round the bend. Basically, patently and blatantly unhealthy food is
being re-designed and re-made into healthy food. Whether this be by
removal of sugar, salt, fat, additives or all of these.
Now I fully appreciate the obesity problem that we have, and that
people should be encouraged to eat more healthily, but surely that
should be done by having a greater selection of cheap healthy food, or
healthy alternatives. I object to 'old classics' being rendered
tasteless. If I choose to have a packet of salt and vinegar hula
hoops, I expect wonderfully salty, tasty, slightly oily and moreish
little rings of reformed potato. What we have now since the 'new
improved' recipe has been introduced are simply rings of reformed
potato. Dry, boring, and unsatisfying. The same is true of McDonalds
food as of late. My point is this - if I choose to have an unhealthy
snack, then I should be allowed to have one. If I want something
healthy, then I would make another selection. I do not want lifeless
McDonalds chips and dry Big Macs - I want them positively oozing with
grease and taste.
As a nation, we are being treated as total retards who are unable to
work out for ourselves that reformed mechanically retrieved beef,
mixed with additives and fried, before being placed between 3 sugary
slices of bread and plastic cheese IS unhealthy. We all know it is
deeply unhealthy, but sometimes, we crave unhealthy. Frankly, if you
ate a McDonalds meal every day you deserve to keel over and die at the
age of 30. But for the rest of us, who want an occasional indulgence,
why can't we be allowed to make our own choices about the snack foods
we want to eat? Life is hard enough without taking our little
pleasures away!!
