Tuesday, December 05, 2006

sans trans

my borrowed wireless connection is flighty, so i'm hooked up at the mancave via a 100-foot ethernet cord and now dividing my time between trying to make up for being a bad resident of shleydom, tending the fire, and checking the bird. i'm decidedly distracted, despite my effort to sit and write, and will switch erradically from subject to subject as a result.

how come there isn't a fucking taco bell meltdown freakout in the press because of the e. coli outbreaks? and if there was some national taco bell recall and signs posted on all taco bell restaurants saying "no yo quiero taco bell" or something, would people make the ridiculous link that ALL bean burritos are nasty like they did with the spinach? we had a serious problem selling our spinach during the relatively minor outbreak (in comparison with all the e. coli DEATHS per year as a result of delicious ground beef patties and whatever nastiness they're putting into taco bell creations). people didn't even want to see spinach, regardless of my explanation that it didn't come from california and wasn't irrigated with shit water. i don't think taco bell will suffer very much from this outbreak- i think people are really that disconnected from their food to rationalize that taco bell remains safe because it's so unfood and spinach is unsafe because it's unprocessed.

trans fats ban in NYC? ok, well-intentioned but misguided. it's ultimately up to the individual what they're going to put in their bodies and banning all trans fats in restaurants isn't doing anything educational. it's simply making it unavailable in that sphere. people should know what they're putting into their bodies- you don't die from having one serving of fries at a restaurant. you die because you get heart disease from eating the shit every day and not knowing why you feel like hell as a result. banning trans fats in places like mcdonalds does not encourage people to stop eating there, which is what they SHOULD do if they want to be healthier- it only makes is slightly less disgusting. but people will continue to eat there four or five times a week and therefore continue to put whole shitloads of corn syrupy, feedlot whatever into your system. yuck.

banning alcohol didn't help anything! let us remember this day, the day of the 21st amendment!

i think our chicken is done.

7 comments:

sgt@arms said...

Welcome back, yon ag blagger. We've missed you here in Shleydom.
THe answer to your question is that Taco Bell has better PR people than the Spinach Growers of America. Case in point: I made a run to the border yesterday for, yes, a bean burrito. But there was no offending "beef" in it. Or E Coli. Or spinach.

Anonymous said...

Turns out it is onions that are the offending source. Just popped up on CNN.

Beef industry is safe, this time.

shley said...

ew ew EW how did onions get e. coli YUCK! steer clear of the border!

sgt@arms said...

Yo. Get back to the Man Cave and kick out some blog topics! The natives are growing restless. If our benevolent leader doesn't take charge, I smell a REVOLT! Are you with me, Mr. Finga?

Anonymous said...

What is the strangest of the strange lines ever written in the forum?

"Are you with me, Mr. Finga?"

shley said...

we will squash a revolt with the greatest swiftness imaginable, and then you'll be sorry. we will not tolerate these treasonous remarks!

product available at work: squash b'gosh. my manager did not understand why i couldn't stop giggling about this.

sgt@arms said...

Perhaps you should show your boss some photos of your squash sculpture.