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Now this would be my kind of bromatology (photo by House of Switzerland) |
BROMATOLOGY
Noun. Rare. Early 19th century.
[from Greek bromat-, broma food + -OLOGY.]
The science of food; a treatise on this.
Have you ever wondered who does all the research and compiles all the nutritional information that goes onto a food label? No, neither have I. But I can tell you who does it - a bromatologist, that's who. And what a career! Tell me - who wouldn't want to be a food scientist? Tasting ice-cream all day, writing a practical thesis on what's just the right amount of peppercorn sauce to go with your fillet steak, and then washing it all down with a treatise on beer. Lots and lots of beer. That's what food science is all about, and if it's not, it should be.
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Comprehensive food labelling sure does kill the romance (photo by J.Dickert) |
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Testing peanut butter. Sounds fun, but clearly it's not (photo by UGA College) |
Are you a bromatologist?
Do you actually read all that stuff they write on the labels?
Do you work in an ice-cream factory?
Do please leave your most sinfully delicious comments below.
If your profession had as cool a name as Bromatology, why would you undersell it as 'Food Science'?
ReplyDeleteThat's like a dermatologist, attempting to chat-up a girl at a party, describing himself as 'someone who sort of messes about with eczema for a living.'
-clueless.
Are all professional monikers judged according to their usefulness in chatting up girls at parties?
DeleteI don't make the rules ed, so don't shoot messenger, but yes.
DeleteI mean who would you rather date, if you were this mysterious Monica person - Clueless the Bryologist or Clueless the guy that gets quite excited about liverworts?
As it happens Clueless is a window cleaner, and so tends to avoid parties.
-clueless.
I do actually read the nutritional information. I'm very grateful for it too. The other day I was kindly alerted to the fact that my pot of natural yoghurt contained dairy, and then I read another warning, which frankly saved me from huge embarrassment, sternly pointing out that my packet of mixed fruit and nuts did in fact contain Nuts!
ReplyDeleteWell done bromatologists! Keep up the good work.
Well I once saw a packet of a "sodium-free salt" which, like your zealously labelled packet of nuts, is just nuts (with a bit of a fruitiness thrown in).
DeleteI discovered yesterday that the colour in jelly babies comes from nettles and black carrots. So that's two of my five-a-day sorted.
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