End-of-Year Curiosities
As ridiculous goes, this story is a fairly good example. Perhaps a little more than ridiculous; pointing out perhaps our ability to discern good nutrition from bad, value from potential harm. Of course it was long ago pointed out that something as essentially innocuous as the popular soft drink Coca-Cola (and its like counterparts) is inimical to health, particularly when used to excess. The high sugar content and the chemicals in the drink prove, over time, to be injurious to human health.
Those who become addicted to the liquid sugar-cola should experiment as many have done, to see that it can be a very effective, quite volatile and harsh cleaning tool. More than that, it's also effective in destroying textiles, for example, through its harsh chemical interaction. It might make a better toilet-bowl cleaner than a harmless, good-tasting alternative to fruit juice or milk, on the other hand, so it does have its conceivable uses.
And then there's the so-popular fast-food choices available at someplace like McDonald's, the franchise first-choice of millions of people that took the consuming public by storm, appealing to the human taste for extreme amounts of internal-human-organ-damaging fats, sugars and salt. A woman living in Windsor Ontario, has kept a McDonald's hamburger, untouched, for a full year on her kitchen counter.
What could be more perishable than a soft bun and a grilled hamburger? Yet this combination of bun and beef has managed to withstand the ravages of time. It appears, visually, unchanged from the time it was placed on Melanie Hesketh's kitchen counter. Whenever her teen-age children agitate for fast food, their mother points to the presence of the hamburger.
Untouched by mould, maggots or fungi, it squats there, awaiting consultation with a chemist, a nutritionist, an economist and a teen. "It makes me wonder why we choose to eat food like this when even bacteria won't eat it", commented Ms. Hesketh, herself a nutritionist at Windsor's Lifetime Wellness Centre.
The casual observer would see that the hamburger looks eminently edible, though the meat patty itself appears to have shrunk as the original moisture content contained within it has evaporated over time, though it "still smells slightly like a burger". McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Ltd. has yet to comment.
And, more or less in the same type of genre - food, that is - there is the Restaurant Les Princesses d'Hochelaga whose special allure to foodists has been catering to people who enjoy having their bacon-and-eggs brought to table by waitresses wearing shoes, a see-through skirt and a smile. In operation for 11 years, the restaurant and the city have been wrangling over the lack of a permit.
Making the restaurant's nearly-nude waitressing service illegal. The restaurant's owner finally succumbed, and the waitresses are now suited out in mini-dresses with small vests, serving clients their bacon and eggs, more modestly dressed. The result was interesting; the waitresses report receiving about 50% less of the tips they were formerly accustomed to receiving.
Those who become addicted to the liquid sugar-cola should experiment as many have done, to see that it can be a very effective, quite volatile and harsh cleaning tool. More than that, it's also effective in destroying textiles, for example, through its harsh chemical interaction. It might make a better toilet-bowl cleaner than a harmless, good-tasting alternative to fruit juice or milk, on the other hand, so it does have its conceivable uses.
And then there's the so-popular fast-food choices available at someplace like McDonald's, the franchise first-choice of millions of people that took the consuming public by storm, appealing to the human taste for extreme amounts of internal-human-organ-damaging fats, sugars and salt. A woman living in Windsor Ontario, has kept a McDonald's hamburger, untouched, for a full year on her kitchen counter.
What could be more perishable than a soft bun and a grilled hamburger? Yet this combination of bun and beef has managed to withstand the ravages of time. It appears, visually, unchanged from the time it was placed on Melanie Hesketh's kitchen counter. Whenever her teen-age children agitate for fast food, their mother points to the presence of the hamburger.
Untouched by mould, maggots or fungi, it squats there, awaiting consultation with a chemist, a nutritionist, an economist and a teen. "It makes me wonder why we choose to eat food like this when even bacteria won't eat it", commented Ms. Hesketh, herself a nutritionist at Windsor's Lifetime Wellness Centre.
The casual observer would see that the hamburger looks eminently edible, though the meat patty itself appears to have shrunk as the original moisture content contained within it has evaporated over time, though it "still smells slightly like a burger". McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Ltd. has yet to comment.
And, more or less in the same type of genre - food, that is - there is the Restaurant Les Princesses d'Hochelaga whose special allure to foodists has been catering to people who enjoy having their bacon-and-eggs brought to table by waitresses wearing shoes, a see-through skirt and a smile. In operation for 11 years, the restaurant and the city have been wrangling over the lack of a permit.
Making the restaurant's nearly-nude waitressing service illegal. The restaurant's owner finally succumbed, and the waitresses are now suited out in mini-dresses with small vests, serving clients their bacon and eggs, more modestly dressed. The result was interesting; the waitresses report receiving about 50% less of the tips they were formerly accustomed to receiving.
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