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“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The American FDA takes food additive safety claims from corporations at face value. If a corporation has done internal testing and says it’s safe the FDA approves it. In the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc if a corporation wants to get an additive approved, the governments have their own food labs. They will take your testing procedures/results and then do their own testing to see if they think your additives are safe, and then approve or deny accordingly. Same goes for medicines in farm animals. Canada won’t allow BGH (bovine growth hormone) as it shows up in the milk. America gets angry because they can’t sell dairy to Canada and the EU but we have rules banning widespread use of Antibiotics and hormones in farm animals. If you are ever travelling outside of America, pick up some food products off the shelf that look like the American brands and read the ingredients list. It’s probably half as long. I’ll let you work out that obesity epidemic cause for yourselves.

SatanLifeProTips , ckstockphoto Report

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago

Basically during the 80s, testing was outsourced to the producers of the products being tested. Same thing happened in the pharmaceutical industry. Regan's big push for deregulation at work.

118points

We managed to get in touch with the author of the post, and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us about it.

"I own a TikTok account where I repost questions from 'Ask Reddit' and the replies they receive, so I thought I might as well create my own thread," Lilyxrx told Bored Panda about its origins.

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Five Guys- not really a secret but everything was fresh as could be, we did not have a freezer at all only the fridge. Every morning the burgers were rolled into balls and weighed to make sure all were the same. Bread made fresh from local factories. Potatoes straight from Idaho or Washington. Freshly cut and washed 3 times to remove the starch before being cooked. All veggies were labled by date for freshness. Honestly probably one of the cleanest places ive worked at.

Also at the register every single person would ask why it was so expensive but proceeded to buy it anyway. As if I could change the price for them.

Collegelifee , Jonathan Borba Report

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Tammilee Truitt 11 months ago

It's nice to hear this. Used to go occasionally to a store east of Dallas. Was really, really good. Last one I went to southwest of Dallas was awful and dirty. So much salt on everything. It was just a bad store/management. After reading this I'll try it again giving the chance.

54points

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets They're making BANK windfall record profits right now under the guise of "inflation" and "supply issues".

lancert , Eduardo Soares Report

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Mel Colley 11 months ago

Who and when is this going ti stop? Answer: Not any time soon. Too many powerful people are getting paid!

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After going through the discussion their post has ignited, the Redditor has noticed that one theme definitely stood out from the rest. "From what I can see, it seems that the food industry is more unsanitary than we think," they said.

And they're probably right. Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemical substances can cause more than 200 different diseases, ranging from diarrhea to cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people – fall ill after eating contaminated food each year, resulting in 420,000 deaths and 33 million healthy life years (DALYs).

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Chef here. It’s salt and fat. If you have a question about anything it’s salt and fat.

LongRest , Louis Hansel Report

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Shane S 11 months ago

And sugar.

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Useful_Transition883 , Daniel Quiceno M Report

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Cows make milk not because they are cows but because they are mothers

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XenoMurph 11 months ago

That's what "cow" means. If she's not a mother she's a hiefer. We have no name for that species in English, so we use the descriptor "cow"

86points

However, as we can see from this list, not all parts of the industry are working as they should (and there are plenty of things we regular folks don't know about) even though we all depend on it.

Lilyxrx believes that we often end up in the dark because of greedy businessmen and corporations, as industry leaders would rather chase money and cover up their questionable conduct instead of doing everything by the book.

Sadly, there are plenty of examples that support their words. And we don't need to look that far back to find something. On the night of October 4, Homeland Security and FBI agents teamed up for a raid on Gerber's Poultry in Ohio, United States, and found over two dozen children (mostly said to be from Guatemala) who were illegally employed in meat processing and sanitation.

Hopefully, with time and effort, the industry becomes more transparent.

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The reason restaurant food tastes better than what you make at home is probably because it was drowned in butter or oil.

Also MSG is in nearly everything. Totally safe and delicious. And it definitely isn’t what is giving you a migraine. The fact you ate 4000 calories and 3 times your daily salt intake is probably what gave you the headache.

