fredag den 17. januar 2025

Fredagsfrustration ~ Kun på dansk ~
Uduelig mad, bavl og konsekvenser

Den seneste måned har det været helt vildt med nyheder om mad og fødevarer. Jeg tager her fat på to, men resten er lige så absurde. Den 30. december skrev TV2.dk  at 5-reglen kan afsløre farlig mad
Lige et par citater fra artiklen:
En god regel er at se på, om der er flere eller færre end fem ingredienser. Er der færre, så er varen fin. Men er der flere end fem, så skal man gå ind og læse, om der er noget, man ikke forstår, siger Anne Tjønneland.

Hvad der derimod ikke er godt, er sodavand og chips. Slik bør vi i almindelighed heller ikke spise. Det samme gælder langtidsholdbare færdigretter.

Mere overraskende er det måske, at også veggieprodukter herunder visse typer plantedrikke får en løftet pegefinger fra nogle forskere.

I 1970'erne begyndte varedeklarationer at blive udbredte på mange fødevareemballager. Siden holdt begrebet e-numre sit indtog. Sidstnævnte beskriver tilsætningsstoffer, som er så vanskelige at forklare, at de har fået deres eget kodesprog, altså et E og en talkode bagefter.

Dertil har jeg nogle kommentarer:

  5-reglen:
Er der færre end 5 ingredienser er varen OK - men chips er ikke OK. Sært, ikke sandt. De fleste chips består af kartofler, solsikkeolie og salt. 3 ingredienser, ingen af dem med underlige navne.
     Mange betænkelige pølser og lignende består af kød, emulgator, vand og krydderier.

Veganske varer:
De er dybt overraskede over at nogle veganske produkter er ultraforarbejdede. Det er de stort set alle sammen, og det har jeg sagt og ment længe.

E-numre:
De siger: "Sidstnævnte [altså E-numre] beskriver tilsætningsstoffer, som er så vanskelige at forklare, at de har fået deres eget kodesprog, altså et E og en talkode bagefter."
     Det er ganske simpelt forkert. Der er masser af E-numre, der dækker over helt almindelige, velkendte stoffer. E-numrene er en standardisering, E'et står for Europa, og listen er indført af EU for at vi alle skal kunne genkende stofferne lige meget hvor varen er fremstillet.
     De almindelige, jeg lige kan i hovedet, er E330 = citronsyre, E300 = C-vitaminer, E440 = pektin, E553 = talkum og  E901 = bivoks.
     Jeg er bestemt lige så utryg  - eller måske endda mere - ved for eksempel glucose-fruktosesirup eller hydrolyseret vegetabilsk protein, der ikke har nogle E-numre.
     Og hvor mange stejler mon over johannesbrødkernemel, carrageenan, sorbitol, det 3. krydderi, og mange andre, hvor det er tilladt at skrive det almindelige navn i stedet for deres E-numre (henholdsvis E410, E407, E420 og E621)?

Jeg mener, at man gå helt galt i byen med de regler. Prøv for eksempel at læse ingredienserne på Mou økologiske kødboller: Grise- og oksekød (60%), vand, ÆGGEHVIDER, løg, HVEDEMEL, kartoffelmel, rasp (HVEDEMEL, salt, gær), salt, oksefedt, hvid peber.
     Hele 11 ingredienser! Men ikke én jeg ikke har eller let kunne fremstille hjemme i mit eget køkken - og her er vi ved det, jeg mener er en meget bedre regel: KUNNE JEG SELV!
    
Kunne jeg selv hakke kødet, røre det med salt, tilsætte vand, æggehvider, løg, mel, rasp (som jeg selv kunne lave), salt, peber og fedt og så koge bollerne i saltvand? Ja det kunne jeg godt. Altså er det OK

Så prøver vi lige den vegansk variant:
     Beyond Meat kødboller, ingredienser: Vand, ærteprotein* (14%), rapsolie, kokosolie, aromaer, røgsmag, risprotein, tørret gær, stabilisator (methylcellulose), kartoffelstivelse, salt, kaliumsalt, krydderier, urter i variabel andel 0,5% (Persille, rosmarin, salvie, basilikum og oregano), æbleekstrakt, hvidløgspulver, majseddike, koncentreret citronsaft, løgpulver, granatæbleekstrakt, emulgator (solsikke-lecithin), farve (rødbederød), maltodextrin, gulerodspulver.
*Ærter er bælgplanter. Personer med alvorlig allergi over for bælgplanter som f.eks. jordnødder skal være forsigtige, når de indfører ærteprotein i deres kost på grund af risiko for allergi over for ærter.    
     Der er rigtig mange - faktisk hele 24 - ingredienser hvoraf Aromaer er på fjerdepladsen, og der er flere, hvor jeg tænker ... hvordan pokker gør jeg.
     Ærteprotein, hvordan får jeg proteinerne ud af ærterne? Ditto med risprotein, og hvad med solsikkelecitin?
     Methylcellulose og kaliumsalt ... (E461 og E508 altså). KUNNE JEG SELV? Nej. IKKE OK

