Did pastries and fast foods use to taste better?

I loved the donuts we got at the local donut shop. Whenever I get a donut now, it's a disappointment.

I suspect the reason is here:

Donut: Enriched Unbleached Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron as Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Enzyme, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Palm Oil, Water, Soybean Oil, Cocoa processed with alkali, Dextrose, Yeast, Contains less than 2% of the following: Natural and Artificial Flavor, Sugar, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate), Salt, Defatted Soy Flour, Gelatinized Wheat Starch, Mono and Diglycerides, Maltodextrin, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Cellulose Gum, Soy Lecithin, Guar Gum, Xanthan Gum, Enzyme, Sucralose, Eggs, Milk; Chocolate Buttercreme Filling: Sugar, Vegetable Shortening (Palm Oil, Canola Oil, Mono and Diglycerides), Corn Syrup, Water, Cocoa processed with alkali, Corn Starch, Salt, Vegetable Shortening (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oils), Artificial Flavor, Chocolate Liquor, Citric Acid, Guar Gum, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Mono and Diglycerides, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Polysorbate 60; Powdered Sugar: Dextrose, Corn Starch, Vegetable Oil (Soybean and/or Cottonseed), Palm Oil, Titanium Dioxide (Color), Artificial Flavor.

I doubt McDonald's started out making hamburgers out of anything but the same ground beef the supermarket sells. Fifty years of food science may have increased profits, but it hasn't done anything for taste or quality!

I think it's a good thing Republicans are passing so many abortion restrictions in state

legislatures -

It's making people sit up and take notice that Republicans have taken over their state legislature!

When should video tape be admitted in evidence in court?

What kind of police officer would go through that walk through

with George Zimmerman without challenging his account?

I didn't watch the Zimmeran trial gavel to gavel, and I'm wondering

1. who brought in the video tape of Zimmerman describing the events to the police? In effect, Zimmerman testified without being subjected to a cross examination.

2, Was the jury shown the animated version of Zimmerman's story?

Anyone want to speculate on how long Zimmerman can stay out of trouble?

I'm thinking of OJ Simpson, now in prison for a stupid attempt at armed robbery.

Zimmerman is going to be caught, sooner or later.

I'd like to point out a wierd hacking attack -

Yesterday i posted a link to a photo of Trayvon Martin and his family from this Scopes page:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp

The link worked fine yesterday, but todauy waht you see on my post is a big green Yuck face. I went back to Scopes, and the photo is still there, but if you try to link to the photo, you get a Yuck face.

Something wierd happened to a post of mine -

About those"f***ing puinks who always get away" -

How many of them were just teenagers visiting someone in the development or taking a short cut through the area? Some of them? Most of them? All of them? Could that be why the police never caught anyone, because there was no one to catch? How much of the fear of invasion was a figment of George Zimmerman's imagination?

How many here think that those campaign events that Zimmerman attended were

Tea Party rallies?

Me, for one.