Oil For Food Indeed
The News explores the diverse uses of canola oil in its recipe column today. For instance, there’s this recipe for Soup with Chicken Dumplings:
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons canola oil
1. Put the first 4 ingredients into a blender and blend them to the consistency of a mousse. Using a scoop or 2 teaspoons, shape batter into little football shapes and drop them into boiling turkey or chicken stock. Cook 4 to 5 minutes and serve.
Also featured in the column: Fried Rice, Savory Vegetable Cakes or Beef Tamales — all requiring no ingredients other than canola oil in two-tablespoon increments. Someone’s in the pocket of the canola oil lobby. (Or possibly this is somehow related to the Web error that Mlive has been experiencing lately where every item on a page has the same title.)
Well, they caught that pretty fast.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on May 18th, 2005 at 12:36 pmI guess they read aaio.
posted by tom on May 18th, 2005 at 2:58 pmI’m in fact surprised they can read at all.
posted by DrMandrake on May 18th, 2005 at 3:53 pmwhere do you find the A2News recipe section online? I don’t see it listed anywhere on mlive.
the all-canola recipes look hilarious.
posted by KGS on May 18th, 2005 at 4:21 pmbrings me back to the good old days on the canola plantation, when mom would make me a hot cup of canola coffee and I’d pour myself a crunchy bowl of canola granola. sometimes I’d make some canola cannoli for dessert. life is just easier with one ingredient!
posted by Dan Faichney on May 19th, 2005 at 11:17 amI kind of wondered about that repeated headline thing - in the Police Beat section every item was headlined “Police use Taser on suspect”.
posted by Scott on May 19th, 2005 at 12:20 pmIt’s all very well for the “News” to trumpet the greatness of canola oil (and let me reiterate that there’s absolutely NOTHING wrong with liking good food–not that canola oil’s got a whole lot to do with that), but I discovered today at work that there’s apparently NOWHERE in Ann Arbor, this supposed bourgeois bohemian paradise (I refuse to use slang words invented by David Brooks), TO BUY WINE BISCUITS!!!! Some enterprising wholesaler’s fucking around on the job.
posted by Lazaro on May 19th, 2005 at 3:55 pmHey Faichney, wanna look at some super-cheap urbanisty housing or not?
posted by Brandon on May 19th, 2005 at 6:42 pmLazaro, have you checked Big Ten?
posted by OFW insurgent on May 20th, 2005 at 9:18 amNo, and I bet my boss didn’t either. I’ll have to tell her.
posted by Lazaro on May 21st, 2005 at 2:06 pmLeave and AA and close the site.
Thank you,
- God
posted by Jinx Cat on May 27th, 2005 at 11:17 pmYou keep grabbing my Tamales, you stupid son of bitch. I have photos of you fucking your dog. Please close the site and leave AA.
posted by Mexican Jumping Bean on May 27th, 2005 at 11:26 pmOlive Oil is the only oil worth anything. Besides, canola oil causes cancer in laboratory animals. Check out the results at: www.umich.ed/yousuckmyass.html
posted by Olive Oil on May 27th, 2005 at 11:29 pm