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Originally Posted by Kristine
everyone's toddler-brain excitement over a Shiny New Thing
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This made me laugh and laugh. It truly is a governing principle in so many places these days.
Back in the day, Saturday Night Live had a skit where "we stuffed a burrito inside a gordita and give it to you in this tote bag made of guacamole" and I'm sure they have engineers working on it right now.
What's chilling about it is how marketing has gone beyond selling everyone essentially the same dish soap (Dawn is good for getting oil off duck chicks because it contains more engine degreaser than the others) and instead, they are using it in what can only be called
cult indoctrination.
It's a solid principle that if you confuse a person, they are actually more likely to believe your lies. Even when staring at a menu board from several disparate "food groups," the brain wants to make sense of things. Even when what is presented makes no sense.
When the choice is constantly for the fun! feeling over a less-fun but more lasting feeling of well-being, choosing ten minutes over the other 23+ hours of our lives... it is the addiction talking.
Which made me realize: when was the last time I saw a meal on television that looked like a meal that people should eat? What happened to "Beef, it's what for dinner"? They aren't role modeling what any true Healthy Plate looks like.
My steak and eggs meal is not considered "healthy" even though it's packed with protein, healthy fats, and more vitamins and minerals than a whole bushel of wheat.
Since I try to talk to people this way, and they talk about the expense. I got a package of beef stew for $5 and it was a meal for both DH and I. I try to explain that there's no other food with so much nutrition for $5, that's almost the price of two cheap frozen meals or one fancy one.
Which has almost as little food as the McD's choice. I want to scream, "Don't you get it? Their business model is to keep you hungry!"