the bitter unfairness of food

Thursday, jan. 25, 2007   |   0 comments

Today my boggler is boggling over the unforgiveable badness inside a shitty compromise muffin at Starbucks: 540 calories and 30 grams of fat for one of those horrible banana nut muffins?! Which you only buy because you’re panicked with hunger and don’t want to completely obliterate your health? So you try to be good, you steer past the almond croissant (550 calories, 32 grams of fat) and the carrot cake with walnuts (700 calories and 43 grams of fat, what??), and pick up that horrible rubber brown muffin, your suspicions lulled by the friendly words “banana” and “nut.” When really you might as well be licking on a stick of butter (again).

Meanwhile, just look how little 200 calories buys you when it comes to Hershey’s kisses (eight? you only get eight?) and bagels (half a sesame bagel has the same number of calories as almost an entire donut). Yes donuts are mostly fluff (plus fat and love), but still, I would so rather be eating a donut than gnawing on a dry punishment bagel.

And don’t you love how this whole lesson boils down in my head to “eat more donuts”? If you only knew how many new revelations decision-tree down to this very same conclusion.