"Dore is angry. She’s holding the box that the frozen pizza came in. “You’re actually going to feed us this pizza?” “What’s the matter with it?” “This frozen pizza?” “So it’s frozen.” “Do you know what it’s got in it? Enriched flour.” “What’s the matter with enriched flour?” “The enriched flour has in it flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, and riboflavin.” “All great stuff. I remember riboflavin from my childhood. They put it in Wheaties or something.” “We’re just getting started. We’re just going into our windup here. We get water, hydrogenated soybean oil, yeast, salt, and something called dough conditioner. The dough conditioner’s got sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium sulfate and sodium sulfite.” “Soybeans are good. Invented by Martin Luther King.” “Moving right along, we get cooked pork and mozzarella cheese substitute. The mozzarella cheese substitute contains water, casein, hydrogenated soybean oil—you notice the soybean is doing a lot of work here—salt, sodium aluminum phosphate, lactic acid, natural flavor whatever that is, modified cornstarch, sodium citrate, sorbic acid, sodium phosphate, artificial color, guar gum, magnesium oxide, ferric orthophosphate, zinc oxide, B-12, folic acid, B-6 hydrochloride, niacinamide, vitamin A palmitate, xanthan gum, thiamine mononitrate—I ask you.” “What?” “Is this food or a chemistry set?” “Doesn’t taste too bad.” “I could make a nuclear weapon with less stuff than this pizza has in it.”"
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