• 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    This pic is some dystopic stuff. How can you eat those fake mixtures full of chemistry? Is this what people in USA eat? Even the bread looks like it would never spoil.

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      6 months ago

      https://www.labeladvisor.com/showproduct/?id=31393&section=ingredients

      The palm oil is a problem ecologically, but healthwise is actually pretty decent as far as common fats go.

      The bread is a shame and there’s a lot higher quality available, same with jelly, though the squeeze bottle is convenient.

      This kinda bread goes bad in about a week if kept air tight, or a few hours if left out.

      https://www.welchs.com/fruit-spreads/concord-grape-jelly/

      The jelly is made with corn syrup, but otherwise doesn’t contain “scary chemicals”. It contains pectin, citric acid, and sodium citrate, which are completely natural things to be in jam or jelly. Pectin is traditionally boiled from apples, citric acid traditionally comes from lemons, sodium citrate is essentially just lemon juice and baking soda.

      The only dystopian bits are the corn syrup and the scale these foods are made at. Calling them “fake mixtures full of chemistry” just makes it sound like you don’t know that all food is chemistry.

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        6 months ago

        Idk the only jam I eat is one made by my grandma from fruits bought from farmers on the market so there is that. I once tried the supermarket one and they are all horrible and kinda synthetic

        I don’t really care if ingredients are theoretically safe no more than I would eat a theoretically nutritious protein powder daily.

        I avoid food that was made in factory generally it always feels synthetic and like a cheap, horrible substitute compared to the rich flavour of the real thing.

        So it is kind of dystopic for me to see such poor substitute for ‘food’ being the only choice. You could as well as go all in and eat some flavoured nutrient NASA pasta.

        What else is fake in this world of ours we don’t even notice anymore? How much fakeness one can take until it’s no longer life but only survival?

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          6 months ago

          Homemade jams made by grandmothers are popular in the US, and mass produced products are at least available where you are, if they’re in supermarkets. So someone is buying them. Neither are “the only choice”. This isn’t a black and white “the USA versus everywhere else” thing

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            6 months ago

            For now it is still possible I guess, even in us but you guys will be first for total and complete enshittification of food