Greylings , RF._.studio Report

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Sue Denham 11 months ago

The reason restaurant food tastes better than what I make at home is because I didn't have to cook it.

260points

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Unless it’s a health conscious food joint you’re eating at, the food we serve is designed for maximum taste. It’s either dense with fat and sugar, or fat and salt . E.g. Those mashed potatoes you like? Made with cream, butter, and salt. The quiche? made on cream, not milk. Etc, etc.

petuniasweetpea , Rene Asmussen Report

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201points

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Sky Render 11 months ago

It is amazing just how much salt, fat and sugar enhance flavors. Try making a cheese sauce with cornstarch and only a pinch of salt instead of butter and flour and you'll find out really fast just how much of the "cheesy" flavor of that sauce is from the fat and salt in the butter!

66points

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets At least up until the pandemic hit, there is a 100% chance that you've eaten at a restaurant where 1 or 2 of the people directly handling your food were legitimately sick enough that they should have stayed home, but they had to come in to work anyway because they couldn't get their shift covered and they can't get a doctor's note without insurance or the money for a copay.

SanShadam , Jérémy Stenuit Report

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Sonja 11 months ago

Not the case in Germany. Sick leave is mandatory and allowing sick workers in can get your restaurant closed quickly by the health department. They are very strict and allow anonymous reports. Also sick leave is always paid

31points

#10

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Everything on the Mexican menu uses the same ingredients. Just built it different and give it a different name

Tortillas
Cheese
Salsa
Beans
Rice
Meat

Tacos, burrito, chilaquiles, tostada, chimichanga

It's all the same thing!

* written by a Mexican cook

SoCalChubXL , Herson Rodriguez Report

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201points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago

And it all tastes awesome because it's cooked in fat.

92points

#11

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The amount of sugar that goes into costco bakery products is absurd, especially the apple pie. That being said; Costco does not f**k around when it comes to food safety. Every area that is responsible for producing food is most likely cleaner than a white room for producing computer parts. There are virtually zero roaches, we found one in the bakery once and shut it down until the exterminator did his thing that very night. Someone returned a package of dinner rolls because their child had bit into one and a sharp piece of metal was in it, within less than 2 minutes every manager in the building was doing an investigation that led all the way up to the regional manager and his boss for several hours and determined that it had come off of a piece of machinery before it reached our location. We throw away rotisserie chickens if they have left (even for a few minutes) the shelf and someone tries to put it back.

Deathnachos , Clarisse Dsbt Report

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198points

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Polterbean 11 months ago

Good on you, Costco

83points

#12

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Dragon fruit isn’t an exotic Asian fruit. It’s a cactus fruit, and as such are native to the Americas and can even be grown in the US.

ferretmonkey , engin akyurt Report

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194points

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PlatinumThe8-BitCat 11 months ago

I really, really, really, really, REALLY, want to try Dragon Fruit

55points

BlueEyesWhiteDragon 11 months ago (edited)

It tastes like if you were eating a kiwi while you have Covid--it tastes like nothing and disappointment.

96points

Kylie 11 months ago

I think more people like them for the appearance than the taste.

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Sue Denham 11 months ago

Also: they look pretty.

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Kate 11 months ago

Truth. My friend's dad grows them. I have the right plants, I'm just too lazy to go out there at night when they're flowering to pollinate them.

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Pandamonium 11 months ago

If you did pollinate them, would you have to wear a bee suit while you do it? I'm not an expert on such things but that seems right.

6points

Mouse 11 months ago

And it's delicious!!!

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Jean Donnel 11 months ago

It's NON American cactus type fruit. The America's are not the only continents on the world with cactus or cactus fruits -so yes, it's a Exotic Asian cactus fruit.

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April Pickett 11 months ago

TIL - how about that?

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SmooshyFries 11 months ago

Some are sweet and delicious, others quite bland. BUTT all will clean out your colon so don't eat a lot at a time unless you're constipated

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Ambry Petersen 11 months ago

My husband loves Dragon fruit. I don't know if he was aware of the cactus part or not.

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Petra Schaap 11 months ago

well thats nice if you're in the US but it (probably) still doesnt grow here in Europe, so for me its exotic.

