Putting the mooth in smoothies

  Jun 4, 2008

They are not food. They are not drink. They are neither big nor clever. So just say no to smoothies. Who is it in the Department of Picky Eaters who’s trying to get us and our children back to eating baby food? When my children make them at home (they watch TV and attend school and are therefore prey to infiltration from the Fad-food Dark Side) they end up with a magnolia emulsion which tastes like you’re full of the cold. What exactly happened to that mango you put in there? Somewhere between whizzing the goop and hunting down a straw wide enough and man enough to lift the stuff clear of the glass, did its flavour get sucked away in the vortex of the liquidiser, leaving you hungry, thirsty, and yet still having consumed about a zillion calories?

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  1. On Jun 5, 2008, Linda Gillard said:

    Yay, Erica, I’m with you on this one. What’s wrong with texture? Let’s all chew while we still can. You know what they say: Use it or lose it. Do we really want to become a nation of obese denture wearers?

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