Thursday, July 4, 2013

writing from the usa

In order to have a bread with a crust, I have purchased an obnoxiously, pretentiously packaged item which isn't even fresh. (An employee of the store once informed me that the food is baked in another state, frozen, transported, and then microwaved at the point of arrival prior to putting it on the shelf.) The bread is wrapped in two layers of packing, and the outer one is full of meaningless words, bullshit really, telling us all about how great the bread is, and conjuring up the image of a baker who is a so-called "artisan". (Whenever I see that word I want to throw up.) Heaven help us. The grocery store is really a sophistic, capitalistic slum. Fruits and vegetables get similar treatment---frozen prior to shipping, and then somehow thawed out. No wonder the food in this country is terrible. This is not civilization, and there is no polite word which can adequately describe it.

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