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Default The American Way of Eating

On Feb 21, 6:15*pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
> On Feb 21, 4:03*pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
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> > Good book review......good article. * Think I'll check it out.

>
> > At Applebee’s, almost no actual cooking is done: premade food in
> > plastic baggies is heated in microwaves and dumped onto plates. Ms.
> > McMillan deplores this practice while also finding it fascinating. “I
> > watch an endless assembly line,” she writes, “a large-scale mash-up
> > that hits the sweet spot between McDonald’s and Sandra Lee’s ‘Semi-
> > Homemade Cooking.’ ”

>
> I think it's the same way at Red Lobster and some at The Olive Garden.


They all do that, It's the way they insure uniformity of "product".

It's not food, it's "product". "Would you like a nice hot plate of
'product'? I'll slide a frozen one out of a plastic bag and nuke it
for you! BRB!"

Ugh! :-(

John Kuthe...