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So, after reading numerous Pollen books, as well as “Real Food” by Nina Planck… It’s obvious that food choices need to be evaluated and scrutinized to a new degree- above and beyond your calorie count, carb intake, and sodium index.

The problem with the bulk of food in America is that, well, we eat shit. We consume, essentially, byproducts of genetically engineered and modified crops with just about anything thats easily accessible to eat. There isn’t any real way around it, unfortunately. The markets are flooded with this drek. It’s done in such mass right now, you have to really, really try hard to avoid it when you can- if you choose to that is.

I won’t go into the reasons I try to avoid mass produced byproduct crafts foodstuffs; but let it be known there are many correlations to the way our government feeds us in America, and the increasing health diseases that practically didn’t exist before these practices went into play. All that aside…

Real food simply tastes better. Plain and simple. I can taste that I’m eating shitty food when I do, and I can taste when I’m eating good food.

This brings us to food and diet, dosent it?

Protein, vegetation, and starch. That’s what should be on your plate, yes?
Increasingly more and more after I read and research how my staple proteins get to me, I simply don’t want them. The way cattle, chicken, and most commonly available meats are raised and mass produced, the way they are fed, what they are fed… all of these things just make me not want to eat it anymore.

I take pride in procuring nothing but the freshest, quality vegetation I can find for my consumption, as well as trying to make as much of the food I consume by hand, rather than with premade drek. This isn’t just a point of pride, this is seemigly evolving into a lifestyle decision.

After living life this for the past few years and having the knowledge I now have on meats and how they are raised and brought to me- I simply do not have a desire for them to be a staple. Don’t get me wrong- I love me some dead animal flesh- but now I am seemingly evolving into a form of “Meat Snob” where I’m limiting my consumption based upon the meats origins and methods of production. I don’t want to purchase meats from the supermarket anymore. I don’t want to consume the mass produced shit being fed to me.

I’ve been straying away more and more from the beef and chicken options available to me, opting for vegetables or something else, something real. Look, I know I’ll be eating a burger again sometime and some chicken in one way or another… and thats fine. I’m just trying to not consume as much as I usually do, I no longer want it to be a “staple”.

Thinking about this makes me want to go to Marlow&Daughters and buy out the shop.

With this recent decision, it would seem in the same step, I’ve become a bigger fan of vegetables than I even once previously were. I mean, if I’m looking for natural and real food, vegetables are truly the way to go. Regardless of vast pesticides being used on industrial crops and genetically modified vegetation, for the most part, what I’m consuming is still grown via sunlight. I haven’t seen the suns rays tainted yet by technology or man yet, so, I’m game.

I don’t think I could ever be a vegetarian… I mean, they don’t eat bacon, right?

Regardless, I think the decision to bring vegetation and plants to a higher level should be looked at and examined by anyone who wants to be truly healthy- its that simple. Also, let’s not forget, plants can be damn tasty too…

Link to Asbury Park Press Article : Billy Vegas Shits On Local Ice Cream Fest

Yea… so… I went to the Toms River Ice Cream Festival to check out the scene, taste some great local Ice Creams, and see how it goes. Apparently, by going to this, you get to vote on “Fan Favorite” National and “Fan Favorite” Local Ice Cream – not the Vanilla competition. Apparently that’s done behind closed doors because the public isn’t privileged enough to sample pure Ice Cream.

I’ll keep it short. This festival had alot of local ice cream outlets and, for the most part, they all sucked. How do you give out samples of Ice Cream to have people judge you on, that is saturated with candy bar bits? Have some self respect and put out a pure Ice Cream. Vanilla, Chocolate, anything. Not “Butterfinger Pretzel Penut Butter Smore Snickers Caramel Chip Ice Cream”. I can’t judge you’re Ice Cream when all I can taste is candy.

The reporter for the above article asked me what I thought of the festival and one creamery in particular. I was brutally honest, and was more assaulting and vulgar than what made the paper, but that’s not surprising. Out of all the Ice Creams I tried, only two were good. One was Maggie Moo’s Chocolate Better Batter, which essentially tasted like frozen chocolate cake batter. For a National flavor, this was the best.

For Local flavors, the best was Mint Chocolate Chip from Millstone River Creamery. It wasn’t your typical green mint chocolate chip. This was more like Mint Tea Ice Cream, and was white, not green. Like biting into some fresh mint. It was a refreshing break from the rest of the drek. And after talking to them a bit, knowing they seem to have more passion and care for the ingredients they use, I have to respect that. These guys are at the Red Bank Farmers Market most Sundays too… and sell their wares there. Great stuff, highly recommended. Try the Toasted Coconut and/or Cheesecake.

So, again, Toms River, get your competition straight and lets make this a legit competition, not a frozen candy bar contest. Apparently they have a Vanilla competition, but its done behind closed doors with a select judging panel. Why do elusive judges get to judge the vanilla, and not the public? Weak sauce.