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This year, the global food market revenue stands at around 9.36 trillion US dollars. For comparison, Germany's entire economy is valued at "just" $4.4 trillion. What's more, it's estimated that the figure should continuously increase between 2023 and 2028 by 38.46 percent and reach $12.97 trillion.
But big money brings tough competition, and businesses may try all sorts of tactics to get an edge.
Interested in the practices of this sector, Reddit user Lilyxrx made a post on the platform, asking everyone, "What's a secret the food industry doesn't want you to know?" Turns out, many more wanted to know, too. As of now, the post has 4.6K upvotes and 3.5K comments. Here are some of the most interesting ones.
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#1
Beekeeper checking in - there is no such thing as organic honey. I do not treat my bees with chemicals, but I have no idea where they get their nectar. A bee can fly up to three miles from a hive to get nectar. It is virtually impossible to guarantee they have not gotten nectar from a chemically treated source.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Or found a can or cup containing soda. Now that it is winter they visit convenience store trash cans.
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#2
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.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year 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.
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.
#3
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.
Tammilee Truitt 1 year 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.
#4
They're making BANK windfall record profits right now under the guise of "inflation" and "supply issues".
Mel Colley 1 year ago
Who and when is this going ti stop? Answer: Not any time soon. Too many powerful people are getting paid!
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).
#5
Chef here. It’s salt and fat. If you have a question about anything it’s salt and fat.
#6
Cows make milk not because they are cows but because they are mothers
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.
#7
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.
Sue Denham 1 year ago
The reason restaurant food tastes better than what I make at home is because I didn't have to cook it.
V 1 year ago
Restaurant food tastes better to me because I don't have to clean up afterwards.
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Bobby 1 year ago
Migraine is not the same as headache. If you've never had one I get that may be your only frame of reference. But, saying Migraine = headache is pretty similar to saying appendicitis = stomach ache
Well then 1 year ago
THANK YOU!!! I wish they would stop calling migraines a headache. The headache is just ONE of the symptoms of the attack. Then there's the nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light, dizziness, cold sweat... I even get a fever.
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BrownTabby 1 year ago
The kind of people who get precious about MSG aren’t the ones eating 4,000 calories and you know it.
Nel Cameron 1 year ago
I know that there us MSG in pretty much everything. And that's fine. Those amounts usually make little difference and are last on the ingredient list. But, some people do have a sensitivity to MSG. Me. Not in the small quantities. But, it makes the inside of my mouth go numb and makes my heart skip beats. No headaches. There has to be a quantity of it though. It's not an allergy, just a sensitivity .
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
I make my own non-dairy "cheese" dips and "cream cheese" spreads. MSG is what gives it that final cheese-like savour. Unfortunately you will never find a successfully selling dairy alternative with MSG on the lable; ironically, ALL dairy based cheeses have MSG in them, and it doesn't have to be labled because it's not an additive, but developes naturally during the cheese-making process. I don't doubt there are people out there medically allergic to MSG, but if someone claims to be allergic and then gleefully digs into a caprese salad? Nah, love.
Jay McGuigan 1 year ago
Anything cooked or fermented with sugars and protein in it contains MSG so literally everything. It's created naturally when you apply heat to sugar and protein. It's also created naturally in your stomach when you eat something raw with sugar and protein in it. I doubt there are (living) people out there medically allergic to MSG because they literally couldn't eat anything. It's like being allergic to water.
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lolothesilly 1 year ago
Some individuals do have a sensitivity to it, but a lot of the distrust for MSG stems from misinformation + the post WW2 anti-Asian sentiment. MSG is used widely in Chinese-American cuisine. It's generally naturally derived from things like mushrooms. It's also a sodium, so if it's giving you a headache, make sure you aren't dehydrated to begin with :P
Abigail 1 year ago
I hate that MSG gets a bad rap, only a teeny tiny portion of the entire world's population has a sensitivity to it, like any other ingredient. It's been villanized for decades now. It is a perfectly safe ingredient and not adding it truly does affect the taste of the food. I guarantee that for most people who claim to have issues with it that if they didn't know the MSG was in their food, they'd eat it and never mention any kind of negative issue. Restaurant food also is seasoned at every step, if home cooks saw how much salt is really used they would be shocked.
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
I actually prefer home cooking to any restaurant. Our homemade hamburgers? Nothing compares. My son makes homemade pizza and it's outstanding. Roasts, nachos, pasta, chili, soups, etc., can't get anything as good at a restaurant. I don't even like to go out for coffee because I prefer my coffee at home.
Amythyst Green 1 year ago
Msg us not totally safe and delicious. In fact it causes a lot of issues for a lot of people. As a kid I thought it was weird that I always got a migraine and nausea/vomiting every time we went to my mom's favorite Chinese restaurant, but never knew why... Until a boyfriend started feeding me food he made with adobo and I started getting migraines and nausea all the time. I consulted my doctor and was told it was from the msg.
