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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Brad Johnson on October 23, 2014, 11:29:10 AM
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Food snobs (sorry, "critics") as the ignorant elitists they think they aren't. Fawning over Mick D's because they'e been told it's organic haute cuisine.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/10/23/dutch-pranksters-secretly-offer-mcdonalds-fare-at-culinary-expo-and-get/?intcmp=features
I came. I saw. I lol'd.
Brad
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Food snobs (sorry, "critics") as the ignorant elitists they think they aren't. Fawning over Mick D's because they'e been told it's organic haute cuisine.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/10/23/dutch-pranksters-secretly-offer-mcdonalds-fare-at-culinary-expo-and-get/?intcmp=features
Reminds me of Penn and Teller's bottled water experiment.
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That's too rich.
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The gourmet resturants probably use more salt, butter, and fat than McDonalds.
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Yes, but it's free-range salt, all natural fat, and gluten-free butter. It's okay then don'cha know...
Brad
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It all depends on the definition of "Organic" . . . for example, some may term a burger to be "Organic" if the cow the beef came from died of natural causes . . .
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Buddy of mine calls the whole organic, free range, fair trade, etc junk "hippy kosher". It makes sense if you view it as a religious conviction that is independent of any tangible benefits such as taste or health.
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Hippy Kosher.
*giggle*
Brad
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You can call anything organic if it's made of carbon compounds.
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Didn't someone pull a stunt like this with a wine tasting competition? El-cheapo boxed wine in classy bottles or something.
Or was that with beer?
I'm sure all the big fast-food companies do pretty extensive experiments to find the recipes which are most appealing to the guy or gal in the street.
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Reminds me of Penn and Teller's bottled water experiment.
They did several long these lines. My favorite was the "Chateau de Cul (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdWXI3GYllA&feature=youtu.be&t=4m48s)".
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The bottled water one was hilarious.
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You can call anything organic if it's made of carbon compounds.
Back when Nutra-Sweet was new and there was a big uproar over the purported ill effects of Aspartame (the generic chemical that is Nutra-Sweet), either Nutra-Sweet or one of the soda companies using it ran television spots proclaiming, "There is nothing in [our product] that doesn't come from nature."
My response to the screen was, "There is nothing in an atomic bomb that doesn't come from nature."
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Nitroglycerin is pretty organic.