Thursday, June 12, 2008
It's not the forbidden fruit (but it should be!)
| After my adventures into Bacon and Bananas. It slowly dawned on me: I had been lured to the dark side by the deliciousness that is Bacon. It really is an irresistible food. Salty, meaty, crunchy, porky. YUM! I decided to retrace my steps to figure out what had lead me down the path of pork destruction. It all started back with a simple idea: fruit and peanut butter. Over the years when I think back on my childhood, one of my favorite snacks was fruit and peanut butter. Heck one of my favorite snacks was simply peanut butter. Open the jar, scoop out a big spoonful (on a serving spoon, not some wimpy table spoon) and then you have a peanut butter pop to last you an hour or so. But when other people were home, I couldn't go for the simple peanut butter on a spoon snack. People frown on your shoving a spoon in the peanut butter jar and then into your face. My mother had the greatest snack item ever. However, it's not the kind of snack a kid can make themselves. Lucky for me, my driver's license says I am not a kid anymore. So I can finally make this myself.   I know one person who said they used to put chocolate chips in the middle with the peanut butter. That sounds good, but it might be overkill, and it certainly makes this snack more complicated than it needs to be. If the apple is especially juicy, then the juice will mix with the peanut butter and start to make it runny. A cold apple and/or cold peanut butter solves that problem.   I know it may sound like a lot of work and even more trouble, but trust me. It's worth it. I bet you could probably make some, wrap them in plastic wrap, and store them in the fridge while the kids are at school and then they're ready to go when the kids come in the door. Or you can just eat them all yourself while the kids are at school. There's wont be any incriminating evidence. The best part of all is that when you are done eating it, there is nothing left. No core, no seeds, no stem. Just messy hands that you (or the dog) can lick clean. As I sat on my sofa eating my apple, I was reading my jar of peanut butter. In particular I was reading the nutrition information and ingredients list. I already knew that since I was using Peter Pan there would be all sorts of bad additives. Sure enough I was right: Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Cottonseed and Rapeseed), Salt.At first I laughed at the apparent typo. They MUST have left off the letter G on Grapeseed. Actually, there is something called rapeseed oil. The rest of the universe calls it "Canola Oil." One would think a company obviously selling peanut butter to kids (Peter Pan?) would try and avoid putting Rapeseed on the label if given another choice. Then I saw something that shocked me. It terrified me. Right below the ingredients list in big bold print: I suppose ConAgra Foods thinks that people with peanut allergies are idiots. Sadly, I know it's really the government's fault. They force idiotic warnings for even the most obvious things. This is a large part of why our society is going in the crapper. Government is anti-evolution. Instead of survival of the fittest, government is all about protecting the idiots. With the government protection, idiots grow to maturity and then breed bigger idiots. The kind of idiots who ask you how you core an apple.  |
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