fake food part one

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

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" 

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
 

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. 

Fake vegan meat
  
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
 
Note: 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.

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
 
Fake booze
 
I never really understood
The concept of alcohol-free booze
Alcohol-free beer
Alcohol-free wine
I don’t get Mocktails
 
And I don’t get fruit beer
And coffee beer
And other the other weirdo drinks
That people drink these days
 
I mean when you drink booze
You want the alcohol
 
You want the buzz
You need the booze
And you want it now
 
And frankly fake booze
Just does not do it for me
 
So please no fake beer
No mocktails
No fake wine for me
 
As the song puts it
One scotch, one bourbon
And one beer
 
So, either give me the real deal
Or give me a cup of tea
Or coffee or water or juice
 
Or whatever
But don’t serve me fake booze

 these poems are from my work in progress "Fake Things" inspired by the President's constant denunciation of "Fake news" these observations are entirely my own cynical, sometimes dark observations on the fake modern world. By fake, i mean altered from the original ! some are very harsh but no offense is meant to anyone.  

these are a continuation of the previous postings. 

today i am concentrating on "fake food". 

finally, I am putting them together on my blog and if anyone wants to contribute their own fake poems let me know and I would be happy to consider them.

check out my blog page http://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com