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[wildflowersoul]

One of my pet peeves is the obsessive focus on "low-carb" products that's the current rage. -I'm not getting all down on Atkins, just the people who are jumping on the bandwagon for all their worth- A particularly egregious example of this is KFC; they had been airing ads that claim that a bucket of fried chicken is good for "low-carb diets," and choosing KFC is choosing "healthy." Heh. I just read that the FTC totally nailed their asses for false advertising. Every once in a while, perusing these legal publications at work yields entertaining results. I will say, however, that their ads featuring "Chicks for Chicken" shirts make me giggle.

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[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I saw my favorite Low Carb item yesterday:

Low Carb Maple Syrup.

*shakes head*
I can understand limiting one's dietary intake of certain things. That makes sense, but making foods that are purposely missing the things you don't like is kinda dumb.

Like veggie bacon. That makes no sense to me. It'd be like making a meat salad. *laughs* mmmm. meat salad.

[wildflowersoul.livejournal.com]

Ha! My image of a meat salad involves steak tips, hot dogs and chicken wings topped with bacon. *giggle* That's pretty amusing.

Though I would say that I prefer veggie hot dogs to the real deal, an odd holdout from the vegematrian days.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but I'm afraid of faux dogs more than actual hotdogs. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't....

[http://users.livejournal.com/_meej_/]

Regarding Veggie Bacon -

Frighteningly, Bac-O's (or however you spell the crunchy little bits for tossing onto salad, the brand-name ones) are actually vegetarian.

But the point of veggie bacon, more or less, is that it's soy-protein to substitute into a similar spot in either breakfast or a BLT; fills the same nutritional niche, if that can be said of bacon at all, without being a meat, in a familiar form. Which doesn't change the fact that, compared to the real thing, it's crap.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I was always very amused by the faux meat people. They actually try to make the fake meat look like it's dead animal counterparts. Even down to little fake globs of fat in the veggie salami.

That's dedication right there.

[cosmicserpent.livejournal.com]

Veggie bacon is my nemisis.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

It wears a goatee.