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Sherman 11 months ago

I'm a psycho plant lady & before I started collecting them I was OBSESSED w/ dragon fruit. Someone gifted me a dragon fruit cactus & they told me what it was using the botanical name "Selenicereus undatus" & it was a very large,established cutting that my friend had been growing for years n knew id appreciate it. So after winter here in Louisiana, I moved it outside. This thing grew sooooo fast. Then one day.. little fruits started coming in... probably at the end of August. Next I know I had dozens of dragon fruit! I was so stoked. I called my friend & told her that I had tons of them & these are my favorite & she's like "dude why the Ef do you think I gave that to you!? You didn't know what it was?" & we laughed bc I never even questioned where dragon fruit came from. Bahahaha. I never thought about it. But now I have a huge dragon fruit cactus that I dig up & bring in every year that gives me tons of delicious fruits year after year. N it cost me nothing.

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Nel Cameron 11 months ago

I live where it grows (Costa Rica). Fascinating farming method. We get both red and white. I prefer the red. They have very little flavour. They make awesome smoothies! They make the prettiest ice cream ever. However, even here, they're expensive. Back to the farming method.. it's costly, There are so many other tastier fruits here. I can ignore the dragonfruit.

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Ozzie Ogawa 11 months ago

Went to a dragonfruit farm in my country (southeast asia), it felt like i'm in mexico. Great plant for dry places.

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Mitchell 11 months ago

Pretty but tasteless

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Jeremy Bolanos 11 months ago

I had one in Arizona. Hard to keep and I decided I didn't like the taste enough to be worth the trouble.

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Michelle C 11 months ago

I did not know dragon fruit was native to the Americas. Wow!!

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Missy Corron 11 months ago

They are delicious right off the cactus!

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David Phillips 11 months ago

We have them in our yard, in Yucatan.

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Tim Gehrke 11 months ago

For those bashing dragon fruit, I challenge you to go to an aisian grocery and buy them. Do not buy from your local supermarket. They are really good, but as with everything, it depends on where you buy them.

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Madster 11 months ago

And it tastes like s**t. A natural "style over substance" type situation.

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deejak 11 months ago

But what are those other red fruits that grow on cactus called?

0points

sturmwesen 11 months ago

prickly pear?

7points

#13

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The trick to good fried rice is old rice. It has to dry out for a bit in the fridge.

TwoFingersWhiskey , Louis Hansel Report

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Andy Cran 11 months ago

old and cold 👍

59points

Dont_ban_me_bro_108 , Louis Hansel Report

#14

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Many of the cooks making your food are high and/or drunk.

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Sleestak 11 months ago

Not so much a secret to anyone who's spent even the shortest time in the industry. One summer, 3 weeks into a summer job, and I knew everyone

78points

#15

It's not exactly a secret, but it's not common knowledge either.

Except for infant formula, dates are not an indicator of the product’s safety and are not required by Federal law. Phrases like "Best by [ date ]" or "Sell by" or "Use by" aren't regulated or required, and they are not (outside of baby formula) a statement of safety.

Manufacturers would rather have you throw out product, wasting it, and buying more, than stockpiling. So they put "best by" or "use by" dates even on non-perishible items like *salt*.

RodeoBob Report

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MoMcB 11 months ago

Not a thing in the UK, as we use shelf life testing to determine the dates. A best before date means exactly that, it tastes best before that date, it can still be perfectly safe to eat. Use by should be stuck to, it's usually on things like meat and dairy. Using modern packaging means that bacterial growth is over safe levels when it passes. I'm a Quality manager for a food company.

157points

#16

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets the organic industry is a f*****g scam.

there are levels to this s**t, and yes, you can purchase food that is grown and/or sourced more ethically than other options, but don't kid yourself. it was most likely still grown on a factory farm, and chemicals were used, etc. etc. just different chemicals.

and a lot of it comes from china. no s**t.

cubs_070816 , FitNish Media Report

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Sonja 11 months ago

That doesn't count in every country though. In Europe the labels are strictly controlled and it has to fit the criteria that you can read up in the legal regulations.

