my mother is easily excited when it comes to the most inane things, one of those happen to be her belief that homemade foods do NOT compare with anything else on the planet. This ticks me off, I mean why should some apple cake made by an unprofessional chef be decidedly "better" than oh say.. apple pie at McDonalds? Its not! but because its "home made" my mother foams at the mouth over it. "You've got to try some! ITS HOME MADE!!" and when she shoves this visually unappetizing dish directly onto my eyeballs, I'm often tempted to get into questioning the origin of said substance.
Who made this? How old is she/he? How long has she/he been cooking for? Why is this better than crumbled no-name apple cake from Superstore? Does the person observe general cleanliness while preparing this dish? I don't know about you, but when I eat something that has been 'homemade', I picture some sweaty grandma with poor vision allowing a few stray armpit hairs fall into the cooking pot, and she'd use this greasy spatula with a fuzzy residue on the edges. And thats for strangers. For people I know, I simply question whether or not they cook these things in the nude.
Let me tell you about mass-produced corporate foods. They all started as recipes. Some of them have been in families for generations before being manufactured on a commercial level and distributed to the masses for their immediate and souless consumption. Pilsbury has perfected the art of making some kick ass oven-baked cookies that rival and surpass most other 'home made' cookies I've had in the past. And they observe the rules of cleanliness by having these hardcore MACHINES do all the grunt work in a completely sterilized and airtight bubble that NASA designed.
What does suck about mass-manufactured foods are the preservatives and DNA-altering chemicals that are inadvertently added into their products. Still, you can't argue with foods that millions of people happily purchase each and every day. Except of course, store-brought pizza.
...E3 this week, blueprint final, math final, theory final, shop final and the provincial exams. Its the last big crunch before I finally finish the course. If I can make it through this week unscathed, I will insert a webcam onto this page and point it at my crotch. Or not.
...we'll see.
