Afternoon Tea & Reflection
A couple of friends and I went to a patisserie around 5pm. We traded sweets for dinner.
Afternoon tea at L’Opera: Tea (Empress), Croissant
Afternoon tea at L’Opera:
A pot of Empress – a black tea with herbal flavours imported from India, according to Richmond Review
Croissant
Strawberry Tart
Banana Mille Feui
Mille Feuille (the one with Raspberry)
Fresh berries (Blueberry, Raspberry – Pink & Black) + Mousse + chocolate wrapping
* Tasted only.
Nutritional Information:
Butter Croissant 406 calories
Strawberry Tart 312 calories
Calories Accounting:
0 Pot of tea (assuming no calories based on Tetley’s information) * did not add any creme or sugar
406 Large Butter Croissant
312 Strawberry Tart
Total 718
Reflection:
“Every single calorie we eat is backed by at least a calorie of oil, more like ten. In 1940 the average farm in the United States produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil energy it used. By 1974 (the last year in which anyone looked closely at this issue), that ratio was 1:1.”
“The grinding, milling, wetting, drying, and baking of a breakfast cereal requires about four calories of energy for every calorie of food energy it produces. A two-pound bag of breakfast cereal burns the energy of a half-gallon of gasoline in its making. All together the food-processing industry in the United States uses about ten calories of fossil-fuel energy for every calorie of food energy it produces.– Manning
In 1970s, I am ‘fuelled’ by the same amount of calories that I’ve consumed. Now, 1577 calories that I’ve consumed is produced from more fifteen thousands calories of fossile fuel, at least ten times the amount in 1970s. I am producing more carbon pollution than I’ve thought.
The scale of environmental degradation and related issues may be more substantial than the level that my brain can manage to process. This may be the reason why I used to have a rather optimistic view on the environmental matters.
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