wrong. wrong. wrong.

[topaz]

There's free coffee at the office, and while it's not very good coffee, hey, man, free coffee.

For additives I have a choice between whole milk and nondairy creamer. Which is okay, whole milk is almost as good as half-and-half for lightening coffee, so I go along with that.

This morning I noticed a quart of half-and-half in the fridge. Which I wouldn't go out of my way to get, but you know, as long as it's there, I might as well.

So I took it out. And then I saw what it was.

It was "Fat Free Half & Half."

What the hell? Fat free half-and-half? Like dehydrated water? Or unscented deodorant? How the hell is that supposed to work?

The ingredient list includes nonfat milk, milk, corn syrup solids, a whole mess of carageenan and a bunch of things I don't know how to spell. In defeat, I put it in my coffee anyway, and so far I haven't exploded.

Comments

[huaman.livejournal.com]

Hrmmmm. So then... it's not entirely unlike, say, whole-grain bread lacking craploads of overprocessed and moderately artificial ingredients? As a rule, breads fitting that description (which aren't really supermarket staples for the most part) are my favourite breads. You know, hippie granola bread. The kind my mother forced me to eat instead of white bread when I was a kid, and I swore that I'd eat all Wonder Bread all the time when I grew up, except, I grew up and can't stand Wonder Bread type stuff and only want the kind of bread my mother would have baked on the commune?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yes! Well, sometimes. Some of them. That's my favorite kind of bread, too, and now I stand a chance of getting it at Stop & Shop rather than at the organic hypermarket.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Yes! Well, sometimes. Some of them.

And vice versa. They're overlapping sets, but there are also whole grain breads that aren't particularly low-carb. prilicla and I have been eating whole grain bread for years (in my case, likewise after a childhood in which I would accept nothing but white bread and deeply resented visiting my aunt and uncle who only bought wheat bread), but we've become much more aware of carb content since she started needing to control her blood sugar.