The food industry is truly disgusting...

So much cheating is going on with production and labeling. "Smoked" sausages that are dumped into a bath of smoke aroma instead of being smoked, "wasabi" that's just horseradish with mustard and food coloring, "old" cheese that's only ripened for a month and got the rest of its taste from a bottle, "fruit yoghurt" that only contains 0.2% fruit but the label can say "with real fruit", etc. The list is endless.

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Dolimyte · 41-45, M

Liquid smoke has the same effect on food as natural smoke, only without the carcinogens.

NerdyPotato ·

@Dolimyte connoisseurs strongly disagree, and the label is wrong because it's not smoked then.

HootyTheNightOwl

@NerdyPotato I'm sure that people with asthma won't be too sorry about being able to walk the streets in Whitby without having an asthma attack so that someone, somewhere can get their mackerel smoked...

NerdyPotato ·

@HootyTheNightOwl do they smoke in the store there? 🤨 Like right in the store?

HootyTheNightOwl

@NerdyPotato No, they had smoke shacks out back where they'd smoke - so they were literally doing it in the back garden. It was terrible for me as an asthmatic every evening.

Stay away from the smokers??? Sure, but it's in the air and in my clothes... Some nights, I went to bed unsure if I would get a solid night of sleep or if I would have to wake mum for inhalers in the night - some nights, my own inhalers weren't enough and I had to take someone else's at a higher dose than mine to stay out of hospital.

Even down by the bay, the smoke was visible.