mcprogramming

I borrowed Fast Food Nation on audio CD from the library and started listening to it today. According to sources, our diets have changed more in the past 40 years than in the past 40,000. scary. Talks a lot about homogenization, about uniformity, confomity and the like. Chain-owners want customers to be able to ge the exact same meal at any outlet across the country, etc. I can testify to this, when I worked at WhiteSpot prepping, we had to weigh out every portion we made up. So for one dish, say regular pasta, each bag had to have, within a tenth of a gram, 1g of 4 diff veggies. You get pretty quick at it, but still, you have to weigh up about 30 bags of it. That's 120 weighings for that menu item alone. It's very ridiculous. As if there's a mathemtaical formule to determine the exact and only recipe of making an acceptable dish. I don't even measure stuff when I cook at home, and I've had no complaints yet. The fast food (and most chain restaurants) are a sterile, decrepit, and very bland aspect of a growing trend of homogenization in our world.....