What's your most controversial food opinion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart.

[Anonymous]

Restaurants are crap and a scam, especially post Covid -- they're really just a place to get drunk under the guise of a meal.

Farmers markets are a waste of time scam with sketchy wholesalers pretending to be farmers and lying about where the crap is from. Nothing they sell is any better than you'd get at a good grocer. If anything, it's more likely to be lower grade stuff they picked up for cheap.

Feeding kids fast food makes you trashy.

Grocery store bread is garbage.

Fairlife milk is better than real milk.

Beer is low class and makes you fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Restaurants are crap and a scam, especially post Covid -- they're really just a place to get drunk under the guise of a meal.

Farmers markets are a waste of time scam with sketchy wholesalers pretending to be farmers and lying about where the crap is from. Nothing they sell is any better than you'd get at a good grocer. If anything, it's more likely to be lower grade stuff they picked up for cheap.

Feeding kids fast food makes you trashy.

Grocery store bread is garbage.

Fairlife milk is better than real milk.

Beer is low class and makes you fat.

Agree, except with the point on milk. I buy organic whole milk and see no reason why Fairlife would be “better” unless you have a lactose sensitivity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who need a recipe to cook lack imagination.

(Baking is different as it is science and requires precision.)

This seems a little unfair.

I'm also not a recipe follower, but it took years to get there, and to understand which instructions matter to the end result (or not).

Agreed. More like people who need a recipe lack experience. That's all. You can't get to that next stage right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most controversial belief:

Sprinkles DO NOT belong on anything! It's ruins the taste and they are ugly, tasteless and the texture ruins whatever item it is put on.

It's a visual thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Restaurants are crap and a scam, especially post Covid -- they're really just a place to get drunk under the guise of a meal.

Farmers markets are a waste of time scam with sketchy wholesalers pretending to be farmers and lying about where the crap is from. Nothing they sell is any better than you'd get at a good grocer. If anything, it's more likely to be lower grade stuff they picked up for cheap.

Feeding kids fast food makes you trashy.

Grocery store bread is garbage.

Fairlife milk is better than real milk.

Beer is low class and makes you fat.

Agree, except with the point on milk. I buy organic whole milk and see no reason why Fairlife would be “better” unless you have a lactose sensitivity

I love Fairlife milk but I think it has been making me terribly, terribly sick. Something very wrong with it. I should have known that something that overly processed was too good to be true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart.

They can use snap benefits on oil and spices if they want. Those are versatile to cooking in general and limited to using to prepare produce. Or not. There is nothing inhumane or unkind about steaming, boiling, or eating produce raw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairlife milk is better than real milk.

Nope. Overprossessed and a way to charge you more to drink overprocessed crap.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart.

They can use snap benefits on oil and spices if they want. Those are versatile to cooking in general and limited to using to prepare produce. Or not. There is nothing inhumane or unkind about steaming, boiling, or eating produce raw.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairlife milk is better than real milk.

Nope. Overprossessed and a way to charge you more to drink overprocessed crap.

I just googled "What is Fairlife milk?" and wow -- I can't believe anyone who knows anything about nutrition thinks this is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP!

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit. If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.

PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart.

Yes, unfortunately delicious fruit is SO expensive. Kids are going to toss a pasty canned pear, mushy apples or brown bananas . Berries, mango, pineapple, grapes, cherries and watermelon are a different story. They perish quickly for school cafeteria purposes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids shouldn't consume sugar drinks like apple juice, Capri sun, soda, Gatorade, etc.

I don't think this is controversial at all--almost every mother I know thinks this.

Most mothers feed their kids sugar drinks daily.

What about fathers?

Ii saw a father in a food court with a couple little kids around dinner time. They were drinking Coke and french fries. I wonder what bedtime was like after that.

Bedtime was fine, because even if the soda did have sugar in it (did you take a sip?), the old trope of "sugar makes kids hyper" has long been scientifically debunked.

COKE. The PP said COKE which has caffeine. Caffeine and sugar are sublime.

Again, did PP take a sip? Maybe it was Caffeine Free Coke. Maybe it was root beer. All judgey PP knows is that it was brown (and no, just because the outside of a disposable cup said COKE, that doesn't mean it was Coke).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairlife milk is better than real milk.

Nope. Overprossessed and a way to charge you more to drink overprocessed crap.

Lol, it’s a Coke product.

No thanks.