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  • More Fake Food Poems

    More Fake Food Poems

    more poems about fake food

    From GF bread, (really good for you) to Healthy Choice food choices meh not so good for you and KFC and McDonalds more fake food for ya

    Fake Bread

    Fake Bread

    Nowadays
    Most of the time

    I eat fake bread
    GF bread

    For health reasons
    My wife can’t tolerate the real thing

    And so,
    I eat fake bread
    Fake pasta
    Fake pizza

    But every so often
    I want the real deal

    I crave bread
    Made with wheat

    And a real pizza
    And real pasta
    And real donuts

    comments: No disrespect to those like my wife who has celiac disease. But bread was originally made with wheat, hence in that sense “GF bread is Fake Bread, a kind of “fake food” ” given my definition of “fake” meaning altered from the original in some fashioned. Granted the wheat used nowadays has little to do with the original wheat used by our ancestors. and gluten is probably bad for everyone, and I do like it but once in a while I want bread made with wheat. end comments

    Fake Cheese

    In America
    Most commercial cheese
    Are processed cheese products

    Chemically enhanced fake cheese
    With maybe 25 percent
    Real cheese from real cows

    The rest
    Chemicals and flavorings
    And who knows what

    Can’t pronounce the damn ingredients
    And that can’t be good

    I crave real cheese
    My favorite is Tillamook cheese
    From Oregon

    But I love real cheese
    But I have to restrict myself

    If I eat what I want
    I would gain 25 pounds
    Overnight

    My wife claims
    Even thinking about cheese
    Causes me to gain weight

    And so,
    cheese is banned
    From my house

    And boy do I miss
    Real cheese

    Never liked the fake stuff though
    Just not a Velveeta cheese product fan

    comments: can’t handle cheese any more – I gain weight just looking at it! but Velveeta is not cheese! end comments

    Fake KFC

    There is a joke
    That many years ago
    KFC was ordered to change
    Their name

    From Kentucky Fried Chicken
    To KFC

    Because according to the court
    The chicken contained only 10 percent chicken meat
    The rest was chemicals, soy, other extenders

    And the chicken was not fried
    And not made anymore
    in Kentucky

    That may or not be true
    But I did visit the KFC museum
    Near the highway rest stop
    Where the first KFC opened up

    Back when they produced real fried chicken
    From chickens sourced in Kentucky

    And it was 100 percent chicken meat
    With spices etc
    No extenders at all

    I toured the museum
    But did not eat there

    Last time I ate at a KFC
    Was in Sapporo Japan
    for five weeks

    When my American co-workers
    Insisted on an American fast food lunch

    I got sick from the KFC
    My body just could not handle
    The chemicals anymore

    And so,
    I never went back
    And never will

    Comment: enough said

    Fake Mc Donald’s

    Mcdonalds Fast Food Stockfoto Getty Images

    Mc Donald’s is the king
    Of the fake food industry

    Their burgers are unnatural abominations
    If you leave the burgers out for days

    You can still cook them
    And that ain’t natural
    And ain’t right

    No one knows really
    What is in the burgers
    That is a corporate secret

    But one knows
    That it can’t be good for you

    I lost my taste for Mc Donald’s
    And Burger King and Wendy’s
    About ten years ago

    I last ate at Burger King in St Lucia
    And ate at Mc Donalds in India

    Mc Donalds in India
    Is not allowed to serve beef

    They finally settled on a chicken burger
    As their burger of choice

    Wisely abandoning the Raja mutton burger
    Which just tasted horrible
    The veggie burgers were the best though

    But I still crave a burger
    And will eat at other chains
    Or gourmet burger places

    But the sad reality
    The burgers are all the same

    Ten percent beef
    The rest chemicals and extenders

    One day a study came out
    Linking eating fast food burgers
    To ED among men

    And that may be true
    It is also true

    That eating fast food daily
    is courting death at an early age

    One day the CEO of Burger King
    Came out in a Press conference
    To denounce the movie
    Super Size me

    He said

    “Fast food burgers are perfectly safe
    And delicious
    I had a Whopper for lunch”

    Then he collapsed and died
    From a massive heart attack

    Poetic justice
    At work

    comment: May be an urban legend but boy is that an illustration of poetic justice at work! comment

    Fake healthy Food

    The evil food industry executives
    Are on to us

    They proclaim
    That they get it
    They need to sell us healthier food

    And so, they present
    all sorts of so-called healthy food
    For us to consume

    Only problem
    The food is still

    the chemical enhanced fake food
    they always make

    25 percent real ingredients
    75 percent chemicals and extenders

    they just slap a healthy choice label on it
    charge you double

    and proclaim it is healthier for you
    Than the other crap they sell

    but no processed food is healthy
    only food created from scratch
    can be considered healthy food

