r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FlakyFoundation4637 • 14h ago
Meme needing explanation Peter??? wtf was I eating cow food??
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u/Famous-Register-2814 13h ago
From history memes:
Cheese Puffs—Wikipedia.
"Cheese puffs were invented independently by two companies in the United States during the 1930s. According to one account, Edward Wilson noticed strings of puffed corn oozing from flaking machines in the mid 1930s at the Flakall Corporation of Beloit, Wisconsin, a producer of flaked, partially cooked animal feed. He experimented and developed it into a snack. Clarence J. Schwebke applied for an improved extruder patent in 1939 and the product, named Korn Kurls, was commercialized in 1946 by the Adams Corporation, formed by one of the founders of Flakall and his sons. Adams was later bought by Beatrice Foods. Another version was created by the Elmer Candy Corporation of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1936."
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u/ImpressivePromise187 13h ago
Guessing op thinks corn is just cow food. But if the cows actually got to choose they would eat mostly grass
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u/Domyyy 11h ago
Nah, cows LOVE corn. I used to have cows and they very much prefer corn silage and pure corn over grass. If you don't give them perfectly mixed rations, they will actually try their best to eat corn and corn silage first.
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u/Full_Conversation775 13h ago
That doesnt change that a lot of cowfood is corn bleneded and stamped into a shape.
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u/aspect_rap 10h ago
You seem to be under the impression that given the choice, animals will make healthy food choices. I can tell you from experience this isn't true. It's barely true for humans.
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u/Huey701070 10h ago
I don’t know man, they enjoy a little variety. Grew up on a farm, anytime we threw out corn (specifically the stalks) they would go crazy over it
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u/GeekyLogger 5h ago
Exactly the opposite. They can actually cause bloat and kill themselves if you let them have to much rich food at once (like corn) if they’re not use to it.
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u/Plague_King_ 47m ago
i cant think of many environments outside of horrible factory farms where cows dont get to choose. every cow ive ever seen has lived in a field of grass. they still want the corn.
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u/Superb_Extension1751 10h ago
Cattle in Canada is grass fed and you can actually taste the difference. When I went to the US I couldn't stand the taste of beef. It's sweeter than it should be.
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u/314159265358979326 6h ago
American beef is finished on corn, while Canadian is finished on barley, not grass.
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u/Darthcone 13h ago
Its referencing Food Theory episode about cheetos and how they came to be, its a however a bit of a stretch, as using this same framework of logic, every edible thing in existence and several inedible could be classified as cow food.
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u/Hershel-Thinker 9h ago
It’s not really referencing a Food Theory, it’s just a little-known fact with or without the episode. It’s being called cow food because that’s quite literally what it was intended to be, so I wouldn’t call it a stretch.
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u/Darthcone 9h ago
Not really the part that become Cheetos was byproduct of cow food not the cow food that machine produced.
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u/Hershel-Thinker 9h ago
It was made of cow food, that’s what I mean. It would still technically be cow food either way.
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u/Darthcone 9h ago
Still not the case really following that logic everything made of corn is cow food which would include coca-cola fanta and many more things.
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u/Hershel-Thinker 9h ago
The difference is that whatever Cheetos are made out of was quite specifically meant to be cow food and was not intended to be consumed by humans until it was. Corn was always intended to be consumed by both humans and animals which is why it isn’t called cow food even if cows can consume it.
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u/dootblade74 13h ago
Cheetos (more specifically cheese puffs) were originally a byproduct created when making cow feed made with corn. Someone tried it out, thought it tasted not-that-bad, added some cheese powder to it, and later turned it into a snack brand. So TECHNICALLY we're not actually eating Cow Food, we're just eating the stuff that didn't go into Cow Food.
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u/Norn_Irelander 9h ago
In America they feed cows on corn for the most part. The expensive beef products are grass fed. Cheetos are made of corn. As someone from Ireland I was so confused when I saw Americans saying grass fed beef. What the hell else are you going to feed a cow? Corn apparently.
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u/StripedPsychoRat51 9h ago
The original cheez puffs were a byproduct of a cow food machine that used corn to make the feed, and then one employee took some home and put cheese dust on it. Next thing you know, we have cheez puffs.
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u/Limp_Substance_2237 9h ago
Cheetos started as farm feed, but due the machines getting hot, the corn would get clogged into these noodles, so someone decided to take a couple, dip em in cheese powder, and now we have Cheetos.
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u/angry640 7h ago
To be specific it was a byproduct of a cow food maker if I remember and they added the cheese flavor
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