You can have all the cows from the Midwest mooing from the tops of sky scrappers in New York to eat more chicken, turkey or fowl, but there is no substitute for a hamburger that moos.

Oh, the food chemists keep trying with veggie, and soy burgers, sausage hot dogs corn dogs and chicken dogs, but nothing tastes as good as the real thing especially when it comes to a hamburger.

Last night I once again tried a turkey burger; the patty itself looked pale and unhealthy.  I tried to bring some familiar taste looks and smell to my turkey patty by adding cheese, onion and ketchup but even that didn’t help in fooling me.

I went on line today to get some reviews on substitutes, and more often than not hamburger connoisseurs who tried them threw away the remaining patties in the box.

We are going through a period of social correctness in everything from food to words.

In New York they have forced restaurants to take salt off the table, chefs to list the ingredients and calorie content on their menus. First lady Michelle Obama launched a program for schools through-out the United States to serve healthy meals because our kids are getting too fat.

Yet recently, while campaigning for the Dems, who need all the help they can get during the mid-term elections, she had a hamburger – yes the real thing.

Her hubby Barack, on more than one occasion has taken foreign dignitaries to his favorite DC hamburger joint, a place where all the meat moos, and being the guy he is, also brings back several bags of hamburgers for the White House staff. I guess the White House chef doesn’t know how to make a good hamburger.

Campaigning last week, Obama had a glazed doughnut; I don’t think it or hamburgers’ are on Michelle’s healthy food plan for kids.

In addition to declaring that salt is bad for us; sugar is also on the suggested list to curtail.  Our government is suggesting that soda pop be taken out of our schools and is seeking the cooperation of soda companies.

When the first sugar substitutes came on the market they were so good for us that the FDA removed them because their side effects were causing more serious illnesses than just getting fat..  We don’t know much more about the new batch than the old batch of sugar substitutes – time will tell.

The impact on the food industry has been so great that it’s hard to pick up any package today without seeing the word healthy on the label.

I happen to think the real thing is the best thing and that whatever you consume should be done in moderation.

What happened to common sense?  Did only our parents have it?

Even water can be dangerous, especially if you don’t keep your head above it.

We bottle water, sell it at a high price even if its quality is not as good as what comes out the New York City tap.

All of this social correctness is so correct it is often incorrect and frequently boarders on dangerous.

A hamburger isn’t bad for anyone once in a while, even the president.  In fact I eat more turkey than anything else, especially off the bird, but I don’t disguise it with hamburger meat.

I wonder what’s going to happen to the rest of those turkey burger patties in our freezer?