Thought for Food - Latest Comments

Re: where it all begins.

Vanessa — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:35:07 -0000

It's unsettling that those kids didn't know what the difference between a potato and a tomato. The biggest obstacle to tangible change is the lack of thought. People put more thought into what they're going to wear in the morning than what they're putting into their bodies. Labeling food will not do anything for people who don't read labels.

Re: where it all begins.

hottscanscom — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:40:18 -0000

Reading this made me want to make some food, package it in appropriately small containers, put those containers in a brown paper bag, and then go sit on a picnic bench somewhere and eat it.

Re: fed up: school lunch project.

hottscanscom — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:33:53 -0000

I would eat about 4 of those items total.

Re: what’s in your pocket?

emily — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:08:10 -0000

mmmm hot pockets.

Re: science is cool.

Vanessa Castaneda — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:00:26 -0000

I would still rather lick the bottom of my shoe than eat a hot dog.

Re: how clean is “pre-washed” salad?

Vanessa Castaneda — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:54:31 -0000

I'm a big fan of washing my food. What's crazy is that some people just don't care. One of my old room mates laughed at me when I told her about the spinach recall. Her take on it was that if she got sick, she could sue.

Re: so what about those free-range chickens?

Vanessa Castaneda — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:51:41 -0000

I find it hard to believe that free range chickens are actually allowed enough room to scurry around a lot pecking at bugs.

Re: spicing things up.

david carini — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:41:33 -0000

Cool Idea. There's so much hype on buying local, but it would be interesting to find out exactly how much worse it is for the environment. I mean if you're buying tomatoes from a farmer in the Peninsula, who has a small truck and makes lots of trips and has rudimentary tools, how does that compare to a big grower who may ship tomatoes in 18-wheelers from Mexico? I'll look into it.

Re: how clean is “pre-washed” salad?

hrheingold — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:53:54 -0000

Excellent, useful, scary, and funny, if you consider the high irony of "are we really so pessimistic about the food industry now that we breathe a sigh of relief when only traces of shit ..." funny. Well done.

Re: spicing things up.

mariecbaca — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:37:34 -0000

This picture is making me hungry.

Re: voting with our forks.

hrheingold — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:38:10 -0000

It's a great phrase.

Re: spicing things up.

hrheingold — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:16:39 -0000

Wonderful! Imaginative, specific to your beat, entertaining. You put thought into it. Bravo.

Re: science is cool.

hrheingold — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:37:44 -0000

Another useful contribution to your growing collection about "what's in the stuff we eat."

Re: science is cool.

jeffp76 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:32:48 -0000

That was awesome. It makes me want to go back to high school and do something cool. I didn't really know you could do interesting things like this in high school. I was too busy thinking school was lame and trying to get by with as little effort as possible.
You gotta love the 'Let's Be Scientists' song playing on the outro.

Re: voting with our forks.

hottscanscom — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:55:15 -0000

I guess his message is good, but isn't it sad that all people on Oprah want to hear is "Eat food, mostly plants, but not too much." Let's hope this guy doesn't become the Dr. OZ of food.

Re: what the world eats

david — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:27:54 -0000

The food in Morocco was delicious, I particularly enjoyed the bread, being a bread connoisseur...
What I like about America, especially the Bay Area, is that it's possibly to get any type of food from anywhere in the world...

Re: recalls galore

VC — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:36:14 -0000

Food recalls like this one are one of the reasons I don't eat beef, and hesitate to consume dairy products. Cows are filthy exploited beasts.

Re: what the world eats

VC — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:31:39 -0000

Beans of every color, dried fruit, and bananas. Always bananas.

Re: recalls galore

Erin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:33:24 -0000

Lesson learned: Do not eat beef or cheese logs. That doesn't sound too hard...

Re: recalls galore

mariecbaca — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:19:11 -0000

Why don't I know anything about this? I feel like the mainstream media has failed with regards to alerting consumers about these things.

Re: recalls galore

hrheingold — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:17:21 -0000

There's beat, an app, a whole spectrum of possibilities around recalls -- and considering the recalls coming out of China as well as the USA, it's increasingly global. If it makes you angry -- follow your instincts! As long as it doesn't make you bored. This is an important topic. I don't know if any great books have been written about food recalls -- the big, big picture -- but it would make a great book. If Rose George could write an erudite, exciting, page-turner about shit, you could write a book about food recalls.

Re: recalls galore

Scott H — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:56:11 -0000

I had a friend that majored in "Food Politics." I think you two would get along well.

Re: the food printer?

Adrian — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:44:19 -0000

I once made a Rube Goldberg machine that made different types of food. The only one that really worked was the toasted bread, though it had to be preloaded into the machine.

Re: the first bite.

Adrian — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:41:44 -0000

I like food.

Re: the food printer?

Scott H — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:04:39 -0000

Willy Wonka invented this machine like forever ago.