Foto Friday: epic cheesesteak sammiches and more 10 February 2012 4:25 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,bread,cheese,cooking,eating,fangirl,food as spectator sport,fun,hot mess,meat,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , add a commentThis could have been a Thank You Thursday and Foto Friday all in one, but the alternate title for this picture was “Why Tracy and Peter spent Thursday night in food coma mode,” so…. Yeah. Also: Mmmmm.
I mean, that is just so much win!
Another weekend, another epistle. 19 November 2011 9:38 am
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,fangirl,video,writing , add a commentToday I have kind words about my love of soccer (football for non-U.S. English discussers of the sport) over at my Open Letters blog. Also, because this post was looking so small, and because hunting around YouTube was a good way to ignore the upstairs neighbors’ music (too early for a Saturday morning, kids), a bonus video:
Also, I kinda like having this song stuck in my head.
Thank you Thursday: Keith Knight 17 November 2011 8:45 am
Posted by Tracy in : comics,eating,environment,fangirl,fish,food snobbery,pictures,thank you Thursday , add a commentSo last month, Keith Knight (about whom I have fangirled out before on this very blog) reminded me why I don’t eat shark anymore:
I’ve actually been meaning to write something about this for more than a year, ever since (warning: link has some very sad before-and-after pictures of a shark killed for food) a post I saw via The Atlantic‘s now-defunct food blog inspired me to draft a response saying “It’s a no-brainer, really: (more…)
TMI Tuesday: McRib edition 15 November 2011 1:57 pm
Posted by Tracy in : comics,consumerism,cross-posting,economics,fangirl,fast food,fun,mystery meat,not even vegetarian,pictures , add a commentFirst and foremost, full disclosure seems in order (and very much in the spirit of Too Much Information): I have never eaten a McDonalds McRib sandwich (TM?) In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one in the, um, flesh — if something as hyper-processed as the McRib (or, for that matter, McNuggets or Spam or… you get the idea, the list goes on) can still be considered flesh. Maybe it’s like honey in that regard, if it gets sufficiently processed it can no longer be called by that name? I don’t know. Anyway, that seemed like an important bit of information to get out of the way: this post is more about the McRib as cultural phenomenon than anything else. For whatever reason last week seems to have been McRib Week on various and sundry online media I follow, and so here are the items that made me say, “Ok, clearly I need to do a TracyFood post about this,” starting with some hilarious conspiracy theory economics, and ending with comics for people who want to skim past all that boring long reading stuff. (more…)
Another Twitter Tuesday! 8 November 2011 11:24 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,diet stress is a health hazard,events,fangirl,fast food,food safety,food snobbery,health at every size,media,meta,news,Twitter Tuesday , add a commentHey, so like I confessed yesterday, I really didn’t know what to blog about today, only then suddenly, to my surprise and delight, the Twitters, which I kinda sorta really hadn’t been watching since last Tuesday, came through for me in a big way. Check these out! First and foremost, my former classmate Shanti with news that makes me want to make horrible puns about sticky messes:
Shanti Elise Prasad (@shantielise)
If you eat honey, this may blow your mind. Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey… foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-…
I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around this story, personally, because as far as I can tell from the article, the definition of “honey” being argued about here is whether or not (for example) the sweet golden goo in the plastic bear has pollen in it. But the article’s scandal-monger-y lede:
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News.
really rubs me the wrong way. Because with the possible exception of some wild-caught fish, pretty much no animal product sold in U.S. grocery stores is exactly what the animals in question produce. It’s all processed one way or another. (more…)
