Everyday Systems

I had to laugh at myself today, and I thought this might be kind of fun. (Thanks Reinhard for showing us that we can eat real food!)

Complete the sentence.

You know you're eating diet food when ... the fat free cheese "melted" on top the baked corn chips chews like rubber coated cardboard. Dry dry nachos.

You know you're eating diet food when...the 'butter' or 'cheese' smells & tastes like rubber.

The diet margarine won't melt on hot toast. You know you're eating diet food when the food you eat has a chemical aftertaste.

To me, the strangest thing about diet food is how "normal" we think it is. Not only that, it was designed to help us lose/control weight and/or help prevent heart disease and diabetes. It hasn't worked.

You know you're eating diet food when that pile of gravel you bought to resurface the drive looks more appetising than your lunch.

The ingredient list on the package (and of course it's in a package) contains more chemicals than recognizable ingredients that you might have in a kitchen.

(This is not limited to diet food - it's a general indicator of "not-real" food, of which diet food is a subset.)