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Since most of you don’t know me personally, I’ll fill you in on a little something. I’m a foodie. I’m a weird foodie. I’m extremely selective about what I will and will not consume. Some people call me picky, I tend to think that I know what I like and I won’t compromise on that. I’ll try anything at least once but if I don’t like it the first time, it’s highly unlikely that I’ll try it again.
The thing that really burns my ass (figuratively speaking…harhar) is the obsession with making junk food healthier. Seriously. It’s called junk food for a reason. We all know that it’s bad for us. We all know if we eat enough of it, it will make us fat. We also know that if it’s combined with a well balanced diet, we can get away with it every once in awhile. The thing is, the companies that make these products don’t want us to eat them once in awhile. They want us to stock our cupboards like good little piggies. Not surprisingly they’ve found a way to get us to do just that.
In recent years there’s been a ton of media coverage on the effects of junk food, fast food and other less healthy items. These junk food pushers have caught onto the fact that people are actually thinking for themselves, reading labels and comparing items, even if healthier options are more expensive. In a bold move to keep customers, they’ve added low or no calorie options. Here’s my take on the whole thing:
People are greedy. I don’t know why, we just are. So if a company labels something that says it’s low calorie, we’re probably going to eat twice as much of it, if not more. I’d say it was a smart business idea, but it doesn’t exactly take a rocket scientist to figure out that if someone is given the option of having one or two cookies, they’ll generally have two. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take that second cookie (and maybe a finger in the process) as quick as anyone. Except those two cookies you just offered me taste like they were made the same year that the FDA approved aspartame. I don’t know about you, but if I’m going have a bag chips or a soda, I want that shit to taste good. I don’t particularly care for chips that taste like cardboard or soda that tastes like it’s gone flat.
