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Comments (28)I am baffled because I have the opposite point of view entirely. Has anyone ever thought about what your ancestor Gunter in Germany was eating a thousand years ago? Probably cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, onions, garlic, barley, cabbage, pork, and turnips. How about Earnest in England?... pretty much the same. Far from food going extinct, I think there is tremendous diversity now in food production. Industrial production might require GM and capitalization of research through protection of intellectual property, but the fact remains that you are eating tomatoes, kohlrabi, six kinds of lettuce, two kinds of carrots, brussels sprouts, etc. All of those are robust and are grown as millions of mini varieties in gardens all over the world. I mean EVERYWHERE. Seed banks, seed companies, and people's dresser drawers hold huge stores of DNA, all slightly different. In five minutes, I could buy 100 different packets of seeds at the hardware store. Was that even possible in the 50s? And that is F1 or F2. Some okra farmer in Alabama has seeds produced through 50 crosses. People can and do create and study their own cultivars of darn near everything every season and then trade them internationally. How will that change? Activism is all well and good, but GM and Mxxxxxxo are small in the big picture and probably getting smaller. Remember that they have to invest millions in a cultivar just to get it to a commercial seed stage. How many cultivars can they do that with? And they and their timing are going to be wrong how often? Monsanto is not a juggernaut, it is a riverboat gambler. The bigger it gets, the bigger it bets. For better or worse, some gardener in China has a seed that is better than what Mxxxxxxo has got, and it is only a matter of time before the rest of the world finds out about it. In Japan, a single pumpkin seed can sell for hundreds of dollars. Mxxxxxxo has not moved in on that action, and it never will. The market is fuelled by enthusiasts and connisseurs. If the market gets cornered, people will immediately lose interest. Viewed in terms of sheer greed, it is in Mxxxxxxo's interest to maintain wild type specimens in environments all over the world. Even if Mxxxxxxo could sell one type of tomato seed that would make all others extinct, it would not do it. Has anyone considered that? Well, I guess that is enough. I could give 20 more examples. Viewed from a wider perspective, food diversity has never been better. And I will not be buying Mxxxxxxo stock. I should watch more TV, it sounds very entertaining....See MoreFloof! Staple storage.
Comments (31)For several years my mother bought a brand of instant coffee that came in tall, square glass jars. She saved them and shared with me, and I also kept the ones she had. I keep all my pasta, dried beans and peas, rice, sugar, flour, nuts, popcorn and so forth in those jars ( and smaller quantities of such things are in pint glass canning jars). Because they are square they fit efficiently into storage space. I've changed many of the lids from the original plastic to tighter sealing ones. I don't go through flour quickly at all so those jars stay in the freezer. The dried legumes and any excess pasta, sugar, nuts stay in the cool, dry basement, where a dehumidifier runs much of the year, until I've used up the current jar in the kitchen. I haven't had a mouse in the house for a few years, but have in the past, so instead of keeping boxed mixes in the kitchen I have a clean plastic lidded cat litter bin that I store them in, also in the basement even though with my kitchen remodel I now have room to keep them upstairs....See MoreFloof-ish: Buyers Remorse: The perils of shopping hungry
Comments (47)When I was working in an office, the company provided plastic cutlery and paper plates, plus there was pizza day the first Friday of every month, and there were tons of pizzas for everyone to have for lunch that the owner provided. Those were the only days I ate in the company lunchroom. I lived 1.3 miles from work, and my commute was four minutes, which meant that I could go home for lunch. I used to take excess food to work to give away, but it was generally something I grew and had too much of, such as figs, when they were in season. One woman from Israel particularly liked my figs, and so I invited her to come to my house one week-end and pick some for herself. She brought her husband, and they picked quite a few figs. I was getting about 40 figs a day and needed to get rid of them. She made some fig jam with some of the figs and gave me some of the jam, which was very nice. Sometimes we would have potluck lunches at work (for special occasions), and people would bring all kinds of homemade exotic dishes that they had made at home, although one woman would bring a bucket of fried chicken that she had bought, and a few people would bring chips and drinks that they had bought. There were always massive amounts of leftovers. The main time that I overbuy is when I go to a farmers' market, and the reason for this is that I do not go more than once a week, as a rule, and that is on week-ends. I often buy more vegetables and fruit than I can eat. I know this is an old thread, but I saw a link to it at the side of the page....See Morefloof= what time do you eat on Thanksgiving
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6 years agoCheese wraps are showing as a new item in my regional store:
They have mozzarella, too. More calories than OP lists so I guess different brand. It’s just cheese, so at 90¢/oz it’s pretty pricy for a shape, but I get the appeal.
amylou321 thanked foodonastump- 6 years ago
Whistle, I’m wondering if your cheese was too cold, straight from the fridge?
Agreed about the baked ritz. I’ve tried a few flavors, all good. They’re way too salty IMO but that doesn’t stop me from binging.
Speaking of binging, here’s my new food. My MIL gave my son a big bag of brownie brittle. I scarfed it down in two days. I don’t think anyone else even got a taste. Yum.
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoThe last new food I found was mamey paletas, which are readily available at gas stations along Interstate 5. I can get mamey ice cream and guanabana licuados at my local farmers' market, but I don't find them in the regular grocery store. I think Walmart has mamey paletas, and so if you see them there, I high recommend buying them. To me, the flavor resembles strawberry, but is more complex and interesting than that. I do not have a Walmart close to me (plus I never shop there), and so I will have to look for them at my local Cárdenas Market, which is only a few blocks away from my house in Cathedral City. I won't be shopping there any time soon, as I do not think it is a safe as places like Gelson's.
If you find soursop or guanabana paletas, you should try those as well. I have a cherimoya tree that makes a fruit with a similar flavor and a white sapote that makes fruit that is also somewhat similar. I just got fruit from my white sapote for the first time last year, and so that is something new for me.
In Brazil we had dragon fruit drinks that are one of my absolute favorites. Dragon fruit (AKA pitaya) is easy to find, and I also have this growing in my back yard.
Unfortunately, the pitaya must be hand-pollinated (like the cherimoya), and it must be done soon after the flower opens in the evening. The flower lasts until mid-morning, but by then it is too late.
amylou321 thanked Lars- 6 years ago
Foodonastump,that is the brand I got! The mozzerella ones have 90 calories, the Colby jack has 110. I got one of each.
- 6 years ago
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