Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Llamas!!!

This post has nothing to do with llamas go the llama song!!! I needed to escape from a conversation about whether or not the people on tv "can see us" (well, they're always proclaiming that they can, so there is an argument in there somewhere) This is actually the one about food flavouring. Chicken flavour chips do not tase like chicken, they merely taste like what we accept chicken flavouring to taste like. The only reason that we create a link in our minds with the flavour and chicken's, is because that is what we're told it taste's like. Because of this, we don't stop and think about it, just accept it as normal because its what we're used to. The same goes for strawberry flavoured lollies etc. In fact, what flavour of lolly tastes like what it's supposed to taste like (with the exception of lemon possibly) They just taste like the universal flavouring taste, not any kind of fruit or farmyard animal...I think we're all being brainwashed, but if so, the question remains: why?

This phrase is whizzing past!!!

8 comments:

CJ said...

yay chicken chicken chicken...i agree i think that they r brainwashin us!! either that or someone ran out of flavours wen they were creating the foods! ehehe

Elizabeth said...

But the odd thing is that they haven't run out of flavours at all - they just have double the amount of flavours they're letting on, so now there are two different flavours named "chicken" or "strawberry" etc...seems odd

CJ said...

yeah i spose it is pretty odd tho! that is definately for sure!! yay chicken! i have cream of mushroom soup today!

sez said...

yuuuum....cream of mushroom...or IS it...haha aaanyway...

Elizabeth said...

Well, I don't think I've had it, but soups seem to go either way. Sometimes they do the whole "chicken flavour thing" but then they have things that taste like actual stuff...ooh, too many metasyntactic variables

CJ said...

nah this is good packet soup! mmmm... um it the continental packet soup! umm hearty beef is good though...it doesnt taste like beef but tis still nice...mmmm...soup!

Elizabeth said...

does it taste hearty?

CJ said...

very! mmmm hearty!