120points

TruckerBiscuit , Yassine Khalfalli Report

#17

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets I'm a trucker who hauls mostly refrigerated freight. I pick up at a lot of slaughterhouses. You really, really don't want to know what those places are like; let alone the conditions at feedlots or CAFOs.

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144points

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Aaron Parker 11 months ago

Eating meat is not morally wrong. Animal cruelty is morally wrong. Don't think you're so high and mighty that eating meat is beneath you as a species. Anthropologists tell us our brains evolved to be so large specifically after we starting cooking and eating meat. Make no mistake, your cat would have no problem eating your meaty corpse if you suddenly died alone in your apartment and the catnip was gone.

14points

irony_in_the_UK , Vinicius "amnx" Amano Report

#18

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The "natural flavors" are just big jugs of glycerin with hyper concentrated flavoring in it. Banana flavoring is fairly flammable.

Source: Worked in food manufacturing

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141points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago

Can confirm. My degree is in Food Science. Green Apple = actylaldehyde. Butter? That's dyacyl ketone. Dimethyl Sulfide tastes like corn. And yeah I have heard that about banana flavoring but I can't remember the name of it.

83points

#19

When you give back a pack of ketchup to the restaurant because you didn’t use it, they thank you and smile and then they throw it out because you’re probably a weirdo who injected bleach into the ketchup pack.

mdotca Report

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141points

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Shane S 11 months ago

Same with napkins. If you grab a huge pile of napkins and leave them all in a neat pile on your table, they get thrown away. It’s a safety and hygiene thing. Take just what you need.

92points

#20

I used to work in a sliced bread factory. The amount of bread that gets thrown in the trash for being just a little overcooked after a mechanical failure is astonishing. I always thought they should give it to homeless shelters something like that

CptZigouille Report

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140points

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Russell Rieckenberg 11 months ago

In the food factories where I worked, food waste was sold to pig farms, but maybe pig farms don't want bread.

54points

#21

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets A lot of the processed cheese and cream cheese is all the same recipe we just switch the labels and packaging for the different brands we run. Source: I work in a cheese factory in a company that services 75% of America's domestic market

anon5678903276 , Alana Harris Report

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125points

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SM 11 months ago

This goes for a lot of products. The same thing goes into the store brand box as goes into the name brand box.

11points

#22

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets King crab and Maine lobster prices that restaurants pay are cheaper than they have been since even before the pandemic, yet we still charge more than ever before

dserf420 , Joy Real Report

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123points

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SM 11 months ago

Prices are based on "what the market will bear", if people think everything should be costing more because of inflation, then the restaurants will certainly take advantage of this and charge more.

58points

#23

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Pringles (and baked Lays/similar) are made of rehydrated and compressed rejected/excess parts of potatoes that go into regular chips. I learned that from my dietician at work and thought that was odd. I still like them over regular chips.

bluesasaurusrex , Arnold Antoo Report

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120points

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BarkingSpider 11 months ago

Tasty tasty rejects.

82points

#24

the inside of ice machines are covered in mold unless cleaned regularly. in the many different restaurants I worked in, exactly 1 cleaned the inside of their ice machine on a regular basis.

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118points

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Bottle Opener 11 months ago

"SLIME in the ice machine!" -Marvin Zindler, Eye Witness News (Houston, Texas in the '80s.)

44points

#25

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Well - I work at Dominos, and we are kept afloat by the people who don't coupon and pay full menu price. You people are the unsung heroes of labor.

LoweeLL , Alan Hardman Report

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113points

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Evan not Hansen 11 months ago

Lol I'm pretty sure that's a picture of a Little Caesar's pizza, not Domino's

83points

#26

That all vodka is nothing more than pure grain alcohol cut to proof with water. Source: was lab tech in an alcohol plant. We made everything from Walgreens vodka to Smirnoff vodka. The only difference was the bottle and label.

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Sleestak 11 months ago

Largely agreed. There are premium vodkas that somehow create flavor with the U.S. required 5 times distillation. Those are great for shots and sips. But if you're mixing in a Bloody Mary, Screwdriver, Martini (especially if it's dirty), you're wasting your money on a premium. Don't go plastic bottle rock bottom, but save your money for something else.

