Can anybody tell me why green olives are almost always packed in glass jars and black olives are almost always packed in steel cans? (Does it have to do with the ferrous oxide added to the solution they are preserved in, about which I learned when I was researching whether olives are a fruit or a vegetable [see below] {they are a fruit}.)
Can anybody tell me why the only way you can buy most ordinary mustard today is in squeeze bottles...but mustard doesn’t squeeze out like ketchup, the first drops are usually water, and a whole lot is left in the bottle after you can squeeze it no more?
The May 7 issue of Time reports that at 9 months, American babies get 48% of their vegetable calories from yellow, orange and dark green veggies. When those same babies are 2 years old, they are getting 41% of their daily vegetable calories from french fries.
I am not sure I understand all that data, but the obvious implication is that American teen-agers get 100% of their vegetable calories from french fries. Unless they get some of those calories from the ketchup they dip them in. (Ketchup is still a vegetable, isn’t it?...but I reveal my age.) What percentage of their fruit calories comes from olives (see above)? Now the questions are getting tough.
Speaking of cans and bottles and all the other stuff we throw away, I commend for our discomfort Wendell Berry’s really tough observation about American environmental degradation: “There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.” (from What Are People For?, as reported in the May issue of The Sun)
Wonder how Wendell Berry carries his mustard home. (“He makes his own, dummy!”)
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