Oh, this whole thing is just a long, rambling ad for their “healthy” fast food that doesn’t use “chemicals” (or not even fearmongering about chemicals, just “too many ingredients.”) I notice they don’t specify what food this is that they’re complaining about, some random fast food burger? No shit it isn’t healthy, but it isn’t because it has preservatives or ingredients that stop it from splitting or falling apart while cooking or whatever, it’s the massive amount of sugar and fat that makes it unhealthy.
It’s just such a strange phenomenon to me, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone in real life who is scared of “seed oils” and thinks fucking beef tallow is somehow healthier, I’m guessing this is an exclusively American phenomenon, I can’t imagine pure animal grease being marketed as a “health food” anywhere else on earth.
I think a lot of it stems from the commodification of healthcare and an overall distrust of institutions. “They” just want you to get sick so that you can be given prescriptions etc. Which getting a general vibe of American capitalism isn’t particularly sensationist, they can see that basically everything falls under the profit motive but aren’t able to articulate why other than we’re seen as disposable. This likely becomes more acute with age as people see friends/family abused and disregarded by health providers, and our monkey brains fall back on “Well there must be something I can do so this doesn’t happen to me and I can’t pronounce words with more than two syllables and things I don’t understand scare me.”
A lot of the organic fanaticism also comes out of the same vein, that most farmers are dousing everything with synthetic pesticides and are either ignorant or malicious with their use. Obviously if I can pronounce organic pesticides like boron or copper sulfate that means they’re not bad for you and definitely don’t bioaccumulate or cause brain and organ damage when ingested regularly (most people assume organic produce has no pesticides and that’s why its more expensive).
Well there must be something I can do so this doesn’t happen to me and I can’t pronounce words with more than two syllables and things I don’t understand scare me."
Polysaccharide ooh scary too many syllables
Lead ahh good I know this word, safe to eat
This is also coming from someone that replaces olive oil in marinara sauce with beef tallow
https://xcancel.com/Tallow__/status/1959662476586291697
This right here is bigotry against Italians.
That’s not marinara sauce. I dont know what that is, but marinara ain’t it
Looks like they used tomatillos lmao
It looks like they used vomit, not tallow.
It absolutely does not use real San Marzanos. This person does what everyone else in the US does and that’s buy the shitty knock-off tomatoes with the misleading logo. For some reason those are allowed to exist here, I suppose, because the Italians won’t play ball on loosening their regulations for us or license their brand to US producers.
it looks like a serving size is 46% sugar+fat by weight.
by comparison, i have a chocolate chip cookie recipe i describe as the pancreas killer, only to be used once or twice a year to throw down at a potluck, which is 33% sugar+fat by weight.
i would love to know what monstrosity this box is for. also, 60g serving size? but 10% of your upper intake limit of salt? what the hell frosting-covered breakfast sausage is this clown stuffing into his gob?
Just remembered this old Snopes post https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canola-oil/ so I guess the anti-seed oil crap has been around for a while.
I heard the seed oil stuff, and when I looked it up, there were so many legitimate-looking sites saying it was unhealthy, I thought there was something to it.
Although, it didn’t really change what I buy, since I was using olive or avocado oil for cooking, anyway.
Vegetable oils will give you super cancer has been around for a few decades probably. I just assume everytime I see a cooking video where they use olive oil for everything it’s a product of this kind of propaganda.
You’d love my father, he has a similar thought process that because it’s homemade, it’s healthier. Never mind that’s it a cake with one and a half cups of sugar in it, or literally greasy red meat and bread or some other shit
He also is the type to ask a fruit seller if the fruit is good, so there’s that.
People make some crazy extrapolations when it comes to food and I think it is all about how the information space is dominated by magical thinking. It is not eating too much sugar and fat, it is ‘chemicals’ that are poisoning you. Or maybe fiber is secretly bad for you. Or maybe its actually protein, so go on a sugar diet (latest fad). And so on. The way to success is always paved with one single and very special solution. This isn’t an internet age thing either and, to be fair, we demonized fat until very recently. The food industry has been engendering this sort of thinking for a long time now.
The real value of homecooking is that you’re empowered to make your own choices. You eat storebought food, they can add a lot of salt, sugar and oil to make up for, say, diminished appeal from worse ingredients. When you make your homemade pasta, you decide how much fat goes into your dish and when. I love making garlicky pasta frying the garlic in as little oil as I can just so I can add a good deal of olive oil after the fact.
Also they sell chicken tenders fried in beef tallow, none of that is healthy.
