The Absurdity Of Trying To Eat...
Lately, and for some unknown reason, we've been getting smacked with boatloads of circulars and fliers for fast food in our mailbox. Don't they know that we are so far off the radar food-wise that those poor trees, and their poor tree pulp, are for naught ending up in our USPostal box?
That said, it started me thinking about food, our society, medical & social problems, money, corporations, greed, nutrition... and how the whole ugly enchilada dovetails nicely into ignorant consumerific bliss.
For example:
Today we received a Domino's circular for 4 pizzas/your choice of 2 toppings per pie/2 two litter bottles of high fructose [or NutraSweet] laden death juice, for $11.99. And they -also- thoughtfully included some kind of stupid doorknob hanger [like you'd use in a hotel for "Do Not Disturb" or "Please Clean Room"] to let their driver know you need an extra couple minutes to make it to the door... I guess because you're either so broke you are trying to scrounge a rubber check together-that even though it'll bounce tomorrow, that pizza will go down smooooth tonight, "who cares about tomorrow's check when I got tonight with Domino's": or too busy shooting all the ascorbic acid-laden pizza sauce, from last night's Pizza Hut coupon, out your ass to make it to the door by the third knock.
Then there was Arby's and their celebration of their delicious [and obviously nutritious] Beef-n-Cheddar for a mere .30 cents [when you buy a large soda and large fry]. Hmmm, Good Eats right there.
KFC, more of the same: Lots for Little.
Taco Bell too.
And Subway [eat smartly tailored luncheon meat with plenty of nitrites/nitrates , and that really cool double bonus of: a completely insidious parent company that attempts to make you feel like you're in good hands and really being taken care of by using the name, "Doctors Associates ", and that Jared fellow too... what's not to love??].
Amy and me started talking about this, and it started out as funny, really funny... and then it became sorta upsetting, and then a touch angering too. We've been there and done that: believing in -at maximum- the power of "Immediate Gratification" and -at minimum- the power of saving a buck because, well heck, those companies really want us to save some money tonight when we plunge face-first into a big, steaming pile of artificial food.
That Domino's flier, for instance... for that amount of bread, for all that wonderful non-food laced with artificial flavoring and chemicals, trucked thru the night from a factory warehouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan straight to your local Domino's pizzeria, and then re-assembled, fresh by 21 year olds, making 5 bucks an hour [or 45 year olds who are shit-out-of-luck on their child support payments], straight out of tubs & cans, and onto and into your [or someone you know] mouths... we can buy, precisely this:
3 heads of romaine lettuce, 3 bell peppers, a couple bunches of fresh garlic and 1 carrot. Precisely enough to make part of something, but none of anything completely that we eat. And how the ^&%# did that happen?? Who thought up this brilliant idea anyway?? Fake food costs less to buy than real food/real food has become so expensive that -even if you can brainwash some dolt like me [Me] into eating it and making it every single day for Me & My family- that it becomes a struggle to afford.
That's one way to keep folks getting sicker and fatter, while these same corporations -also- donate money, and pay lip service, to everything from the American Cancer Society and American Heart Association to various campaigns that show their concern [and support "for?"] over obesity, diabetes, and other nasty things that happen to folks when they use their coupons.
So, seriously, how did it happen that food ["food"] laced with chemicals and other goodies came to cost so little while a single tomato -out of season- costs more than a hamburger at McDonald's or DQ or your local Mom&Pop drive-in? And a single tomato -in season- costs 1/2 to 3/4 of that same burger? What an excellent and brilliant message to send to folks on eating and nutrition... what an excellent message to send to kids forming their mindsets and thought processes for, and on, life & living.
Makes me think: "They want to keep us fat, sick, over-fed and under-nourished... and going to the doctor for all those Meds so that we can keep eating the same non-food foods".
Another one that really gets me, but especially Amy [she's an RN]... is this one ad on tv for some kind of gastric reflux pill [under the counter, a real prescription kinda Med]. In the ad they show this standard looking American male: balding, kinda chubby, a real "Guy" kinda guy: works hard, owns a house, is good to his wife and kids, drives a normal car [whatever that means] and got a mini-van for his wife... a good sort. But the poor bastard likes his fries, buffalo wings, onion rings with plenty of ketchup... and he's having a real bitch of a time eating them without suffering from heartburn and reflux [i.e. burping up hot, acidic, nasty bile]. Poor Joe, what can a "Good, Hard Working, American Guy" do in that sort of hellish situation?? I guess the Forbes 500 pharmaceutical company wouldn't want him, or millions like him, thinking something irrational like, "Hmmm, stop eating that food, Einstein". Nope, make a drug, advertise said drug to him and millions like him, implant the idea in his noggin that his woes aren't to be tolerated in silence, or deprivation of non-food foods, and get off your couch and go to your Doc for the new pill... so you can keep eating that same crap day in and day out. And of course, those same foods aren't agreeing with you because they not only over stimulate the byjesus out of your upper GI, create ginormous gallons of stomach acid... but they're also sitting in your colon, thickening your blood to the consistency of mayonnaise, all while nicely hardening up your wiring harness to & from your heart. But hey, you only live once, you work hard, and by god you deserve those buffalo wings while sitting on your ass during Sunday's football game marathon. Good on ya.
If a pharmaceutical company invents -and sells- something to replace the leg from someone who had theirs ripped off in an accident, I'm all for it [and they do, by the way]; or can put the heart from an already dead Spider Monkey into the chest of a kid born with a bad one [rock it, but they don't]; or new eyes into someones mom who had hers blinded by an accident at the kitchen sink while acid-washing her kids jeans for 'Dress Down Day' at Catholic school [I'm down with that too, but they don't--and anyway Stevie Wonder should have first dibs on those new eyes in my opinion, but only if he stops using so many electronics and starts returning to his music of the 60's and 70's]... but a Med for someone who knowingly eats shit, has physical problems because of their habit of eating shit, refuses to stop eating aforementioned shit, needs a newly-invented Med to keep allowing him to continue to eat shit...
no, he and his ilk can burp up fire like a dragon from the hellforge of gas and bile until the end of time, right along with the company pandering that crap to him, before I'll have an ounce of pity on the guy.
Now, some company wants to drop a couple million into educating folks on those same foods and their effects on you, your body, your health... that would be great. But that won't/will-never happen... because information and education create freedom and intelligence, and those companies do NOT want anyone having too much of that nonsense. After all, they need their market share... and the standard good-time-Charlie-American: well, he needs his favorite foods.
I want to see, tomorrow, in our mailbox, a coupon sheet from somewhere that reads:
"Buy just one radish, and get 6 fresh, organic tomatoes for just .30 cents each [limit of 6 per visit]"
"Today only... 4 heads of romaine lettuce, 2 pounds of fresh asparagus, 6 bunches of fresh garlic, 10lbs of chick peas, 1 gallon of tahini and 6 pounds of organic bananas for $11.99, delivered in 30 minutes or it's on us!"
...and you know what, they can keep their stupid doorknob hanger too [even if it's made from recycled Subway wrappers & Domino's pizza boxes].
Keep Ridin'... Always







































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