What's wrong with fruit shoots?

[branflake81]

OK - forgive my ignorance but I have never actually had or been in contact with a fruitshoot or read its label* - can someone explain why they are seemingly akin to giving your child arsenic?

*this is not down to any kind of deliberate alimentary puratism, I just haven't.

It's the packaging and the marketing of Cheesestrings that is objectionable. We don't just get cheese; we get a food corporation's homogenised and patented reinvention of cheese. Which makes us dependent on business to mediate our experience of food. Just like our dependence on supermarkets to sell back to us a for-profit simulacrum of Christmas, Mothers Day, etc.

I think they are moderately nourishing. But they are part of this replacement of everything real by a commercial reinvention of it.

Well now that is an argument that appeals to me, threadworm. But that applies right the way up the scale to the top end cheese packaged in Sainsbury's to look "local" or whatever. I don't see why cheese string should be singled out of this morass of food industry deception.

(I like your elegant concession that they are "moderately nourishing". I shall always think of them like this now.)

Yes, your point is correct of course.

And my DS2 used to eat loads of Cheesestrings (apparently they all lived inside him and treated him as an indoor play area, acc to DS2).

Iorek - oh, I thought someobody copied the mashing and emulsifying process below from a knowledgabel source.

mozzarella is sort of textured, but not like a Cheese String, is it?

Anyway, I think kids look revolting, peeling the strings down, it's too much like playing with your food for my 50's housewife upbringing

My objections are not ones that i expect anyone else to take into account when choosing these healty good value aesthetically pleaseing tasty snacks for their children

I have just looked at Tesco's website (appologies if you boycott them) and cheesestrings work out at over £14/kg whereas a block of medium cheddar is around £7/kg. That is a big reason for me not to buy them!

ooooh.

Threadworm, I am in speechless awe at your use of 'simulacrum' - and kneel at the foot of your killer argument.

I agree, coca - that is an excellent reason not to buy them.

Threadworm - I see where your ds2 is coming from. Once thoroughly peeled the cheese string looks not unlike a small family of threadworms.

Now why didn't I think of that!

Really it is a kind of cannibalism.

Yes. I didn't like to say...

I am pmsl that becuase I have sat on (and not shopping) here discussing the pros and cons of cheesestrings I have nothing for the dc's super except a TIN of chicken soup! Oh the irony

By the way, while we're on the subject of the evils of the food industry, did you ever get a reply from Marmite about the adulteration of the recipe?

supper it's not going to be at all super

How many of you complaining about this buy a sandwich when out? Or a coffee?
How much more expensive are they?

Gah this is making me really angry now. Go look around the boards here and realise what a serious issue is.

I'm not sure why it is making you angry and if it is may I suggest you don't read it.

Don't be angry, DWP. We know it's not serious. It's just quite diverting. I love cheese string.

No, Iorek, those capitalist swine. No answer at all. You see, this is the problem. There is nothing in the natural world that corresponds precisely to Marmite. So when they f*ck it up I can't return to nature and harvest my own. It had its origin in a capitalist-vegetarian reinvention of beef tea, a simulacrum that made us entirely dependent on the global Marmite industry. Now they have scewed it up and I am denuded and impotent in my rage.

roffle roffle roffle! My feelings precisely. And you deserve an award for "capitalist-vegetarian reinvention of beef tea".

Was at my mum's at the weekend where I sampled an out of date jar of the old recipe. It was a bitterly nostalgic experience.

Threadworm are you using a thesaurus to use 'big words'? Bravo, but your sentences make little sense really.

DWP I don't think that's fair. What's wrong?

Re returning to nature and harvesting your own: I am reminded of a friend from New York who was bewildered by marmite and always referred to it as "yeast infection on toast".

I think arguements are better in simple language.
If you have to use big words you are compensating for the lack of credulity.

I could try that I suppose.

But DWP it was a joke. (And I think you mean credibility)

I can smell them a mile off.
There's nothing I recognise in the ingredients and little to convince me I'm buying something which purports to be food/drink rather than, say, a bottle of shampoo or fake tan.

DWP don't be chippy.