Amythyst Green 1 year ago
Lucky for the people that like adobo there is a version without all the msg
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AsylumWalker 1 year ago
no, it's not. it's the exact same molecule. it makes no difference how it appeared.
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Louise Fair 1 year ago
Actually no, it is the reason I feel unwell and I avoid eating out for this reason. I ate ramen with a friend the other week, it was her work lunch and I didn't want to be a pain. I at maybe a quarter of my meal, probably less. Spent the entire day feeling awful. For most people it is no problem, but for some, it is a very real, very annoying issue.
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
I have rarely had restaurant food that tastes better than what I cook at home.
Kylie 1 year ago
Mine come from chocolate (bummer) and oddly, oranges in hot weather
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Stymied Egan 9 months ago
I don't like going out to eat. I find that most restaurant food is disappointing. What we make at home is usually better. I only like going to ethnic restaurants that make things we've never tried or know how to make. Even then we try to find the places that aren't making the American version of international food.
Elisabeth Vebenstad 11 months ago
Well.. I often like my own food better. I know what's in it. And that the ingrediens are fresh and the kitchen is clean. Love from a homecook in Norway 🇧🇻
Catlover129 1 year ago
Actually, MSG can frequently cause not only horrendous headaches, but all sorts of strange uncomfortable symptoms.
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
Restaurant food doesn't always taste better, but you don't have to cook it yourself.
Gypsy Lee 1 year ago
As a chef I have to say what I make at home is better than what I get at a restaurant. Eating something at a restaurant I notice all the things they did wrong, even on the most basic dish, and then I feel ridiculous for paying restaurant prices for what I could have made better, and cheaper, at home. - I don't eat out much. But if I didn't have that learning I probably would think restaurant food tastes better... at least until you know better. 🤣
Norman Biegner 1 year ago
MSG causes many problems, a friend's feet will swell up and I get "cottonmouth", severe dryness in my mouth.
Nikos Papakonstandinou 1 year ago
"Totally safe". Right... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938543/
Arsalan Nazari 1 year ago
We kinda have the opposite problem 😅 My wife says I've ruined eating out for her because I cook it better at home 🥲 Yes I'm humble bragging 🥲
Darth Continent 1 year ago
Some of us do have headaches and malaise from MSG even with small amounts of food loaded with it. Everybody is different, and just because the product happens to be happily promoted by it's producers and any ill effects cast aside by naysayers does not undo them.
Deleila Charlie 1 year ago
I had to look up what msg even means, never heard of it. It is allowed in my country and isn't a big deal here.
Trophy Husband 1 year ago
It is possible to be allergic to msg, just like it is possible to be allergic to gluten. However, both of them are so uncommon that 99 percent of people who think they are allergic, turn out not to be when they are treated.
Elizabeth Patrick 1 year ago
Yeah restaurants tasting better? No. That’s one opinion. Our food here in the States really is subpar considering all the preservatives. We should be the healthiest of the world in my opinion but we are far from it.
Kayjunmoon 1 year ago
No butter used in the restaurants here. Excellent olive oil from the trees within 20 kilometres. No MSG added, I don’t think you can even buy it in our local suppliers.
Deleila Charlie 1 year ago
It's in a lot of things like tomatoes and cheese so no there's no needs to add it. It's already there.
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Joy Myers 1 year ago
I don’t know about migraines, but it always causes gastrointestinal issues for me. I can’t taste the difference if our local Chinese restaurant forgets when I say no msg, but I can tell 20 minutes later.
Jay McGuigan 1 year ago
MSG is literally in anything cooked. By default. The act of browning anything in a pan creates MSG. Cake has msg, steak has msg, anything cooked or baked has MSG. You are not sensitive to MSG.
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Jay McGuigan 1 year ago
No it doesn't, this misconception has been disproven SEVERAL times.
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I disagree that MSG is in everything. Quality restaurants don't add MSG. (Source: years of working in fine dining)
Jay McGuigan 1 year ago
It's in everything by default. MSG is created naturally when you apply heat or stomach acid to protein and carbohydrates. It's not added to most things, but every possible food contains MSG.
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Why do people feel the need to "inform" people about their own health realities? For some of us it is ABSOLUTELY the MSG. No question at all.
Jay McGuigan 1 year ago
It's not. It physically cannot be. MSG is literally in EVERY SINGLE FOOD and there's no way to remove it. If you've ever eaten a steak, a cake, a piece of cooked broccoli, pizza, cheese, literally every single food contains MSG because MSG is created naturally when you apply heat or stomach acid to protein and carbohydrates. You are NOT allergic to MSG. You should learn to question things, especially when they are literally impossible.
