{"id":2222,"date":"2015-03-18T07:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2015-03-18T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:52:21","slug":"wednesday-18-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/18\/wednesday-18-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 18 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

07:52 –<\/span> One often-overlooked advantage of maintaining a large stock of stored foods and eating routinely from those stores is that it allows you to avoid eating foods that end up being recalled. For example, I see that Kraft just recalled a quarter million cases of their Mac & Cheese dinners. The problem this time is minor–metal bits in a few of the boxes–but in the past there have been recalls for serious issues like botulism contamination.
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Speaking of food, I see that our moron state legislators are pushing a bill to deal with the supposed problem of “food deserts” in rural and urban North Carolina. They plan to subsidize convenience stores to carry fresh fruits and vegetables, believing that the problem is that poor people can’t get to supermarkets so the solution is to bring “healthy” foods to the convenience stores where they shop. Needless to say, those fresh foods will rot on the convenience store shelves. The reason poor people don’t eat more fresh foods isn’t because they have to travel to get to supermarkets. The reason is that they’re too lazy to prepare them. They’d rather eat convenience foods.
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As I’ve said before, we need to get rid of food stamps and return to the classical Roman grain dole. Any citizen should be able to get a free food supply once a month just by showing up and signing on the line. That month’s food supply should comprise one 1-pound box of salt, a liter of vegetable oil, one 5-pound can of beans, and six 5-pound cans of white flour. That provides all the nutrition one person needs for one month at an actual cost of about $0.50 per day.
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07:52 – One often-overlooked advantage of maintaining a large stock of stored foods and eating routinely from those stores is that it allows you to avoid eating foods that end up being recalled. For example, I see that Kraft just recalled a quarter million cases of their Mac & Cheese dinners. The problem this time is minor–metal bits in a few of the boxes–but in the past there have been recalls for serious issues like botulism contamination.<\/p>\n

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