Oh my gods!! Just read this at BBC news - apparently the EU are planning to repeal the laws governing uniformity of fruit and veg (you know the one that means your cucumber must be straight etc!) and people are not happy!! The question is would we eat wonky carrots or forked carrots or blemished apples? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7724347.stm
Of course I would!! Bloody hell in this day and age when money is getting tighter and people around the world have NOTHING to eat can we in the developed world be so arrogant as to reject perfectly good food just because it doesn't look perfect?
It is yet another symptom of how disconnected we are from our food and its production - of course a certain percentage of food will be blemished and less than 100% visually perfect but that is a fact of life surely!! (Should we ban people who are less than perfect? Oh that's right we just bombard society with images of perfection and cause mass neurosis about our image.... another story!)
Carrots get forked roots, carrots are dirty (they grow in soil for crying out loud!) GET OVER IT ALREADY!
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
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