<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Why the Cheesecake Factory really is gross]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Clifford Wells http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:00:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/1 My suggestion is that food writers who find food gross, like not being able to handle how sausage is made, shouldn't claim to be food writers.  Even vegetables are gross - you either grow them on chit or you use harmful chemicals (or BOTH).  Sometimes partially treated sewage is used for irrigation.  Come on, it's all pretty gross.  Ever had to pack out 10,000 pounds of portabello mushrooms?  They're gross as hell,  a brown slime everywhere that get's in your hair, your pants, the machinery, yukko.

Ever smelled beer bottoms after the fermenting stage? It's just like soiled baby diapers, no other description fits.

Fun aside, I tend to agree that farm-raised salmon was the biggest brain fart ever.  It simply doesn't work.  Fish lice invade the colony, open up skin lesions on the fish, and the fish must be treated with chemicals that no longer work very well, if at all.  Friends don't let friends eat farm-raised salmon or shrimp. 

]]> My suggestion is that food writers who find food gross, like not being able to handle how sausage is made, shouldn't claim to be food writers.  Even vegetables are gross - you either grow them on chit or you use harmful chemicals (or BOTH).  Sometimes partially treated sewage is used for irrigation.  Come on, it's all pretty gross.  Ever had to pack out 10,000 pounds of portabello mushrooms?  They're gross as hell,  a brown slime everywhere that get's in your hair, your pants, the machinery, yukko.

Ever smelled beer bottoms after the fermenting stage? It's just like soiled baby diapers, no other description fits.

Fun aside, I tend to agree that farm-raised salmon was the biggest brain fart ever.  It simply doesn't work.  Fish lice invade the colony, open up skin lesions on the fish, and the fish must be treated with chemicals that no longer work very well, if at all.  Friends don't let friends eat farm-raised salmon or shrimp. 

]]> Comment #2 by PurpleOzone http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:02:33 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/2 Comment #3 by veritone http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:42:06 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/3 I recently joined my daughter and ex-wife at a Cheesecake Factory. It was the first time since I've become a vegan and I found the pickings there slim indeed. Also the portions were ridiculously large. There was something obscene about the whole experience.

]]> I recently joined my daughter and ex-wife at a Cheesecake Factory. It was the first time since I've become a vegan and I found the pickings there slim indeed. Also the portions were ridiculously large. There was something obscene about the whole experience.

]]> Comment #4 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:17:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/4 Let me tell you something about Washington State.   Scratch the patina of 'ecology' from any proposal, and you'll find a real estate developer who is getting the real benefits...as in cash mo-nee!

 

 

]]> Let me tell you something about Washington State.   Scratch the patina of 'ecology' from any proposal, and you'll find a real estate developer who is getting the real benefits...as in cash mo-nee!

 

 

]]> Comment #5 by andrewbacon http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:43:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/5 Gray water irrigation and portabello mushroom slime are several orders of magnitude more benign than the issues brought up in the article... I think Philpott is exactly on point.

I'm also pretty sure you're making your beer wrong...

]]> Gray water irrigation and portabello mushroom slime are several orders of magnitude more benign than the issues brought up in the article... I think Philpott is exactly on point.

I'm also pretty sure you're making your beer wrong...

]]> Comment #6 by ShannonC http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:44:43 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/6 The Cheesecake Factory also uses eggs from hens confined in barren battery cages. These hens are given less space than a sheet of paper on which to live their entire lives. While other companies have taken steps to move away from this cruel practice, the Cheesecake Factory still continues to support one of the worst factory farming abuses- and that's definitely gross! See www.CheesecakeFactoryFarm.com for more info.

]]> The Cheesecake Factory also uses eggs from hens confined in barren battery cages. These hens are given less space than a sheet of paper on which to live their entire lives. While other companies have taken steps to move away from this cruel practice, the Cheesecake Factory still continues to support one of the worst factory farming abuses- and that's definitely gross! See www.CheesecakeFactoryFarm.com for more info.

]]> Comment #7 by Avelhingst http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:39:25 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/7 You've got it spot on there, mate.  The Dept. of Ecology gets to run around flexing its powerful muscle, with its 'draft rules' and 'determinations of non-signifigance this that and the other' whilst the whole time the moneyed interests salaver and wring hands in anticipation of massive profits.  For many, many years the salmon 'industry' - i.e. the government agencies and their NGO handmaidens reliant on state/federal grants - have bent over backwards to do more harm than good towards native salmonids.  At the same time, our holy governor (former head of the DOE) lets her favorite agency run amok with no accountability.  It's SO FRUSTERATING!  Then - THEN we have the Dem's darling Ron Sims running around on NPR stating that the urban areas cannot, and should not, be expected to share the burden in protecting threatened/endangered salmon species.  Gakk!

]]> You've got it spot on there, mate.  The Dept. of Ecology gets to run around flexing its powerful muscle, with its 'draft rules' and 'determinations of non-signifigance this that and the other' whilst the whole time the moneyed interests salaver and wring hands in anticipation of massive profits.  For many, many years the salmon 'industry' - i.e. the government agencies and their NGO handmaidens reliant on state/federal grants - have bent over backwards to do more harm than good towards native salmonids.  At the same time, our holy governor (former head of the DOE) lets her favorite agency run amok with no accountability.  It's SO FRUSTERATING!  Then - THEN we have the Dem's darling Ron Sims running around on NPR stating that the urban areas cannot, and should not, be expected to share the burden in protecting threatened/endangered salmon species.  Gakk!

]]> Comment #8 by obsesor http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:42:33 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/8 Not defending The Cheesecake Factory at all, but the author did not point out that the salmon The Cheesecake Factory uses actually comes from fish factories, unless I overlooked that part of the story. To validate this would make this story more substantial. Basically what I read is that eating at the cheesecake factory may not be of the most healthiest choices, I think that goes without saying for most of the readers.

]]> Not defending The Cheesecake Factory at all, but the author did not point out that the salmon The Cheesecake Factory uses actually comes from fish factories, unless I overlooked that part of the story. To validate this would make this story more substantial. Basically what I read is that eating at the cheesecake factory may not be of the most healthiest choices, I think that goes without saying for most of the readers.

]]> Comment #9 by kristally http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:42:35 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-15-why-the-cheesecake-factory-really-is-gross/9 I absolutely agree that The Cheesecake Factory is gross.  But when I saw this headline, I was prepared to read of some unique horror posed by the chain, rather than the same ol' nastiness exhibited by 99% of restaurants in this country.  Maybe I missed something, but why was this chain selected for assault?  

]]> I absolutely agree that The Cheesecake Factory is gross.  But when I saw this headline, I was prepared to read of some unique horror posed by the chain, rather than the same ol' nastiness exhibited by 99% of restaurants in this country.  Maybe I missed something, but why was this chain selected for assault?  

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