Bad, expensive candy + Sit & Write #85
Greetings, friends!
Perhaps you've scrolled through social media and seen an ad for a new, intriguing food. Not from a restaurant mind you, but a website, [name of food].com. Accompanying the link a bright, bold graphic showing shapely teeth or manicured hands tearing the food in half to reveal its gleaming interior, ripples of caramel or crags of juicy meat. Perhaps you've clicked on that ad, transporting you to the website, where nameless testimonials assure that this product will fight climate change or fulfill some unseemly craving. Perhaps you, in a pandemic-induced fugue state, put that overpriced item in your cart and, against all better judgement, had it shipped to your home.
Dear reader, you are not alone.
After seeing a (sponsored) Bon Appetit article extolling the virtues of a certain vegan, low-sugar candy bar with no artificial sweeteners designed for discerning palates, (and, thanks to the miracle of targeted advertising, seeing ads for it on every platform I frequent) I ga…