So it’s been a while a since I’ve posted anything useful on this blog, in fact, I’m not sure I ever have. I set out to do the daunting and ridiculously laborious task of finding the origins of certain types of “healthy” foods. The truth is, this is nearly impossible in North East Ohio. Organic food is for the most part bullshit and overpriced. There are very few vendors who actually care.
I would like to call Giant Eagle, Giant Bullshitters. Their premium “organic” line of food dubbed Nature’s Basket is by no means a viable alternative given the price. I set out to contact them and they did not return phone calls or emails. I had simple questions such as: “do you use pesticides on your spinach?” Their unresponsiveness leads me to believe they do in fact use pesticides and don’t give a damn about customer service. I loathe Giant Eagle, yet it’s one of the only options in this nutrition depleted town
Bird’s Eye frozen food, good people. Given my lack of healthy options around here I decided to go the frozen veggie route. I called around and sent out emails in regards to manufacturing processes. Very simple questions. Birds Eye is the only company that responded, and despite the fact that their products are most likely mass produced garbage, I still buy them, simply because they responded. Here is the email:
Birds Eye Letter about Frozen Food
My business partner Tony said “Hey, this person has a blog like yours, @summertomato”. So I check it out, looks good, contact the owner, build a relationship. Darya Pino runs www.summertomato.com, lives in San Francisco, takes beautiful pictures of food at the farmers market, and hangs out with cool people like Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss. When I asked her about Kevin Rose, she said yea, one of the perks of living in SF. I cried, shoveled my driveway and went to Giant Eagle to score some eco-obscene beef and a Foster 24oz.
My good friend Philip Albrecht wrote a post about his recent slaughtering of a goat debacle. He lives in Panama and states “This is a place though where if you accidentally stick an indigenous twig in the ground you get a fruit tree” and “There is no reason living here in Bocas that you can’t eat high quality organic foods”. I asked him how much it would cost to eat there. He responds, plenty of free seafood and plantains, but the beer isn’t free. Again, I cried, scraped the ice off my car and went to Subway.
30 pounds later, here I am in Ohio, surrounded by fat white people and no desire to seek out organic food. If you surround yourself with garbage, you begin to stink. As for the fate of this website, to be determined.
