Marshmallows For Brains - Purely Carcinogenic Snacks

[Guest guest]

Yesterday, my wife and I went to the local grocery store to pick up

some avocados for us and some jarred apple sauce, packaged tapioca

pudding and ice cream for my mother-in-law. She is 76, and wants to

eat the way she wants to, and we have to respect that and bear with

it.

Anyways, there was this 55-ish white couple there, and I watched them

buy two loaves of white " bread " and two big packages of marshmallows.

Aghast, I said to them, jokingly, " You going to have a marshmallow

roast in the middle of winter? "

They grinned, and said, " No, we're making rice krispies bars! " They

looked very anticipatorially pleased with themselves.

Sure enough, I saw them next in the cereal aisle, buying two large

boxes of rice krispies, and then they went to the dairy aisle and

bought two 1-pound packages of margarine.

At the check-out line, as if what they already had in their cart

wasn't bad enough, they bought " 2 for the price of 1 " packs of

Marlboro cigarets.(I purposely misspell the word " cigarettes " because

I think the " ette " ending is too fancy-looking for such dirt-rotten

garbage as cigarets.)

Both of them looked old before their time, and the woman appeared to

be at the low-normal end of the IQ spectrum.

You KNOW, by the way, that they used their microwave oven

in preparing their " rice krispie bars, " right?

There are millions of people in this country doing the same thing

those two were doing last night. Woe to our country! We are being

crushed by rising health care costs, and it appears to me that

whoever gets elected in 2008 will still not have a clue as to what

REALLY needs to be done to turn the health of this country around---

that FOOD, NOT medicine(drugs) is our first and foremost medicine!

Elliot