Pizza Wut?!

Oh my god! Are you Fucking kidding me?! Pizza Hut just came out with "The Natural" (I need to stop watching TV and paying attention), multigrain crust, all natural pepperoni, all natural mozzarella cheese and all natural sauce made from vine ripened tomatoes. OK, the multigrain crust is definitely new, but the other "all Natural" toppings? What the hell were they putting on it before?!
This is the kind of bullshit market schemes that we're not supposed to pay attention to, we're just supposed to go- "Oh hey, that sounds great! I can have pizza and feel good about it." We're never supposed to think- "hmmm, what's in their regular pizzas? I should check into that?" Which by the way you can not do on their website, you can see what "toppings" they offer but not the ingredients that go into those toppings. Remember, this is the modern age, just because you buy cut up red pepper doesn't mean the only ingredient is red pepper, and tomato sauce may have things in it that a Harvard scholar can't even pronounce.
Now if you want REAL pizza with REAL FOOD ingredients you should make your own or if you're in Columbus, Ohio you can check out Stoned Pizza (http://www.stonedpizzacafe.biz/), they are doing it right, fresh, whole ingredients baked old school-brick oven style. I'm sure there are plenty of other options available as well, but I warn you, you will have to pay a little more for it. It does after all cost money to grow and harvest food, noticeably more than it costs to concoct a formula of chemicals that simply resemble food. That reminds me, if you really want to have a difficult conversation with an child, don't start talking about drugs or sex, instead try explaining the culinary conundrum of Velveeta or American Cheese Food. I went around for fifteen minutes with my eight year old and neither of us could unravel the mysteries-"they call it cheese food because it's not really cheese but it's kind of like cheese but not really..." But I digress. The point is, don't just watch, listen and pay attention, especially if you really want to eat better and healthier because the businesses don't care about you or what you need, they just want you to believe that they are selling you a better product, even when they're not. If they cared about what people needed they wouldn't continue to sell foods laden with chemicals and preservatives after they began to sell their so-called Natural products. Also, don't be fooled by the buzz words they have learned to exploit such as "Organic", just because it's organic doesn't mean it's really any better, hell I saw "Organic pancake and waffle batter" in a fucking aerosol can the other day, I mean c'mon really?! I guess it doesn't matter as long as in the end, we're still eating corn. Yea Iowa!

Motorhead

Sorry if the title mislead you but this is about the American auto industry, not about the English Heavy Metal band (I have nothing bad to say about Lemme & the boys). I realize that this is somewhat old news, but give me some slack, it's the holidays! I couldn't pass up the opportunity to wax-poetic on the ridiculousness of the "big three".
I find it rather irritating that small businesses when faced with hard times or our well advertised failing economy, are forced to suck it up, do for themselves, cross their fingers and pray and hope that they will be able to make things work out for the best. However, large multi-million dollar corporations that have over the past few decades continuously put out products that are inefficient and have considerably shorter life spans than products from decades past, while all the while becoming more and more expensive , both to acquire and to maintain, these companies can get government help. What the hell?!
A company that makes a below average product (as the big three have done) can pay their CEO's and "higher-up's" ridiculous salaries (more than enough for three well off families) with loads of benefits and private planes (and I'm sure they don't pay for their vehicles either), then they can wastefully overproduce their products and practice less than strategic or "shotty" business management practices, then ask the government to help dig them out of a hole.
Yes, they can ask for this help. They can do it with a straight face and no feeling of guilt or irresponsibility. And the real kick in the ass?! The government will be do it! Not only that, but the money being used to bail these fools out comes from us! We have been subjected to their poor craftsmanship and gouging prices for years, and now we get to fork over more money so they can continue to screw things up!
Don't get me wrong, I do understand that they employ a very LARGE number of people (surprisingly a lot of Americans since their product is barely built from American parts). I think that's the only reason the government agreed to help, sort of a "we'll help you to save ourselves" kind of move. I feel bad for the people that have, will or worry about losing their jobs, especially in areas where there are few or no other job opportunities that compensate as well.
You may think that I sound unAmerican for ripping on these morons, for portraying these iconic American companies as the bad guys. Well, I beg to differ. I full heartedly switched my automotive allegiance to Honda a few years ago, I know they are not an "American" company, they are Japanese (at least they're not Chinese or they would likely be laced with lead and Melamine, but that's another story), but they have numerous facilities in the U.S. where they employ Americans and they produce a product that has improved in quality and efficiency. I would say that makes them more "American" than the big three.
I'm not offering any grand resolution for this problem, I haven't the knowledge, understanding or experience to deal with a cluster-fuck this large, but I will say that the next time you go look at cars to buy or lease, perhaps you should consider whether you want to support a company simply because they were born in the U.S. or Support a company because they actually support the U.S.?

A fart by any other name would smell just as sweet...

As you may notice, I have changed the name of my blog. I think I have made a fairly decent argument that our western foods are in a downward spiral from their growing practices to the nutrition education to the obvious health problems caused by both. I have decided on the new title to more aptly describe the "happy yammerings" that I will put forth from now on. I will likely continue to regurgitate on many things food oriented, however, I will (as I already have) also be illuminating an array of other subjects such as the detestable snowfall happening outside at this moment, or anything else that comes to mind and happens to spill forth from my mouth like some kind of verbal bulimia (nice imagery huh?). Until I arrive at my next moment of inspiration, I bid you all good corn eating.