Price Goes Up, Taste Goes Down

I have been doing a lot of research into today's post, because of course I am so very smart as you all know. What I have found out is that there is a direct correlation between the cost of food and the taste of food. I have supplied a graphic display in order to demonstrate exactly what I am talking about, please click on the link below:

SUPPORTING GRAPHIC DISPLAY

I have made this link large so that you will not miss clicking on it. Now, after clicking, you will want to revert back to the display as you read this from time to time, to fully understand the incredible contribution I have made to the scientific research of food vs money.

This curve illustrates the correlation between the cost of food and the taste of food. Now notice, ramen noodles is at the low end of both the price range and the quality of taste. This is because ramen is cheap and tastes like crap. As you move up in price range, the quality of taste also moves up along a very scientifically researched curve, called of course, "The Curve Of Taste". You will notice chicken noodle soup on your way up, and then shortly thereafter, the staple diet of most college students, macaroni and cheese.

The burrito and the cheeseburger are now found along a higher cost and taste quality bracket, as is to be expected. After that you find the subway sandwich holding it's own, then of course spaghetti with meatballs and pizza doing the high flavor relatively low dollar dance. At the top of the taste chart, right where they should be, are lasagna and steak, the undisputed rulers of the food kingdom.

After that, the price of the food begins to outweigh the overall taste. Calamari (squid) can be found with a reasonable amount of taste, then you have sushi, a bit more expensive, falling down the taste chart yet up the price scale. At that point it's all downhill, with escargot, caviar, and finally, truffles, taking up the banner for high cost and horrible taste. An interesting point to these higher cost foods: Notice that each food is a particular item but is given a fancy name as though to justify the cost? Take 'escargot' for instance, that is snails, does it make a difference really to call it escargot? Not to me, it's still snails. Caviar is fish eggs of course, and truffles, well, that's a mushroom. I don't like cheap mushrooms, so why would I be eating an ungodly priced fungus? Nope, not for me.

I could go into great detail about the expensive lengths I went to in order to insure the quality of my research, but I won't, because I wouldn't want to give away the secrets to my incredible formulas and also because I'm sure I would just bore you with the intricacies of my thesis. I am certain that someday perhaps I can achieve a doctorate in food research and be world renowned as a pioneer in my field, but for now I will just have to be content with all of your support, I thank you for that.

Have a great night *eats some spaghetti*

Make Love Not War? You'll Be Killed In Bed

Sometimes the blatant ignorance people display is truly amazing to me. This is compounded further by the idea that our media seems to distribute this ignorance with rampant disregard for any shred of intelligence. In this case, it's the whole "war is always wrong, make love not war, etc, etc" movement I see beginning to show up these days.

Only a fool believes that there should never be war. Certainly a wonderful concept, but again quite foolish. There will always be tyranny, and the oppressed. The tyrant will always wage war to oppress others, the oppressed will always wage war to defeat tyranny, it's been that way, and will be that way, for as long as man inhabits the earth. I see a lot of problems come from the idea that a lot of people believe that everyone else thinks just like they do.

It is difficult for them to sit back and try to realize that there are people out there who have a blood lust for power, who thirst for it to sustain themselves. Hell we have people like that in the United States government. But in other countries that can mean being a war lord, and can mean oppression others. Also, a lot of these so called "peace lovers" you see around the United States should spend some time in prison being beaten and god knows what else in china, because then they will realize that, wow, sometimes there is a reason to fight back, and also, WOW, living in the United States really isn't so bad and it's good to have a strong military to protect our way of life.

Actually I don't agree with the war in Iraq, and I believe strongly that there will never be shots fired in this so called war. But understand that Bush has to remain strong and put the face of war on, regardless of how unpopular he is made by the idiot media to be, in order to force Saddam's hand in all of this. Remember that the media is a business and they are in the business of scandal, and what bigger scandal than trying to portray the leader of the land as an idiot who won't listen to the masses.

For the protesters out there, not everyone thinks like you do, not everyone has the luxury of getting up in the morning and being free to speak their mind, free to carry a peace sign and stand in front of the white house burning an american flag. Try doing that in China, try burning a Chinese flag in Beijing. You want to know what your prize will be? You get a bullet to the back of your head, and then your family gets the bill for the bullet. Freedom rocks, don't you forget it.