Ried Rants

When shopping for sushi and junk food I had an epiphany. I now have some hard proof on why our society is under nourished and obese.

While in the checkout lane I commented to the checkout girl if she could see the motivation for my visit that day. She looked puzzled. I told her that I wanted junk food and again I got the head tilt from her as it she was imitating a deer in the headlights.

Note that the seven or so items consisted of sushi for lunch, lavish crackers, sour patch gummy bears, chocolate covered pretzels, fried veggie chips and gluten free ginger snap cookies.

She then proceeded to tell me that everything I had was “healthy” except for the gummy bears. I pointed to the chocolate covered pretzels and she retorted “Its dark chocolate which is good for you.” My only reply was “they are chocolate” and I left it at that.

So here we are in a day and age where the majority of the population is slightly overweight to obese and morbidly obese. It is no wonder that America is fat with that kind of justification on the crap that we eat everyday.