Is not all "mass produced food" made that way ?

Real home made food, not the "taste like home made", does seem to taste
better always. Can not say really why, but it just simply does !!!

Can not figure out why people sometimes swear by those Restaurants that sell
"taste like home made". Heck, reason why I go out to eat, is because I can
not make it as good as some restaurants make it. There is a place in NM
(Angelina) where I go and eat, and it is waiting to get a seat all the time.
Their food is better than my home made stuff !! If I want home made, I stay
home and do it my self, no ??



"Alfred J." > wrote in message
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> Dimitri wrote:
>
>> The headline in Popular Mechanics magazine saluted a manufacturing
>> triumph
>> in Los Angeles: "Tortillas Meet the Machine Age." It was 1950, and the El
>> Zarape Tortilla Factory, among the first to automate the production of
>> tortillas, had used a tortilla-making machine for three years.
>
> Mass produced Mexican food lacks one essential ingredient. No matter
> what it tastes like, it likes the *love* a mother or wife or sister or
> even a male cook might put into the preparation of a snack for one's
> family.
>
> Reading about tortillas flying out of a tortilla machine reminded me of
> a video I saw about a visit to the El Monterey burrito factory. I can
> buy 4 or 5 El Monterrey burritos for a buck at the 99 Cents Only Store,
> but, having seen them made, I don't much want to eat one at any price.
>
> The video showed about 200 pounds of hamburger being cooked all at once
> and chile powder was thrown by the shovel full into a giant vat with an
> automatic valve at the bottom.
>
> Tortillas passed under the valve and the vat extruded a blob of burrito
> filling onto each passing tortilla and the process reminded me of the
> horrified Sigourney Weaver watching the Mother Alien laying its eggs in
> its nest inside the dome of the ruined colony on the distant planet
> where the first Alien movie started.
>
> We all know what happened to the crew of the Nostromo...
>
> The blobbed tortillas then passed down the line to a group of unsmiling
> Mexican ladies who, the video explained, could deftly fold about 15
> burritos per minute.
>
> And that's all the *love* those burritos ever get.
>
> The next step was the insertion (by machine, of course) of the folded
> burrito into an endless tube of brightly printed plastic, which was
> then heat sealed by a machine, the wrapper was cut from the endless
> tube and the finished burritos fell into boxes to go to the freezers.
>