Crap recipes on my FB newsfeed

[Bryan Simmons]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/albums/72157715410944773

My favorite reply is, "MOM! Duh dog fwew up agin."

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[Bruce]

The shipwreck dinner didn't look that bad to me for a quick slap-up
job with leftovers. But then I read 'KRAFT macaroni and cheese':

"Enriched Macaroni Product (Wheat Flour, Glyceryl Monostearate,
Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate [Iron], Thiamin Mononitrate [Vitamin B1],
Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Cheese Sauce Mix (Whey, Corn
Syrup Solids, Palm Oil, Milk, Milkfat, Milk Protein Concentrate, Salt,
Contains Less than 2% of Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Medium Chain
Triglycerides, Maltodextrin, Dried Buttermilk, Sodium Phosphate,
Citric Acid, Guar Gum, High Acid Whey, Cream, Lactic Acid, Calcium
Phosphate, Cheese Culture, Skim Milk, Modified Food Starch, Yellow 5,
Natural Flavor, Yellow 6, Enzymes, Annatto [Color], Artificial
Flavor), Modified Food Starch, Potassium Chloride, Maltodextrin, Salt,
Acetylated Monoglycerides, Medium Chain Triglycerides, Natural Flavor,
Apocarotenal (Color)."

This should be on the list of banned substances.

[Bryan Simmons]

Actually Bruce, there is nothing whatsoever unhealthful in those ingredients. I know what every one of them are (I'm a nerd like that). I have to make that crap for my son every so often. My wife eats it then, but I don't. It doesn't taste good.

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[Bruce]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 12:27:55 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons

<bryang...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 2:02:33 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 11:55:48 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
>> <bryang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/albums/72157715410944773
>> >
>> >My favorite reply is, "MOM! Duh dog fwew up agin."
>> >
>> >--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html
>>
>> The shipwreck dinner didn't look that bad to me for a quick slap-up
>> job with leftovers. But then I read 'KRAFT macaroni and cheese':
>>
>> "Enriched Macaroni Product (Wheat Flour, Glyceryl Monostearate,
>> Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate [Iron], Thiamin Mononitrate [Vitamin B1],
>> Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Cheese Sauce Mix (Whey, Corn
>> Syrup Solids, Palm Oil, Milk, Milkfat, Milk Protein Concentrate, Salt,
>> Contains Less than 2% of Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Medium Chain
>> Triglycerides, Maltodextrin, Dried Buttermilk, Sodium Phosphate,
>> Citric Acid, Guar Gum, High Acid Whey, Cream, Lactic Acid, Calcium
>> Phosphate, Cheese Culture, Skim Milk, Modified Food Starch, Yellow 5,
>> Natural Flavor, Yellow 6, Enzymes, Annatto [Color], Artificial
>> Flavor), Modified Food Starch, Potassium Chloride, Maltodextrin, Salt,
>> Acetylated Monoglycerides, Medium Chain Triglycerides, Natural Flavor,
>> Apocarotenal (Color)."
>>
>> This should be on the list of banned substances.
>
>Actually Bruce, there is nothing whatsoever unhealthful in those ingredients. I know what every one of them are (I'm a nerd like that). I have to make that crap for my son every so often. My wife eats it then, but I don't. It doesn't taste good.

It's not really food. It's a science project. In 50 years, they'll
finally realise what some of those ingredients do to the body. Roundup
was always safe too.

[graham]

Since the ingredients should be listed in order of amount, it makes one
wonder about the quantities in there.

[Bryan Simmons]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/50203693562/in/dateposted-public/

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[Bruce]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 12:46:10 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
<bryang...@gmail.com> wrote:

>https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/50203693562/in/dateposted-public/

You must be quite a popular guy in those Facebook groups, just like I
am here.

[Hank Rogers]

Druce doesn't like these additives because they alter the all
natural, free range, vegetarian butt odor.

[Bryan Simmons]

There really is nothing unhealthful except the palm oil. I *do* know what those ingredients are.

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[Bruce]

But you don't know what "Natural Flavor" is.

[graham]

So do I.
I have a book listing the EU E-numbers that describes these in detail.

[graham]

That's when the operator pisses into the vat!

[Bruce]

That's it, very natural!

[Sqwertz]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 11:55:48 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons wrote:

> https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/albums/72157715410944773
>
> My favorite reply is, "MOM! Duh dog fwew up agin."

Who uses flickr anymore? My ex-boss owns/runs that site. When I
asked him for a free account for old times sake he deleted the whole
account <snork>.

The whole company lost their jobs (120) when he took over, and the
company went <poof!> after 14 years of very successful business.

Anyway - it's a lame flickr page. I don't think they look all that
bad, and you took them all out of context. Different people have
different tastes - we can't all be food snobs who think Del Taco and
canned chili is goremay food.

-sw

[Hank Rogers]

But he is duly following the Popeye protocol. healhful .vs. healthy.

And you will sniff any rotten odiferous butt from either camp.

[jmcquown]

Bruce and Bryan are just made for each other! Ingredients lists are B O
R I N G.

Jill

[Hank Rogers]

Canadians do that shit too? I thought you guys were more like a
fusion of popeye and gruce.

[Hank Rogers]

Yoose not a snob?????

[Bruce]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 18:22:56 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

Not as boring as Jill McBiddy.

[Bryan Simmons]

Sheldon, at least once, said that both Bruce and Bryan were gay (he may have written faggot) names, as if when parents choose your name, they also assign you a sexual orientation.

