Food is one of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing. If everyone in the world (or even just here in The West) were to meditate on food for even 30 seconds a day for a while, perhaps but one day, it would likely precipitate a paradigm shift which would better (life on) our Planet more than Obama times insulin to the power of peacekeeping.
Sin/Hypocrisy of the Day:
Upon my desk there sits a half-empty plastic six-pack of convenience store donuts. Some of my favourite ingredients include: hydrogenated soy bean and cottonseed oils, sodium stearoyl 2 lactylate, (good, old fashioned) dextrose, glucose solids, butter flavour powder, polysorbate 60 (unlike all those other polysorbates!) and my personal favourite of all (drumroll, please…) diacetylated tartaric acid esthers of monoglycerides.
NO. I did not just miss a comma. “Diacetylated tartaric acid esthers of monoglycerides” is actually a thing. And “they” put it in food. Fuck me!
I am inventing a word today, to honour the perversity of Annette’s Creme donuts (“creme” is not a typo or the french label either, they probably just can’t legally use the word cream).
WORD OF THE DAY: diabesity.
For more information on diabesity, please see annettesdonuts.com or your local convenience store. Also - I could not possibly have invented something so damn clever...but it is clever and I am quite happy to propagate it in this context. I hope I pop up when you google "diabesity" but I am pretty sure that that is just wishful thinking from a first time blogger.
(ew...I just called myself a blogger. That'll take come getting used to...)
In My Defense:
After my initial encounter with these perverted snacks, I did go to the local bakery (usually my first choice for a morning coffee companion-snack) and basically grovel and plea that they make some donuts for me. Some “wholesome donuts” please, for the love of God!
Which Begs the Question…
Is the deep fryer (that alchemical machine which my bakery would need to sate my hunger for donuts) the boon or the bane of civilization? Or both?
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