/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17137521]

>process goverment-subsidized nutritionless cattle feed into unrecognizable shapes and textures
>deep fry it in high-PUFA seed oils originally purposed for machine lubrication, extracted through industrial, chemical processing
>trick consoomer brains into finding these monstrosities enjoyable by coating your cattlefeed in the amino acids (MSG) normally found in real food (i.e. meat)

Is there anything more dystopian than modern junk food? I sincerely hope you guys don't eat this poison.

[Anonymous No.17137527]

>>17137521
all you gotta do is spray this garbage with sugar instead of msg and you have cereal lol

[Anonymous No.17137555]

[Anonymous No.17137570]

>>17137521
No, and the normalization of eating essentially poison is bizarre, advertising with cute, colorful mascots to appeal to children.

They'll make flavored nicotine illegal because kids might use it more when it isn't directed at them in any way, but cheetos and cereal directly being targeted at kids is acceptable.

No surgeon general's warning on your bowl of sugar for breakfast about how this causes X amount of health problems.

In America at least, junk food companies have so much leverage and power when it comes to pushing these things.

[Anonymous No.17137585]

>>17137570
>In America at least, junk food companies have so much leverage and power when it comes to pushing these things.
This is the problem and it's spreading as other countries copy american culture. Mexico is already fat from soda
Kuwait is the fattest in the world by %
India is loving fast food and eat it to show how rich and cultured their family is.
totally fucked up

[Anonymous No.17137597]

>>17137570
You've effectively summarized it.
To add-on, people will do anything for money (read: athletes advertising anything from insurance to McDonald's), and those who hide behind the institution of companies will do anything to maintain the lifestyle currently led (read: not care about what is peddled so long as the money keeps flowing).

[Anonymous No.17137603]

'bout to eat some cheeto puffs
hell yes

[Anonymous No.17137606]

>>17137555
>>17137570
>bizarre
Stop taking your meds, non-schizo

[Anonymous No.17137860]

>>17137606
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.17137873]

>>17137555
man that's an impressive one

[Anonymous No.17137883]

>>17137555
Honestly if bugs were the size of animals large enough to make steaks out of I’d be much less grossed out. I’d just clean them like shellfish

[Anonymous No.17137927]

>>17137521
If anything, we should be eating corn instead of cows.

[Anonymous No.17137935]

>>17137521
>Nooo you can’t just make snacks out of corn this is sooo dystopian literally 1984 ahhhhhh

[Anonymous No.17137949]

>>17137521
>Is there anything more dystopian than modern junk food?
4chan

[Anonymous No.17137984]

Junk food makes me happy :)

[Anonymous No.17138264]

>>17137927
Based vegan retard

>>17137949
4chan is literally the scrappy, underground resistance resisting the influence of the dystopian machine

[Anonymous No.17139064]

>Is there anything more dystopian than modern junk food?

Oh fuck yeah. Go take a long hard look at the actual corporations behind all this. Picrel is "Ben and Jerry's" ice cream. One of the most evil organizations on the planet launders political operations and markets it as happy hippy shit. The corporate infrastructure is more corrupt than it has been in ten generations.

[Anonymous No.17139181]

Alan Watts once theorized that if a person was given whatever they want for as long as they wanted that on a long enough timeline eventually, after so many victories, so many sexual conquests, so many adventures they would become bored.
That at some point down the line, they would wish for an existence out of their control. They would want some sort of surprise. And he figured that is how you ended up here, reading this.
Frankly it can always get worse. You could have ended up as the other guy.

[Anonymous No.17139198]

>>17137521
>I describe everything in ominous terms so it sounds le scary
Neck youself. Also, imagine being Am*rican holy shit.

[Anonymous No.17139631]

>>17137521
They're good tho

[Anonymous No.17139670]

>>17139631
what's up with all the ancient egyptian images on /ck/ today?