57points

#27

Diet, not exercise, is the main factor in determining weight gain/loss

W1nston1234 Report

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SM 11 months ago

The body is extremely efficient, it requires a LOT of exercise to burn of even a modest number of calories. On the other hand, exercise is needed for all around good health.

75points

#28

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Buffalo wings are not made of buffalo, they're made of chicken.

Buffalo don't even have wings.

AutisticPenguin2 , Clark Douglas Report

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago

I believe they are called Buffalo Wings because they were first popularized in Buffalo, New York.

132points

#29

Shrimps is bugs.

chowderpouch Report

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Hugh Crawford 11 months ago

Sea bugs. Lobsters too

86points

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#30

The secret is that they can tell us all their secrets and we still eat it because we are lazy, short-term-thinking f***s.

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René Sauer 11 months ago

Or maybe because not every one has the space, money or other resources to do something about it.

7points

#31

When you order "Shrimp fried rice" there isn't actually a shrimp frying the rice.

klokar21 Report

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PlatinumThe8-BitCat 11 months ago

Dang it, 🦐🍳🍚

73points

#32

Subway- if it’s 12 inches or 11 inches, you’re getting the same amount of bread. Sometimes we’re just too lazy to stretch the bread

INYOURCLOSET4 Report

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Some Cool Guy 11 months ago

1 inch less in toppings tho

65points

#33

Alot of cooking is just the reheating of prep and Chef Mike (the microwave) gets used alot more than you think.

RabbitInTheHead Report

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Andy Cran 11 months ago

for UK readers this is just like"wetherspoons"....the steaks are fresh cooked though but mostly everything thing is pinged

23points

#34

The reason orange juice tastes consistently the same year round, even though it's a crop harvested once a year, is because citrus oils and citrus flavor are added back to different batches and blended all together. Similar to how whiskey is blended from multiple barrels to make it consistent.

The difference is that even though extra stuff is added back into the OJ, it doesn't need to be labeled because the flavors contain all ingredients from oranges (FTNF-from the named fruit) so the FDA doesn't mandate labeling additional ingredients.

PensiveDoughnut Report

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79points

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Costa Villaras 11 months ago

More info only relevant to the US.

30points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#35

Olive Garden makes all their necessary pastas for the whole day from 8-10am every morning. Partially cooked. So when an order comes through, they grab a serving of the needed pasta style and flash cook them in hot water. Also, it’s just the brand, Barilla.

Deerhunter86 Report

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78points

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Bell-icose Premium 11 months ago

You are describing cooking.

81points

#36

Ooh I got one. Lots of manufacturing places nowadays are trying to push for "less than daily" sanitation. You heard that right. They want to use these machines all day long, not clean them overnight, and start up like normal the next day.

Currently working in a place that just started this practice. USDA is on board with it, they only care that the product tests well for culture counts before it's shipped off.

So when you have stuff in your fridge and it seems to expire faster than it used to it's probably because you got some 2 day old room temperature product mixed in with the fresh stuff.

Grrimafish Report

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73points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago

The only places I've worked that do this are wineries. Wine is a very inherently antimicrobial product so you can get away with running the same equipment without a clean. Especially since the next run is only about four hours out.

23points

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#37

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets When I worked at a mass production bakery the chocolate for the chocolate covered doughnuts came in giant frozen blocks of 4x4 peices and contained no actual chocolate what so over. When unfrozen it was like some sort of nasty smelling paraffin wax that I would break up with a hammer and place into a melter that would then pour over the doughnuts.

gil_beard , Anna Sullivan Report

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69points

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MoMcB 11 months ago

Not allowed to call it chocolate in the UK, it's a chocolate flavour coating.

109points

#38

Farm animals lead absolutely terrible lives.

zipzap21 Report

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63points

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Egg Lady 11 months ago

There are exceptions- my chickens run free outside in the country and are only locked up at night for their own protection. They give me eggs and I give them food-- they are not food-- they are never butchered.

