{"id":731,"date":"2008-04-03T05:14:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=731"},"modified":"2013-02-23T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T04:48:11","slug":"im-not-the-only-one-who-noticed-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2008\/04\/03\/im-not-the-only-one-who-noticed-yay\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m not the only one who noticed. Yay."},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this article from the Bad Astronomy Blog<\/a> waiting for me when I woke up this morning. It really made my day.<\/p>\n

I’m glad that someone else, someone who may be considered to be more credible than I am [for no good reason other than ‘he’s a real live scientist!] has noticed this taste difference. From the day that Wendy’s took their first [fully voluntary] step and changed their fries, things haven’t been the same.
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\nAnd Wendy’s fries? Have never been that good. McDonalds fries are strange, soggy little water-tasting things now, and I’m not sure why, except that they’re now ‘0 trans fat’ fries.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that KFC’s newly ‘zero trans fatted’ chicken is equally ‘ih’.<\/p>\n

And for people who claim that there’s no way to tell the difference [‘there is no difference, it’s just healthier!’], or that ‘it’s just because your tastebuds have been brainwashed and overloaded with fat, give them time, you’ll get over it!’ I say: It must suck to be you. To be not only that tasteless, but that easily fooled? I’d be careful if I were you. You’re one website away from believing that Bush is a reptillian alien.<\/p>\n

These are likely the same people who tell me that ‘Pepsi tastes just like Coke’ and ‘You can’t tell the difference between whole and 2% milk. And you’ll never know if I slip you some soy milk instead.’<\/p>\n

What the hell is wrong with them? Were they born without a full compliment of functioning tastebuds? Are these people just…vindictive, and trying to sentence the rest of us to a viceless world of nasty-tasting, ‘healthy by current standards’ horrors?<\/p>\n

And, hey, what’s this I hear about further studies on trans fats showing that there are actually good<\/i> ones, just like there’s good cholesterol<\/i>? Can we maybe stop ripping things out of our foods to fit trends before<\/i> the research is fully done?<\/p>\n

Also, can we maybe please stop running around telling eachother what we can and cannot taste? Because I really don’t care about your deficiencies. The only thing that matters to me is the way it tastes to me. Yeah, I know, that’s terribly selfish of me, to be concerned about how much I enjoy eating something, but it’s none of your fucking business. There’s maybe a handfull of people who get to be concerned about what I put into my body, and most of them are immediate family.<\/p>\n

Unless there’s something I don’t know about [like family in charge of certain companies — in which case, we need to talk about truckloads of freebies], we just need to mind our own business, okay? You can have your 0 trans fat options, and I’ll have the stuff that tastes good. Barring unusual conditions in which we are literally unable to make a choice, we will each make our own, and take responsibility for them.<\/p>\n

That’s just too much to ask, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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