Rep. Josephs' words echo in my head as I take my third bite, smiling and nodding. It occurs to me that this strawberry taste, mixed with banana, isn't as bad as the strawberries I remember disliking. I can't hear Arnold talking anymore, because Carl is running the blender, mixing up the lemon juice, bananas, dates and walnuts into the perfect texture of glop for the fruit and nut bars. As Carl turns off the blender, a regular customer named Clay stops in for a smoothie. Carl pours the colorful glop into a frame which serves as a mold to fix the mixture at a uniform depth.
People love 'em.
Look at me. And it's really just staying in tune with your body. I haven't had any meat for a year and a half. Knowing his motivation, we easily see through this lie. Today it's almost hard to believe that this industry-lapdog model of nutrition was drilled into kids' heads for almost half a century.