tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post7684441417896523810..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Bad News BettieFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-39373128028759355392008-12-12T12:24:00.000-07:002008-12-12T12:24:00.000-07:00Exactly so, Chief. It costs money to eat well. A ...Exactly so, Chief. It costs money to eat well. A trip through any Whole Foods market will tell you that. <BR/><BR/>The poorest must go for the cheapest, most filling calories, which are low-quality carbohydrates and poor fats and oils. <BR/><BR/>It would be neat if we underwent some kind of food revolution, maybe back to a communal victory garden mindset. But only wealthy people live in communitarian developments with land set aside for gardens. <BR/><BR/>Agribusiness is big business, and the "cornification" of America had been well-documented by biologist Pollen. And ill people feed the maws of the health care behemoth. It is a sad treadmill, at the moment.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-65444973279865860962008-12-11T23:10:00.000-07:002008-12-11T23:10:00.000-07:00Lisa: the really sad thing is that many of the peo...Lisa: the really sad thing is that many of the people eating this stuff are pretty damn poor, and they're spending their food stamps on this crap.<BR/><BR/>Being poor is hard enough without being dumb, too.<BR/><BR/>Somewhere I read that something like the secod or third most commonly purchased "meat item" is SPAM.<BR/><BR/>There is no God.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-79717573326420955782008-12-11T12:16:00.000-07:002008-12-11T12:16:00.000-07:00I think you're spot-on about bible colleges, gener...I think you're spot-on about bible colleges, generally.<BR/><BR/>And in a desultory comment, not only is it "cheese food," it is, "processed" cheese food. <BR/><BR/>I remember my proto-earth mother going into a rant in the grocer's over a stand-alone display of Velveeta -- "Do you see this? This food will <I>never</I> decay, because is has no redeeming food qualities." Of course, we hadn't yet gotten the UHT dairy items, and she was going on her horrific memories of margarine WW II era -- lard + yellow food coloring. But I am glad for her insistence on real food.<BR/><BR/>When I was a kid, post-Apollo missions, "food bars," Tang and that stuff became de riguer. Not in my home. "Citrus punch" and soda was anathema. I am still amazed that so many people survive on totally processed food diets, devoid of veggies or fruits.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-84560609112432982092008-12-11T06:41:00.000-07:002008-12-11T06:41:00.000-07:00Lisa: I had the same feeling about that part of he...Lisa: I had the same feeling about that part of her story, yet didn't want to hammer away at it when the poor woman is dying. Like I said, her story is beyond bizarre - I especially liked the part where in trying to get her church to send her to Africa as a missionary she remarries the a-hole first husband she divorced because, well, he was an a-hole and abused her and was generally worthless. So goes on mission and the marriage falls apart within a year. So much for the sanctity of marriage.<BR/><BR/>There's a local connection there, too; she attended Multnomah Bible College, where she learned, so far as I can tell, nothing useful. Which pretty much confirms my suspicion that "bible college" is to "college" what "cheese food" is to "cheese".FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-5661785453932326292008-12-10T18:42:00.000-07:002008-12-10T18:42:00.000-07:00Hers is a sad and freaky story, from what I know. ...Hers is a sad and freaky story, from what I know. But in, "battled mental illness and became a born-again Christian," the "and" is superfluous,<BR/><BR/>"battled mental illness, becoming. . ."Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.com