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Re: This Week in Bacon

am — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:05:56 -0000

I too have missed the blog, so glad you're back. The first time I tried to order a vegetarian burrito with pinto beans at Chipotle they told me they weren't vegetarian. Don't know how common that is, but clearly it happens sometimes. Plus, it's extremely rare for commercial pinto beans to be vegetarian so if it's that important to someone they should have asked. Yes, it should be more clearly marked, but for the reader to assume pinto beans are vegetarian is a bit optimistic.

Re: This Week in Bacon

Guest — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:04:50 -0000

Re: This Week in Bacon

Kerosenebilly — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:32:27 -0000

No wonder Greg Gutfeld trashes magazine editors on Redeye. They're kooks.

Re: This Week in Bacon

Guest — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:22:32 -0000

I empathize with the people who don't eat pork for religious reasons or due to allergies, but I've got to admit: The thought of someone who doesn't eat meat because they think it makes them better than the rest of humanity discovering that they've been slowly ingesting meat without their knowledge makes me smile when I think about the holier-than-thou mental breakdown they'd suffer.

Re: English Nanny State Laws Set to Silence Pub Banter

wedding cufflinks — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:38:31 -0000

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Re: Get Paid to Blog About Food

Kerrie — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:48:09 -0000

I live in New Orleans, LA. The Capital of Cajun Cuisine. I am an at home Chef. I have my own recipes that I have created. My family loves food and they are my critics. I have a lot to say about food. Please pick me for your blogging
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Re: This Week in Bacon

marfdrat — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:09:47 -0000

Pity the poor vegetarian. The thought of bacon made him want to "through (sic) up?" The thought that bacon would produce this thought in some people makes me want to throw up. Where's the bacon? Please make your next post about large quantities of smoky, delicious bacon, and people who like it.

Good to see you guys back in business - I've been checking in a couple of times a month, anxiously awaiting your next bacony dispatch.

Re: With Economy Worsening, Hershey’s Starts Selling Mockolate

TheLight — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:38:44 -0000

The use of other oils and fats alters the nutritional value of the chocolate. Much of the beneficial nutrients found in chocolate comes from the cocoa butter. Other fats make the chocolate even less healthy than it already is. By your reasoning, if adding arsenic to Coca Cola improved the flavor, then that would be ok, too.

Re: With Economy Worsening, Hershey’s Starts Selling Mockolate

TheLight — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:36:44 -0000

The changes don't go far enough. They should not be allowed to use the word "chocolate" in any form on any product that does not have actual chocolate in it." Chocolate flavored" or "chocolatey coating" are very misleading and the average consumer won't even notice the difference in the packaging.

Re: With Economy Worsening, Hershey’s Starts Selling Mockolate

TheLight — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:34:47 -0000

There is a huge difference. Other oils are cheaper than cocoa butter, which is why they made the switch, but the nutritional value is very different. Some of the oils and fats they use as substitutes are hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated for longer shelf life and those are the ones that contain artery clogging trans-fats so they are taking a product with documented health benefits and turning it a deadly poison.

Re: With Economy Worsening, Hershey’s Starts Selling Mockolate

TheLight — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:31:08 -0000

If it was the same chocolate like what Lindt sells in their bars, nobody would be able to afford to buy it. The whole point of Hershey's is that it is chocolate that everybody can afford, but it was still real chocolate with cocoa powder and cocoa butter as the primary ingredients. This new stuff they are passing off as chocolate has the cocoa butter substituted with a cheaper fat of dubious nutritional value. I am guessing they only did this with their fringe products that don't make up a large percentage of their sales. It was either that or discontinue them altogether as the cost to keep producing them would soon eat up all the profits. I don't eat any of the products that are affected by this, so I don't really care but fans of those products may be disappointed. I only eat the original Hershey Bar, Hershey with Almonds, and Special Dark and they still have real chocolate. They don't have the high concentrations of cocoa powder that premium brands like Lindt have, but they are still the real thing. I'll be checking all the chocolate labels for oils and fats that shouldn't be in there from now on, though, just to keep them honest.

Re: How Many Calories in the Whole Vending Machine?

Vending Machines — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:57:08 -0000

I agree you really want to see what the calories and nutritional values of products they receive from a vending machine. When I get the machine all I want is to solve this rumble in the stomach. Thank God they finally do this - because the calories are so well wherever they were mandated. Surely that was not the opposite of the desired effect or something

Re: This Week in Bacon

Sbsl — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:21:23 -0000

Is this really what passes for a review? This is a frigging advertisement. I hope you were paid well, although it looks like free crappy food is enough of a bribe.

