Posted on 02/14/2024 11:40:05 AM PST by DallasBiff
Secret Ingredients, Ingredient Secrets
Food is a central part of our lives, our cultures, and even our urban myths. Many media-perpetuated and classroom-circulated legends center around common snacks, fast food chains — even water — and our concerns or fears, even if unfounded, about them. Here's how many of them began; which are true; which are false; and which are somewhere in between.
A related myth exists about whether Jack in the Box uses actual meat in its tacos — a menu item loved by some and loathed by others. A popular rumor suggests that instead of ground beef the fast-food chain uses a soy-based, textured vegetable protein — therefore making the tacos suitable for vegetarians. In true urban legend fashion, I personally knew someone who swore an employee told them it was soy. While an ingredient breakdown posted online by the company did indeed list textured vegetable protein as one of the "filling ingredients" in the tacos, it also list beef, and even chicken, first
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I’d never heard that about cherries and grapes. I worked at an animal hospital and learned that the amount of chocolate and size of the dog had to be considered, so if a chocolate chip or even a Hershey’s Kiss hits the ground, the dog can enjoy an unintended treat.
In the 90s I worked in Chino CA near many diaries. My boss lived locally and knew the dairymen. Supposedly the fast food chains ordered the quality of meat in this order best to worst:
Carls JR
In N Out
Burger King
Mickey D
Jack N The box
This is from the 90s.
Would “Pop Rocks” (do those still exist?) washed down with Coca-cola actually threaten to burst your intestines?
Still, I make the best ones at home. I use three eggs, swiss cheese, bacon slices and a buttered Thomas's English muffin.
Yep. Too damned expensive. And these days, here in CA, breakfast at a real restaurant is $25, lunch at a nicer place will clock in close to $50, and dinner at the better joints will run close to $100. I used to be able to feed myself for $100/mo back in college (early ‘80’s)
Things aren’t quite that bad around the Tucson area (yet). Maybe $15 for a good diner breakfast, $25 for lunch, and we haven’t been out to dinner at a better restaurant in quite a while. We eat much less fast food than in years past, though, because the prices are ridiculous.
I could probably still feed myself for $100 a month, if I were to eat nothing but rice and beans without meat three times a day, every day. Maybe I could even afford a little cat food for flavor. I think my wife would object, though.
Years ago in Kentucky horse country, a horse farm were losing foles to miscarriage and still birth. An autopsy revealed arsenic poisoning. Immediately there was an investigation of everyone and anyone that had been on that farm. They thought someone was poisoning the mares. During the investigation some of the mares were in a particular pasture with some wooded area. The mares were going into the wooded area and eating unripe and ripend cherrys. It seems this pasture had wild cherry trees growing and the mares would go in it for the cherrys. Cherrys contain a small amount of arsenic, eat a lot of cherrys and you can get a lot of arsenic, eat pounds and pounds of cherrys and you get a lot of arsenic. That’s where the mares were getting the arsenic and effecting the unborn foles. They burned down the whole wooded area and every other cherry tree on the farm. No more stillborn foles.
cyanide in the pits, also apricots. Not arsenic.
Yep. Back in those days, I felt I was eating like a King if I had a tomato to slice up and add to my Kraft Mac and Cheese (four for a dollar, on sale...). Potatoes, too. A lot of potatoes, in every form imaginable. Need to get back in that mode, apparently!
“California has a new fast food restaurant. It’s called “Fist In The Box.” You drive up to the fist and tell it what you want and it tells you what you’re going to get. If you argue with them they’ll put sesame seeds on your buns.”
- Johnny Carson
Thanks for the tip! I’ll have to go find a good market in the city sometime.
Apparently not, but maybe we will be near one next September for a wedding. I bet those will travel just fine in a suitcase.
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