A blog about food, history, food charts, and more. (Formerly Mental Masala)
The other day, I noticed something odd on a bottle of ketchup. Because of my eating habits at home and at restaurants, I don’t see a lot of ketchup bottles, and so when I bought a bottle of Safeway brand ketchup so that I could make the delicious “Spicy Chipotle Toltec Barbeque Glaze” from Mark […]
(Updated 12/14/16: fixed broken links) The word “natural” takes a lot of abuse in the food business. It’s slapped on just about any product to as a lure to buyers, and yet, it doesn’t have much meaning, except in narrow circumstances. Recently, I ran across a somewhat unconventional usage on the “Pita Bite Crackers” from […]
(Updated 10/15/16: new photo, fixed or removed broken links; 1/7/17: new labeling law in New York) As a follow up to my piece about seafood mislabeling, let’s take a trip to the sushi bar, where things can be even more confusing. An already challenging language barrier is made more difficult by mangling of Japanese words […]