On May 20, 6:14Â*am, "Craig's Proctologist" >
wrote:
> Dänk 666 wrote:
> >Â*I am on the warpath against Sysco. As the nation's largest food-
> >Â*service distributor, Sysco has destroyed American cuisine, replacing
> >Â*home-cooked specialties with pre-fabricated glop in a can. With the
> >Â*exception of McDonald's - which has its own distributor - almost every
> >Â*restaurant in the country uses the same Sysco ingredients, the same
> >Â*Sysco frozen chicken patties topped with the same Sysco canned sauce,
> >Â*served on the same Sysco plastic plates. This is profitable, since
> >expensive trained chefs can be replaced with cheap undocumented aliens
> >Â*who simply open a can, microwave it, and serve it to you. But while
> > canned ravioli may be edible, it is not cuisine. No reputable
> >Â*restaurant has any excuse for using Sysco ingredients.
>
> As a Sysco stockholder, I think you are full of shit. Â*If you don't like
> restaurant food, then eat at home or bring a hot plate along when you
> travel.
> I eat at restaurants that buy from Sysco all the time and the only problem
> is in the way some cooks prepare the food. Â*There is nothing wrong with
> Sysco's food. Â*It is top of the line.
There is a Facebook page dedicated to hating Sysco:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=2213871648
I HATE SYSCO
Description: If you hate the nasty fake sysco food, join!
Darren Lewis Skaggs: Sysco has pretty well destroyed food as we know
it... pre made everything!!! What ever happened to the days when cooks
cooked and chefs were a proud group of people honoured by their
creations... almost all resturants have given in to this crap food...
think about it who else uses pre made warmed up food Mc Donalds and...
a freaken Denny's... Sysco is an ok supplier (but have really been
slipping latley) ... I don't know how many rotten cases of food I have
recieved... but at the very least I will not bring in pre-made-shit...
I am a Chef not a food warmer!!!
July 31, 2007 at 9:44am
Eugene Ng €Ž....agreed with Darren... the next time a rep tries to sell
me premade soup in a bag, I will ram that clip board up where the sun
don't shine...
August 2, 2007 at 1:22am
Jonathan Cziborr: I became a cook so I can COOK, i enjoy making food
from scrap. I dont know how many time a SYSCO rep. trys to sell us
there evil crap.
August 19, 2007 at 4:04pm
William E Houde Jr.: sysco makes me poop really bad and then my
stomach hurts. thanks WOL island
September 9, 2007 at 6:19pm
Denae Armstrong: Pretty sad that they make food and TP
February 3, 2008 at 8:36pm
Dean Padgett: SYSCO rocks?!?!?! are you kidding me. there is one
reason they are the nations leading food distibutor. its because they
buy up all the smaller distributors. the sysco motto is "if you cant
beat them, buy them"
February 27, 2009 at 10:29pm
Joe Ryder: I find it odd that a company can receive a government
contract and a government Bailout. They must have friends in high
places.
May 7, 2011 at 4:32pm
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[Note: As the country's largest food distributor with a virtual
monopoly in the private sector and hundreds of millions of dollars in
lucrative government contracts, Sysco teeters on the edge of
bankruptcy and required a government stimulus last year]:
http://science.house.gov/sites/repub...e_spending.pdf
May 4, 2011
"DOE's Office of Entergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
received $30 million in the Recovery Act for its 'Enabling Fuel Cell
Market Transformation' program. Like the Clean Cities AFV Program,
much of this funding appears to have gone to corporations for the
purchase of vehicles and equipment. For example, DOE spent over $1.2
million to purchase 98 fuel cell forklifts for Sysco Food Services, a
corporation with a market capitalization of $16.7 billion."
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[More Sysco stuff]:
http://www.slate.com/id/2160284/
"Like any retailer, chefs need wholesalers that distribute goods
cheaply and efficiently, and Sysco's 400,000-plus item catalog
conveniently sells everything a cook needs to run an eating
establishment. ... All of that seems relatively innocuous€”restaurants
need to make a profit, after all. But Sysco also hawks pre-packaged
food. While chefs have long relied on shortcuts like freezing and
using canned goods like beans and tomatoes, it's entirely different to
pass off one of Sysco's thousands of ready-made items€”ground beef
burritos, vegan tortellini, quiche Lorraine pie, tiramisu cake€”as
homemade."
"The ingredients alone on some of the pre-made items are enough to
make a restaurant-goer swear off eating out. The breaded cheese
chicken breast, for instance, contains monocalcium phosphates, sorbic
acid preservatives, and oleoresin in turmeric. The Serve Smart Chicken
is particularly frightening. While it looks natural, it consists of
parts of other chicken breasts mashed together into a single, chicken-
breastlike block. As the company notes on its Web site, our 'unique 3-
D technology gives you the look and texture of a solid muscle chicken
breast, at a fraction of the cost. €¦ Available in four great flavors:
teriyaki, BBQ, fajita and original.' What Smart Chicken tastes like,
I'd rather not know."