All shampooed and showered and off to the Big Box. The beets I grew as foliage (and stunning foliage it was!) are finally spent and so I decided to treat myself to some potted herbs. Rosemary for chicken. Sage to make fake sausage of ground turkey. Mint because it has one of the best, cleanest fragrances in the flora kingdom. And because I think I'm going to add fresh mint to some of my new smoothies
Replenishing yoghurt and cheese when I happen upon tubes of chorizo. Reasonably priced and within reach of my gimpified self. When I was a young married, I used to shop at a teeny Mexican grocery. There was an actual butcher. He'd hack off a chunk of ground chuck and a half pound lump of chorizo and grind them together before my very eyes. Made the best grilling burgers I have ever tasted.
Since then I have read Eating Animals and learned how the last edible dregs are literally exploded off a hog's face. It's a hideous procedure and the men (and it was always men in the book) get sick and die or get killed when the machine, with its many knives, misfires. I have also learned from Hannibal Rising that cheek meat of any beast is the most tender.
So......in the aisle, at the Big Box, I turned over the chorizo tubes and actually dared to read the ingredient list. "Pork salivary glands, lymph nodes, and cheek meat." Uh Oh.
These might be delicacies in other cultures or on other planets, but I very nearly retched. I replaced the tubes of alleged human food (yes, my perception changed that quickly) and I sped off. God bless the electric carts.
Cheese and crackers for me tonight, thanks.
Replenishing yoghurt and cheese when I happen upon tubes of chorizo. Reasonably priced and within reach of my gimpified self. When I was a young married, I used to shop at a teeny Mexican grocery. There was an actual butcher. He'd hack off a chunk of ground chuck and a half pound lump of chorizo and grind them together before my very eyes. Made the best grilling burgers I have ever tasted.
Since then I have read Eating Animals and learned how the last edible dregs are literally exploded off a hog's face. It's a hideous procedure and the men (and it was always men in the book) get sick and die or get killed when the machine, with its many knives, misfires. I have also learned from Hannibal Rising that cheek meat of any beast is the most tender.
So......in the aisle, at the Big Box, I turned over the chorizo tubes and actually dared to read the ingredient list. "Pork salivary glands, lymph nodes, and cheek meat." Uh Oh.
These might be delicacies in other cultures or on other planets, but I very nearly retched. I replaced the tubes of alleged human food (yes, my perception changed that quickly) and I sped off. God bless the electric carts.
Cheese and crackers for me tonight, thanks.
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