Extremely Lame

Getting angry at the world so you don’t have to!

Entries Tagged as 'food and drink'

Sunflower seeds can make your wildest dreams come true

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Coming back from Ft. Worth, I didn’t have time to make lunch, so I stopped at a 7-11 and picked up some sunflower seedsm and upon reading the back of the package (since I obviously have nothing else to do), I found this gem:

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Tags: consumerism · food and drink

Remind me to never drive through Arizona

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Less than a week after I post an entry about the jackbooted thugs in Arizona regarding arresting people for being drunk when they aren’t, we have another case of an Arizona cop abusing his authority and falsely imprisoning someone for DUI when said person was not just below the legal limit, but had a Blood Alcohol content of .00.

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Tags: bureaucracy · food and drink

That little bit of raw food veganism that isn’t snake oil? It’s pseudoscience

May 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Not only is raw food veganism oftentimes claims to cure pretty much every disease and malady known to man, a lot of times they delve into pseudoscience to explain things.
Let’s go back to top and go after Allison Cohen. All of her magical thinking with regards to raw foods is wrapped up in language that [...]

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Tags: food and drink

Raw food veganism is little more than snake oil

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Something I’ve noticed with people is that the stricter their diets become, the less I want to deal with them. Not because their diets scare me or anything, it’s just that they get more and more unpleasant to be around, not to mention completely deluded. Vegetarians are cool; it’s rare that you find one that [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized · food and drink

Rage against the coffee machine

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

A long time ago, back in the ’90s, it became no longer fashionable to be a Young Urban Professional (yuppie). Reaganomics effectively died with Black Monday, the stock market crash in 1987. Teenagers, always a bastion of change and rebellion, ushered in a new culture in the late ’80s. Fueled by the alternative music scene [...]

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Tags: food and drink · miscellany

Gastronomy Domine

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

People who live in upper middle class suburbs but do nothing but complain about the suburbs hold a special place of ill will in my heart, particularly the ones from the boomer generation. But for now, I’ll just focus on metropolitan gastronomic hayseeds.
As you may infer from my name for them, metropolitan gastronomic hayseeds are [...]

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Tags: food and drink · miscellany