Monday 12 September 2016

IT'S STRAWBERRY SEASON, WHY WOULD A SMOOTHIE COMPANY BUY FROZEN EYGPTIAN STRAWBERRIES?

Because this, Dear Readers, is just what the Tropical Smoothie Cafe company has been doing but it appears that it won't be doing it any longer as their Strawberry Smoothies, made with frozen Eygptian strawberries has, according to an article in todays New York Times, been linked to an outbreak of Hepatitis A.

It's Summer.. Strawberry season.. why would you want to import frozen fruit when it is growing fresh probably within a few miles from your cafes?

Read the article for I quote 'It is typically spread by ingesting (human) fecal matter from contact with objects, food or drink which has contaminated by an infected person.' Not nice, in fact, ugh.

Buy local produce. Support your own countries farmers. Why has there been an escalation in diabetes and obesity with all of the health related problems it causes?

Yesterday, Debbie and she ate the most delicious food, made as they watched on the next door stall. The hygene was impeccable, different coloured boards and knives were used, the gas fires hot! Food was made to order and the fruit stall was doing a roaring trade with apples and their straw punnets of Autumn Raspberries and Blackberries.

There are two messages here.. know what you are eating and where your food comes from. She's boiled chickpeas in preparation for my return.. for we eat homemade hummus in our house, you could too!

GeeGee Parrot.
September 12th, 2016.

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