Food
This is for the Americans who've banned Vegemite because only cereals and breads may contain folate in the US (Vegemite is owned by Kraft that evil US conglomerate who poisoned hundreds of kids 10 years ago with Salmonella peanut butter so it's only fair). Of course, they are still selling Vegemite in the US because only a few people know about the no folate in other foods law yet. Unfortunately some of the importers know about it, so it's only upsetting Australians so far who've tried to send Vegemite to friends marooned in the US and been sideswiped by overzealous Regulation readers.
Article here: US Denies Vegemite Import Ban
But don't worry because Marmite is much better. Just look what a girl in England has done with it:
The US aren't letting nice healthy folates violate their food chain but they are handing out awards for deep fried coke balls (coke has balls?!):
Deep fried Coke the new fast food craze
Saturday Oct 28 09:00 AEST
A new fast food is making its debut at US fairs - fried Coke.
Abel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from Dallas, triedabout 15 different varieties before coming up with his perfect recipe -a batter mix made with Coca-Cola syrup, a drizzle of strawberry syrup, and some strawberries.
Balls of the batter are then deep-fried, ending up likeping-pong ball sized doughnuts which are then served in a cup, topped with Coca-Cola syrup, whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry on the top.
"It tastes great," said Sue Gooding, a spokeswoman for the State Fair of Texas where Gonzales' fried Coke made its debut. "It was a huge success."
Gonzales ran two stands at the State Fair of Texas and sold up to 35,000 fried Cokes over 24 days for $4.50 each and won a prize for coming up with "most creative" new fair food.
Hey look! A NEW way to eat fat, flour, corn syrup and sugar and no actual REAL food. What a WONDERFUL invention!
Do you remember the book Good Omens, and the four horsemen of the apocolypse? Famine's new plan was to make everyone obese and yet starved of nutrients so they would eventually all die without realising how nutrient starved they were.
I don't think Gonzales invented deep fried coke balls at all... I think Famine did. And I think he came up with the idea to ban Vegemite.
posted by Bren MacDibble @ 10:24 AM
4 Comments:
why haven't I been reading this blog?
why do you have an inferiority complex?
your pal,
andy
You haven't read it because no one comes to Blogger. Blogger has no friends.
Every kid raised in poverty has an inferiority complex (altho poor kids don't have the exclusive on inferiority complexes). If that poor kid has no parental or societal support then it's hard to shake off childhood conditioning.
Having become completely bored by said inferiority complex I've changed my responses to it ie. I'll make decisions based on the decisions a better person would make, or someone not doomed to failure would make because even tho I know, at a cerebral/superficial level, that I am a decent, and I deserve good decisions, my natural responses are still those of an idiot with an inferiority complex.
Complicated, huh? I was trying to explain it to a boy with Aspergers once. He was a student who was convinced he couldn't write... and my explanation came out as "don't trust your brain, it lies." He didn't believe it. But he'd written some great stuff and I asked him who knew more about writing, me or him? He said I did, so I could say, "well this is the best writing I've seen from a 12 year old in ages, your brain lied to you when it said you couldn't write, don't trust it. Use other ways to find out how well you're doing. Ask people who know. Compare it to other stories."
This writing class was the first time he'd written in two years. He's 14 now and writes all the time.
My inferior idiot leaks out all the time. I suppose you didn't notice because so many other people are inferior idiots that it's kinda normal human behaviour?
You know... too many people make the mistake of living their lives trying to justify what their head is telling them... when they'd be so much better off questioning their own sanity, and rejecting the rubbish as faulty imput.
interesting...
i think you need to switch blogs, and post your serious stuff here, and your funny stuff on livejournal, where i can comment on it more readily.
because it's all about me. . .
You like painting on toast with marmite too?
Or have you given up validating emotions that ultimately drag you down?
Good idea about blog switching, I'm having trouble sorting out these blogging worlds... and providing links to them, obviously. Maybe I didn't ask you enough questions first?
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