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Beautiful December

Now, when the garden awaits the return of spring
Now, when the silence is deep and blue
Now, when the winter has cast her spell again
Beautiful December, Beautiful December

Here, where the snow is as soft as a woolly lamb
Here, where the nightfall is deep and blue,
Here, where the stars are so bright, you reach for them
Beautiful December, Beautiful December

Child, may you sleep in gentle peace tonight
Dream of songs that rise on silken wings!
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Fast Food Controversies

BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
in Food and Drink
OMG!

What KFC's DNA Test Revealed About Customer's Claim That Chicken Tender Was Fried Rat.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dna-test-debunks-claim-chicken-tender-fried-rat/story?id=31949186
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  • aprilapril Moderator Posts: 11,042 mod
    It looks creepy anyway. :(

    Talking about rat, I remember a news about a dead rat that was found in a loaf of bread.
    The picture is so gruesome that I can't put it here.
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @april I think it is not the first issue raised by consumers but the company must have quality assurance and quality control system. This is not a small thing that can be ignored by the company.
  • aprilapril Moderator Posts: 11,042 mod
    In our industrial culture nowadays, I can understand that those things can happen and this blunder will be just discovered when the consumer want to consume it.
    A lot of times, food companies need to remove food from the shelves in the shops in the whole country and in the meantime a lot of people have eaten those products. :(
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @april did you face any poor quality issue in your country regarding fast food? We have chains of KFC and McDonald and once I heard from my friend that she found a small cockroach in her burger and when she complained, the waiter immediately replace it without any inquiry.
  • aprilapril Moderator Posts: 11,042 mod
    To be honest, I haven't heard about that problem here, @bubbli.
  • ZomZom Shadok Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    We've got plenty of rats in Paris, maybe it's time to start a new business.
    It befits a man to be merry and glad
    Until the day of his death.
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @Zom you need a plenty of cats instead of staring a new business.:)
  • ZomZom Shadok Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    If rats taste like chicken, eating rats might mean that the poultry industry would decline. That would be nice. No more chicken raised in battery cages.
    It befits a man to be merry and glad
    Until the day of his death.
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @Zom battery cages? but may be they want to introduce a variety besides chicken and it is a sort of gimmick.:)
  • ZomZom Shadok Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    Battery cages
    www.flickr.com/photos/farmsanctuary1/2162598209
    It befits a man to be merry and glad
    Until the day of his death.
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2015
    Yes I have seen it before @Zom do you think KFC uses these battery caged chickens?
  • ZomZom Shadok Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2015
    I wonder if they would make money selling free range chickens burgers. Their prices would have to go up and sell less quantities, wouldn't they?
    It befits a man to be merry and glad
    Until the day of his death.
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2015
    @Zom with broilers, they have limited choices but yes the more we know the harmful effects of this battery cages chicken, the more we taste it. :)

    @mheredge Marianne must have some experiences to share with us though I know she is not fond of fast food.:)
  • GemmaRowlandsGemmaRowlands Moderator Posts: 10,331 mod
    I think that there are lots of things in news about fast food that are supposed to scare people, and a lot of the time it really does work. The thing is, most of us know that fast food isn't good for us, however most of the time it isn't actually dangerous, and this is something that people need to remember. Once in a while isn't a bad thing, as long as you're not eating it every day.
  • mheredgemheredge Posts: 40,956 ✭✭✭✭
    We eat rabbits and guinea pigs are a delicacy in Peru, so why not rats?
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2015
    @mheredge don't tell me that you are going to taste rats! :#
  • [Ex Member][Ex Member] Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭✭
    eeesh! it's awful I am not even going to open the link :|
  • nisreen.mustafanisreen.mustafa Posts: 208 ✭✭✭✭
    OMG that is increasing my nausea eeeewww
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @nisreen.mustafa @meu I felt the same when I saw this for the first time. :)
  • mheredgemheredge Posts: 40,956 ✭✭✭✭
    While having dinner in a five star hotel in Pokhara (Nepal) @bubbli, I saw a rat scurry across the dining room. I was there to review the hotel and had forgotten to ask for a look at their kitchen earlier in the day. When I asked in the morning I hit a stone wall.

    If you were to find a cockroach in your food in the UK, the inspectors would close down the restaurant @bubbli. In Nepal and India, I wonder if there are any restaurants without roaches!
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @mheredge These days food authority in Pakistan is active and many restaurants and slaughter houses were sealed due to unhygienic and non-halal food and meat. A woman who is deputy director in food authority herself raid the sites and issue orders to seal the hotels/restaurants/food factories on spot. This is a commendable job.
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @meu You must have heard about Aysah Mumtaz who is lashing out the people selling unhygienic food and meat.
    http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/09/05/city/lahore/seized-meat-from-lahore-was-unhygienic-not-haram/
  • [Ex Member][Ex Member] Posts: 0 ✭✭
    That's reminded me one story. When I was a student, I worked as a waiter for a restaurant. We had a chef. Really good one. One day he bet that he able to cook meat dish using kitchen towel instead meat and the customer wouldn't notice that.
    What do you think? He won! :)
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @_Roman_ Kitchen towel instead of meat? Was he insane?
  • mheredgemheredge Posts: 40,956 ✭✭✭✭
    Hahaha @_Roman_ . The restaurant wasn't in the UK by any chance?
  • [Ex Member][Ex Member] Posts: 0 ✭✭
    Not a bit of it @bubbli ! It was a bet. He said that even amateurs can cook if they have good meat, but real professional able to cook well from nothing. :)

    Relax @mheredge ! It was not in the UK :)

    I really don't want to disappoint you, my friends, but actually it's better to know nothing about modern ways to produce food. It seems to me, the sausages which people usually buy in a supermarket contain no more meat than that dish.
  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @_Roman_ I've recently came to know that ketchup that we usually use with burgers and french fries is without tomatoes. They use some chemicals and essence that is similar to the taste of tomatoes.
  • mheredgemheredge Posts: 40,956 ✭✭✭✭
    Ugh! I know ketchup usually has loads of sugar in it, but no tomatoes? I'm rather proud of my tomato chutney I made yesterday, if I saw so myself. It was a bit of an improvisation but tastes very good.

  • BubblyBubbly Posts: 29,890 ✭✭✭✭
    @mheredge I think you should start this business of tomato chutney. I am with you. At least, we will enjoy the real taste of tomatoes.
  • mheredgemheredge Posts: 40,956 ✭✭✭✭
    Small scale production is fine @bubbli (three small jars). Any more than this, it starts becoming like hard work. Remember, I like to be lazy!
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