Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

"Billy" <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> oh get over yourself!!!! <g> the u.s. is not the ruination of 
>> civilisation
>> everywhere ffs ;-) it doesn't have that much power.
>
> Not everywhere, just where I eat. We have this Ile de France Brie
> cheese, made in New Jersey and tastes like wax. The faux
> croissants are either wonder bread in crescent shapes, or dripping
> of oil (probably soy). Croissants that shatter into hundreds of
> toasted shards with a center of airy french bread are rare and not
> easily found. But having found one, Nutella, and Bonne Mamam are the
> perfect condiments to serve with them, along with a strong cup of
> coffee. (We call it French roast, the French call it Italian roast, and
> the Italians call it coffee.)
> No we haven't ruined it everywhere but most Americans never get a
> chance to taste what real food can be. We get new combinations of
> confected wheat, corn syrup and corn fractions, soy oil, and salt,
> and it gets called, new and improved.

what about people who know their food? what do they do? foodies might be a

small pro****tion of the populace, but what are they eating? (im****ts???) 
what about the really good restaurants?

we are very lucky where we are: despite being in the country, you can get 
wonderful food, excellent local bread, etc etc. weird though it might
sound, 
often in country australia the food is awful due to lack of foodies to up 
the ante. that seems to be changing a lot now, thank heavens, you can get
a 
nice espresso in the most surprising places.

when bill bryson came to write his (only slightly erroneous) book about 
australia he remarked on how good the food was everywhere he went, which 
made me speculate that american food must really be woeful if he can get 
better stuff in a flyspeck town in woop-woop :-)

had a conversation with a lady online at a different group who was still 
huffy (several years after the event) that some frenchwoman in the u.s.
had 
remarked that food is much better in france. i opined that, on the balance

of probability, there was no chance that food was better in the u.s. & the

frenchwoman must have been correct & she could get over it now. but her 
outrage and denial were not to be stopped :-)

she was from california where food is probably better.

> One of the problems with corn syrup is that it doesn't satiate.
> You don't know that you've had enough.

it sounds a really bizarre substance.

 I would probably take the
> admittedly creepy aspartame over corn syrup. But then that is a
> lot like our election, choosing the least bad. I'm going to vote
> for some third party candidate because the Democrat will take
> California anyway, and to assure that a third party gets federal
> funds to stay viable. The Republicrats are an op****tunistic
> embarrassment.
>> kylie
> Thanks for the "chin wag".

you too.
i can't watch your videos as my dial-up is far too slow for video.
kylie