[Anonymous No.17139678]

>>17139670
take your prescribed medicine citizen and cease attempts to divine our motives

[Anonymous No.17139685]

Some days it's hard to tell if we got here though that inherent inhuman incompetence we all share from time to time...
Or some insidious plot that's been remarkably good at disguising it's actions as human incompetence. Eh, that would be crazy, though.

[Anonymous No.17139781]

>>17139181
McKenna followed up with
>the universe craves novelty
a take on synchronicity meshed with change

[Anonymous No.17140552]

>>17137521
>Eat cheez doodles sparingly
>Enjoy it
>Not fat
???????

[Anonymous No.17140572]

>>17138264
>4chan is literally the scrappy, underground resistance resisting the influence of the dystopian machine
that may have kind of been the case a decade ago, but nowadays there's so many disparate opposing forces trying to outmaneuver each other here that it's now just a giant wall of noise. any perceived signal is virtually guaranteed to be someone trolling you.

[Anonymous No.17140599]

>>17140552
>The only reason someone would refuse to eat goycattle chow is to avoid weight gain

[Anonymous No.17140613]

>>17140599
Well, why else? There's nothing else wrong with me either. Am I supposed to be boycotting cheez doodles for political reasons or something cause I'm not an activist.

[Anonymous No.17140628]

>>17137984
Fatass

[Anonymous No.17140632]

>>17140613
>Well, why else?
The contents of the OP.
it's just not a high iq move to eat cornmeal fried in polyunsaturated fatty acids just because
>it tastes good
It's engineered to taste good. It's so hyper stimulating that it makes real, healthy food not taste so good. In that way, it could be argued that it is harmful.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't be free to eat it if you so wish. It probably ISN'T a big deal for you personally, and I get that.
But the premise of the thread is that junk food is dystopian and I simply disagree that it's as simple as whether or not someone gets fat eating this type of thing.

[Anonymous No.17140712]

>>17140632
He said "sparingly" nigga, learn to read

[Anonymous No.17140820]

>>17140632
Yeah I guess that makes sense. Dystopian might be an exaggeration, I would say it's definitely unglamorous but it's just a matter of perspective. I don't have a problem with them personally. My pet issue is artificial lighting and screens, you want to talk about aspects of modernity that destroy our health, the #1 evil is the fact that nobody sleeps properly because their brains don't get correct visual cues from light. Everyone is tired and their brains can't follow a normal circadian rhythm, which makes them retarded, stressed, and more prone to addiction, and causes low T, obesity, depression, high blood pressure, attention disorders etc. Basically every modern ill of the last 50 years is caused by bright light and screens being shined into the eye after sunset. The #1 thing you can do to improve your health is wake up at sunrise and go outside to look at the sky and get all that light in. Get enough sunlight into the eyes throughout the day. And don't use bright artificial lights and screens after the sun has set. You'll feel literally twice as intelligent and energetic after only 3 days of this regime.

[Anonymous No.17140839]

>>17140820
>literally all evils of society are caused by this ONE WEIRD TRICK

[Anonymous No.17140843]

>>17140820
>Dystopian might be an exaggeration

Motherfucker, the obesity rate is 42.4% in the US, and it isn't because of light lmfao.

[Anonymous No.17140851]

>>17140843
i wouldn't boil it down to just light like him, but poor sleep causes stress and depression, which makes people overeat or abuse alcohol to cope

[Anonymous No.17140872]

>>17140820
>My pet issue is artificial lighting and screens
I feel you on that one. I read Mathew Walker's book on sleep around a year ago but have changed very little. I'll try your regimen for 3 days. Already do the dusk/dawn thing due to work schedule, but deliberately taking in light at dawn / increasing ocular sunlight exposure sounds like a really good idea.