    So, as you enjoy
    your healthy choice fake food
    just remember this

    it is still fake food
    still poison

    comments: Sums up my feelings on fake food. I try to eat mostly healthy real food but when traveling don’t have much choices outside of my own kitchen. End Comments

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  • Fake Food Poems

    Fake Food Poems

    Poems About Fake Food

    These are my poems about fake food. this is the first part of my “fake food” chapbook which is a sub-set of my “Fake Things” manuscript. I hope to shop both around for publication in the Spring. For both collection I use as a working definition of “fake” anything that is not 100 percent the original deal or state. Thus most of the world we live in is that sense “fake” fake things can be better than the original, or just meet a different need but some are insidious like “fake food”. I have posted some of these earlier, and they can be found on Cosmosfunnel, All poetry, Hello Poetry (where is trending whatever that means) and poetry magnum opus.

    of course these opinions are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of any my prior employers.

    here we go my poems about fake food! comments and feedback welcomed.

    Fake Food

    in this world of fake things
    Nothing is more fake
    Than the food we eat

    Most of the fake food crap we eat
    Is nothing but chemicals
    And flavorings

    Added to a small amount
    Of real food

    All packaged and sold
    And marketed

    Scientifically designed to taste good
    So we eat the poisoned food
    And get sicker and sicker

    While the food industry giants
    Make obscene profits
    Selling us poison

    Comments: almost all processed food sold in the market is fake in the sense that it has chemicals and preservatives added to it along with gluten, corn syrup and who knows what else, not to mention GMO’s. Fresh fruits and vegetables often have wax on it.

    it is difficult but not impossible to find real food but the big food companies don’t make a lot of profit so they push all the various processed foods on us and we mostly consume as Frank Zappa once sang,

    “eat the garbage that I feed you” from ” I am the Slime” end comment

    Fake coffee

    I used to be a big coffee drinker
    Had to have my four or five cups
    Of real fresh brewed coffee

    Not for me the weak instant coffee
    Of decaf coffee or herbal fake coffee

    But over time coffee caught up to me
    And now I can not handle the real deal
    And I am forced to drink decaf coffee
    Which is a kind of fake coffee to me

    Or herbal coffee
    Which is entirely fake
    Designed to taste like the real thing

    But without that caffeine kick
    That true coffee drinkers crave

    Since we are all caffeine addicts at heart
    Just need that rush to get going
    And keep going

    And the fake coffee
    Just does not do the trick

    And so, I am doomed
    To drink decaf coffee
    And fake coffee

    Missing my real cup of coffee
    Until the day I enjoy the last drop

    comment:

    I do like my coffee so I drink a cup of decaf almost every day and once in a great while real coffee and I will resume drinking herbal coffee but these are fake in the sense that coffee in its original state has caffeine in it. see my other coffee poems on my web page. Several have been published. Particularly snarling cup of coffee.

    here in Korea, there seems to be a coffee shop on every corner. Only in the last year has decaf become widely available, before then it was impossible to find anywhere so there is progress for those like me who can’t handle caffeine.

    End comment

    Fake vegan meat

    A Man Eating A Vegan Burger. Stock Photo – Image of hamburger, meat_ 113961446

    When I go to a vegetarian restaurant
    I often encounter fake meat
    Often called mock meat

    Made out of soybeans, and other things
    And I wonder
    Why bother with the façade

    I mean if you are a vegan
    Be a vegan

    Don’t eat or make fake meat
    You don’t need it
    You really don’t like it

    And it is somehow
    just wrong to me

    So please no more fake meat
    No more tofu turkey for me

    Either give me my meat
    Or give me my vegan delight

    comment: no offense to my vegan friends, but I just don’t get the concept of fake meat. I have had some great fake meat dishes and enjoyed it but just don’t get the concept. end comments

    Fake fish

    Everywhere in the world
    When you eat fish
    In a restaurant

    The restaurant owners
    Claim it is salmon or tuna
    Or other delicious fish

    But the sad reality
    60 percent of the time
    You are eating fake fish

    The fish may be fish
    Or may not be fish
    But if it is indeed fish
    It is probably tilapia

    Or some other cheap
    Bottom feeding scumbag fish
    Filled with toxins

    And possibly tape worms
    And other parasites

    And as you eat your delicious fish
    You are eating the fake fish

    And helping the fish industry
    Continue this con game

    But there is nothing you can do
    Except for catching your own fish
    And preparing it yourself

    So, when you eat fish
    Pretend if you must

    That you eating salmon or tuna
    While you eat your tilapia
    And pay the salmon/tuna premium price

    comment: there are so many fake fish products in the market. one study estimated that less than 50 percent of the time the customers are getting what they thought they had ordered, and it is difficult to tell at times whether the fish you eating is the real deal. Here in Korea though you can buy real fish from the fish market and be somewhat assured that you are eating the real deal. End comment

    are you eating fake fish