On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 1:50:00 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 4:02:36 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 7:43:20 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> > > > In article >,
> > > > dsi1yahoo.com says...
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 6:29:19 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
> > > > > > YUM!!!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > John Kuthe....
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been drinking this stuff. I think it is hecho en Mexico so no worries there (?!) Damn it's good. It's selling for $2.50. I think I better buy more because like most wonderful things, it won't last for long.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://www.amazon.com/KLASS-Mango-I.../dp/B0000GJ7DK
> > > >
> > > > Ingredients: Sugar, Guar Gum, Fumaric Acid, Artificial Flavor, Silicon
> > > > Dioxide, Sodium Citrate, Titanium Dioxide, Dried Mango Pulp, Ascorbic
> > > > Acid, Vitamin C, Sucralose, Caramel Color & Artificial Colors (FD&C
> > > > Yellow 5, FD&C Yellow 5 Lake, FD&C Yellow 6, FD&C Yellow 6 Lake.
> > > >
> > > > Now I know why you defend bad food. You can't tell the difference
> > > > between bad and good food
> > >
> > > I wonder why it has sand (silicon dioxide) in it...
> >
> > I'm like Dsil. I don't care about ingredients. It it tastes good, I'm
> > in. It's not like I eat or drink it every single day.
> >
> > I am certainly amazed with all the extra ingredients in most commercial
> > foods though. How in the world do they think to add tiny bits of all
> > these weird chemicals to our food?
> >
> > My gramma used to spend a month or two full time home-canning all kinds
> > of food to last the large family for an entire year. She never added or
> > needed to add preservatives or anything else. It was only sterilized
> > jars with cooked whatever food....nothing else ever added and all was
> > fine.
>
> I resist preconceived notions because it always affects ones perceptions. I don't want my perceptions messed with because, in the end, these things are limiting to a person.
>
> It's fairly obvious that the food of the future will be vastly different from the foods of today, just as the foods we enjoy today are not the foods from a 100 years ago.

Oddly enough, the foods I eat are almost identical to the foods of 100 years
ago (or 2000 years ago). Eggs. Beef. Chicken. Vegetables. Fruit. Flour.
Sure, they've been hybridized and whatnot, but I'm sure you could hand Apicius
an egg laid today and he'd know what it is.

Cindy Hamilton
and he would