy decides to eat only half of his yogurt, I can't just pop the lid back on and save it for later, no, I have to go to the trouble to get some other container. Why did they stop making the lids????
J.
The money for the lids is now being spent to come up with ridiculous names for poo bugs that are in the yogurt.
Recycling of plastic is a myth. It is usually NOT recycled at all. It's more often simply collected and then put in the landfill. If it does actually get "recycled", it's actually not recycled at all. They don't make another plastic container out of it. They shred it up for some other thing that is no longer recyclable. It's just reused one more time and then goes to the landfill.
They want you to believe plastic is recycled so you don't feel guilty about all that waste. But they are lying to you to get you to consume more of it, because they've found that this is the real result of plastic "recycling" programs. More consumption of plastic.
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Can't you recycle yogurt containers where you all live? I like the individual ones cause they don't spoil as fast as the big ones, and then I just put the containers in the recycling....
J.
No.
I just looked at the yogurt we have - the containers are code 5. Spokane only accepts code 1 and UNCOLORED code 2 (i.e., milk jugs). No other plastic.
Even though way back in 1974 we had a world's fair that was "dedicated to the environment."
I think the city should take all the other plastic, melt it, and fill in our potholes with the mixture. It can't hold up any worse than the asphalt they use now!
