"I don't eat.." -- Bite your Tongue!!!!

I know I said this blog would be more tame than the other one but, I'm a passionate person. The subject for today is people that don't eat certain foods because of something ridiculous. This pisses me off!! Living in America of decent means most people don't have to worry about what to eat, when to eat it or how it's fixed. We have access to so much food it's a crime. For me to hear people say "oh I don't eat pork, I don't eat non-organic foods" What the eff?? It's fine want to be environmentally friendly or simply be disgusted at the smell of brussell sprouts (I know I am), but people in this country have turned into food snobs. It's friggin food. Because the media claims everything is potentially bad for you (from spinach to transfat) mindless drones follow. Just because tomatoes made 60 people sick does not mean that anyone shouldn't eat tomatoes. There are hundreds of millions of people in this country, more people got sick from breathing the air yesterday.

As many know I'm allergic to a large (and strange) variety of foods. Common table top black pepper included. I do not demand that every restaurant in the country stop using pepper. I simply ask ahead of time and avoid menu items with pepper. But 15 years ago, 12 people got sick from MSG so now it's banned. I don't care what anyone says, Chinese food hasn't been the same since. It's been my experience that a restaurant (even small whole in the wall places) will accommodate your allergy. Heck people at my job remove pepper from their dishes for pot lucks. No need to punish everyone for your tummy ache.

This brings me to the constant banning of certain things for our own good. I don't have a problem with transfat. I do not want the government to save me from myself. I want transfats in everything. And the schools, geez, the children, won't someone please think of the children. Cakes, cookies, pizza parties are all banned at many schools. Partly because parents don't want their kids to have sugar and fatty foods. Again, what the eff? I spent the majority of my childhood with a pixie stick in one hand, a package of fun dip in the other and bazooka bubble gum in my cheek. I ate the greens, mac&cheese, smothered this, gravy with that and biscuits prepared by my grandmas. I don't have diabetes, high blood pressure or cholesterol. What a sad, miserable place school will become if there isn't the faint hope of a pizza or birthday party. Bake sales, hello!

We are entirely too obsessed with controlling food. This is blaspheme! I'm about to sound like a mom but there are kids in Africa starving and we don't want to eat a hamburger because it takes too long to digest and all these horrible things will happen to you if you eat meat. Human beings need meat, it's a scientific fact, that's how our brains evolved, we're omnivores.

In closing I'd like to say that the ability to eat prepared, seasoned food is a luxury. A simple twist of fate and we could be eating dirt cookies in Haiti. Before you turn up your nose at a pork rind or cookie dough ice cream think about how lucky you are to even have access to these foods. If you still don't want them pass 'em over this way!