what do you expect for free?

bendix

Popular in muslim countries. I was in Dubai last week and had beef bacon for breakfast every morning.

lostinrates

As a teen I once told a yard full of Muslim stable yards in Surrey(? I think it was in Surrey)...when the burger van called it wasn't the hamburgers they should have been avoiding, but rather the hot dogs they were having instead. edit: My mother had the same conversation with Saudi friends in the 70s.

lostinrates

bendix wrote: »

Popular in muslim countries. I was in Dubai last week and had beef bacon for breakfast every morning.

Is it good?

ninky_2

You don't have to go to Dubai to try beef or turkey bacon. Many shops in London sell it. Certainly round my way.

Personally I think showing children a city farm hen and thinking that has given them insight into where food comes from is a prime example of what is wrong with the education system. Devoid of critical thinking and giving children an impression of how we want the world to be rather than how it is.

southantrim3

I expect water for free, 10 years ago it would have seemed crazy to buy water but now....

lostinrates

ninky wrote: »

You don't have to go to Dubai to try beef or turkey bacon. Many shops in London sell it. Certainly round my way.

Personally I think showing children a city farm hen and thinking that has given them insight into where food comes from is a prime example of what is wrong with the education system. Devoid of critical thinking and giving children an impression of how we want the world to be rather than how it is.

I think I agree with this. Better would be to take them to both high intensity farms and free range/organic ones. Better, I think, too let them see the real world and make choices based on the reality of economics v welfare and get out of the city for a day too.

ILW

southantrim3 wrote: »

I expect water for free, 10 years ago it would have seemed crazy to buy water but now....

Just clever marketing, virtually nobody can tell still "natural" from tap water if it is chilled and put in a bottle.

ninky_2

ILW wrote: »

Just clever marketing, virtually nobody can tell still "natural" from tap water if it is chilled and put in a bottle.

I don't think people buy bottled water for the taste it is because they don't trust the purity of the tap water.

southantrim3

ninky wrote: »

I don't think people buy bottled water for the taste it is because they don't trust the purity of the tap water.

I don't trust those who produce bottled water. How can you be sure that additives aren't added that might do you damage in the long term. All you have to do with tap water is to boil it and that gets rid of the impurities...

chewmylegoff

southantrim3 wrote: »

I don't trust those who produce bottled water. How can you be sure that additives aren't added that might do you damage in the long term. All you have to do with tap water is to boil it and that gets rid of the impurities...

if you boil tap water, and then drink it, it still contains all of the chemical impurities which were in it before. in fact the impurities are now more concentrated because you have boiled off some of the water.