And now we’re learning the awful truth that endless marketing of bottled water cannot drown out. All the overpriced, largely unneeded products of Big Pharma don’t stop with us. They flush right into the water supply. And we drink everyone else’s Viagra/Valium milkshake. A boom business would be selling one-way tickets at funeral homes. Who would want to come back to a planet this befouled?
Here’s a subject line I never expected to read in an email from Niman Ranch: “new bacon flavors.” I clicked the thing open with dread — were they shilling strawberry-taco-Ranch, perhaps? But it didn’t even have to be that bad. Has this country really advanced so far in these last few years that American palates are not still reveling just in the astonishing difference between true bacon and industrial garbage? Do they really need maple and chipotle? I just hope heritage turkeys don’t take the chemical bait and start arriving with cranberry-sage-butter self-basters. Didn’t some brilliant guy once say cuisine is when things taste like themselves? And why do I suspect he would be extraordinarily renditioned if he spouted that stuff at immigration today?Here’s a subject line I never expected to read in an email from Niman Ranch: “new bacon flavors.” I clicked the thing open with dread — were they shilling strawberry-taco-Ranch, perhaps? But it didn’t even have to be that bad. Has this country really advanced so far in these last few years that American palates are not still reveling just in the astonishing difference between true bacon and industrial garbage? Do they really need maple and chipotle? I just hope heritage turkeys don’t take the chemical bait and start arriving with cranberry-sage-butter self-basters. Didn’t some brilliant guy once say cuisine is when things taste like themselves? And why do I suspect he would be extraordinarily renditioned if he spouted that stuff at immigration today?