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
Are u american ? Cause i eat the same way i cook but french cooks are still better than french eaters
Bernd Herbert 1 year ago
So you can't eat tomatoes or soy sauce? That would really annoy me
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#8
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.
Sky Render 1 year 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!
#9
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.
#10
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
#11
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.
#12
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.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 1 year ago
I really, really, really, really, REALLY, want to try Dragon Fruit
#13
The trick to good fried rice is old rice. It has to dry out for a bit in the fridge.
#14
Many of the cooks making your food are high and/or drunk.
#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*.
MoMcB 1 year 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.
#16
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.
#17
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.
Aaron Parker 1 year 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.
#18
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
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year 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.
#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.
#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
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
In the food factories where I worked, food waste was sold to pig farms, but maybe pig farms don't want bread.
#21
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
#22
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
#23
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.
#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.
Bottle Opener 1 year ago
"SLIME in the ice machine!" -Marvin Zindler, Eye Witness News (Houston, Texas in the '80s.)
#25
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.
Evan not Hansen 1 year ago
Lol I'm pretty sure that's a picture of a Little Caesar's pizza, not Domino's
#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.
Sleestak 1 year 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.
#27
Diet, not exercise, is the main factor in determining weight gain/loss
#28
Buffalo wings are not made of buffalo, they're made of chicken.
Buffalo don't even have wings.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I believe they are called Buffalo Wings because they were first popularized in Buffalo, New York.
#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.
René Sauer 1 year ago
Or maybe because not every one has the space, money or other resources to do something about it.
#31
When you order "Shrimp fried rice" there isn't actually a shrimp frying the rice.
#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
#33
Alot of cooking is just the reheating of prep and Chef Mike (the microwave) gets used alot more than you think.
#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.
#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.
#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.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year 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.
#37
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.
#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.
#40
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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year 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.
#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.
#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.
Birgit Sommer 1 year ago
Excuse me, I need to see your kitchen, freezers, pantry and storage before being seated.
#47
The apples you are buying from the produce department are anywhere from 9-14 months old.
#48
Organic means nothing. Same with all natural. They are marketing terms.
#49
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
#50
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.
PFD 1 year 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.
What do you think ?
Zophra 1 year ago
I WANT SOURCES for all this information, not an unknown, possibly biased person reporting an outlier situation they heard of secondhand.
SewingStaffy 1 year 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
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Yep, makes me really rethink what I eat when I visit the states!
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Squiffle Noses 1 year 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.
Darian Starfrog 1 year ago
Very America-centric.. MOST countries have regulations and government intervention.. and would never get away with such gross negligence
Toothless Feline 1 year 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.
Jason Doakes 1 year 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.
Angie Falzarano 1 year 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.
Sophie 1 year ago
I imagine it's similar to washing the starch off rice... You can rinse the outside surface though.
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Gingersnap In Iowa 1 year ago
I grew up on a pig farm. Not all farm animals are treated terribly. My Dad now raises cattle.
Livingwithcfs 6 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
Marie BellaDonna 1 year 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.
Petra Schaap 1 year 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?
Yargarble 1 year 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.
Flora Porter 1 year 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.
B Jones 1 year 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
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Latte Tegel 1 year ago
A chicken egg, for your eggs Bennie etc, is actually a chickens period!
day light 1 year ago
is this a reference to something? this sounds like a reference, but if it's not... um...
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Jay McGuigan 1 year ago
So much of what you just said is straight up wrong I'm actually blown away. Impressive
Load More Replies... Zophra 1 year ago
I WANT SOURCES for all this information, not an unknown, possibly biased person reporting an outlier situation they heard of secondhand.
SewingStaffy 1 year 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
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Yep, makes me really rethink what I eat when I visit the states!
Load More Replies... Squiffle Noses 1 year 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.
Darian Starfrog 1 year ago
Very America-centric.. MOST countries have regulations and government intervention.. and would never get away with such gross negligence
Toothless Feline 1 year 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.
Jason Doakes 1 year 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.
Angie Falzarano 1 year 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.
Sophie 1 year ago
I imagine it's similar to washing the starch off rice... You can rinse the outside surface though.
Load More Replies... Gingersnap In Iowa 1 year ago
I grew up on a pig farm. Not all farm animals are treated terribly. My Dad now raises cattle.
Livingwithcfs 6 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
Marie BellaDonna 1 year 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.
Petra Schaap 1 year 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?
Yargarble 1 year 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.
Flora Porter 1 year 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.
B Jones 1 year 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
Load More Replies... Latte Tegel 1 year ago
A chicken egg, for your eggs Bennie etc, is actually a chickens period!
day light 1 year ago
is this a reference to something? this sounds like a reference, but if it's not... um...
Load More Replies... Jay McGuigan 1 year ago
So much of what you just said is straight up wrong I'm actually blown away. Impressive
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