Ask a Kid: Things Taste Better in McDonald's Wrappers
Now, this is interesting, and complicated, news. And if I weren't up to my virtual ears in Internet connection problems, and facing a day of travel tomorrow (pleasure, but with a three-year-old, so, you know) and a magazine story deadline on Wednesday, I'd be right here propounding about it.
But it'll have to wait a day or two. In the meantime, feel free to share your thoughts.
All I can say is this: Now I know why I find everything I taste from Trader Joe's delicious, with the notable exception of the bottle of wine pictured here. Two-buck Chuck shiraz? More like two-buck YUCK. I would've paid two bucks NOT to have to drink it.
Update: Salon's Broadsheet blog put it well:
The real solution may lie in figuring out ways to make healthy choices profitable and appealing, so that companies want to produce them, and consumers want to eat them. That will certainly be difficult, given that many Americans are always going to pick French fries over carrot sticks. But it's an effort worth supporting.
My thoughts exactly! It's what I'm supporting here. But how to get from A to B? Thoughts, anyone?
