"Five second rule" to puking...

I was thinking about food... Where it comes from, who it is that prepares it for me, and where it has been before I got hold of it...

I have been a slave in the food industry for a rather large portion of my life, and have seen and heard about things that I will defiantly not tell you about... but it is not the gross things that I know that happen to food that I was thinking about, but rather those people that refuse to touch food that have had anything happen to it...

So first you have to look at it from the viewpoint of the picky person. Ok, yes, it is gross if there has been something dropped on the floor, or you have found a hair in your food. That makes most people lose their appetite right off, so fast that even the Big Bang couldn't keep up with it...

Now think of it from the cooks point of view. Something falls on the floor, HEY five second rule, right? And it isn't like they play hide the hair in the soup game... And even when they find a slug on the fresh lettuce, wash it off and call it good. from a cooks standpoint the rule is, if I would eat it, it's ok...

So then we get down to the real truth of the matter, the part that would have that picky eater puking everything that he has ever eaten in their life back out, the truth that makes small girls cry and little boys stair in awe... The farmers side of the food tale...

Mental walk through: you go to a farm and see all the animals that the farmer is growing for food, and are only told, not shown, that they will soon be providing you with the beef for your burgers next Friday... Cool you think and thank the cow for it's brave sacrifice to a growing nation and go home rather hungrier than you should be... But as soon as you are gone the farmer goes to work... There are few that have seen a cow being slaughtered in real life, and the details of the goings on are not of an appropriate rating for this blog... You can just imagine a slasher movie, with the outcome being that a fat man gets to eat something...

Anyways, the Idea is that there is a whole lot more to what goes on in producing the food that we eat every day... then there is my theory that we are eating dead bodies all the time, but you can ask me about that at a later time...

And by the way, you can't spell slaughter without laughter...