tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post293169686700866230..comments2024-03-22T00:35:19.082-07:00Comments on Casual Kitchen: Toxic Kidney Beans?Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02388302796031288076noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-40412348756850663282014-08-11T00:17:26.720-07:002014-08-11T00:17:26.720-07:00I've been MIA from food writing lately but had...I've been MIA from food writing lately but had to resurface to applaud this post. (Mike, if you're reading this, the following is NOT about you.)<br /><br />Someone (@foodmancing, I think) said "FoodBabification" recently and it is so true, more and more so it seems. The level of noise and bullsh*t -- sponsored bullsh*t even -- is disgusting. Hysteria drives clicks and all's fair in unqualified opinions, I guess.<br /><br />The FDA publishing bad information is less surprising given what I have seen in last decade. Critical thinking was shivved by ethics-gone-bad as a business model and theStupid has spread...<br /><br />Another thing that gets me is OTC drugs being sold by unqualified bloggers. A while back, Nyquil rebranded benadryl (standard 25 mg dose) as some sleep aid and suddenly SAHM's with a knack for marketing themselves are freaking experts on sleep disorders. As I type, there's apparently another OTC drug campaign via some of the usual suspects. I mean, what do they know? <br /><br />My new "STFU" is going to be "GEAYM--Go Eat A Yoga Mat." It's pronounced like you're choking.kitchenMagehttp://blog.kitchenmage.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-40359460387976929162014-08-06T10:21:40.941-07:002014-08-06T10:21:40.941-07:00Really well put Rich. Really well put. Thank you. ...Really well put Rich. Really well put. Thank you. <br /><br />DKDanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388302796031288076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-77890214298948746432014-08-06T10:09:06.242-07:002014-08-06T10:09:06.242-07:00I love this article, Daniel.
And I just read this ...I love this article, Daniel.<br />And I just read this and thought of you: <br /><br />"A deadly disease is set to hit the shores of the US, UK and much of the rest of the northern hemisphere in the coming months. It will swamp our hospitals, lay millions low and by this time next year between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide will be dead, thousands of them in the US and Britain.<br /><br />Despite the best efforts of the medical profession, there’s no reliable cure, and no available vaccine offers effective protection for longer than a few months at a time.<br /><br />If you’ve been paying attention to recent, terrifying headlines, you may assume the illness is the Ebola virus. <br /><br />Instead, the above description refers to seasonal flu – not swine or bird flu, but regular garden variety influenza..."<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/ebola-worrying-disease<br /><br />Love. RichRich Litvinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-20967002433291633822014-08-05T09:02:36.207-07:002014-08-05T09:02:36.207-07:00I laughed at the whole kidney-bean caution tape th...I laughed at the whole kidney-bean caution tape thing because I had just finished re-reading a book called "Dead Heat" (by Dick Francis & Felix Francis) in which a chef is sabotaged by someone adding raw kidney beans to a sauce, making the attendees of a fancy dinner miserably sick. Even in that scenario, no-one died.<br /><br />The key I think is that it really has to be RAW kidney beans. Nobody in the US eats RAW kidney beans, do they? I don't even cook them myself. I use them in chili or stew, but they are always canned - i.e. precooked - because TIME.<br /><br />Worry porn, indeed. Methinks a few people who spend a lot of time on the Internet looking for justification to worry about their food products should get up out of their chairs and go for a walk.chacha1http://www.ombailamos.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-20805521102562425692014-08-05T08:06:36.677-07:002014-08-05T08:06:36.677-07:00there's a skit from College Humor about "...there's a skit from College Humor about "if google was a guy". In skit 3, RandomMom asks "do vaccines cause autism?" Google "here's millions of results that say no, and one that says yes" RM:" I KNEW IT!"<br /><br />And there you have it in a nutshell. People be crazy.Stuart Carterhttp://www.addictedtocanning.comnoreply@blogger.com