14 March 2011

Cook of the House

I grew up in a country with Wimpys and Steers. Junk food is nothing new to me. But it was not something we ate in my family. We spent more time digging in the garden and cooking what we dug up in the kitchen than waiting in the drive thru and sitting on the sofa in front of the TV. I grew up in a time and place where most dinners were cooked at home and eaten as a family. Most people saw junk food as an occasional snack. Today there are millions of people who eat nothing but fast food and frozen dinners.



A wholesome dinner like mother used to thaw.


This is a real thing.


All the essential food groups. Vegetable group [French fries], dairy group [chocolate milk, artificial cheese product], unidentifiable group [hot dog], bread group [hot dog bun], chili group.


The ketchup counts as a vegetable.
If a school fed this to my child I would alert the police.


What American school children call mystery meat.


At least there is corn.

6 comments:

Jo said...

I read the other day that the most popular food in China now is Kentucky Fried Chicken. There are 3,700 KFC franchises in China, with an operating profit of $2 billion. And Chinese people are becoming fat and unhealthy because of it.

Real Chinese food is one of my favourites. Why would anyone prefer Kentucky Fried Chicken? *gag*

It's not about feeding people nutritional food, it's about making a huge profit on feeding them garbage.

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名在日本求學的台灣籍留學生今天搭機返台時,因為衣物被檢測出輻射值超出標準,身上穿的牛仔褲遭留置,並經過相關處置後,改穿白色包覆褲順利入境。


在日本千葉縣就學的1名台灣籍留學生下午搭乘日本航空班機,從東京成田機場抵台時,在位於機場內所設置輻射測量篩檢站被檢測出身體、衣物、袋子有輻射超量反應。


經行政院原子能委員會與核能研究所人員利用污染偵測器偵測後,發現男子的手指、下手臂、外套、褲子有輻射超量反應。


原能會人員利用膠帶黏除附著在手指、衣物等處的落塵,其中黑色牛仔褲輻射超量最高。原能會人員將牛仔褲放入塑膠袋包裹,帶回進行專業處理;男子隨後穿著白色包覆長褲離去。


男子說,他從千葉出發到東京成田機場搭飛機返台,途中等公車時,曾坐在千葉的公車站旁地上等待。


男子被問到這幾天停留的地點時表示,直到搭機返台前,都在千葉縣。


原能會人員表示,輻射落塵屬於鬆散性污染,經過膠帶黏除處理後,男子身體與貼身衣物均在檢測標準範圍內,經過1個多小時的處理後,終於完成篩檢手續,男子帶著篩檢過關的行李與衣物順利入境。

Mia said...

I'd be surprised if there were more KFCs than McDonalds in China. The Chinese love McDonalds for some reason. Chicken is also very popular so that's why KFC is expanding.

As the population grows richer and lazier they'll eat more American junk food. Affluent Chinese are very image-conscious. Owning American products and eating American food is a sign of wealth. So to show how rich they are people will eat horrible American food when they could easily eat some of the best food in the world.

i-pod person, radiation isn't an issue here. As bad as American junk food is, it's not radioactive.

phi lip said...

The na. vy gall.ey food here at G lakes is really bad. Much food in US is controlled by a few big companies & getting worse. if you're selling health food they will come raid yr place. The corn n yr photo is probably GMO, which is a killer & US media is silent/government is encouraging it.
Since joining na.vy my health has dipped & I hear the boat food is worse. I can't say anything either or I could lose job. I could still mail order some food if i make it to ship. At least here theres stores.

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Mia said...

I hope that last comment is spam. The food shown here is the exact opposite of delicious.