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[aprilstarchild]

Guess what? Nothing at Panda Express is vegetarian. It all has chicken broth in it. Even the steamed veggies.

That's so fucking stupid.

BTW, Pizza Schmizza's alredo sauce has chicken broth in it as well.

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[alicia-stardust.livejournal.com]

DUDE!

And to think my friends and I used to skip out of class, walk to the store, buy a *box* of ho-ho's, and eat the whole thing at once. But little did I know! WTF, it's a "dessert"! LOL

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

exactly! What's it got to have dead animals in it for? And don't even get me started on all the random crap that has gelatin unnecessarily. Guh. Must read labels. =-)

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Like frosted mini-wheats. I swear I almost cried when I saw that. Or Lucky Charms. That at least makes sense, it's got marshmallows.

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

http://www.cfarm.com/cfarm/products/nutrition.asp?prod=0-21908-34645-8
(that's a link to the nutritional info for Clifford Crunch)
I'm not sure what tapioca is exactly 0_o (I think it's vegan, but I dunno for sure) But Clifford Crunch is much like Lucky Charms minus the disgusting, overly sweet marshmellows. I think they are a lot better than lucky charms. now granted, Cascadian Farms = General Mills, but at least they're organic.

Kashi (another subsidy of a giant food corp) makes Autumn Wheat (nutritional info = http://www.kashi.com/organic_promise_aw.aspx?SID=1&Category_ID=56&Link_ID=24& )
which kicks the crap out of miniwheats for sweetened, small shredded wheat. Barbara's still makes the best shredded wheat. I mean - check out the ingredients here:
http://www.barbarasbakery.com/products/cerealproddisplay.asp?product=57&category=16
Plus Barabara's - not sold out yet!

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Barbara's shredded wheat isn't frosted. And my favorite part of lucky charms was the marshmallows. I have a sweet tooth from hell, remember?

Tapioca is a kind of grain. Definitely vegan. Large tapiocas are the "bubbles" in bubble tea (aka boba tea).

Re: Giant food corps: Silk soy milk, and all White Wave soy products, are owned by a huge diary company. Which blows, because Silk is my favorite kind of soy milk. I normally by Pacific now, though. Except for Silk's fake eggnog....I buy that anyway. *lol* I won't buy anything from Nabisco, Kraft, Toblerone, Folger's.....they're all owned by PHilip Morris. Yeay.

I generally only buy hot cereal these days anyway, or generic cheerio's. Dry cereal is just too damn expensive.

[trillium-flower.livejournal.com]

Actually tapioca is a starch. It comes from the casava or yuca root. The mayans were the first people who figured out how to eat it. The casava contains lots of cyanide which they extracted as poison for darts, leaving the root to be used as a thickener. The root is ground into a flour and then forced through a seive to make the pearls. Large bubbles for bubble tea just use a larger mesh than small pearls. The starch is also used in making paper and textiles.

For its use as a poisoning agent in paper read Umberto Eco's Foucaults Pendulum. Except that gives away the ending so disregard that part.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

That kicks ass that you know that!

Yeay, more trivia for me to be able to randomly spout.

I saw candles made from tapioca wax once....hm.

[trillium-flower.livejournal.com]

Cattails (you know the fuzzy things that grow in swamp land, I can't think of their real name right now) the root of those can also be eaten. It tastes very similar to a turnip but more floury.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I did know about the cattail thing. Living in Virginia and all that. Never tried them though.

Is it random trivia night?

While in a game store on our...what, second date? infernarl and I went into Rainy Day Games, and I pointed out that I'm not so good at strategy games, but I'm good at trivia. He asked me where the word trivia came from. I said, it's the name of a Roman goddess of crossroads. He blinked and replied, Oh, I didn't think you'd actually know that! I was mostly joking!

How did that word get its current meaning? That, I don't know. *looks it up* Hm. It became the word for some of the subjects taught in classical schools--grammar and logic and rhetoric. Still, odd etymology.

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

Santa Cruz is owned by smuckers. I almost cried when i discovered that. The Hain line of foods is still cool with me. That includes WestSoy, which is my fav soy milk. But yeah, Chocolate Silk makes me happy. It's still better then buying the crap from the rest of the store, you know?

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Something someone pointed out: All these huge food corporations....isn't it a good thing if they're making a profit from organic/environmentally friendly foods? Doesn't the easy availability of them due to their large-ness make it a good thing (aka you can get it at Safeway, for pete's sake)?? Wouldn't it be better for Philip Morris to make a profit at things that aren't tobacco?

Hard to answer....

But, still....large agribusinesses are destroying small farms, and that's not good either.