Re: Reason.tv’s DC Food Truck Video (Featuring Red Hook Lobster DC & Yours Truly)

Kim — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:36:27 -0000

you were right by my work -- can't believe you didn't call me!

Re: New Food Safety Law Has No Critics

Baylen Linnekin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:33:31 -0000

HNY to you, too. I'm now more here than Crispy. Announcement coming soon.

Re: New Food Safety Law Has No Critics

Darien — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:41:47 -0000

Not going to speak for anybody but myself, but I know for a fact that I don't exist. Good to see that you guys still do, though. Welcome back, and happy new year. :-)

Re: Quick Bites

Baylen Linnekin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:26:04 -0000

Not sure I agree re: Palin + Obama. Palin spoke "in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert." I don't see where Mrs. O. said that. Sounds incorrect. No?

Re: Quick Bites

John A — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:16:22 -0000

McDonald’s suit -
http://www.futureofcapitali...

430 calories max? They are suing the wrong outfit.
"In response, a FutureOfCapitalism.com reader-participant-content co-creator-community member-watchdog has helpfully provided the San Francisco public schools elementary school lunch menu for November. Weekly average per-meal calories for the government school meals, not including drinks, are, according to the menu, 708, 662, 666, 730, and 650."

Re: Quick Bites

John A — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:10:08 -0000

What the hell does Palin find objectionable about Mrs. Obama telling her daughters that “dessert is not a right”?

Conflating two things: Mrs. Obama is quite correct in her statement - and Mrs. Palin is also correct that Mrs. O's own idea of not always allowing dessert but [parents] allowing it sometimes is the way to go, rather than a legislated ban on all desserts - which is what the First Lady's ideas have been extended to.

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Soda taxes help middle-class people lose only about one pound per year [but]
No, the study started with a false premise. Only true if a daily sugar-sweetened soda is firstly being comsumed im excess of weight-maimtenance needs and secondly if said soda is cut without something {milk. fruit juice, soy drink] replacing it. Note too that it is a "soda" tax - will it not apply to "diet" soda? Hah!

Re: LA City Council Pretty Much Gives Up On Even Trying to Make Any Sense

Darien — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:11:26 -0000

Also: not clear why "we" -- which is to say the LA City Council -- "need to give other options." Is the city council in the restaurant business out there on the weird coast? I mean, besides, if you want to give other options, like, do that. Giving other options and destroying existing options aren't the same thing.

They're destroying jobs, sure, but also: McDonald's will sell you a double cheeseburger for a dollar. It ain't haute cuisine, but it's cheap, and it'll keep you alive. Maybe if more than a quarter of the people are unemployed and the city's experiencing a hunger problem, the thing to do is not shut down affordable places to eat.

Re: Michelle Obama and USDA Teaming Up to Ban Bake Sales?

John A — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:59:20 -0000

The "justification" is that there are [supposedly] schools which have such sales as much as nine of ten school days. How many, and where?

And note the ban is for school hours, after-hours sales are fine. Too bad that kids who use the bus, have doctor or other appointments, or just want to get home before dark will not be able to buy a candy bar to help replace the school roof torn off by a tornado.

Re: This Week in Bacon

Ama — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:38:29 -0000

Not to mention one of the desserts was a Chocolate Hazelnut Bacon tart. Which is at least bacony, if not very epic.

Re: This Week in Bacon

Darien — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:19:19 -0000

I don't think there IS anything as epic as that. I just got together with the family, as we do. Normally, my mother will make a big Thanksgiving spread with all the usual accoutrements -- turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce, so forth -- and everybody else will bring a dish or two. This year, due to crazy randomness, we all brought desserts. Every single one of us.

Seven people. Eleven desserts.

That was sort of epic, but nothing like the TurBaconEpic.

Re: Quick Bites

TeqjackJohn A — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:44:38 -0000

The "food-safety bill," from the coverage, will give the FDA almost exactly the same powers as are already supposed to be held by the Dept. of Agriculture - except it may get the funding that DAg inspections never have. Heck, if the concern is about contamination, why not NIH or CDC? Or, just fund the inspection department[s] of Agriculture...

Re: Adventures in Deep Frying

Baylen Linnekin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:12 -0000

We did the turkey fry last year. By far the best turkey I've ever eaten. This year it was lamentably back to the oven.