One of our newer bloggers, schwarzmeecrob, wrote an article about an,err, encounter with some "organic" nachos ( Link ). He was less than impressed, and I don't blame him.

In my years long battle against my waistline, I have usually tried to eat healthy (current Big Mac addicted status notwithstanding). I have tried it all to find food that was pleasing and satisfying. And "fake junk food" was at least consistent in that it always cameup woefully short.

You see, fake junk food is manufactured on the premise that, given the choice between the real junk food and a "healthy" alternative, health conscious consumers will chooce the latter, assuming it is well packaged and at least somewhat resembles the real thing. But guess what? They haven't been able to synthesize the oooey goodness of a hot fudge sunday with REAL vanilla ice cream, or the delightfully decadent taste of turtles or many other fine confections. And they haven't been able to make good soy dairy products, at least not to those of us who have a yen for the original. In fact, the end result of these fake junk food products is to drive us back to the impressive indulgences, as we taste the not even close attempts of the fakes and find ourselves longing for the original.

If I want to eat healthy, there are many heart healthy dishes I love and will eat with reckless abandon (well, perhaps not quite "reckless abandon"; that is, after all, what got me overweight in the FIRST place). But when I want junk food, I'll have junk food. It's about MODERATION, not DEPRIVATION. ANd fake junk foods are a crime against humanity.

As Marie Antoinette once famously said (or perhaps it was Miss Piggy): "Let them eat Ho-Ho's!"