And all of a sudden everything that was once good for us is now bad.
I'm looking at you quinoa, hijacking every other grain to establish yourself as the only chaste goodness, but then again it's not your fault is it?
It's the growing fads and health industries to blame.
What's the point of eating something that does not even grow locally?
Why should we eat something that has travelled thousands of kilometres just because everything else is perpetrated as unhealthy or gluten or fattening or low nutrition.
Is food only about nutrition?
There's a certain happiness to eating and life and these new fangled crops promoted as health food have now taken over the kitchens when in fact the humble quinoa was only meant to serve it's own population.
There isn't a point to eating something that doesn't come naturally to your local soil, moreover it's just a way of popularising a good product for profit.
I mean yes of course one could eat it as a way of deviating from the usual menu for a change, but making it a staple diet is useless, as is consuming anything that ain't found seasonally.
I hate that white rice has been given such a bad rep to the point that people begin to shudder when I suggest someone fried rice as a post workout meal and ask me to give them a quinoa recipe instead and it bothers me.
It bothers me too when I find someone has given up on sugar only to thrive on stevia leaves because obviously they've no sense of taste do they?
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