A cracker that can unite us all*
Jan. 16th, 2008 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfield"I live on good soup, not on fine words."
- Moliere (French playwright and actor)
On cold days like today, I enjoy a hot bowl of thick, creamy tomato soup for lunch. And I like to add a little texture to the soup by crunching up saltines and sprinkling them in the bowl.
Saltines -- the brand-names as well as their generic counterparts -- offer a "Fat-Free" cracker and a "Low Sodium" cracker, but they do not offer a fat-free AND low-sodium cracker. So every time I buy saltines, I have to think about whether I'm worried more about love handles or high blood pressure; do I prefer my arteries clogged or constricted? And then of course this requires some on-the-fly calculations about whether the soups in my pantry are themselves fat- or sodium-intensive. Yes, I could get the fancy oyster crackers, but those cost like five times as much as your basic saltines and somewhere in my head is the sneaking suspicion -- despite plainly obvious evidence -- that oyster crackers somehow contain oysters.
Anyway, It's a little annoying. Maybe one day, the eggheads at Nabisco will lock themselves in a lab and figure out some way to make a fat-free cracker without dumping salt on it. Sure, it will taste like cardboard, but at least my heart will be happy.
- Moliere (French playwright and actor)
On cold days like today, I enjoy a hot bowl of thick, creamy tomato soup for lunch. And I like to add a little texture to the soup by crunching up saltines and sprinkling them in the bowl.
Saltines -- the brand-names as well as their generic counterparts -- offer a "Fat-Free" cracker and a "Low Sodium" cracker, but they do not offer a fat-free AND low-sodium cracker. So every time I buy saltines, I have to think about whether I'm worried more about love handles or high blood pressure; do I prefer my arteries clogged or constricted? And then of course this requires some on-the-fly calculations about whether the soups in my pantry are themselves fat- or sodium-intensive. Yes, I could get the fancy oyster crackers, but those cost like five times as much as your basic saltines and somewhere in my head is the sneaking suspicion -- despite plainly obvious evidence -- that oyster crackers somehow contain oysters.
Anyway, It's a little annoying. Maybe one day, the eggheads at Nabisco will lock themselves in a lab and figure out some way to make a fat-free cracker without dumping salt on it. Sure, it will taste like cardboard, but at least my heart will be happy.
