Eat Real Food, Not Twinkies

I had my first day at the Rocky Moutain Chocolate Factory yesterday. It was fun and kind of tiring. Everyone there seems really nice and the customers appreciate that you are giving them chocolate. However, one of the things that we did during our training was try a few items. And one of those items is called the "Tiger Tail." The Tiger Tail is a Twinkie dipped in chocolate. In case the Twinkie wasn't bad enough for you to begin with, they dip it in chocolate.

Now, I'm not sure I've actually ever had a Twinkie, well until yesterday. I've never really thought they looked all that delicious. So, because this is work and I need to know about the product, I tried a small bite. It was not great. I mean if you like Twinkies, you'll probably love it. But I think I probably don't like Twinkies. And that just proves that dipping something you don't like in chocolate does not make it eddible.

I also just finished reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. This is a fabulous book. It's really informative. It really helps you realize what is in "food." I am putting that in quotes because it's not food it's product. For example an apple that you get at the farmer's market from a local nursery is food. It's real and full of goodness. Twinkies are product. They don't deserve to be called even fake food. It's so far from food. Anyway, trying the Twinkie got me thinking I'd like to know what is in a Twinkie. So, I did a little Google search this morning. It's really not food. Twinkies have ingredients in them that come from petroleum and are used in rocket fuel and shampoo. I recommend reading this article. Not only are there all those weird ingredients, but the fact that they have 37 ingredients should be a red flag. Pollan says, in In Defense of Food, that you should look for foods that only have 5 ingredients. They should be ingredients you know and can pronounce. I mean a Twinkie is supposed to be a cake with cream in it. It's everything but that.