Mcdonalds? No. But it kind of looks like it, right? Wrong. It is the exact opposite. The only simularity that the above has with the ever popular Big Mac is the colors red and yellow. Ask any food stylist, and they will tell you why. These two colors are very appetizing. But past this repetition of color scheme, and you'll find absolutely nothing alike ingredient wise between the two.
That is because this is fast food satire, or my version of it. I worked with a wonderful team of chefs at one point in my career who loved this idea. Polenta "french fries". Roasted red pepper "ketchup". And in the case above, a fabulous mixture of delish from Fleisher's Grass fed and Organic Meats, in Kingston, NY , home of what is, in my opinion, the coolest guy to touch a steak EVER, The man himself, Josh. On the evening before a party that I had the pleasure of doing the shopping for with my client, we went into the shop and I was given a formal introduction to a man for whom I had developed tremendous respect, and that evening, was given a selection of meats for my "mixed game burger" that would overwhelm any chef to the point of grateful tears. Wiping them away, I could'nt believe my eyes when I saw that he had already prepared a burger mix. With fresh bacon. Ground into it also. Genius.
I know the butcher. He knows the farmers. the farmers know the animals. the animals know the pleasure of living in nature, and nature knows, well, nature knows best. Why we, as a country, have ever had to deliberate over what is good, bad, or indifferent for anyone to eat amazes me to this day. We were given a paradise here, with a practical map from the people who first lived here. The natives. They skipped all the middle men.
The natives knew nature. They moved with the herd. the people and the buffalo were one.
Where are we now? Now we need our governments to save our children from obesity.
Next year, Halloween candy will be outlawed as well, by the way. Because it causes childhood diabetes.
This tenzo is overwhelmed to the point of tears. And they are not of joy.
WE need to save our children.
Wake up America. Cook your own food. Get to know your chefs, your farmers, your local businesses, your neighbors. Find out what they are eating. Talk about it. This is natural eating. Seeing everything with your own eyes. Not just red and yellow.
Look Ronald Mcdonald in the eye and tell me what you see.
Nothing.
Except the classic con of the bait and switch.
McDonald's, for years, was an icon of the road traveling, fun loving family. It was portrayed as the place to hang out, or go after the movies or whatever. It was our version of a bistro.
It was the beginning of the bait and switch.
Now, after someone makes a movie about how bad this stuff is for you and almost kills himself, and they are forced to publish sodium content and horrible international sources, and I still see cars in line outside.
We have gone from three liter bottles of red soda to organic powdered sugar. Its all the same. Ask any old timer, and they'll tell you: anything in excess is'nt good.
Has'nt Mcdonald's proved this? Over a billion served is why. They stopped caring after number one.
And when one eats there-you are'nt caring either. About yourself. Or your children.
Whoa! hold on. Fast food once and while is'nt bad, right? That remains, in this country, a freedom of choice. We also have a choice where we spend our money. So in my opinion, fast food is'nt bad once in a while, if it's cooked slowly, like the burger above. Because it was also raised and prepared slowly by the hands of men, not steel. Men of steel, actually. The farmer, the butcher, the chef, the diner, and now you, the reader, are all men of steel. Because you have the same power as they do, and your superhero abilty is your spending dollar.
It is, after all, a free country. Amen?
We are responsible for ourselves, and for our actions. Or at least, we all try to be.
But you see, the less you or people you see have a hand in your meal, the faster it gets. And you have no idea whose hands have been involved.
EEEWWWWW. Thats Gross....
I plead with everyone who is exited about a government who allowed something to grow and then attempts to curtail it to maintain public demand for health as somewhat shortsided.
It is as shortsided as simply seeing a USDA Organic label on something and assuming that makes it good. Look a USDA Organic label in the eyes, and tell me what you see.
Nothing. Nothing but the first step in a long journey for this country.
Which has got to get itself back to the garden. Period.
Is a goverment responsible for telling Mcdonald's how to make food healthier?
Our government allowed it to start, flurish, grow, and become the icon that it is, one of our Presidents jogging in the night for his burger.
He should have jogged to my house. he would have lost alot of weight and had himself a tasty burger, and it would have been good for him. Grass fed bacon and all, because it was made with one thing:
Not red and yellow.
Not a desire for profit.
With, you guessed it,
Love.
Tenzo
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