80points

lilbabymarshmallow Report

#39

most meat you buy in stores is packed with water and additives that add taste so you won't notice that it's all water. most meat shrinks when you fry it, the more shrinkage the more water was in the product in the beginning.

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60points

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Sharkie 11 months ago

I don't think this is true in Europe... We have regulations and rules about water content in meat and additives.

61points

#40

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets You technically can't get addicted to sugar, but sugar dependence is very real and can give you similar withdrawal symptoms to caffiene withdrawal. Your brain gets dopamine when you eat sugar, which means that most companies put as much sugar in their products as they can get away with so you feel good by eating them.

Tingcat , Denny Müller Report

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59points

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SM 11 months ago

Humans can get addicted to almost anything. There is chemical addiction where the chemical adds to the addiction, but that isn't to say that an addiction without that is easy to break the habit.

12points

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#41

Fancy restaurants' regular food tastes so good because it's DROWNED in butter and MSG. I dishwashed at a fancy seafood/steakhouse on the water and an average serving of asparagus had about a quarter stick of butter in it. People always asked what their "trick" with the asparagus was.

MeatyOakerGuy Report

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56points

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Mark (it/urgh) 11 months ago

"MSG is salt on crack" - Uncle Roger.

51points

#42

I was a young lad working at Church's Fried Chicken during the summer, many years ago. The owner refused to throw out chicken that had already gone bad; to the point where you'd gag if you smell them. Apparently if you batter them bad boys up and deep fry them, the rancid smell goes away. His customers never knew they were eating spoiled chicken.

Dirt_E_Harry Report

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51points

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Mojavedog 11 months ago

Wouldn’t people be getting sick?

66points

#43

Had a lady tell me that she doesn’t eat ketchup. When I asked her why she said that she was once the safety manager at a Heinz factory. Her job was to test for contamination of the batches. She said an alarm would go off when the levels got too high, and she would have to go and test the batch with a test strip. She said that no matter what the strip showed she would turn off the alarm and tell them to continue. She said she watched all kinds of s**t go in the batch. Spiders, bugs, etc.

Shucked Report

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50points

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Russell Rieckenberg 11 months ago

Has nothing to do with ketchup per se. There's no way you can avoid eating bugs or such things as mouse/rat hair. Doesn't matter where you get your food or ingredients. That's a simple fact of life.

83points

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#44

That fancy dessert you bought at an expensive sitdown place was purchased frozen, warmed up, and sprinkled with chocolate to make it look like they made it themselves.

transluscent_emu Report

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Zaphod 11 months ago

Not always true. I know a pastry chef at a fancy restaurant

43points

#45

Your local health dept is probably overworked and understaffed. You should take an active role in evaluating if the restaurant is up to your standards.

humanoid_typhoon Report

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49points

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Birgit Sommer 11 months ago

Excuse me, I need to see your kitchen, freezers, pantry and storage before being seated.

34points

#46

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets German chocolate cake isn’t from Germany.

mst3k_42 , Cristina Matos-Albers Report

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48points

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PolymathNecromancer 11 months ago

Is it made from Germans?

92points

fluffy_boy_cheddar Report

#47

The apples you are buying from the produce department are anywhere from 9-14 months old.

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48points

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Westend Girl 11 months ago

So what? Its a natural product, so i don't see the problem

43points

#48

Organic means nothing. Same with all natural. They are marketing terms.

Dontshunlee Report

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45points

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OSA 11 months ago

Legislation in Australia says otherwise. Legally mandated standards that are government enforced.

63points

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Castorium is from a beaver's b******e, and it is used to make artificial raspberry flavor. (ETA) It can also used for strawberry and vanilla

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43points

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Bookworm 11 months ago

It isn't, technically, the beaver's b******e. It's the beaver's scent gland which is located near the beaver's b******e. If anyone's ever had a dog that needed its a**l glands expressed at the vet - same thing. No less gross, though.

70points

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Every packaged and processed item you purchase is actively being worked on to be made cheaper, less nutritious or less flavorful. It’s the curse of “continuous improvement”. All it’s doing is making what once was a decent quality food item way worse for you and more expensive.

