‘Factory Food’
15th April 2010
People don’t flinch at using anything else made in a factory; yet the term ‘factory food’ is seen as, and is meant to be, derogatory. Why is that?
Perhaps it’s because things made in factories are far less expensive that hand-made stuff, and the New York Times doesn’t like poor people who use factory-produced stuff because they have to make their limited supply of money go a long way. Perhaps it’s because the New York Times would rather see them beg in the streets while the sort of people who read the New York Times throw them a quarter or two. Perhaps that’s why the New York Times loves Whole Foods and hates Walmart.