Pizza party! In pictures! 31 March 2009 3:23 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,geekery,pictures,pizza,school , 2 commentsToday I was hoping to finish and post a piece about why I should not have gone to my friendly neighborhood Fairway to research foods marketed to kids for my nutrition class, but my brain is still too fried from writing the assignment. On Sunday night, Peter joked that I was going all “Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu” — and that was well before he beat me to bed by two hours because I could not stop writing stuff like “this product is sold less by health and more by cuteness, with stuff like whole grains and sensible solutions sort of afterthoughts, maybe for people who need to justify the purchases to themselves” and
Why does milk drinking have to be made more fun? Leaving aside the whole “milk is for babies” issue, and that for all the conventional wisdom — I mean, marketing hype — about how kids can’t grow big and strong without milk or whatever, can’t a glass of milk just be a glass of milk anymore?
You get the idea. Also, I love that Onion article so hard. But not as much as I love pizza! Check it out:
Aw, yeah. (more…)
