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January 24, 2006
Cinnamon rolls, the yumminess, the pain
On Sunday, Barry and I made cinnamon rolls... we ate them for dessert after already overeating dinner... to quote from UnwindingTheBelly.com, we "broke [the] rules... while singing and dancing", metaphorically anyway. That is to say, we had a damn good time behaving in ways that (I knew) I would pay for.
Oh how I paid for it. All I wanted to do afterward was sleep and nurse my sore belly. I'm sure I was wonderful company, seeing as how I couldn't pay much attention to anything else.
I felt it on the way home. I felt it as I went to sleep. I felt it the next morning, although sleeping & waking were made more pleasant by doing some unwinding before bed and in the morning.
So what did I do tonight? Ate a cinnamon roll, of course. Ugh, my tummy hurts.
It was damned good, warm, with some darjeeling tea.
Now I've ruined my dinner, and my body is left to clean up after me. I feel unsatisfied, but the the thought of putting any more food in my system, even whole foods, causes more discomfort.
Ingredients for cinnamon rolls: poison (white flour), poison (white sugar), candida (dry active yeast), dairy dairy dairy... not-so-instant tummy ache: just add water, knead until smooth, let rise, punch down, let rise again, bake.
Don't forget the glaze: powdered sugar, butter, and milk, mmmmmm....
Everyone (cool) to whom I mention my idea to start a whole foods support group widens their eyes and wants in on it. Buncha addicts, we all are... surrounded by our dealers: restaurants and grocery stores and bakeries and Starbucks, my god the Starbucks, they're everywhere.
I guess I've been watching too much film noir... welcome to Food Noir, aka the USA. Well, the West in general actually.
Dontcha just love how our cultures have affected the already downtrodden in countries like India, where we've taught the poor folk that nutritious brown rice isn't good enough, and that to be like the smart, rich white people you have to eat dumb, enriched white rice?
Let's round up the food scientists (the folks who engineer synthetic chemicals into "packaged food products") and make them dine on nothing but their own inventions.
Posted by Josh A. at January 24, 2006 06:35 PM