Hi, I'm Jamal. A Cane-Head.
2.27.2013
I'm giving up sugar. About a week ago, I posted the following rant to my alias on Facebook:
"Here's the deep part...
Never fail to respect the power of marketing. All these years I thought I loved Banana pudding and banana bread. Why didn't I just eat more raw bananas? They taste better, they're better for me, and they are even cheaper.
Because I had to find a way to eat it packed with sugar, that's why. I've been paying corporations to take a banana, pack it with sugar, and sell it to me as a natural product. For four decades.
I just went to the store and bought a banana. It costed me 35 cents in New York City, where NOBODY is growing them. Banana bread costs 1.50 at the same store.
Maybe if that company, Little Debbie, put a ten billion dollar ad campaign together, we would have more poor kids eating bananas, instead of banana bread, which would ease their pockets and their obesity. But, of course, nature doesn't have an ad agency. And Little Debbie already has their product line: Flavored sugar.
The quality of your knowledge is the quality of your life."
Okay, so maybe the rant could've been referenced-checked better, but like all beautiful, unplanned, wild-eyed rants, you get my point. Let's bring it to now.
