Posts Tagged ‘food’
Making school food edible again….
Two of Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction’s least popular initiatives have just been wiped out by the Trump Administration. The first was the meddlesome and totally unpalatable school lunch program, which saw school districts losing money hand over fist because the guidelines produced food which tasted awful, and were slated to become even worse by reducing salt even further, an action of extremely dubious usefulness. The food Nazis are stroking out about the salt study because many of them have careers which depend on faulty science, just like the global warming enthusiasts. Like the cholesterol hysterics, the salt police are relying on junk science, based on even older bad suppositions.
The other recipient of an executive death blow was the “Let Girls Learn” program, started in 2015 by Michelle Obama and meant to facilitate educational opportunities for young girls in developing countries. The program was run by the Peace Corps and U.S. Agency for International Development. CNN reported the program’s termination, but the White House is denying it. CNN is trying to weasel its way out of its bad reporting, but as far as I’m concerned, anything run by the Peace Corps should be shut down for waste and fraud if not outright abuse.
Free in Italy…
Italy is an expensive place to visit, but here are some fun activities which are free. I’ve enjoyed several of these delights myself, and would do so again.
If you’d rather just eat your way across the world sampling desserts, here’s a list of can’t-misses, some of which I have also been lucky enough to enjoy. Greed may be good, but dessert is better!
Unicorn toast?
What the hell is unicorn toast? Or mermaid toast? Apparently there are a lot of people with too much time on their hands who live exceedingly dull lives and who think toast topped with naturally dyed cream cheese and sugary sprinkles in an array of pretty colors is a food trend devoutly to be wished for.
I adore cream cheese and use it in a variety of dishes, but I don’t care to embarrass my homemade bread with pastel cream cheese, far less sprinkles of any sort, which I simply refuse to eat on anything, even the standard doughnuts you customarily see them on.
Will someone please help these poor people get a life?
Pasta cooking…
I seldom eat pasta because it has so many high-glycemic carbs, but I will definitely try this method the next time I make anything with pasta at home. I suspect this technique requires that the book actually know what al dente pasta looks, feels, and tastes like.
Chocolate lovers rejoice!
If your favorite chocolate had only half as much sugar, yet tasted the same, would you be happy? I’d do cartwheels, and the Nestle company has found a way to achieve just that by altering the structure of the sugar. My taste buds and I will enjoy every extra morsel in a little more than a year, but we will be the final arbiters as to whether the promise of the claims is met.
Turin going vegetarian?
Turin, Italy has a new mayor, and he’s clearly a liberal idiot. How do I know? Because he plans to make his city vegetarian, beginning with a meat-free day. In this region of Italy shopping for meat is a nearly daily activity, and there are glorious choices to make amongst the many offerings of various meats and sausages.
Not only are the butchers and markets unhappy, but a good percentage of the citizens, especially the older ones, have no intention of going vegan to save the environment. Like all normal people, they want food which tastes good, and meat is one of the things which tastes very good to most humans.
He has evidently been taking lessons from Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction, because he first wants to “educate” the citizenry about the alternative choices. He thinks the people who elected him are dumber than rocks, which is, of course, precisely what Michelle Obama also thinks.
With any luck, Turin will rid itself of this fool in the next election, thus proving itself smarter than America was with His Oneness.
