+1: #750 Food Rule #57

In our last +1, we explored the relationship between our food rotting and us rotting. Recall: The longer the shelf life of the food we eat, the shorter our lives will be!

 

That wisdom was from Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. 

 

In fact, it’s Rule #13: “Eat only foods that will eventually rot.”

 

Today we’re going to talk about another Food Rule.

 

Food Rule #57 to be precise.

 

“Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.”

Funny.

 

Here’s how Pollan puts it: “American gas stations now make more money inside selling food (and cigarettes) than they do outside selling gasoline. But consider what kind of food this is: Except perhaps for the milk and water, it’s all highly processed, imperishable snack foods and extravagantly sweetened soft drinks in hefty twenty-ounce bottles. Gas stations have become ‘processed corn stations’: ethanol outside for your car and high-fructose corn syrup inside for you. Don’t eat there.”

 

That’s Today’s +1.

 

Don’t eat at a gas station. 

 

Ever again.

 

Hah.

 

Seriously.