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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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[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.