Eat right, Exercise regularly - Die anyway
IN THE BEGINNING, there was the word. And the word was chocolate. And it was good...(Confections:1.5 oz.,240 cal.)You remember chocolate. Chocolate was that nice smooth sweet stuff that melts in your mouth and your hands and everything else with which it, or you, came in contact. And it was good. I've long felt if you had melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it way too slowly anyway. And a small box of chocolates can provide you with your total daily intake of calories, right there in the one place. Now isn't that handy? Furthermore, chocolate contains preservatives and we already know that preservatives keep us young, so there is just another reason of many good reasons to eat something sweet.
But alas, everything we read/see/hear/ignore tells us otherwise. Well, if I am going to give up this small pleasure and so many other small pleasures that modern science has been denigrating with almost jubilant disdain for the last few years, I would like at least some of my questions in this regard answered.
Why is there an expiration date on my water and a calorie count on my face cream? Has anyone figured out yet, that EVIAN is simply NAIVE spelled backwards; and STRESSED is really DESSERTS the other way around? And if combining four and water makes glue, and then you add in eggs and sugar to make cake, where pray tell, does the glue go? How "free range" can a chicken be if it ends up as dinner anyway? And does anyone out there know what the best thing was before sliced bread?
Vegetarianism seems to be the "in" thing nowadays but do vegetarions really love animals, or do they just hate plants? Are you still allowed to eat animal crackers, and if coffee and chocolate, which originate from beans, count as vegetables? How do I know that the constant ingestion of plant matter will not eventually result in my leaning slightly towards the sun when I sit by the window?
International questions also come to mind, such as why are fortune cookies always written in English; what does Alphagetti look like in Japan, and would the head of a French company still be known as Le Grand Fromage?
Well, all this talk about food is making me hungry...so I'm going to go get a snack. ^_^ Thanks for the postcard Chad, I'll be sending something back soon. =)
posted by Joyce @ 10:16 PM
2 Comments:
oh you're too much for words!
love you! elle
Two things for you my dear:
1. indeed those plants are evil! 2. you can win any argument about the value of chocolate by noting that it contains antioxidants. Now whether they actually do anything for you or not is still debated, but THEY ARE THERE. We live in a society filled with people that love to throw around scientific terms that they don't actually understand, aka. trans-fat, omega-3 fatty acids, any skin care commercial etc. So by saying chocolate is an antioxidant, you not only appear 'scientific and smart' but you also either present an argument that most won't understand well enough to fight against or if they do understand, will not have sufficient evidence to back their point up anyways. Wow, long comment, maybe I should blog, but then again who would actually want to read an entire blog of crap like that?
Paul
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