cupcakes are the antichrist

Moomin is on his high horse about "what is a healthy snack". Here we see the result of the Healthy Kids Initiative, or wahtever they're calling all that grant money that was supposed to be for Phys Ed classes but instead is going so that dumbasses with insane body image issues and nothing else to do can go pass out some Food Pyramid worksheets and tell my 30-pound 6 year old kid that ice cream is the devil.   

FINE... You don't want the chocolate cupcakes I bought as a nice treat?  You may have some machine-lathed "baby carrots".  Grrrrrr.

Comments

[Iris]

That reminds me of a time well before the 'mad cow' hysteria had really kicked in.We were in the car and I handed my 5 year old son a packet of crisps. 'What is this kind?' he said suspiciously. 'Beef and onion'. 'Not BWITISH beef?' he said pushing them back at me, horrified.Turned out the babies had had some alarmist lecture on MEAT at school. Still it gave us a good catchphrase for a few months.

[badgerbag]

Ew... you have beef-flavored potato chips?

[Barak]

British food...

[severin]

Actually - beef flavored (or beef and shrip - even better) potato chips are super yummy. seriously.

[Iris]

Thank you. I hope I don't have to defend British (or at least English) food again. It has become as good as any in Europe .. in the towns anyway. And our crisp .. or 'chip' ... selection may be the finest in the world.

[lori]

I will eat the cupcakes.

[giddy]

I've had English pretzels flavored with Thai curry spices (on British Airways)--they were divine. I wish the American airlines would get a clue.

[mml]

My son told me yesterday that fats and oils and butters were off limits. Kind of frustrating when his doctor announced the same day that he is underweight and that he should put on a few pounds. We are commencing an intervention to stop the brainwashing.