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06-08-2007, 02:55 PM
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06-08-2007, 04:16 PM
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Perhaps it's not stupidity. While the food industry in England isn't as industrialized as our own, if the question were asked here, at least, and if someone answered that bacon, sausage, and porridge originated in factories, they wouldn't be far from the truth.
(I'd like to recommend, again, the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" for a chilling look at how "factory farming" works.) Quote:
The Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF) organisation found 22% of 1,073 adults questioned did not know bacon and sausages originate from farms.
Some 47% of people did not know farms produced porridge's main ingredient.
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06-08-2007, 04:25 PM
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what the hell IS porridge anyway?
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06-08-2007, 04:36 PM
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I thought it was something that people ate in nursery rhymes:
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06-08-2007, 04:54 PM
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I think porridge is basically oatmeal, but it would depend on the local prevalent grain as to what exactly it is any any given place. Basically grain mush of some kind.
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06-08-2007, 04:56 PM
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06-08-2007, 05:17 PM
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Quote: mjfrombuffalo said
 what the hell IS porridge anyway? | That is my question, too.
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06-08-2007, 05:19 PM
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I loved the part about people being "blinkered" by the "bright lights" in the supermarkets. Hee. |
06-10-2007, 07:50 PM
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Porridge is oatmeal. Which nobody every heard of over there, having tried to buy it before. That's another rant entirely, though.
And the way that British food is packaged and overproduced, no wonder no one knows where it coems from. British sausages, for example, are such a brilliant orange colour that you'd swear they've never been near a farm. Same for fruit - I saw pacakges of sweetneed fruit puree in tubes for children who refuse to eat fruit.  | |
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