I've been reading ingredient lists for a long time, and yeah, it's nerdy, but there used to be bad stuff in food. There's really not anymore to much of an extent. The stuff I was avoiding has been largely removed, especially trans-fats. I've been here long enough that some other old timers told me that I was ridiculous, and that trans-fats weren't a big deal. They actually were, and have now been removed from almost all foods. Funny, but now I'm reassuring other folks who see long lists of ingredients on processed foods that most/all of the ingredients are quite safe. I only prefer less processed foods because they tend to be less aesthetically pleasing.

You look at the ingredients on most ice creams, and you will find gums and mono and diglycerides, none of which are unhealthful. You look at the ingredients on a carton of Haagen-Dazs vanilla, or ALDI's Specially Selected vanilla ice cream, and there's none of that stuff. It is cheaper, from a manufacturing standpoint, to use gums and mono and diglycerides, but the product is inferior in taste and mouthfeel.

I sense that no one here is in poverty, and while some of us--myself included--love getting bargains, we can all afford to eat well. Good cooking is about good techniques, but also about good ingredients.

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html
>
> Jill


--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[John Kuthe]

Hey Sqwertz, how does it feel to be OUTTED by ME as being a Google employee?

Scum Surveillance Capitalist! :-(

John Kuthe...

[Bruce]

Good ingredients, indeed. Which is why we should avoid prefab foods
that are science projects. It's aesthetically crap and science is
always behind. Again I say: Roundup was once considered safe by
"science".

[Bryan Simmons]

On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 4:25:50 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 11:55:48 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons wrote:
>
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/albums/72157715410944773
> >
> > My favorite reply is, "MOM! Duh dog fwew up agin."
>
> Who uses flickr anymore? My ex-boss owns/runs that site. When I
> asked him for a free account for old times sake he deleted the whole
> account <snork>.
>
> The whole company lost their jobs (120) when he took over, and the
> company went <poof!> after 14 years of very successful business.

They've never charged me. I only upload pics there to link to them on Usenet, which is text oly.

>
> Anyway - it's a lame flickr page. I don't think they look all that
> bad, and you took them all out of context. Different people have
> different tastes - we can't all be food snobs who think Del Taco and
> canned chili is goremay food.

Del Taco's cheap bean&cheese burritos are great, and Chilli Man canned chili with beans is a pretty good prepared food with the addition of some ground beef. You previously praised that Rico's cheese sauce, even back when it was chock full of trans-fats.
>
> -sw


--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[graham]

On 2020-08-08 6:40 p.m., Bruce wrote:
Again I say: Roundup was once considered safe by
> "science".
>

AFAIK, it still is!

[jmcquown]

Hey Kuthe, how does it feel to constantly OUT yourself as a full blown
idiot?

Jill

[Bruce]

You may have missed a bit of news, but otherwise: Enjoy!

[Alex]

You're a little late with that one.

[Hank Rogers]

Thank you, Professor Van de Buttsniff.

[graham]

You take notice of a legal jury of non-scientists?

[Bruce]

Enjoy!

[Sqwertz]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 17:40:49 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons wrote:

> On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 4:25:50 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 11:55:48 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/albums/72157715410944773
>>>
>>> My favorite reply is, "MOM! Duh dog fwew up agin."
>>
>> Who uses flickr anymore? My ex-boss owns/runs that site. When I
>> asked him for a free account for old times sake he deleted the whole
>> account <snork>.
>>
>> The whole company lost their jobs (120) when he took over, and the
>> company went <poof!> after 14 years of very successful business.
>
> They've never charged me. I only upload pics there to link to
> them on Usenet, which is text oly.

I think they limit you to 500 pictures now. I had over 2,000 there.
Then Chris McCaskill bought it from Yahoo and promised everyone,
"Nothing will change!" (over and over again he promised the public
and his newly acquired employees, too).

So I sent "support requests" to the "flickr.com" staff (former
Yahoo! team) who still worked there telling them he's lying through
his teeth! And what he did with the last company he bought. I told
them it would be wise to start looking for a new job (several
times). Sure enough, 25 out of the 30 people got layed off a month
later.

Two weeks after he laid me off (10 years prior) he had hire me back
for 3 weeks at quadruple my previous salary. Plus 3 months of COBRA
and moving expenses back to California - about $3K. Yeah, I was not
his favorite layoff.

It was the best schadenfreude in my lifetime (so far). He was told
not to lay me off, but...

Anyway - Tuna salad with anchovy stuffed olives was by 10:PM dinner.

> Del Taco's cheap bean&cheese burritos are great, and Chilli Man
> canned chili with beans is a pretty good prepared food with the
> addition of some ground beef. You previously praised that Rico's
> cheese sauce, even back when it was chock full of trans-fats.

Rico's never had trans-fats. It was always whey, liquid soybean and
corn oils, cheese, starch, and emulsifiers. And I wasn't the one
being a food snob :-P

-sw

[Bryan Simmons]

Then why does their website say, "Ricos Queso Blanco Cheese Sauce, now Trans Fat FREE"?
source-- https://ricos.com/brands/ricos/ricos-cheese-sauce-category/

It's because it used to have trans-fat. Look at this screenshot of a Google search from a few minutes ago. Yeah, it's on Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/50206254002/in/dateposted-public/

I am indeed the food snob, but I make serious efforts not to post things that are factually incorrect, like, "Rico's never had trans-fats."
>
> -sw

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html