Projo Offbeat Blog

In 10 years, we'll have to turn to the black market to satisfy our appetites for greasy hamburgers and French fries.

Reputations will be ruined when otherwise upstanding members of the community get nabbed with a box of chocolate doughnuts on the front seat.

"Is that powdered sugar on your shirt?," the nutrition police will ask. "Step out of the car and keep those sticky fingers where I can see them."

In a country where the nutritionally correct are displacing the politically correct (Or are they the same people?), two recent developments should alarm anyone who occasionally prefers dinner of more than celery sticks and carrot juice.

Here's the troubling news: Dunkin' Donuts is going healthy. And the City Council in Los Angeles is blocking fast-food restaurants from opening in a section of the city.

As the Associated Press says, "City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet."

It sounds to me like Dunkin' Donuts is trying to do the same to the rest of us by adding low-calorie, "healthier" selections such as flatbread sandwiches made with egg whites to its menu.

It's still hard to believe that McDonald's sells salads.

It's just a matter of time before the nutrition police are searching our refrigerators and confiscating our zeppoles.

 Tags  fast food nutrition politically correct

Comments

lynn said:

I dig any movement towards healthy...away from fatty processed-sugar laden society.

Link | August 6, 2008 1:55 PM
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