It’s been a few months since I’ve posted a DTD. This means I have oodles of updates! I’ve been reading and listening about “fake food” lately. Some examples: You might buy a fancy “olive oil,” but it’s rapeseed oil with a dash of flavor. Or, you may buy cinnamon, and find it’s just a cheap tree bark. Or you go out for sushi, and learn that 99% of the time you’re not getting the fish you think you’re getting. Or, you buy parmesan cheese and it’s like 25% wood shavings. This has gotten me concerned that my DTD food isn’t real. Maybe I should accept that if I buy it at DTD I should suspend disbelief that I’m not eating a 3D replica of real food.
This really came to light when I tasted these olives. For the first time ever, my reaction to an olive was, “ewww.” Then I looked at the ingredients. Normally, olives might have a bit of salt and lactic and citric acid. Maybe some preservatives. But I’ve never seen olives with thickeners like sodium alginate, tara gum, and xantham gum. I may throw a few of these in a salad. But I sure won’t be putting them on a plate, or eating handfuls with cheese and wine!More fake food… It says Thai authentic on the bottle, which is just code for “fake sh*t,” because this is the first “sriracha” I’ve ever seen with a ton of added sugar! Sounds disgusting!This pesto looks good. If I can trust the label, it has cheesy pine nut goodness. This was another very good find. The only ingredients are: lentil, pea, and cauliflower flours. If I would have eaten any (my partner made it, but ate it all in one sitting,) I would have put some “olive oil” and “parmesan cheese” on it and called it a meal!Speaking of fake food, these look yummy. Too yummy to buy.Life is hard, but DTD is Eternal…This is definitely fake because it can’t be risotto if it doesn’t take a swearing chef three hours to make it. I hope these are real because diabetics should get to eat the best cookie of my Gen-X childhood.It’s so easy, when all my food is trying to kill me…I’ve heard that a lot of coffee is just ground-up dirt and twigs. I’m going to assume, for my own well-being, that it’s not true of regular coffee. But I wouldn’t be surprised if decaf coffee was a fake-food. If you were a manufacturer, would you spend hours and hours scrubbing all the caffeine from coffee, or would you just grind up something else and “say” it was decaf?Electrolytes. It’s what plants crave
