Whaddya Think, Doctor Fink

  Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. I was born with a chocolate one. I’m not alone. The global chocolate market is worth a paltry $138.5 Billion. Each European munches on a yearly average of 24 pounds. Americans consume 15 pounds a year or the equivalent of a thanksgiving turkey. I rather eat chocolate than turkey. What would life be like without Godiva, Hershey kisses, hot fudge, and valentine’s hearts? Imagine a world without Oreos and the most popular chocolate in the world, snickers (named after a horse not a giggle).     There’s an old saying – nine out of ten people love chocolate. The tenth one always lies. Chocolate is part of human history. 2,500 years ago The

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Broccoli vs. cheeseburgers. Lettuce vs. filet mignon. Apple vs. hot fudge sundae (with whipped cream and a cherry) It’s a food fight! Memories of golden honey glazed ham, apple pie a la mode, and dark chocolate mousse battle with the harsh reality of what’s good for you. The words dance in our heads like defeated politicians. Eat Green. Eat Healthy. Eat Right. There’s no pivoting: it’s time for a food fight. A food fight demands change. Cardboard-flavored crackers, rubbery fat-free cheese, and tiny bags of 100-calorie snacks designed to replace buttery entitlements. There are so many reduced calorie, low fat, sugar free foods that you wonder what’s left on the shelf. Processed air? Right wing culinary doublespeak? Let’s face it – can spaghetti squash compete

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Does your coffee have powers like Popeye’s spinach? Do you need Morning Mud to start the day? Do you guzzle java like a TV cop on a stakeout? Coffee. It has a lot of aliases like jitter juice, rocket fuel, cup of jolt, and cupped lightning. That’s no surprise when over one billion people around the world down the stuff each day. Americans alone drink 400 million cups daily, 146 billion cups yearly, or an average three cups a day. But America isn’t number one in that category – Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden take that title. How about you? Consider these infamous coffee drinkers: *President Teddy Roosevelt drank up to a gallon of coffee a day, adding 5-7 lumps of sugar for each cup.

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I’m Chiquita Banana and I’m here to say I am the top banana in the world today. Chiquita is a very different banana today than when she first appeared in the 1940s commercial with Bobby Soxers and a gooey banana split. Since then we’ve been flooded with banana bread, chocolate-covered frozen bananas, and banana cream pie. What could be bad? These days, Chiquita is a health food, a baby food, and the main ingredient in your smoothie. According to Business Mirror, bananas are the third healthiest fruit behind avocados and apples. Guinness World Records agrees, reporting that bananas are the most popular fruit in the world. There’s a lot more to the story than whipped cream and chocolate syrup. Let’s look at the first banana.

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