I'm looking at a box of crackers...

[Archae]

My sister left them here at my Mom's house.

The brand name is "Mary's Gone Crackers," and they are (according to the package...)

Organic
Gluten Free
Non-GMO
Whole Grain
Vegan

And they taste like shit.

[progressoid]

1. Eww. I just googled it.

Even if I had Celiac's disease, I don't think I would eat those. They look terrible. I hate this idea that healthy eating means sacrificing flavor.


To be honest, I'm not really a poster child for healthy eating. Sure, I ate a salad for lunch today. That was fairly healthy. But I polished off a bag of generic Chex mix with my second beer about fifteen minutes ago!


Back on the healthy side, we finished planting the rest of the veggies in the garden today. I just hope they don't get cross pollinated with some GMO vegetables. I'd hate to get cancer or something from my tomatoes.

[catnhatnh]

2. That box doesn't say a damn thing

about being shit-free now does it?

[Cly]

3. "Mary's Gone"? Where?

Probably to her grave after eating all those "healthy" snacks!

[CaptainTruth]

4. "Non-GMO?" What exactly does that mean?

Billions of years ago the first Earthly "organism" with "genetic material" evolved in a puddle of primordial soup.

Since then, EVERY organism, every living thing, including you & I, has been genetically modified from that first "living thing." That's called evolution.

Why do we have a dozen dfferent kinds of apples? Because they're all GMO from the first "apple," which was GMO from some other fruit, all of which were GMOs a thousand (million?) times over from some living thing that resembled a "fruit tree" hundreds of millions of years ago



Because they're all GMO. Why do we have different kind,Ds

[CaptainTruth]

5. #WTF

My phone has been such a PITA I'm about ready to toss it.

To finish my point, it's not necessarily GMO that's bad, every living thing on this planet is a GMO, including you & I. Everything evolved, everything is genetically modified.

If we want to talk GEO (Genetically Engineered Organisms) that's different. Those are things that have been engineered, often by corporations

[marble falls]

6. Gluten free AND whole wheat?

[Archae]

7. It's not made out of wheat, it's made of rice.

And they do really taste awful.

[Warpy]

8. Well, now you know why she left them

Tell her to try Glutino's cheese crackers. They're actually tolerable. They're also not nearly as pious, probably why they're tolerable.