tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post5889400329929888107..comments2023-11-03T04:29:29.498-04:00Comments on Paleo-Future: The Technotopia of 2000 (1962)Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-63393242850318847622008-06-07T15:50:00.000-04:002008-06-07T15:50:00.000-04:00Nowadays "natural" is the positive buzzword for pr...Nowadays "natural" is the positive buzzword for products, not "synthetic".<BR/><BR/>"All-Synthetic Milk in synthetic packaging" -- a selling slogan in 1962 perhaps, but commercial death in 2008.<BR/>;-PA.R.Yngvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972668378286177600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-65029944738749168702008-06-04T22:29:00.000-04:002008-06-04T22:29:00.000-04:00Looking at it that way, unless they figured out ho...Looking at it that way, unless they figured out how to make food out of Meitnerium or something <I>could</I> any food ever be called synthetic??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-77653101617767991602008-06-03T18:19:00.000-04:002008-06-03T18:19:00.000-04:00I can't think of a single food, or even a major fo...I can't think of a single food, or even a major food ingredient, that's "completely synthetic". There are some artificial flavorings and dyes, but even semi-synthetic food ingredients like Sucralose and Olestra start from an ingredient grown by a farmer.<BR/><BR/>I think the 1940-1960s passion for synthetic food, pill-form food, and giant vegetables probably comes from post-war rationing. When lots of people lacked proper nutrition, or took vitamins to supplement a real deficiency, synthetic food must have seemed like a pretty good deal.<BR/><BR/>These days we enrich processed foods with vitamins and minerals, but the food itself is still "real".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-16337981121881958932008-06-02T11:06:00.000-04:002008-06-02T11:06:00.000-04:00There's probably a joke out there involving a Fren...There's probably a joke out there involving a French publication and "universal hygienic inspection" but <I> I'm </I> certainly not the type of person who would make it.<BR/><BR/>*g*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com