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Food snobbery given a skunking
« on: October 23, 2014, 11:29:10 AM »
Food snobs (sorry, "critics") as the ignorant elitists they think they aren't. Fawning over Mick D's because they'e been told it's organic haute cuisine.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/10/23/dutch-pranksters-secretly-offer-mcdonalds-fare-at-culinary-expo-and-get/?intcmp=features

I came. I saw. I lol'd.

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It's all about the pancakes, people.
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2014, 11:36:03 AM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on October 23, 2014, 11:29:10 AM
Food snobs (sorry, "critics") as the ignorant elitists they think they aren't. Fawning over Mick D's because they'e been told it's organic haute cuisine.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/10/23/dutch-pranksters-secretly-offer-mcdonalds-fare-at-culinary-expo-and-get/?intcmp=features

Reminds me of Penn and Teller's bottled water experiment.
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2014, 12:41:17 PM »
That's too rich.
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2014, 01:11:30 PM »
The gourmet resturants probably use more salt, butter, and fat than McDonalds. 
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2014, 02:49:07 PM »
Yes, but it's free-range salt, all natural fat, and gluten-free butter. It's okay then don'cha know...

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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2014, 03:02:11 PM »
It all depends on the definition of "Organic" . . . for example, some may term a burger to be "Organic" if the cow the beef came from died of natural causes . . .
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2014, 03:52:36 PM »

Buddy of mine calls the whole organic, free range, fair trade, etc junk "hippy kosher". It makes sense if you view it as a religious conviction that is independent of any tangible benefits such as taste or health.
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2014, 04:05:37 PM »
Hippy Kosher.

*giggle*

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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2014, 05:12:49 PM »
You can call anything organic if it's made of carbon compounds.
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2014, 05:20:53 PM »
Didn't someone pull a stunt like this with a wine tasting competition?  El-cheapo boxed wine in classy bottles or something.

Or was that with beer?

I'm sure all the big fast-food companies do pretty extensive experiments to find the recipes which are most appealing to the guy or gal  in the street.
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2014, 11:58:48 PM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on October 23, 2014, 11:36:03 AM
Reminds me of Penn and Teller's bottled water experiment.

They did several long these lines. My favorite was the "Chateau de Cul".
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2014, 01:28:59 AM »
The bottled water one was hilarious. 
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2014, 07:52:41 AM »
Quote from: bedlamite on October 23, 2014, 05:12:49 PM
You can call anything organic if it's made of carbon compounds.

Back when Nutra-Sweet was new and there was a big uproar over the purported ill effects of Aspartame (the generic chemical that is Nutra-Sweet), either Nutra-Sweet or one of the soda companies using it ran television spots proclaiming, "There is nothing in [our product] that doesn't come from nature."

My response to the screen was, "There is nothing in an atomic bomb that doesn't come from nature."
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Re: Food snobbery given a skunking
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2014, 01:46:18 AM »
Nitroglycerin is pretty organic.
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