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Frozen food is a lot like Guitar Hero. It makes you feel like you possess the amazing skills of a professional, when in reality you are just panicking your way through a sequence of five buttons. Or in the case of frozen food, pulling a few pieces of fish from a bag, dusting off a couple ice crystals, shoving them in the oven, and 30 minutes later enjoying a somewhat decent, albeit a little soggy, meal that took almost no effort to prepare. Honestly, I can see why they dedicated March to be National Frozen Food Month. And considering that my repertoire of dishes I can actually produce “from scratch” consists mainly of different varieties of cereal…lets just say I’m a huge fan.
I mean think about it. Where would America be without frozen food? The GPA of the average college student would take a definite hit. Jersey Shore ratings would plummet as housewives suddenly would find themselves with even less spare time than before. And there would be at least ten fewer documentaries out there on the various ways processed food causes obesity, heart conditions, excess limbs, and ultimately death. It would be a sad thing indeed.
Of course frozen food doesn’t just have to be about Hungry Man dinners, Totinos pizza rolls, or Hot Pockets. Frozen food, at least in my mind, also includes amazing things like fruit smoothies, ice cream, and apparently tantalizing walls of ice with veggies and fruit frozen in them. I’m almost positive that the child in the picture above probably has his tongue frozen to the ice. And I’d be lying if I said I couldn’t see myself doing the exact same thing. What can I say? Frozen food = amazing.
Various Pinnacle Foods Group LLC products including Swanson, Duncan Hines, Aunt Jemima and Hungry-Man are displayed in this posed photograph. Pinnacle is expected to announce earnings on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. BROWN ADRIAN/SIPA/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: sipaphotostwo707470.
A worker holds breaded, thermally processed and frozen chicken meat at the Perutnina Ptuj factory in Ptuj, southeast Slovenia June 10, 2010. Perutnina Ptuj is the biggest producer of ready-made chicken steak, as well as fresh chicken, eggs and other poultry products in the country. SRDJAN ZIVULOVIC/REUTERS/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: rtrlfour030086.
Frozen berries. Frank Muckenheim/Westend61/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: westendrf042587.
Scoop of ice cream. Creativ Studio Heinemann/Westend61/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: westendrf007554.
Highbush cranberry fruit with frost. Natural Selection David Spier / Design Pics/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: depmicrostock010913.
Ice cream Yogurt with wild berries. Creativ Studio Heinemann/Westend61/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: westendrf005543.
Frozen Tiger Prawns (Penaeus monodon), elevated view. Tom Hoenig/Westend61/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: westendrf030247.
A Boy With An Ice Cream Cone In His Back Pocket. Design Pics/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: depphotos117193.
Even pigeons enjoy a good batch of frozen food from time to time.
A pigeon eats an ice-bound bread seating on an ice surface of frozen Moscow river in downtown of Moscow, Russia, 31 January 2012. SERGEI ILNITSKY/EPA/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: epaphotos273235.
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