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I've always wondered if her initiative, which caused some big food companies to reduce fat and salt in their products, and change their frying media, is the rea
by reaperducer 9mo ago
I've always wondered if her initiative, which caused some big food companies to reduce fat and salt in their products, and change their frying media, is the reason for the rise of Sriracha in America.
My theory is that the food tasted less flavorful, so people compensated by adding their own.
I don't eat a lot of junk food, but for a long time after the Obama administration, when I did partake, often my immediate reaction was "Wow. These aren't as tasty as I remember."
/I'm looking at you, Cool Ranch Doritos.
- malfist 9mo agoCan you point to any examples of big food companies actually making changes for Michelle Obama's campaign?
- mikkupikku 9mo agoSisco, e.g. public school cafeterias. That's probably about it. The way in which school menus were actually changed was very misguided however.
- reaperducer 9mo agoFirst two results from this new-fangled thing they call a "search engine:" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768807?resultClick=1 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768807?re... https://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12866484/michelle-obama-childhood-obesity-lets-move https://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12866484/michelle-obama-childh...
- malfist 9mo agoI appreciate you sharing those links, even if you had to get a jab in doing it :-)
- red-iron-pine 9mo agosriracha has a ton of sugar in it, ditto for things like ketchup. in all likelihood it's just enshittification, as those big corps make more slop for the plebs to eat in the cheapest way possible