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PFD 11 months ago

This is stupid. Manufacturers do try to make products cheaper to produce, yes, but no one is "actively" working to make foods less nutritious and flavourful (except in edge cases perhaps such as making some strongly flavoured products milder to appeal to a wither consumer base). Where that happens, it's a side-effect of trying to achieve product efficiencies. Which leaves us with the claim that making a product cheaper makes it more expensive. Which is nonsense.

53points

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BlueEyesWhiteDragon 11 months ago

Half of these are incorrect, the other half is unsurprising.

25points

Petra Schaap 11 months ago

and 3/4 of them american

2points

Zophra 11 months ago

I WANT SOURCES for all this information, not an unknown, possibly biased person reporting an outlier situation they heard of secondhand.

12points

Mike Fitzpatrick 11 months ago

Good luck with that.

5points

Hphizzle 11 months ago

I appreciate good music, good films, good food… but man, sometimes you just want to watch a rom-com, eat some processed food, and listen to pop music. None of this surprised me.

11points

SewingStaffy 11 months ago

Makes me feel sad for America, most of this sounds like it's from there. I know nowhere is perfect, but the UK and EU from my experience is better when it comes to food, additives etc

10points

I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 11 months ago

Yep, makes me really rethink what I eat when I visit the states!

1point

Squiffle Noses 11 months ago

Most stuff in Lydl and Aldi is the same recipie as the most popular brands but with the reduction of the most expensive ingredients.

3points

Darian Starfrog 11 months ago

Very America-centric.. MOST countries have regulations and government intervention.. and would never get away with such gross negligence

2points

Toothless Feline 11 months ago

Many of these are just plain stupid jokes and shouldn't have been included in the first place. "Shrimp fried rice isn't fried by shrimp." I'm pretty sure that nobody with a functioning brain has ever thought it was.

2points

Jason Doakes 11 months ago

This is what happens when you eliminate consumer protection. I'd be surprised if any of these s****y things happen in Europe. GOP the enemy of the people.

1point

Bryn 11 months ago

When it comes to 'organic farms', if the farms around them aren't organic, then they can't label themselves as organic.

1point

Angie Falzarano 11 months ago

5 guys washed the starch out of potatoes? Do they also wash the starch out of bread. Sorry you can't wash starch out of a potato. It is a starch. Some of these are just ignorant. Shrimp fried rice not made by shrimp ie.

1point

Sophie 11 months ago

I imagine it's similar to washing the starch off rice... You can rinse the outside surface though.

1point

Gingersnap In Iowa 11 months ago

I grew up on a pig farm. Not all farm animals are treated terribly. My Dad now raises cattle.

1point

Livingwithcfs 5 months ago

I'd hate to eat anything in the states, seems like they can package anything in a food style wrapper and sell it as food. Also why is it so hard to make a meal from scratch using fresh produce? Usually better for you, tastier and over the long term cheaper

0points

Shruti 9 months ago

.y body release dopamine when I cook veg stir fry and eat it. Doesn't have to be sugary buttery or salty. Train ur toungue and bodies to eat nutrition not taste.

0points

Nosirrow 10 months ago

A woman was complaining about veggies and how now they are tasteless. During the summer I would have a bunch of radishes for breakfast and often my mouth felt like I've eaten a chilli. Same with spring onion. I had to add cream cheese to make the veg less spicy.

0points

Marie BellaDonna 11 months ago

"Not in the UK!" "Not in Germany!" "Not in Australia!" WHY does there have to be so much anti-US sentiment on BP?? No counties are even mentioned in this article, not in one single entry. And yet in every comments section, and even down here, "This must be talking about the US!" We get it, okay? There's a lot about the US that sucks. But y'all aren't perfect either. Just stop already.

0points

Petra Schaap 11 months ago

i just a always laugh when im in the US and see "Belgian chocolate" as a flavor somewhere. Theres 50000 different types of chocolate brands and flavors over here. And "Belgian Style" beer is just as silly. Anyone explane?

0points

Yargarble 11 months ago (edited)

Harumph Harumph here in the almighty UK we do everything better. STFU you smug, inbred twats. You're the only ones that buy into your completely ridiculous sense of superiority. Snaggletoothed gits.

