Annual tomato food fight in Buñol, Spain
Artichokes are cleaned and pared, and their leaves get made into fertilizer. A step forward in recycling waste.
You know, when I read about this conference about food, I thought to myself, isn’t it funny that foodies bicker over what is a vegetable or what is a fruit and how much of one thing or another we should or shouldn’t eat and is it “safe” to eat gluten, yeast, fat, sugar, and so on when 1 in 9 people on the planet out of 795,000,000, is not getting the food he or she needs to live a healthy life.
There was a wonderful piece by Roger Cohen in the NYT on gluten a few days ago. If you don’t have time to read it, just read the last two paragraphs because they say it all.
Since I am not at all picky about my food and will gladly eat any meat, poultry or fish thrown my way, plus mozzarella, butter, chocolate (they never give me that, darn it), you name it, I enjoy an open relationship with my dish of kibble or wet food and I do not moan about my allergies or intolerance to milk or the calories in my chunk of cheddar.
I just get hungry—one of the great pleasures of life is to have an appetite at meal time—and then mama feeds me a moderate quantity of lovely food and I am happy. I don’t overeat, I don’t undereat. I just eat. And I’m pretty svelte right now, even if it is winter and a little padding might show up…
Still skinny after all these years…la, la, la
And when you think of how very many people, mainly in underdeveloped countries, are struggling just to find something in their refuse piles and garbage bins and scraps from their arid land just to keep themselves going, think again when you hear complaints about food from those around you in our fortunate world.
Just eat your kibble, and be thankful it’s in your dish.
We don’t understand why those people are fighting with tomatoes. Seems like a big waste to us. We aren’t very picky about our food…as long as our bowls are kept filled we’re good. 🙂
Yes, it seemed like a waste to me, too. Especially mama, who loves to make tomato sauce to freeze for the winter. She would love some of those tomatoes…
This is interesting Loulou, you are wise, eat sufficient & no more is a good way to go.
In the UK, people who make an enormous fuss about food are called “the worried well”
There was a documentary recently in the UK about food waste, apparently, the UK slaughters one million more chickens than it uses for human food every single year, This is because of the wasteful way people treat food. It starts with the retailers really. The huge rise in the number of yucky fried chicken shops in the last ten years is also a culprit.
The food industry doesn’t seem to care. Some farmers who are contracted to produce veg for supermarkets can end up destroying whole harvests of vegetables, just because the idiots from the supermarkets believe that a slightly crooked parsnip would bring about the end of civilisation. This behaviour from the supermarkets also puts farmers out of business. Which in the UK right now is not a good place to be.
So many living beings of all kinds starving, homeless and suffering in the world, yet we in the west can’t cope with a slightly crooked parsnip.
World gone mad Loulou
Luff Mungo & Jet
PS: I Jet, love a bit of cucumber, don’t care if it’s too bendy either 🙂
Mama LOVES weird-shaped veggies because she says they go their own way and probably have more vitamins because of it! Haha, just kidding, but maybe she’s right. Why does our food have to look like a magazine ad when it is JUST FOOD. Holy tamale, food world, get off your obsessions with PERFECT looking food. Often it is the worst tasting food at the market. Or NO taste at all.
You always have such interesting posts!
We have been to the tomato throwing in Spain…it’s very messy and you get tomato on you no matter how far away you stand.
Have a super weekend…
Noodle and crew
What FUN. To be a Noodle with tomato sauce!!!