Saturday, May 20, 2006

Then everybody'd be surfin

Did you know that Hershey's makes a "granola bar"? I didn't know this until I got hungry at work today. It was damn good, too, despite the pretzels that the Hershey corporation has decided to throw into everything recently*. I was skeptical that it would offer the same nutritional value as, say a Kashi granola bar, but I was impressed that they packed six different forms of sugar as well as possibly more than one** type of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in there. Wheat and oats were in there, too, about #16 and 17 on the list.

Sometimes you could make the case that I get a little too angry at companies for their utterly shameless crusade to get your money. But really, if you can delude yourself into thinking that a "granola bar" made by Hershey's is a healthier alternative to, say, a Snicker's bar, then you might have bigger problems.


*My theory is that their recently deceased inveterate bachelor uncle was the king of the pretzel empire and had no other heirs or something, leading to a pretzel surfeit.

**They're not sure, really.