US chocolate standards are the lowest in the world. US-FDA requires dark chocolate to contain 35% cocoa solids. EU standards require over 50%. If you want quality chocolate, get a 100g bar of Valrhona.
This is the same FDA that in spring 2006 bowed to industry pressure to change labeling requirements for carmine coloring. Look at a bottle of Listerine Citrus Burst. It has an ingredient called cochineal extract. Sounds kinda exotic like vanilla extract. FDA proposed labeling standard requiring manufacturers t
Just remember the next time you rinse with Listerine Citrus Burst that you're swishing crushed dead pregnant beetles in your mouth.
You know what's even worse... a lot of people like fruit, but don't realize fruit is basically the reproductive organs of trees. Those seeds inside are like the tree's sperm. Eating an apple is the same as chewing on a tree's balls!
Other plants aren't quite as gross as that, but even still, they all grow in dirt. Just think about that next time you're having a salad. Would you eat food off the floor? Well, everything in that salad used to be on or in the ground, and the ground is nature's filthy floor that never gets vacuumed!
And lets not even get started on what most people put around their strawberry plants! I remember reading an urban legend about how KFC was now only known by it's acronym because there was no actual chicken anymore. It was now grown in a vat from a genetically engineered mass of flesh. The legend supposed that that was a bad thing... but if you think about it: . No live chickens would suffer in the production of KFC . You'd almost have to class it as a plant rather than an animal... you might even get away with
I don't see why that would gross people out, as it's probably more hygienic. In fact I long for the day when vat grown meat is economically viable. Meat is so delicious but I don't eat it because of ethical reasons.
Other plants aren't quite as gross as that, but even still, they all grow in dirt. Just think about that next time you're having a salad. Would you eat food off the floor? Well, everything in that salad used to be on or in the ground, and the ground is nature's filthy floor that never gets vacuumed!
I know you meant that to be funny, but Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about exactly that. I don't recall the title, but it was set in a futuristic world where all food was synthetic. The protagonist wins a
EU has much higher standards for chocolate (Score:3, Informative)
This is the same FDA that in spring 2006 bowed to industry pressure to change labeling requirements for carmine coloring. Look at a bottle of Listerine Citrus Burst. It has an ingredient called cochineal extract. Sounds kinda exotic like vanilla extract. FDA proposed labeling standard requiring manufacturers t
Re:EU has much higher standards for chocolate (Score:5, Funny)
Other plants aren't quite as gross as that, but even still, they all grow in dirt. Just think about that next time you're having a salad. Would you eat food off the floor? Well, everything in that salad used to be on or in the ground, and the ground is nature's filthy floor that never gets vacuumed!
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I remember reading an urban legend about how KFC was now only known by it's acronym because there was no actual chicken anymore. It was now grown in a vat from a genetically engineered mass of flesh. The legend supposed that that was a bad thing... but if you think about it:
. No live chickens would suffer in the production of KFC
. You'd almost have to class it as a plant rather than an animal... you might even get away with
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My wife and I now habitually call KFC, "Kentucky Fried Cat"
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Guess what all the fish do in that water you drink!
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I know you meant that to be funny, but Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about exactly that. I don't recall the title, but it was set in a futuristic world where all food was synthetic. The protagonist wins a