[Anonymous No.17140876]

>>17138264
>chan is literally the scrappy, underground resistance
You will never be worthwhile nor will you ever make a difference

[Anonymous No.17140878]

>>17140843
The dystopian aspect to me is, like OP pointed out, the HEAVILY subsidized corn crops by the government. It's hard not to see it as an actual evil plot to make as many people as possible fat, dumb, docile, compliant cattle.And then there's that whole Monsanto rabbit hole.

[Anonymous No.17140888]

>>17140878
What about the heavily subsidized meat and dairy industry?

[Anonymous No.17140983]

>>17140888
Good point. That's substantially larger piece of the subsidy pie. I definitely benefit from the lower prices on meat but can't defend the factory farming aspect.
Still, when it comes to crops, they only subsidize corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, and rice.

[Anonymous No.17140992]

>>17137883
fuck off, Schwab

[Anonymous No.17141002]

>>17140878
omg government doing stuff im going heckling insaaaane

[Anonymous No.17141017]

>>17140632
Perfecting a snack isn't exactly what most people consider dystopian. They're addicting just like literally all good things are.

[Anonymous No.17141042]

>>17140983
>only
I'm not so sure. Subsidies for the Agricultural giants are massive and take many forms. It's true that corn takes a huge chunk of the money though.

[Anonymous No.17141078]

>>17137570
its not poison. Its industrial food waste, a lot of manufacturing has a huge subsidiarity of "trash" food product they create that would go to landfills but they asked "can you eat it?" and it turns out yes.
Whey is the biggest offender of them all. Another being vegetable oil.

[Anonymous No.17141089]

Because it's good. Why are yuros such pussies?

[Anonymous No.17141093]

>>17141042
>corn takes a huge chunk
That would presumably be heavily correlated to feed requirements for the subsidized livestock.
You've changed how I look at all of this.

[Anonymous No.17141099]

>>17137521
Oh God...oh no...not...SEED OILS?!?!?! HEAVENS TO BETSY!

[Anonymous No.17141102]

[Anonymous No.17141124]

>>17140839
>>17140843
Okay, the way I worded it may have been unclear, I don't claim that light is the ONLY cause. But it's the #1 direct contributor to all of those conditions. Poor sleep absolutely causes obesity, depression, and hormone disorders far more reliably than getting a bad diet or eating corn.

[Anonymous No.17141130]

>>17141124
I stare at screens all day and sleep for nine hours straight. The thing that caused me issues with sleep was caffeine which I've completely dropped.

[Anonymous No.17141133]

I don't eat it. I just manage the kids who serve it.

[Anonymous No.17141165]

>>17141130
Sure, you can sleep 9 hours a day if you take a flight halfway around the world too. People without eyes can sleep 9 hours a day. It doesn't mean the sleep is restful and the lifestyle is healthy. I did what you're describing most of my life: I stayed indoors most of the day and played games until late in the night, I slept from like 3AM to 12pm every day. I thought I just had a "late chronotrope" and I was a "night owl." But this was all wrong. I was essentially just constantly sleep deprived and my body would take any 9 hours I gave it. If you're not sleeping at the right time according to what time of day your brain thinks it is, and the internal clock isn't correctly set with bright light, the sleep isn't going to be as restful and your hormone production, metabolism, energy, and focus are going to suffer.

[Anonymous No.17141225]

>>17141124
True, good sleep is one of the few non meme predictors for T levels.

[Anonymous No.17141257]

>>17140632
if I eat a handful every month or so it wont kill me

[Anonymous No.17141300]

>>17137521
>>17140599
Praying that the nursing staff sadistically torture you the next time you are involuntarily committed and nobody believes you bc you are schizo.

[Anonymous No.17141346]

>>17137984
It makes you happy in the moment anon… but over time it makes you miserable

[Anonymous No.17141369]

>>17137883
Isopods and crabs I guess
I hear tarantula tastes like popcorn shrimp if you cook it right

[Anonymous No.17141385]

>>17140599
Please enlighten everyone to what you eat

[Anonymous No.17142191]

>>17141102
>everything I disagree with is schizo