“Literally EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE is made of chemicals!” *
(* as far as we know)
If we wanna be really pedantic, only things comprised of atoms are chemicals. So subatomic particles, antimatter, and hypothetical things like dark matter and tachyons aren’t chemicals.
I’m on the c food diet, I only eat things that move at relativistic speeds.
“is that ham processed? If it’s processed I don’t want it” Ma’am, that is an eleven pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than deli meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind’s contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest. We also have a lower sodium variety if you would prefer that.
I read this in Patton Oswalt’s voice
I’m partial to the Jeaney Collects voiceover version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJt64x3aEv8I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
There’s a metric fuck ton of type 2 vegans and it’s exhausting.
i’m vegan #1
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Soy lecithin powder is magic. It lets you blend oil and water in sauces.
Enjoy your sauces separating I guess.
Lots of options for emulsifiers. Mustard, garlic, and any fruit with pectin (apples, pears). Really a lot of seeds can work. Of course the extracted versions of these chemicals are much better for general cooking because they have no/little flavor compared to fucking garlic lmao
Anyone who gets upset about scary chemical names is just stuck in their lizard brain
“I want less delicious garlic flavor” - me, absolutely never
I’m right there with you most of the time, but idk if I want it in something like chocolate pudding
Based on how garlic and cinnamon worked in the lebanese green beans i did last week tbh garlic and chocolate could be interesting
Garlic vanilla ice cream is better than garlic chocolate ice cream, if my last trip to the Gilroy Garlic Festival is any guide.
Garlic and cinnamon are two of my go-to seasonings for just about everything.
Mole sauce tbh
Garlic salt and watermelon works. I’d try it once.
xanthan gum as well iirc
They’re both very useful for making sauce but xanthan gum is more useful as a thickener, whereas soy lecithin powder is specifically an emulsifier.
But the MAHA cult can pry them from my cold, dead hands!
Why is the serving size censored?
And only partially censored at that. Also what are the other black bars covering? Is this like how conservatives Randomly capitalize words that shouldn’t be?
Oh this dude has been doing the rounds on Twitter this week, it’s hilarious. He said his “restaurant” is failing and only pulling in like $150-200/day. He also asked for Bitcoin donations. Off the top of my head these are the relevant facts:
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closes at 7pm
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is a stall inside of a grocery store, next to the grocery store’s cooked food section
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in the same strip mall as a Wingstop, Raising Cane’s, and a Popeye’s
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Twitter handle is @Tallow, the sign in the store is “Authentic Grilled Chicken” (everything is fried), and the website is permissables.com
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makes teriyaki sauce without soy sauce or sugar
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makes marina sauce with beef tallow instead of olive oil because they do not use seed oils (olive oil is not a seed oil)
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$30,000 in debt
There’s definitely more ridiculous decisions this guy made but this is what I remember. He deleted the original thread because it got millions of views and endless comments pointing out how ridiculous everything about this is.
I’m desperate to see the menu but I get a security warning when opening the site, I see olive oil get replaced a lot due to how expensive it is, never have I seen someone replace it with an even more expensive and ill fitting fat like tallow.
What the fuck does this guy have against plant oil?
I don’t understand how this happens. This guy obviously had an idea, but no skill or ability to execute on it, and was able to secure a loan that he obviously wouldn’t be paying back.
Why did no one at any point in this whole thing stop him before it got this bad? Or at least provide him with the resources he needed to actually learn how to run and grow his business properly.
Though I suppose “Why did no one at any point in this whole thing stop him before it got this bad?” Could be the motto of the US really.
Yeah like what idiot lent this guy the money?
Probably someone who is charging him extremely high interest rates and knows he’ll have to go back to working a regular job within 6 months.
makes teriyaki sauce without soy sauce or sugar
straight to jail
no wait i need to know how he makes teriyaki
That’s what I’m saying.
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i think these are the kind of people that would proudly say that dihydrogen monoxide will kill you
I mean everyone who has ever consumed dihydrogen monoxide has died so
A new study has shown that saliva is deadly, but only if consistently swallowed in small amounts over a period of many decades. -
Oxygen? You mean tell me you breath in an oxidizer all day! You’re burning up your lungs with that stuff. That’s why I walk around hooked up to a tank of radon gas.
I mean… it will though.
First five non-water ingredients are almost entirely glucose
Interesting they don’t complain about the “sodium metabisulfite to preserve whiteness” 🤔
High fructose corn syrup is awful
Seed oils, oh the horror
can’t read = bad
god forbid you type it into any of the 20 internet devices you have around.
What I didn’t know, was a clue about how, much of coffee creamer, I was eating per day.
