thanksgiving follies
Nov. 25th, 2010 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacI could hardly believe this article when I saw it. It's largely a complaint against how everybody except the author prefers white meat over dark meat from their turkey. (Though at the end he affects to change his mind.)
Besides the fact that he ought to be saying, "Oh good, more dark meat for me," who prefers white meat? Everybody I've ever discussed the point with prefers dark meat. It's a regular complaint at Thanksgiving dinner - every year, it seems, the turkeys are being bred to produce more and more white meat, but who wants that much white meat? (My own preference is for about 3/4 dark and 1/4 white on my plate, just for variety, with lots of gravy to put some flavor on that tasteless white meat.)
I remember the turkeys of my youth as being less unbalanced, but what should I find in the letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto that they should already be complaining about turkeys with too much white meat, half a century ago! Of course, Julia Child, so not too representative of the general public, but, still ...
On the article, a sidebar link to another article promising to answer the question, "Is It Better To Wrap Your Leftovers in Aluminum Foil or Plastic Wrap?" I've never been quite certain which is more effective at keeping food fresh, and whether the type of food makes a difference. But no, the article doesn't talk about that, instead trying to make you feel Really Guilty by discussing the relative carbon footprint size of foil and plastic wrap manufacturing. Look, the ecological crisis we face is going to require action on such a massive and coordinated scale that the effect of one, or even multiple, decisions to take a couple pieces of one wrap over the other on the marginal difference between the environmental impact of an aluminum factory and that of a plastics factory is like bailing out from a hurricane with a teaspoon. If that. It's an insult to the intelligence even to raise the question.
How about, instead, a few words about how, if you wrap the food wrongly, you'll have to throw it out later, and how bad for the environment is that?
And a happy thanksgiving to all of you, too.
Besides the fact that he ought to be saying, "Oh good, more dark meat for me," who prefers white meat? Everybody I've ever discussed the point with prefers dark meat. It's a regular complaint at Thanksgiving dinner - every year, it seems, the turkeys are being bred to produce more and more white meat, but who wants that much white meat? (My own preference is for about 3/4 dark and 1/4 white on my plate, just for variety, with lots of gravy to put some flavor on that tasteless white meat.)
I remember the turkeys of my youth as being less unbalanced, but what should I find in the letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto that they should already be complaining about turkeys with too much white meat, half a century ago! Of course, Julia Child, so not too representative of the general public, but, still ...
On the article, a sidebar link to another article promising to answer the question, "Is It Better To Wrap Your Leftovers in Aluminum Foil or Plastic Wrap?" I've never been quite certain which is more effective at keeping food fresh, and whether the type of food makes a difference. But no, the article doesn't talk about that, instead trying to make you feel Really Guilty by discussing the relative carbon footprint size of foil and plastic wrap manufacturing. Look, the ecological crisis we face is going to require action on such a massive and coordinated scale that the effect of one, or even multiple, decisions to take a couple pieces of one wrap over the other on the marginal difference between the environmental impact of an aluminum factory and that of a plastics factory is like bailing out from a hurricane with a teaspoon. If that. It's an insult to the intelligence even to raise the question.
How about, instead, a few words about how, if you wrap the food wrongly, you'll have to throw it out later, and how bad for the environment is that?
And a happy thanksgiving to all of you, too.
