The American Menu: Three Food Groups (January 6, 2014)
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The Gyre of Death:
Breakfast: Sugar, Fat, Salt
Lunch: Fat, Salt, Sugar
Dinner: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Rinse and repeat and repeat and repeat.
. . .
A “New Year’s resolutions are one of the earliest examples of recycling. The list of resolutions could be stored with the holiday decorations and reused each year.”
B “We need to reduce. Hope springs eternal, particularly in the winter. Better to have propounded New Year’s resolutions and lost than never to have propounded them at all.”
A “We need to resolve to shed calories responsibly all year.”
B “Better to have lost pounds.”
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A “Disregard the class and cultural arrogance and condescension that underlies the discussion and the problem still weighs on us. We as a people are too chunky.”
B “Too many Americans drive around all day poisoning themselves at the food shacks that litter the highways and byways and then drive to a bar and poison themselves with liquid intoxicants before taking that last drive of the day late at night back home. We need to change our life style.”
A “Obesity imposes a staggering additional tax on health care costs. If the government chimes in and proposes something, someone whines about the ‘nanny state’ interfering in our lives.”
B “Granny may have been right about these things. Moderation always in all things.”
. . .
A “Beer companies seek to decant 11 rather than 12 ounces into a bottle and grocers now package five rather than six avocados in the bag. How do you create the market conditions so that a sugar water company reduces the ounces in the bottle and the purveyor of French fries puts fewer spuds in the bag?”
B “And change our life style so that no uses plastic bottles.”
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[See the “e-ssay” titled Back Door Inflation (July 16, 2007).]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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