Jeg gentager gerne mig selv fra for snart længe siden:
     Hvis nu vi i stedet for alle mulige fortænkte kure holdt op med at spise billigt bras og spiste lidt mindre, men af en ordentlig kvalitet, og kun spiste ting, vi kunne reproducere i eget køkken - ting som min mormor også ville kunne forstå. Jeg mener at det allervigtigste spørgsmål at stille er: 
KUNNE JEG SELV?



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Den anden nyhed er vel en uges tid gammel, her hører vi -- også hos TV2

Fiskehandler smidt ud af bestyrelse for udtalelse om opdrættede fisk

Ifølge ejeren af den aarhusianske fiskeforretning er den opdrættede laks faktisk slet ikke egnet som mad til mennesker. Se lige her:
Jakob Clausen fra Danmarks ældste fiskeforretning er ikke længere en del af bestyrelsen i Danmarks Fiskehandlere.
Han er nemlig blevet smidt ud af brancheforeningens bestyrelse, fordi han tirsdag fortalte, at han ikke længere vil sælge opdrættet laks i sin forretning.

Ja, hvis nogen siger sandheden, så skal man da bare smide dem ud af det "gode" selskab. Jeg håber den sandhedskærlige og modige fiskehandler fortsætter som han er begyndt, og hvis jeg boede i Aarhus, ville alle mine fremtidige fiskeindkøb ske i den butik!

Lars Poulsen, der er sekretariatschef i Danmarks Fiskehandlere, mener ifølge artiklen, at opdræt er en realitet i branchen, og at kunderne selv kan vælge, hvilke fisk de køber.

Fint, så skriv lige på skiltene, hvilke fisk, der er opdrættede, så kan vi vælge! Denne her er for pakkede fisk i supermarkedet - men hos fiskehandleren ... hvad gør vi der når det ikke står på skiletene?
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onsdag den 15. januar 2025

Floriane did not get us :: Words for Wednesday and Echoes

The Word for Wednesday challenge started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable event with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words provided by a number of people.
The prompts for January are provided by Elephant's Child and can be found @ Elephant's Child.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying
"The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

- - A - - B - - C - - 

This week's prompts are:
Ancient
Life
Water
Melody
Lied
      and/or
Medal
Speaker
Cords
Paper
False

This is an echo of my Friday Frustrations and more from November 2023 onwards. I only used one of the Words for Wednesday: Water. I'm still not totally out of my poetry writing spell, so a poem is what you'll get.

Floriane's winds have blown
and the waters all have grown
but our tunnel's dry as a bone
we can run to the bus and go home.

Catching the bus during the storm Floriane - January 2025.

All spring of 2024 the tunnel was closed, we ran, sometimes illegally under the descending gates to catch the bus  ... the road was almost closed as well, bothering traffic in and out of town, but it was worth the trouble, just compare this:
The tunnel January 2024
to this:
The tunnel January 2025.

mandag den 13. januar 2025

Poetry Monday :: Fiction

Every Monday is Poetry Monday.

Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over the hosting duties, mostly the supplying of the prompts - only temporarily we hope - while Diane at On the Border is taking a break for health and relaxation, travelling the world with her husband as far as we can tell.
 
We just hope she's going to take back over once she returns home again.

  I have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
  Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others
.


Today's prompt is Fiction. This is a thing I would not willingly live without.
My poem is a partial repost from almost five years ago, just carefully improved and updated.

My old partner in crime

I wrote my first fiction some time before school,
Wrote poems of sons and stories of cats.
A decrepit typewriter, ancient as time
Was my friend and my partner in crime.

I once had as homework to tell us a tale
Of ghosts from a place that I knew.
I wrote of a troll, of a church and a hill
Oh, the tale ... I remember it still.