0points

MoMcB 11 months ago

I'm Irish lol

0points

Flora Porter 11 months ago (edited)

A lot of these seem to be about the US and a culture of supermarkets and processed food. In Europe, even in the UK where I am, you can go to traditional local markets and buy fresh, seasonal food for less.

0points

B Jones 11 months ago

There are some food deserts for people, but I have never had trouble getting fresh food and farmers my markets pop up in most cities. Most of the problems are from people that feel they don't have time to cook. I understand if you're working long hours or two jobs daily. But most people I know who say they don't have time then spend hours watching TV. You can cook pretty simple easy meals in a short time, but it's still more time than just getting takeout or throwing processed foods in the microwave

2points

Latte Tegel 11 months ago

A chicken egg, for your eggs Bennie etc, is actually a chickens period!

-2points

day light 11 months ago

is this a reference to something? this sounds like a reference, but if it's not... um...

2points

Mark Robertson 11 months ago

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Jay McGuigan 11 months ago

So much of what you just said is straight up wrong I'm actually blown away. Impressive

1point

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BlueEyesWhiteDragon 11 months ago

Half of these are incorrect, the other half is unsurprising.

25points

Petra Schaap 11 months ago

and 3/4 of them american

2points

Zophra 11 months ago

I WANT SOURCES for all this information, not an unknown, possibly biased person reporting an outlier situation they heard of secondhand.

12points

Mike Fitzpatrick 11 months ago

Good luck with that.

5points

Hphizzle 11 months ago

I appreciate good music, good films, good food… but man, sometimes you just want to watch a rom-com, eat some processed food, and listen to pop music. None of this surprised me.

11points

SewingStaffy 11 months ago

Makes me feel sad for America, most of this sounds like it's from there. I know nowhere is perfect, but the UK and EU from my experience is better when it comes to food, additives etc

10points

I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 11 months ago

Yep, makes me really rethink what I eat when I visit the states!

1point

Squiffle Noses 11 months ago

Most stuff in Lydl and Aldi is the same recipie as the most popular brands but with the reduction of the most expensive ingredients.

3points

Darian Starfrog 11 months ago

Very America-centric.. MOST countries have regulations and government intervention.. and would never get away with such gross negligence

2points

Toothless Feline 11 months ago

2points

Jason Doakes 11 months ago

This is what happens when you eliminate consumer protection. I'd be surprised if any of these s****y things happen in Europe. GOP the enemy of the people.

1point

Bryn 11 months ago

When it comes to 'organic farms', if the farms around them aren't organic, then they can't label themselves as organic.

1point

Angie Falzarano 11 months ago

1point

Sophie 11 months ago

I imagine it's similar to washing the starch off rice... You can rinse the outside surface though.

1point

Gingersnap In Iowa 11 months ago

I grew up on a pig farm. Not all farm animals are treated terribly. My Dad now raises cattle.

1point

Livingwithcfs 5 months ago

0points

Shruti 9 months ago

.y body release dopamine when I cook veg stir fry and eat it. Doesn't have to be sugary buttery or salty. Train ur toungue and bodies to eat nutrition not taste.

0points

Nosirrow 10 months ago

0points

Marie BellaDonna 11 months ago

0points

Petra Schaap 11 months ago

0points

Yargarble 11 months ago (edited)

Harumph Harumph here in the almighty UK we do everything better. STFU you smug, inbred twats. You're the only ones that buy into your completely ridiculous sense of superiority. Snaggletoothed gits.

0points

MoMcB 11 months ago

I'm Irish lol

0points

Flora Porter 11 months ago (edited)

0points

B Jones 11 months ago

2points

Latte Tegel 11 months ago

A chicken egg, for your eggs Bennie etc, is actually a chickens period!

-2points

day light 11 months ago

is this a reference to something? this sounds like a reference, but if it's not... um...

2points

Mark Robertson 11 months ago

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Jay McGuigan 11 months ago

So much of what you just said is straight up wrong I'm actually blown away. Impressive

1point