50% chicken DNA: Why your favourite fast food chicken sandwich might not be what you ordered

Ben Bohrer, a food scientist at the University of Guelph, doesn’t know exactly how the chicken products Marketplace tested are made, but he’s very familiar with what the fast food industry calls “restructured products”.

Restructured products are essentially smaller pieces of meat or ground meat, bound together with other ingredients to make them last longer, taste better and, as Bohrer puts it, “add value” — restaurant speak for cheaper.

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“People think they’re doing themselves a favour and making themselves a healthy choice,” she says. “But from a sodium perspective you might as well eat a big portion of poutine.”

#healthnews #subway

Peeps, let’s get this Tuesday started with your had-our-chance-to-be-free ..or.. your the-futures-on-its-way jam. Your pick.

It’s a slow starter but starts to kick in around 5:10.

PS- You can buy this track on their Bandcamp page for a buck, whole album, too.

#musicvideos #blackcab

Peeps, speaking of Gibby Haynes, here’s him and Johnny Depp (guitar) covering Jim Carroll’s People Who Died.

#musicvideos #gibbyhaynes #johnnydepp #jimcarroll

When I see Gibby Haynes now he kinda reminds me of Dave Grohl’s older ugly brother.

Also, here’s Gibby’s dad having a bad dream as Mr. Peppermint.

#musicvideos #buttholesurfers #mrpeppermint

It’s 9:33am and I’m the only one in the office. There’s definitely memos going around I’m not aware of.

#worknews

Bush breaks with Trump, calls media ‘indispensable to democracy’

Former President George W. Bush said Monday that the media is “indispensable to democracy,” a break from the position of his fellow Republican, President Donald Trump, who has called the press “the enemy of the American people.”

“I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. That we need the media to hold people like me to account,” Bush told Matt Lauer, anchor of NBC’s “Today” show. “I mean, power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”

#politics #trump #wubya

Peeps, let’s get this Monday started with some quaint little villages here and there.

#musicvideos #groovearmada

If I never hear Peter Frampton’s “Show Me the Way” again I will not be sad. 🙄

#musicnews #peterframpton

Bill Paxton, Versatile ‘Big Love,’ ‘Twister’ Actor, Dead at 61

Bill Paxton, the veteran actor who starred in ‘Big Love’ and films like ‘Aliens,’ ‘Twister’ and ‘Apollo 13,’ has died at the age of 61.

😢 #rip #billpaxton

They’re here in the morning, too. I can’t move my legs 😳

She must be really tired 😴

#photos #cats