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What ever happened to the good old days when the worst things we had to fear on the Fourth of July were traffic jams and wayward fireworks?
According to the USDA’s Meat & Poultry hot line, this year’s top threat is food poisoning by nasty E. coli and Salmonella bugs lurking in hamburgers and hot dogs at millions of backyard barbecues. The hot line’s advice is to grill them longer and hotter.
Of course, they don’t bother to mention that the high-temperature grilling that kills the bugs also forms lots of cancer-causing compounds.
Luckily, a bunch of enterprising food manufacturers and processors have met this challenge head-on by developing a great variety of healthful, delicious, and convenient, veggie burgers and soy dogs. These new foods don’t harbor nasty pathogens or cancer-causing compounds. They don’t even carry cholesterol, saturated fats, drugs, or pesticides. And, they are available in the frozen food section of every supermarket.
This Fourth of July offers a great opportunity to declare our independence from the meat industry and to share wholesome veggie burgers and soy dogs with our family and friends.
Norman Teller, 37207
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Note to Mr. D'Argent, Head MOP (Monitor Of Posts): Based on this scintillating letter, surely the posts will stay on topic.
It is only fitting that I make a brief observation, on topic of course. The very thought of veggieburgers and soy dogs activates the salivary glands. However, Mr. Teller failed to warn us of spoilage. Most frozen products do begin to decay when thawed.
Fanatical vegetarians are as annoying as reformed smokers.
Off Topic: Everyone should read the "boo hoo, sob story" in the Tennessean today about how bad the "illegal" immigrants are being treated. This article has got to be the joke of the day!
Good morning.
Verbal cartoon
Thousands of conservative are running through the streets screaming that the sky is falling. A reporter is standing under an umbreilla saying, "It appears to be Jell-O that is falling. Frist reports are that a Rush Limbaugh loyalist's head exploded while trying to explain that the sun raises in the west and not the east."
I have eaten veggie burgers before and have enjoyed the falvor. However I do not make that my only source for summer time food. Meat is the real thing, along with watermelon and Ice cream.
bnakat: This LTE is about as exciting as naked pictures of my ex- mother-in-law.
I have certified the LTE as "dull" and "lifeless", and without merit. And recommend as Jackie Gleason always said, "And away we go". eg.,
I want to know how MJ's kid, "Paris", got her blue eyes?
Paris got her blue eyes from a long line of DNA coding and lots and lots of money. Or contact lenses.
By: bfra on 7/2/09 at 2:40
"Off Topic: Everyone should read the "boo hoo, sob story" in the Tennessean today about how bad the "illegal" immigrants are being treated. This article has got to be the joke of the day!"
The Tennessean tries to pass this off as "news". I'm sure is only a coincidence that they announced a layoff of 35 more this month.
@Dragon... Makes you wonder now if when you walk through the front doors at the Tennessean the only sound you hear is the sound of crickets chirping.
Hmmm...seems at least three posters here have read the Tennessean story...isn't that what they want? LOL
Hey Norman, maybe you should lock yourself in an air-tight, sanitized room so you aren't exposed to all the germs, pathogens, carcinogens and other things that might end up killing you.
Life is terminal, you might as well enjoy your time.
darge, it would appear that your prediction yesterday, of what today's topic would be, is not that far off!
blanket, I meant to tell you about the 4th of July Hot Chicken Festival going on! There is a blurb about it on today's home page...maybe you've already seen it but, if not, I wanted you to know about it!
4th of July food for me entails some sort of pig product, potato salad, baked beans and beer.
blanket, I also meant to tell you yesterday something my dad used to tell me to say to someone who bugged me about being short:
"My legs are just as long as anyone else's; they go from my ass to the ground."
Yeah, wonder if Norman is related to Edward Teller who worked on the Manhattan project, and brought us the Bum?
Bet Ed didn't eat no stinkin' veggie burgers.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/02/fbi-interviews-hussein-lied-wmd-fear-iran/?test=latestnews
Anyone really surprised? Except Chief, who is about to buy my ocean front property in Arizona...
slacker, my grandpa worked on the Manhattan Project!
Mama, mine too!!!
But it wasn't the one concerning the bomb...this was a local project to build a miniature replica of New York City...he made the Chrysler building out of toothpicks and a rusty thimble...
MamaG, very interesting. Did he keep a diary?
Yes he did Slacker, but he used the pen name of Anne Frank.
