OT - Nagging doubts re tomato soup - was, Re: SC - Americansugar consumption

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Adamantius wrote:
>I think you are missing the point, perhaps. Taste has, in many cases,
>particularly where childhood is concerned, nothing at all to do with
>quality. (SNIP) ...I don't crave
>canned tomato soup, I just noted that the product (which is now
>available in large glass jars) _looks_ different from the product as I
>remember it from, perhaps, 30 years ago, which is probably the last time
>I actually tried it. Okay, maybe 25. Anyway, it used to red, now it is
>dinstinctly pink. Thass all I know.

Ah hah! i see, memories... I remember sitting on a counter eating 
"Pream" out of a jar when i was a kid. The thought of doing such a 
thing now is pretty horrible.

>  > Yeah, saltines... only bleached white flour product i eat...
>
>Do tell ;  ) . Let me understand this. You eat _no_ bleached white flour
>products except saltines?

Yeah, i like the salty dry crunch (what is it? Nabisco? with the 
white box and the blue and red banner?). Whole wheat crackers don't 
crunch the same.

>Hmmmmm. Why even go that far? Or are we not
>counting the occasional commercially-made chocolate-chip cookie, or 
>equivalent?

Actually, i don't eat them. I make my own of unbleached white flour, 
or buy "healthy" junk food at the health food store, and i do read 
labels (assuming they aren't lying). None of those "Chips Ahoy" 
abominations, no nasty "Nilla wafers", no supermarket sheet cakes 
(what a waste of sheets).

Well, there is the rare Oreo... but i don't buy them, and only if 
they first one's free, kid... No, no, not me, they have to hold me 
down and force them between my lips.

Seriously, i probably eat an average of two Oreos per year, as there 
are some years when i eat none. If i buy cakes or pastries, it's from 
a bakery that uses only unbleached flour and butter, no margarine. I 
don't eat this sort of thing often, it's been several years since i 
bought a cake, although i buy the occasional slice (opera cake is 
good - i never said i don't eat chocolate)

I rarely buy bread - i'm not much of a bread eater - although i do 
get it for SCA events - whole wheat pita and lavosh - as i prefer the 
taste.

Anahita
who is, none the less, not pure as the driven snow, in fact, i have 
to drive a long way to see snow...