6/ "Pure food" people can't be content with saying that they don't like * flavor * class signifiers * animal stewardship
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7/ So they invent this anti-scientific "IFLS™ " rationalization that foods they dislike are "not really food"
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8/ You know what's in a McD beef patty? * 99.9999% beef * salt * black pepper
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9/ The bun is basically whitebread. 99% wheat flour, w a bit of potato flour and same dough conditioners almost all commercial bread has
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10/ etc. You can see the list here https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/hamburger.html …
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11/ Now, if you want to raise your own cow, grow your own wheat, make your own pickles, etc. bc you're an insane LARPer...
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12/ ...then welcome, brother! ...but if not, you're buying this stuff from the store, and the ingredients are the same.
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13/ ...and even if you're making it at home, the ingredients are mostly the same! I raise my own meat, grind it, add salt and black pepper
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14/ ...so my meat patties are IDENTICAL in composition to what you might get at restaurant Even tho my meat lives on a nice grassy pasture
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15/ When I make mayo from scratch I use egg yolks, pure vegetable oil, mustard seed, vinegar. Differs from Hellmans by 0.0001%
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16/ Here's the ingredients in Hellmans: http://smartlabel.hellmanns.com/product/2676441/ingredients?locale=en-US … They add Calcium Disodium, I don't.
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17/ The amount they add is 75 ppm https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=172.120 … which is INSANELY safehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediaminetetraacetic_acid …
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18/ so, anyway, when someone tells me that "ugh, fake food! Science™!" I know two things about them:
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