I'm not sure exactly what he did. He worked at Oak Ridge and I doubt he kept a diary. If he did, it didn't come to me and if any of my cousins had it, I doubt if I would know about it. If they didn't think it was worth anything, they would've left it or tossed it. I think he was a pipe-fitter or something like that. I do have a framed certificate but without looking at it, I can't remember what it says either. I can look at it this weekend and let you know what it says if you guys are interested.
I just saw a show stating that onions cause a lot of illness also. Can't bear my all beef hot dog without onions so I have to take the risk.
Diary entry for August 6, 1945: oh crap
This weekend also provides an excellent opportunity for me to perfect my grilling skills on a 1 1/4" ribeye. I mean how are we going to go from 4th to 1st in the country's obesity index eating veggie burgers? Just as an act of defiance of your pushing your lifestyle on me with this article, I think I'll even go from light to heavy beer.
Light beer? Don't you mean water-flavored beer?
Touching story the Anne Frank diary. I got emotional when reading, she got stood up for the Prom.
Christ! Only 24 "comments" on a Thrs., 4th of July Weekend, probably no letter tomorrow, how are you going to make it until Monday am?
Just knowing that you are slaving over several new substandard LTE's will get us through...
Yeah dargent, how about a LTE about Cheney & Bush, and the invasion of Iraq?
Spot on slacker, he really hasn't dealt with that topic before...it'll be interesting to see what side he takes...
NHL update: Preds re-sign Sully and Wardo. Fids, Zanon and VK are gone. Still need a top-six forward or ten.
Have any of ya'll been to the Hot Chicken Festival? Is it easy to park and get to? Is the chicken really that hot?
Funditto, hot chicken releases toxins that can cause irregularity. Might I suggest a piece of lettuce?
I find this fascinating considering we are in the middle of summer which is normally the time when people are hired hand over fist.
Payrolls Fall More Than Forecast, Unemployment Rises
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ahfK709b4uds
And in a related story:
Stocks fall as June job losses exceed estimates
Stocks decline in midday trading as US unemployment rate reaches 26-year high
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Stocks-fall-as-June-job-apf-1457412974.html?x=0
Holy cow! 100,000 more than the Wall Street economists expected...whose estimates were higher than those of the DC economists!
U.S. job losses spike in June, dampen recovery hopes
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-June-payrolls-fell-467000-rb-973113280.html?x=0&.v=2
What a fiscally responsible Congress we have. Guess they got THEIR stimulus.
Congress's Travel Tab Swells
Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html
Ah crap! Hope we can get in there and do a search and rescue mission before something happens!
BTW, can was say this is Obama's fault now? LOL
US: American soldier captured in Afghanistan
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijSi9m3h-DBGg4Cv6E4XiAYH6YcwD9968L1O0
Plenty for the garage sale...just no cars. Wonder how much reimbursment for the government will come out of the profits? My guess - $0
GM Plans ‘Garage Sale’ for Toxic Plants, Golf Course
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVllNt3iGquQ
Oh but he's just saying the sky is falling...right?
'We're in the Middle of a Crash': Black Swan
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31706523
Millionaires' springtime optimism wilts: survey
http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE5605N720090701
I have stopped buying beef. The last roast that I bought was an engineered piece of meat. It had a terrible taste and it made me sick. When they start putting this on the package to let us know what we are eating, I'm not buying.
Slack & gd: I DO have a LTE in real time over at that other paper, The Tennessean, dealing with the topic you mentioned. Hop on over there. There's nothing here you'll miss.
467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNiyJ905Ho0Ur96V2TQhsBX19lGwD996AI980
It was announced yesterday that Michael Jackson was not the biological father of his children.... Well Duh!!
Chief, I was being facetious yesterday about China and the one-baby rule. Dang, look to this:
China babies 'sold for adoption'
Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8130900.stm
I guess I forgot to say it raised revenue.
Sad, very sad.
The more that comes out about MJ, the creepier he becomes. All the TV and media footage condensed into 2 minute sound bites show how screwed up he was. The interview with Ed Bradley is revolting and the pics of his face over the years is sickening. His family wants money, and "Neverland" will exceed Graceland (at $30 million a year), easily.
Well, we had to know it was coming.
McDonalds Announces New Burger
50 year old meat, with special sauce, inside 8 year old buns.
Yawn...wake me up when someone posts something of merit...
So lets talk about food. Anyone seen FOOD, INC. ?
I think we need to go back to good ole HOG KILL weekends!! Our kids have no idea what food is really about.
Ring a chicken, let it bleed out, dip it in boiling water and let the kids pluck away.
We need to do this so our children will learn to respect God (mother nature) or you pick one. creatures.
Respect and reverence for the things and creatures we consume.