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.

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[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.

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[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...