Food

I thought of doing a blog of just one word.  Just one word written down and then published as a blog.  I don't know if it has ever been done in the history of the universe (or blogosphere as it is called).  I would love to be the first to do it but alas if it is to be it is obviously not this blog.  But it would be so much easier just to put the one word down, don't you think?  This has absolutely nothing to do with the subject I will be talking about - I just thought "what an interesting idea, no?"  No?!?  Okay, back to reality...here we go.

Food.  There it is.  The one word that I was thinking about using in my One Word Blog.  Why food?  Mainly because every person has to at least think about it every day and most people consume it every day too.  Unless, of course, you are on a hunger strike - but then, why read a blog about food if you are not going to eat it (the food, not the blog...although, this one is full of baloney so munch away my friends).

I always thought it was interesting that one of the very things that is necessary for life can also make us sick.  I suppose there are a lot of things like that though, such as electricity.  Although it isn't necessary for life, electricity has made life much easier - and it has hurt and even killed people.  What a dichotomy!  (Yup, had to look up the spelling on that word.)  For the most part food is safe, unless you happen to be one of the unlucky ones that eats something tainted with salmonella.  I used to live next door to a guy named Sal Manilla.  And he always looked rather pekid...I wonder why?  But I digress...

Even the government gets involved in food.  Did you ever see the Food Pyramid?  Supposedly the foods at the bottom of the pyramid were the best for you and food at the top not so much.  But, as with any other government project they didn't think this one through.  After all, the Food Pyramid is in the shape of a piece of pizza!

Have you ever read the ingredients on some of the so-called food items out there?  I think that if the list of ingredients in a box of any type of food is over an inch long with type so small it has to be read with an electron microscope it shouldn't be consumed.  Not only that, but the ingredients themselves can't even be pronounced.  You have to have a doctorate in Word Pronunciation to attempt it, so for crying out loud DON'T try this at home!  I, however, will do just that.  Here goes - try to guess what food item this ingredient is in: Transmultilaxidosical Extract.  Give up?  Me too, I just made it up.  But, the mere fact that you probably thought it was an actual ingredient is not a good thing.  It means that you already know there are tons of words like that in our food and we take it for granted that they are okay to consume because, well, it's food!  Let the Buyer Beware!

While writing this I tried to find a product here in the house that I could use to prove my point and I could not come up with anything outlandish. Want to know why?  Because my wife has turned our house into an Organic Wonderland and pretty much nothing here has any words like Transmultilaxidosical Extract.  I'm not complaining, mind you, but searching in the back of the food pantry for a stray Oreo is getting real old.  The closest thing we have to junk food here is sugar.  Yes, sugar.  ORGANIC sugar!  Every few months or so a Ben & Jerry's finds its way into the Organic Wonderland and it is consumed before it has time to make it to the freezer.  Poor Ben & Jerry's, it never stands a chance.

Everyone is on a diet - I think it's a law, possibly one of the Amendments to the Constitution.  Of course if you are on a diet that's exactly what you are trying to do...amend your constitution!  Dieting is not easy.  I did it once.  I did the Weight Watchers plan for about a month and lost 12 pounds.  That was 18 pounds ago.  My wife lost over 120 pounds back about 10 years ago - yes, she misplaced our German Shepherd!  No, we never had a German Shepherd.  We do have friends in Germany, does that count?  But again I digress...  She actually did lose all that weight by herself on Weight Watchers.  And I can assure you that it wasn't by eating Transmultilaxidosical Extract.

So you see my feasting friends, food is a very important thing, which is why, of course, it found its way into this blog!  After all, we here at TK's Random Thoughts only talk about the most interesting and important subjects.  Don't believe me?  Look back on blogs from the past and you will see such important discussions such as ladies purses, taxes, and of course the bathroom.  So continue to stop by and be enlightened.  Or if you eat too little food you can become lightened...I guess.  Let me leave you with this thought; some people live to eat, and others eat to live.  I eat to live - unless of course there is a burger and fries lurking around!