#PCBs! endocrine disruptors! stuff that's layman's knowledge now but in the nineties we didn't worry so much about it

[power-chords]

This post brought to you by seeing The Insider at Nitehawk Thursday evening + cleaning old bottles of condiments out from my fridge: Michael Mann Facts made a great crack on Twitter a while back about how Wigand is such a weeaboo (lmao) that he gets annoyed about his wife making instant rice and has to flee the dinner table to buy soy sauce from the grocer but like — jokes aside — the subtext there is a lot more disturbing when you think about the subject matter of the film and Jeffrey's industry knowledge as a (former) high-ranking exec in the "nicotine delivery business." That boil-in-bag instant rice comes in plastic pouches. (Now imagine a board meeting at Mars Foodservices: "We are in the convenience delivery business.") His upset is not a matter of personal taste so much as a chemist's understanding of what's in those bags, and what's probably leaching into his family's food!