Even His Groceries Are Racist
Frequent “Alas” token right-winger Robert goes shopping.
Old Glory Insurance
Boy, is Sam Watterson a sell-out. (Quicktime required).
Stop Looking At Me!
Ann Althouse provides a scary photo of a cell phone.
Infamous Page 7
Kevin gets in trouble lending his six-year-old Katie a comic that reveals the unrevealable.
Objectivity and Subjectivity Switched Meanings
Really, they did. But that was hundreds of years ago, so none of us noticed.
Quite Impressive Optical Illusion.
I probably came across this via Boing Boing.
Control Humans Via Remote Control
I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced — mistakenly — that this was the only way to maintain my balance.
The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands.
Forget the racist part, *creamed* chicken soup? *Canned* corn?
Ew. Trailer trash cuisine.
That may be, but I for one practically live on canned corn. (That and canned tuna). You lefty elite ivory-tower swine.
I know! That is the most amazing optical illusion I have ever seen. I came across it on BoingBoing yesterday as well and sent out a mass e-mail for it… should have just posted it. Cool site!
No no, Amp, it’s elitist food snob. Being a lefty has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of right wing food snobs. We’re egalitarian. Anyone can join. All you have to do is sneer at people who eat stuff like canned corn.
No. Really. Fresh corn actualy tastes better.
Canned corn is better in soup. Soup is what we were making.
You’re not an elitist; you’re just one of the people with an unconstrained vision who believe their own articulated knowledge is more useful than the unarticulated knowledge of the common folk.
I agree that – soup and tuna cassarole aside – fresh corn tastes better. But canned corn tastes good enough, is easier to prepare, and – perhaps most importantly – can be kept in stock, rather than requiring more frequent trips to the market.
Fresh produce, unless you pick it out of your own garden, is often not as good, or as fresh as you might think. It just costs more. That higher price people pay is for the illusion of freshness.
Canned/frozen produce is processed almost as soon as it is picked. It contains almost all the nutrients it had when it was picked. That “fresh” stuff you buy in the stores has been sitting out under the lights and the sprinklers losing light and water soluable vitamins.It has alternated between cold storage and hot loading docks and backrooms in stores waiting to be loaded back into cold storage where it waits to get put out on the rack for folks to buy. And “fresh” is a relative term. That “fresh” ear of corn in the store could have been picked up to three weeks ago. If it’s been trimmed and placed into trays at the store level, it could be up to four weeks old.
Me, I buy the frozen stuff in bags. It saves money because I can just use what I need and leave the rest in the freezer. And I know the nutritional info on the package is probably correct.
If I only buy canned and frozen, what are the hardworking worms in the compost bin going to eat as reward for all their hard work ?
Never a day off, never a demand for a raise or childcare, never even a demand for overtime or a protest if I accidentally cleave ’em in two while trowelling in new bulbs.
Earthworms are truly the laissez-faire capitalist’s perfect employee, but frizz-haired Lefties admire them, too. No, no… canned and frozen have their place, but I need to produce at least one wilted lettuce head and three or four moldy bread-heels a month, in the name of solidarity.
Thank You, and have a “black gold” kind of an evening. The worms are picking up the tab. ~~~~~~
P.S.– My compost bin looks like a giant Darth Vader head, so let us have none of this “elitist” jabber.
*blink blink*
You are so clearly on crack. Crack corn. Or something.
Racist!
alsis39,
They can still eat your wasted lettuce, ’cause canned or frozen lettuce? EWWW!
Likewise the moldy bread: although freezing bread doesn’t work too badly, having to defrost each slice as you go would be a bit of a pain, so even if you aren’t buying fresh bakery bread each day, you still end up with stale and moldy pieces for the worms.
Hmm. For some reason my response to the ‘fresh food ain’t fresh’ got deleted.
Anyhow, I buy produce at a local farmers market. Fresh, organic, localy grown. :P
…having to defrost each slice as you go would be a bit of a pain…
Not if you rightly believe, as I do, in the divinity of toast. Mmmm, toast.
Man, as I was waking up this morning I was thinking about that Old Glory commercial. It’s possibly my favorite SNL fake commercial ever.
I keep bread in the refrigerator, to protect it from the clutches of Walter, the anti-Atkins cat.
I buy most of my food fresh, but I have to admit, I don’t see much point in buying fresh corn, or fresh peas, or fresh broccoli, and so on, on a regular basis – I live on my own, and I just can’t do enough with som vegetables before they go bad. Nor can I go buy groceries every day. Ah well.
Josh,
[on buying from the farmer’s market, one of my major vegetable sources too]
…and no corn this time of year.
and I’m sure you know what the age-old gardener’s solution to the tragically short seasons of most vegetables is.
Canning.
But yeah, commercial canned vegetables totally make me go Eww! too.
Frozen I can handle, but canned? Gleck!
Just what I was raised on, I guess.
Elitist food snob?! Beg pardon? I”ll have you know I’m a home-grown, blue-collar, Sicilian-American food snob, thankyavery much! It’s not about the price or the “hipness” factor; it’s all about the taste. One you taste real food, you don’t want the watered-down, mass-produced version.
Most canned veggies don’t taste as good as frozen (if you can’t get fresh); they lose texture in the water necessary for canning. Canned veggies are only better than no veggies…purely a taste thing.
Now creamed corn, that’s a whole ‘nother ball game. My dad used to work in a canning factory, and I’ve heard all kinds of stories about what makes it into the creamed corn other than what’s on the official recipe sheet. Yick! My dad still won’t eat creamed corn at gunpoint. I’ve got an uncle who won’t eat mass-produced peanut butter for the same reason (he’ll eat the fresh health-food store-produced version). I can only imagine that creamed chicken soup has the same “extra” ingredients.
Okay, all of this talk about canned vs. fresh vs. frozen is very well, but my mom makes a killer corn pudding that calls for several cans of creamed corn. The hitch is that I live in Bolivia where creamed corn is nowhere to be found at the moment. I have to make the fabulous corn pudding for Thanksgiving dinner next week! I can’t find a recipe that looks anything like the canned cream corn that I know and love (with God-knows-what thrown in)- any advice?