"This will be the first phase of a wave of several healthier options to be offered in the future," said Kayde Pierce, spokesperson for LaMar’s, in a release about the new doughnuts that went on sale last week.
Are you buying into the idea of a whole-grain doughnut, or are some foods simply beyond a healthy makeover?
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LOL, Meesha I once ran into a situation where my date always ordered her beef medium rare and even told me when I cooked for her she didn't care if it was almost raw. We're happily married.
I left this comment elswhere but it's a true story: once I dated a woman who fed me turkey bacon. I knew right away that our relationship had no future.
I don't have a problem with healthier versions of popular high calorie foods, but as Abe alludes to, I think that a healthy/low fat/low cal/low carb/no sugar label can give people a false sense of comfort. You have to do your homework to know exactly how the "healthy" version makes up for the difference in calories....maybe they triple the amount of fat in order to make a sugar-free taste better. Personally I'd rather just eat healthier the majority of the time so that I can have a little bit of the real thing later. I'm not saying a whole grain donut can't taste great, but for me it would just remind me how much I wanted that apple fritter.
What DOES bug me is when well-intentioned people try to pass off an imitation version of something as "just as good" or "tastes just like it". No, that grain based crumble you fed me on that pizza did NOT taste just like sausage. Sausage tastes like sausage, bacon tastes like bacon, and while I love me a good turkey or veggie burger, they are not contenders for the ground beef throne. Peddle that shit elsewhere, and take the shiny happy evangelicals who bust their zippers over lesser fundie-friendly versions of all manner of media and entertainment with you...when I'm nice to you it's just so that you stop talking quicker.
A yummy whole grain doughnut and then fried in rice bran oil would be something too interesting for me not to try I have to admit. However, I'm sure the LaMar's would still be using conventional oil pretty much defeating any healthy option.
Yes, fast food should quit trying to be healthy. It's nothing but a marketing ploy to make stupid people think they can still have McDonald's and Taco Bell on the reg if they stick to the wraps and salads. It's an outright lie because many times the "healthy" products are only slightly less fattening than the burgers and fries.
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