Guilty pleasures

[ailbhe]

My worst one has to be baths.

Second to that is buying food, usually bagels, from mainstream supermarkets, especially Tesco, which I've finally caved in and done this month. Not a whole grocery shop, but bits and pieces.

And first-hand toys, especially ones with plastic in, especially if they don't offset the evil by being from Oxfam or UNICEF or similar.

I'm not really ashamed of any of it, but I do recognise it as being in direct opposition to my ideals, and I try to minimise it. Except the baths. I've had a bath (varying depths, but more than a shower) most days this past fortnight.

What do you do that you know you oughtn't?

Comments

[ailbhe]

Sugar contains calories, which are necessary to sustain life, ergo HFCS MUST be good for you?

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

They mostly are a set-up of 2 people - one of whom refuses X food b/c it has HFCS, and "you know what they say about that" - and the other person says sunnily, "No, what do they say??" Person A is silent, stunned, speechless. Person B: "That it has the same number of calories as sugar or honey?" And Person A is still staring at the ground.... um, uh.

So there you go. What else would you need to know?

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

I think that their point is that there's not much difference between liquid sugar refined from corn, liquid or granulated sugar refined from cane and liquid or granulated sugar refined from beets. They're all sucrose, all refined from a plant material. In that regard, their right.

I've seen a lot of stuff about how HCFS is chemically very different from cane sugar, for one reason or another, and I've yet to determine how much of that is legitimate and how much of it is about pushing an agenda.