{"id":3987,"date":"2015-06-17T23:08:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2015-06-17T23:08:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:38:39","slug":"despite-maggi-ready-to-eat-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2015\/personal\/despite-maggi-ready-to-eat-is-awesome.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Maggi, Ready to Eat is Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, Maggi’s been caught with its pants down<\/a>. With reports of excess lead content and reports of other contaminants, it’ll be a while before my favorite pre-packaged Indian fast food snack recovers. I never even used to cook it – just eat it raw directly from the packet! Let’s hope Nestle gets its shit together to ensure that this won’t happen again.<\/p>\n

But quite a few people are using this opportunity to take the stand against ready to eat <\/a>as a whole. Crowing in an “I told you so” manner, it’s become just another bashing point against the “evil western influence” that emphasizes fast food, and how “traditional Indian cooking” has always been so pure blah blah.<\/p>\n

Look, I’m not defending Maggi here. There are safety standards that every product must comply with – ready to eat or not. Maggi needs to adhere to those, or get sued in court. But to use this incident as a crusade against ready to eat food in general, and against “western culture” as a whole is beyond dumb.<\/p>\n

I love ready to eat food. I’ve been eating it regularly for the past 7 years. Stick it in the microwave, and done! The same goes for meals like corn flakes. I don’t even mix the flakes with milk cause I dislike having to wash the vessels afterwards. I eat it right out of the box. No cooking, no fuss.<\/p>\n

I detest cooking. More than that, I detest having to wash up the dishes afterwards. And because of that, I am thankful to brands like Maggi who give me the opportunity to satisfy my hunger without having to step into a kitchen. Just because we find out that certain companies and products haven’t been adhering to food safety products doesn’t imply that ready-to-eat in general<\/em> is bad.<\/p>\n

The elimination of cooking is, according to me, one of the highest achievements of mankind. Whether or not “regular” home cooked meals are any better tasting is up for debate. I personally don’t think so, and a few double blind experiments show that people can’t really tell the difference.<\/p>\n

And is home cooking guaranteed to be safer? Unless you pick your own herbs, gather your own salt, and grow your own vegetables, there is no way you can have 100% quality assurance about what you make in your kitchen. The idea that you have complete quality control over what you prepare in-house is an illusion. You are as much at risk as anyone else.<\/p>\n

In a way, this business with Maggi is a great thing. It will ensure that other manufacturers relook at their own processes and buck up. It’s a warning that we – the customers – are keeping an eye on things\u00a0and will hold these brands accountable for what they sell us. It’s one step along the way towards a safer ready-to-eat market.<\/p>\n

In the end, these products are here to stay for a reason. Convenience is extremely important to a lot of us. And when it saves me from purchasing separate ingredients, preparing them, mixing them, cooking, grinding, and WASHING, I’m completely sold. Sign me up. All hail fast food!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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