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 Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:15 am Post subject: [lolgov] School Lunch Program. Now With More Weevils! |
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"Really, it isn't anything to worry about." (paraphrasing health inspector, local news coverage).
What difference does it make? It helps keep costs down!
Health department investigates school lunch bugs
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This is due to incorrect storage of grain products. Since all grain products pretty much have weevil eggs in them, along with a percentage of other allowed contaminants, then this would only happen if dried cereals are allowed to be stored in too warm and humid conditions.
Here's a cheery bunch of the maximum numbers of bits of various creatures allowed in your food: Bits in your food from creatures. |
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With government like the FDA, who needs insurgents.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| yeah, i have sometimes found them in flour and lentils etc. It makes my wife cringe, but just sift them out. You don't eat any of these things raw (they are cooked/baked to death) so I wouldn't worry about it. |
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since I knew some people with... higher positions in food processing companies... I am just saying this:
- spinach is tested for mouse proteins. Above a certain threshold it is thrown away. But you need a lot of mice to meet that one.
- mashed potatoes powder has a very high rat content.
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| energyman76b wrote: | | - mashed potatoes powder has a very high rat content. |
I've never understood why there is a market for that crap. Mashing potatoes is so easy.
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| Muso wrote: | | energyman76b wrote: | | - mashed potatoes powder has a very high rat content. |
I've never understood why there is a market for that crap. Mashing potatoes is so easy. |
easier to carry home?
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| energyman76b wrote: | | Muso wrote: | | energyman76b wrote: | | - mashed potatoes powder has a very high rat content. |
I've never understood why there is a market for that crap. Mashing potatoes is so easy. |
easier to carry home? |
That's a pretty weak reason for avoiding real food.
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| Muso wrote: | | energyman76b wrote: | | Muso wrote: | | energyman76b wrote: | | - mashed potatoes powder has a very high rat content. |
I've never understood why there is a market for that crap. Mashing potatoes is so easy. |
easier to carry home? |
That's a pretty weak reason for avoiding real food. |
indeed - for real people it is weak.
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| Muso wrote: | | energyman76b wrote: | | - mashed potatoes powder has a very high rat content. |
I've never understood why there is a market for that crap. Mashing potatoes is so easy. |
Probably habit and know how. It is easy, but some people JUST DON'T KNOW how to do it.
Another weird example is mac and cheese. It's dead simple to make a bechamel with cheese (fry butter with flour, slowly add milk, cut heat and add cheese). Of course, if you make the cheese sauce you have control over the cheese and spices. Unlike other sauces, this one is quick too.
While there was probably a good excuse 15 years ago to buy crap (also 15 years ago, people didn't put such a high value on natural products. I even had a nutritionist tell me that packaged mac and cheese isn't that bad as it usually doesn't have a lot of fat. as if that is the only concern), today most people can look this up on their phone. |
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| juniper wrote: | | It's dead simple to make a bechamel with cheese . |
The washing up has something to do with it - especially if it catches.
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Insect filth - sounds like a metal band
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that's my point. it takes a *little* longer to make bechamel sauce, but not much.
My parents were immigrants to Canada and we didn't have a huge amount of cash (extended family lived in the house too, so my parents had six people in the house). Money was kind of tight, so we were left with very little packaged food (more expensive at the time) and most of the food was made from scratch by my grandma. It sounds really extravagant today, but I had homemade fresh bread everyday. Anyway, I think it rubbed off. I use dried beans, not canned and generally use fresh veggies. I almost never have anything like packaged mac and cheese in the house. We have canned beans and use them when time is really short. |
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