#2 2008-10-26 13:43:43
If you haven't yet seen it, everybody do yourselves a favor and rent Lucky Louie, his old HBO show.
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#3 2008-10-26 14:13:06
He's not my favorite comedian, but the rant above is pure gold.
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#4 2008-10-26 16:14:50
One of my kids dropped by recently and curiosity got the best of me when a grocery receipt dropped from her purse.
Note to parents: Resist the temptation to examine your grown children too closely. You won't like it.
I could not fucking believe what I saw. Beginning to end without exception, every food item was highly processed. Mayo, peanut butter, jelly, bottled sauce, whipped margarine, instant potatoes, budget hamburger, canned and powdered soup, for fucks sake. How hard is it to blend/butter a bag of shelled nuts? Cakes, breads, chips, frozen crap you would not... no fresh fruit or vegtables. None.
My stomach twists just thinking about it now but I kept my mouth shut.
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#5 2008-10-26 18:08:30
Probably better you kept your mouth shut.
Not to make excuses, but when you're young and busy the temptations of convenience are hard to pass up. It's not that hard to make your own peanut butter if you have a blender, but there's the time involved. And then there's the cleaning up, which is such a drag when you're tired at the end of the day. And the processed stuff is so much smoother than what you can make, and it's right there. But budget hamburger and instant potatoes, in particular, do not cross the threshold of our home.
Does she have kids to feed? The (few) kids I know turn their noses up at quality and will only eat junk, however their parents try to train them up.
I have seen "convenience" items on supermarket shelves that made me crack right up in public. The most recent find was roux in a jar. Apparently it's a successful product; there is jarred roux in different shades now.
I fully expect to someday see ready-to-boil microwave water at the Safeway. "Pre-measured! Just follow directions!"
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#6 2008-10-26 18:14:46
George Orr wrote:
I have seen "convenience" items on supermarket shelves that made me crack right up in public. The most recent find was roux in a jar. Apparently it's a successful product; there is jarred roux in different shades now.
Christ, and I thought pre-made polenta in a tube was over the top.
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#7 2008-10-26 18:25:13
ah297900 wrote:
If you haven't yet seen it, everybody do yourselves a favor and rent Lucky Louie, his old HBO show.
I have the complete series of Lucky Louie on DVD, pure gold.
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#8 2008-10-26 22:20:15
Jeepers, at risk of beytraying myself as a basement dwelling mama's boy, wtf is roux?
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#9 2008-10-26 22:37:35
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Jeepers, at risk of beytraying myself as a basement dwelling mama's boy, wtf is roux?
It's what you put in sauces to make them thicker. Think of it as that tapioca-looking stuff you find in your ejaculate after you haven't beat off for a while. Except that you came into some gumbo.
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#10 2008-10-26 22:50:12
Well, to be a little more specific, roux is the base for many important sauces and other dishes. It's a combination of equal parts butter (or, occasionally, another fat) and flour, cooked until the floury taste dissipates. From that point, you begin introducing some sort of liquid (stocks, milk, etc.) adding it gradually so as to produce a sauce of proper consistency for whatever you're cooking. It's a very important element of proper sauce making, but somewhat out of fashion now in favor of reductions.
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