As if the Atkins people have not capitalized enough in the name of their deceased founder, I would like to propose they are also secretly behind this new product I saw at the grocery store frozen food aisle the other day. There were vegetables on the box but there were no vegetables IN the box. Veggie Tales as it seems, those adorable singing vegetable cartoon characters, have sold out to the Tyson chicken coorporation. What would a company that specializes in frozen chicken want with vegetable cartoon characters, you ask? As models for their new line of chicken nuggets! They now make chicken shaped like vegetables! Now if you tell your kid to eat more vegetables, they have a valid reason to reach for deep-fried fattening morsels of chicken by-product. Don't get me wrong, I love chicken nuggets as much as the next girl, but vegetables they ain't. And people wonder why Americans are unhealthy as a population. Could a mentality capable of passing off chicken as vegetables have something to do with it? I tell you it's all because of the Atkins fad of meat, fat, fat, meat and a bit more fat. Now you can pretend you're biting into a cucumber or tomato without fear of those pesky carbohydrates. Whew, good thing we've all been saved from those fattening vegetables.
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