As an end to the story I wrote, as was true:
If I didn't have no books at all
I would write me some books, at a terrible speed.
Just for to have something to read.


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January 13: Fiction  (today)
January 20: Sheep
January 27: Silver
February 3: Funky
February 10: Funny
February 17: Fidgety
February 24: Fluffy

søndag den 12. januar 2025

005, 006, 007

Some days ago it snowed. I went shopping. Our pedestrian streets have been remade, they are now neither pretty nor good, as they are quite slippery when wet or filled with snow. I think that whoever made this decision was not feeling very sharp that day. Even I who am not afraid of taking a fall, waddle like a penguin when snow is falling. Maybe I could survive a fall (I can) but my shopping bags, containing milk, eggs, and soft drinks in bottles ...
As I was waddling along, I noticed a car turning into our pedestrian street, people living there are allowed of course, as are delivery vans. I jumped into a snowdrift and looked - nonplussed - at the car. It was a
005

Then today on our way to mass, I saw this car in the park site near church.
I was almost late for mass, and the Owlets wondered what upheld me.

For the last week or so a 007 has been mocking me, parked where I normally go shopping - but no 006 anywhere to be seen, so now I had caught that one I though to myself that it would be nice and easy, I would just go there tomorrow and look for it ... But on our way home from mass, in that very same park site ...
Seven numbers in seven months, now I only need 83 ¼ years to complete the challenge.

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Thursday our crafting guild celebrated the new year. The cake we ate, may with a bit of good will pass off as New Start Yellow:

onsdag den 8. januar 2025

Words for Wednesday January 8 & IWSG

The Word for Wednesday challenge started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words are provided by a number of people.
The prompts for January are provided by Elephant's Child and can be found @ Elephant's Child.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying
"The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

- - A - - B - - C - - 

This week's prompts are:
- the elephant in the room
- as busy as a bee
- as happy as a dog with two tails.
- chicken hearted
- a wolf in sheep's clothing
- cat got your tongue
- having a whale of a time
- ants in your pants

I'm in a poemy mood right now, probably set off by The Man in the Moon Stayed up too Late from Tolkien's birthday and the Lay of the Three Holy Kings from Poetry Monday. What ever the reason the sayings came together in a crazy rhyme inside my brain very early this morning when the roaring winds woke me up. I repeated the verses to imprint them in memory, but only the first stanza stayed with me till the alarm sounded. Maybe the rest will re-surface - or I'll invent some more - but until then, this crazy rhyme.

The elephant inside the room
is sweeping with my brand new broom.
The family, busy as a bee,
are all pretending not to see
the big and sturdy elephant
who - agile, yes and elegant -
hangs in a trapeze.

- - A - - B - - C - - 

The monthly Question from the Insecure Writers' Support Group was luckily only due today, January 8th, which is the second Monday of January. I am thankful as this have given me time to gather my flying feathers and thoughts.

January 8 question - Describe someone you admired when you were a child. Did your opinion of that person change when you grew up?

My answer - As a young child I was fascinated, awed and inspired by people doing "superhuman" things, ballet dancers, acrobats, inventors and mountaineers. The one I admired most was not one, but a pair.
In 2019, I wrote a verse about them, and since I'm in a poetic mood, I re-publish it here. The verse is not good, but it expresses what I want to say. Tuesday was library day in my childhood.

My childhood heroes lived inside a book
They were brave, they were fearless, they had what it took.
They climbed up a mountain so terribly tall
and then wrote a book on their brush with the wall.
I read of their merits, and all through the night
I dreamed of oxygen bottles, snow blindness, and fright.
My mother who came in to hear what I said
Heard me talking of 3000 feet and aid
She forbade me to read,
but I never agreed.
So I secretly read
of the dangers they met.
Every Tuesday I sought out a new book
About Hilary and Tenzing and the route that they took.


I have not read of them since, only from afar followed their decorations and deaths, so my opinion is still the same as that made by six-year old me: They were great!
And to forestall eventual comments on the disparity of those two: To my young eyes those two were best mates and inseparable co-heroes. I never got that one was supposed to be inferior. The unfamiliarity with either language made both names equally exotic to me ;) Norgay Tenzing was just as foreign and unusual to a 6 year old Dane as Edmund Hilary. People in my world had names like Hans Jensen, Kirsten Pedersen, Jens Westergaard, Peter Bang, Gerd Hansen,  Bente Nielsen, ... those names probably sound strange to you - just try guessing which are men and which are women.