Dinner?

[morsla]

Lured by the reduced stock in the supermarket, I bought a quiche Lorraine to have with dinner. Glancing at the ingredients list, I noticed that it contains: Ham (Veal, Mutton, Pork, Salt, Antioxidant (316), Mineral Salt (451), Sugar, Soya, Sodium Nitrate (250)).

Man, I remember the old days when ham was smoked meat of a single species...

Makes me glad I only eat Meat (tm) once a week or thereabouts. Vegetables are a little more honest.

Comments

[harkon.livejournal.com]

Give Them time and I am sure They can squeeze "meat" into anything.

And plus the thing was like (HAM++)^2 - cow, sheep, pig! Talk about a balanced diet. And soy! Soy is good for you right? And how can something called Antioxidant be bad? And Mineral Salt - that kinda sounds like minerals, which everyone needs...

[peacockangel.livejournal.com]

I don't know about fruits and vegetables being more honest, grape juice has some wiggy things in it.

[tarleon.livejournal.com]

zat is because quiche lorraine is nasty nasty stuff.

My mother knows of this little place which makes fantastic quiches. Their spinach and sundried tomato one is to die for, the mushroom is yummy and I had a lovely garden vegetable one tonight with all manner of lovely things like brocolli and carrots and onions in it.

I look at the "ham and cheese" quiche lorraines and just.. cant..

[morsla.livejournal.com]

I know, I bought it in a moment of "hey, it's only $2.50" weakness... never again, though.

Next time (well, once the chickens at home start laying again) I'll make a proper spinach one myself.

Warning: may contain traces of meat.

[kikilon.livejournal.com]

Well, vegetables and fruit are more honest unless you get lavender-coloured Is-is-a-brokkoli-is-it-a-cauliflower Brokkoflowers, New-and-improved yellow kiwis, genetically "enhanced" tomatoes, GM wheat...

That's why I don't read the list of ingredients or the obituaries. Both are too depressing for everyday life.

Warning: Warning label may contain references to meat.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Although when you have a fruit or vegetable, you generally have a single organism - even if it's a hybrid of all sorts of things.

We used to grow Plumcots (they had the texture of a plum, but tasted more like an apricot) and Peacherines (Peaches with the smooth skin of nectarines) - those were nice, but they only gave fruit for a few years.

Mind you, there was an attempt in California to grow frost-resistant strawberries that incorporated an antifreeze-producing gene from deep sea fish, about ten years ago. I think I might draw the line at fishberries...