Like the title says, most of us like salads in some form or another. No red blooded Punjabi would be caught eating mutton curry or any other meal without sliced onions, fresh breath be damned. Then we have those crisp crunchy salads in restaurants, dressed with yummy thousand island or perhaps a mayonnaise concoction.
Love them, don’t you?
Ever wondered how they’ve been made? I’m targetting Indian salad freaks here, who do their fair share of salad ordering in restaurants and cafes. It is a well known fact that most Indian farmers use fertilizer made out of bovine faeces (thats literally ‘bull shit’ for most of us). This kind of fertilizer is proven to be teeming with worms (tape worms, round worms and their cousins, wifes and mistresses). Layered vegetables like cabbage and lettuce tend to trap bits of manure in their leaves and this remains behind when the fresh lettuce is bought by the restaurant, perfunctorily dipped in water, chopped, mixed, dressed and served to you on a fancy platter.
Remember that crunchy iceberg lettuce you ate at that swanky restaurant? Chances are, it was smothered in worms. Why? Because most restaurants do not bother to use proper procedure when washing their vegetables. Think. Most non-Indian foods have vegetables that are crunchy and crisp. They’re that way because they haven’t been cooked through, in order to retain their taste and texture. No harm in that. Only problem are the worms.
Vegetables should be washed using a potassium permangenate solution to ensure all mites within are destroyed. Most restaurants and homes don’t do that. So the next time you’re digging into a fresh, crisp salad, ask if its been washed the correct way.
Whats wrong with eating a few worms, you ask? We do eat entire animals, so what do a couple of worms do? These particular worms travel through the body, get into the blood stream, lay eggs, book local tourist guides and end up in your head and muscles where they breed and cause problems. If they land up in your head, they cause epilepsy like seizures. The broad condition is called cysticircosis and when they’re in your head, it’s called neurocysticircosis (NCC).
- Sid
Last week, the farmers in Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sprayed their land with slurry (as a Fertilizer) and the smell came over to England – it was bad for several hours here.
Wow! I assume you mean meat slurry. The whole lot must have been stinking to high heaven!
Is it just a belief or have the benefits of slurry been scientifically proven?
Not meat slurry – animal effluent. It has been kept in tanks for a time so that it matures and liquefies. Animal droppings have always been used in Europe to put back into the earth. As long as it is not fresh it really feeds the soil. And yes, it did stink eve after crossing the English Channel!