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Ruphus
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 RE: Spanish Gastronomy (in reply to Estevan)
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Above-average sensible smell-and taste wise, I hate chlorine in drinking water. It tastes as if there had been wrang (or would that be "wrung"?) out a wet dog´s coat.
It´s why coffee and tea will only taste adequately a couple of times per year, here where millions simply drain sewage into the ground (no sewage system despite of sites of ancient culture) and where water management is a desaster. (When chlorine ought to be too expensive, sometimes filling in ammonia, so it seems.)
It´s also why me entirely stopped swimming in Germany´s public baths, since the time that they found it necessary to overly chlorine there. It had / has become extreme.
The worst about euthanizing whole flocks and herds is the futile agony to the animals, I think.
Over here, besides, there seems neither method applied, whether chlorine treatment or euthanasia. (The latter for profit / corruption reasons practically near impossible.)
Instead it is apparently relied on the fact that the local cuisine knows no half-cooked or raw meals (like carpaccio alikes) / everything being cooked through. -And if there be atrocities still, it won´t be noticed where under lack of education, hazardous environmental conditions and largely incompetent medics mortality rate is being extremely high anyway.
Yet, to me it is a very strange procedure to bath food in chlorine (just like raying any for keepability. Another blatant carelessness out of all in the USA where jurisdiction can be so fierce on the other hand).
What remains there pretty patent in taste (when noticing it decades ago, I had no beforehand info about any such weird procedure; it was just the strange taste in the chicken) certainly will be doing no good to anyone, aside from the circumstance of pity to degrade one of the most tasteful stuffs.
It is rather evident that America´s grocery industry has a strong hold / carte blanche on regulation benchmarks, and instead of exporting that condition as well as further outrageous industrial carte blanches like private arbitration outside from law (being one´s own judge, very funny), ambitions for an expanded US/EU trade could be a chance to improve the situation for US consumers.
However, the procedure in Brussels, with all those attempts of EU accomplices to sneak things through under radar and to hide contents away, demonstrates one other time how bribe and network goes a much too long way to help reason.
Wouldn´t you like a slimeless ham or naturally tasting chicken in your basket? (Many might have forgotten, but it´s delicious!) Even it led to improved life-stock conditions / to prevented water treatments / raised the price a bit (at profit margins maitained, as usually).
Seeing the general pricing level, chicken is still inexpensive in Germany. Only fully naturally raised specimens may cost you around € 15 or 20 per prepared bird. (Which is a very high price, indeed. Then again, I believe that originally chicken was never cheap in times before mass breeding. Think it was rather precious food. Anyone having memories on that?)
BTW, I´m curious to know: Lenny: How much does such a live chicken cost you?
Ruphus
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Date Mar. 12 2016 11:30:20
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BarkellWH
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From: Washington, DC
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RE: Spanish Gastronomy (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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In the Southeastern USA there is "Virginia" ham. It is so dry and salty that slices are usually soaked in a few changes of fresh water before it is heated and served.
You may be referring to Smithfield Foods, based in Virginia and producer of the iconic holiday "Smithfield Ham," although, speaking personally, I have never found it as dry and salty as suggested above. In 2013 Smithfield Foods was sold to a Chinese company, Shuanghui International. Let's hope the FDA keeps a close eye on the products now being produced under Chinese ownership, as the Chinese have an abysmal record in maintaining and enforcing quality control, at least in products made and produced in China.
Bill
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