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While reading my RSS feeds on my lunch break, I found this quote in a Mark Bittman editorial in the New York Times about a possible soda tax:
Uh... so the correct choice is to make all food expensive? How about we stop subsidizing cheap corn and start subsidizing fresh fruits and vegetables in urban areas instead?
“What you want,” says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, “is to reverse the fact that healthy food is too expensive and unhealthy food is too cheap, and the soda tax is a start..."
Uh... so the correct choice is to make all food expensive? How about we stop subsidizing cheap corn and start subsidizing fresh fruits and vegetables in urban areas instead?
My Husband Cracks My Shit Up
Sep. 22nd, 2009 11:28 am(Note: edited slightly for reading comprehension, also mandarin orange slices are now Chester's official favorite new food. He inhales them.)
Aoi:
Would you like me to make this?
Anthogna:
NO. NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. I CAN'T POSSIBLY LET YOU MAKE THAT
THAT WOULD BE LIKE HEROIN
Aoi:
LOL
Anthogna:
I WOULD GET SO FAT
Aoi:
what if I only made one?
Anthogna:
IT WOULD GO RIGHT TO MY HIPS
I'D DEVOUR THE WHOLE THING IN LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES CHESTER TO EAT SEVEN MANDARIN ORANGE SLICES
Anthogna:
AND I SEEM TO BE HAVING DIFFICULTY WITH MY CAPS LOCK
OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM
Aoi:
Would you like me to make this?
Anthogna:
NO. NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. I CAN'T POSSIBLY LET YOU MAKE THAT
THAT WOULD BE LIKE HEROIN
Aoi:
LOL
Anthogna:
I WOULD GET SO FAT
Aoi:
what if I only made one?
Anthogna:
IT WOULD GO RIGHT TO MY HIPS
I'D DEVOUR THE WHOLE THING IN LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES CHESTER TO EAT SEVEN MANDARIN ORANGE SLICES
Anthogna:
AND I SEEM TO BE HAVING DIFFICULTY WITH MY CAPS LOCK
OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM
OM NOM NOM
Sep. 10th, 2009 01:46 pmIn happier news, I made Yukon Gold mashed potatoes with whole milk and Irish Butter the other day and they were FABULOUS.
Uh, Right.
Aug. 1st, 2009 08:35 amRead this yesterday: Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch.
Wanted to respond, so I let my thoughts steep for a day, come back this morning to find that Kate Harding has already written what I would have written, except better, here.
Update: Amanda also has a good take here.
Wanted to respond, so I let my thoughts steep for a day, come back this morning to find that Kate Harding has already written what I would have written, except better, here.
Update: Amanda also has a good take here.
