I am currently fasting for a blood test that doesn't occur until 2 p.m. So I'm trying to avoid websites with food. Which makes it really hard to compile Food News.
But while surfing through Andrew Sullivan's blog I came across this link: Can people distinguish pâté from dog food? Here's the study (pdf), and it makes for some disgusting reading. No, not the dog food part, but the whizzed Spam part. So the idea of pâté took away my appetite. Then I read they served it on Carr water crackers...oh god. Get me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Stat.
By the way, if you're looking for high quality dog food in England, check out Pero. It's made in Wales, and my dog says it's excellent. But then my dog would eat Spam, so what does she know?
See, I need to stay away from blogs written by my favorite cookbook authors. Like this.
And read more articles about things I hate, like tomatoes. Even non-leak tomatoes are disgusting. There, just looking at that slimy tomato takes away the edge a little bit.
And I should definitely not read about the UK's Five Most Vegetarian-friendly Uni's. (A uni is what they call a university here. The memory of my university days is starting to nibble away at my appetite—donuts at Tolliver Dining Hall that had the same mass as a linebacker, hitting your empty stomach with the same force...oh god.)
Here we go: Burned meat linked to pancreatic cancer. Not hungry at all now.
And I was going to read this article on The New Veganism but that bowl of chickpeas is way too appetizing.
Thank god for Boing Boing, who found someone inserting spaghetti into hot dogs, for a truly appetite-suppressing photo.
And I'll leave on this note: totally man-made food. I'm thinking of eating my keyboard.
