Plastic food.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 1 comments link this postWhile participating in the medical study a few days ago, I found myself watching the TV. A commercial came on which showed a mother out in the yard playing catch with her two little kids.
Fine. Good mom, and all that.
Then, it was evidently time for a snack. So Good Mom whips out two plastic-wrapped snack bars.
The ad music kicked in, and the viewing public was informed that these were healthy snacks, with a thick fruit gel coating on top that provided a full serving of real fruit!
Good Mom smiles. Kids open snack bars, and holler with delight.
How stupid.
If you want a snack that gives you a full serving of fruit how about...an apple? How hard would that be?
Why do we train kids that food comes wrapped in plastic?
I know what you're thinking: even the apple slices at McDonalds come wrapped in...plastic.
I know that's what you were thinking.
Labels: food, television
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 1/13/2008 05:43:00 PM
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1 Comments:
Those McDonald's fruit things are freaky. I used to buy them for my kids. Then once I left an opened-but-uneaten package on the front seat of the minivan for (ahem) a few days. When I discovered my neglect, the fruit looked exactly like it did before I even opened the package. Nearly a week later.
That's just not natural.
I'm all for convenience, but food that could survive longer than a cockroach village is not for me.
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Eva, at
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