crocs, what a croc!!

[Just Jim]

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[Quinn01]

So your saying that i shouldnt get crocs i should spend two times that amount of money for just as confortable clogs just because 23% of the arctic circle has melted and the worlds population is doubling. What i am wearing on my feet is not going to make a difference in controling that or foor pdouction rapidly falling due to environental factors.

When you say environmental factors, are you saying this becausae crocs will last you your intire life time?

[ChefSean]

Originally Posted by China Jim

Next up, Solar Powered Kitchens, cooking only animals that died of natural causes, and eating with fallen branches instead of mining ore for smelting and crafting tableware.

I'm staging for a local restaurant as their roadkill commis. I get to wear anything I want and camouflage and jungle boots are classics. Home Depot always has a fine collection of "cutlery". My personal knife roll has a spade and machete along with my 10" Wusthof French knife.

While I was cooking in the kitchen as third cook (potato peeler), I enjoyed cooking in steel toe chukka boots. I cooked naked for comfort, but my feet were protected against knives. (I learned a trick from my grandpappy who was a brilliant fisherman. I put lead weights on my knife handles which caused them to always fall handle-down.)

[ChefTorrie]

Originally Posted by ldzpapa

just a quick update, in the last two years, 23% OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE HAS MELTED! your personal comfort isn't going to mean squat, if there is no food left to cook. Your personal choice is rapidly becoming personal comfort and convience, or survival of the human species, which is it going to be. We have very little time left to change our ways, because in the next 50 years, the population of humans is going to double again, and there is no stopping that. Food production is rapidly falling due to environmental factors, and it is time for all humanity to wake the f*!k up.

You need to calm down, and take life as it comes. You cannot change the worlds views, just because you do not like something. Do you have your strong points, maybe, but its irrelevant. And please do not take this as an attack at you ldzpapa, Im just playing devils advocate. You dont like them, some people do like them. You make risotto one way, I make it another, it is an argument that you are not going to win, nor is anybody else. Im sure you know where I am coming from.


Just remember, your is not always right, and neither is MINE. That is what makes democracy awesome. And again, you 100 percent and the right to voice your opinion, but trying to convert people to like something they dont like, or to not like something they love, 99 percent of the time, is not going to work. Think of it like this, when people from different religions come knocking on your door, trying to get you to convert, are you going to. 99 percent, no, your not.

Just remember, everybody has their own way to skin a cat.

[Plongeur]

Crocs are made from Levirex, which is "one of the most advanced non-toxic recycable materials on the market" - Levirex Finproject Divisione Compounds - Produce Levirex e Pvc


This does not excuse them being the ugliest things you can possibly put on your feet. They are so ugly, they should be illegal. No one would be allowed to wear them in my kitchen simply on the grounds that they'd reduce the average prettiness index so far, we'd all need paper bags on our heads.

[shroomgirl]

he's just ruffling feathers, causing a ruckus, poking the bear.....guess he felt there was a need to remind us that the choices we make affect the earth.

Just not all the choices "we" make are the same.

[ChefTorrie]

Originally Posted by shroomgirl

he's just ruffling feathers, causing a ruckus, poking the bear.....guess he felt there was a need to remind us that the choices we make affect the earth.

Just not all the choices "we" make are the same.

Yes shroomgirl, I agree, but you cannot change the world. People do what they want, and will continue doing what they want, no matter how much we like, or dislike it.

[shroomgirl]

oh ChefTorrie, I disagree....YOU can change the world.....seen it happen over and over again.

[ChefTorrie]

Originally Posted by shroomgirl

oh ChefTorrie, I disagree....YOU can change the world.....seen it happen over and over again.

Would you care to explain shroomgirl. Because I dont see any way how you think telling people not to wear crocs, is going to make them stop. Because it is not. For gods sake, dont we all remember when Oprah said she is going to stop people from eating ground beef. Hmmm, ya, guess that didnt last too long did it!

Just trying to get your views.

Thanks
ChefTorrie

[Nicko]

Wasn't the topic "Crocs"? Lets stay on topic everyone.

Your friendly admin.

[ChefTorrie]

Originally Posted by Nicko

Wasn't the topic "Crocs"? Lets stay on topic everyone.

Your friendly admin.

I was just trying to make a comparison Nicko. My apologies.

Chef Torrie

[ldzpapa]

I have no problem with a topic evolving into another discussion if they are both relevant.

Cheftorrie, people change the world all the time, last year the organic food industry generated 19 billion dollars in revenue. Even Gerber and Kraft have put out organic lines, and those companies wouldn't jump on the bandwagon for no reason. The topic was consumer responsibility within the food production industry. We as chefs spend a whole lot of money and therefore have every ability to change the way the products we use are produced. I must add that I find it interesting that folks think that because I like to write with a little flair that I'm somehow angry or aggressive, actually, not so much. just enjoy a stimulating conversation.

[Harpua]

by Klogs - dusty
Most comfortable kitchen shoes EVER.

Has nothing to do with crocs, but I think everyone should get these.

[iconoclast]

Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick about fashion.

[Just Jim]

Thanks Icon, that was hilarious.