Food as Fun?

I was following a Nabisco truck down Llewellyn Ave. this morning and found my view of the greater world blocked by this specifically "Nabisco" sentiment: Discover a World of Fun: Nabisco World. I'm telling you, only in America is the desire for entertainment so insatiable that we attribute "fun" with "food". How many other nations in the world have the luxury of such a ludicrous mindset? Do the French eat for fun? No, they eat because they love delicious foods dripping in butter! Do the Italians eat for fun? NO! They eat because they enjoy simple flavors that can be identified individually on the palette. Do you think the Chinese have the luxury of thinking that eating is fun? Or how about Ethiopia, or Zimbawbe where Robert Mugabe and his thugs have displaced all the white farm owners with cronies who don't give a damn about actually raising crops and livestock and therefore destroyed their nations economy which now has an inflation rate of something like 1000% and 50% unemployment and families who used to have homes living in corrugated tin shacks with grates over an open fire to cook with? Why? It's not because they think it's FUN to cookout!

Give me a break Nabisco! A world of fun? Oh yea, bring on the chocolate covered Oreos and let me watch the fun being had as three sleeves of sugar and fat get consumed in one evening by a family of four! Oh yea, that is great entertainment! In fact, let's make some S'mores now in the fireplace, with the damper closed, that would be fun, wouldn't it? Can you tell I'm a little incensed by the notion that eating is entertaining? What kind of an arrogant sense of entitlement is that? It's so pathetically American to confuse "fun" with "nutrition" or "nourishment".

And lest you forget: Nabisco is really RJRNabisco which used to be RJReynolds, now the ubiquitous "ALTRIA", which so happens to be the creator and distributor of the best selling killer known to humankind: MARLBORO! Hey Nabisco, is it "FUN" being the cause of millions of avoidable deaths every year? Is it fun being the pushers of nicotine as well as white flour, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, dozens of preservatives and genetically modified food starch? Dang! Forget the Nascar! Forget roller coasters, swimming in a mountain lake under the full moon or singing at the top of yours lungs just because if FEELS good! Why bother? Just get me a pack of smokes and some Triscuit, man, THIS IS FUN!