Saturday, April 26, 2014

Kicks and Cakes

A few days ago, my training took me in a different direction.  I decided to do the 2.1 miles around the Dyker Beach Golf Course.


During my walk to the Course, I passed Kentucky Fried Chicken.  There was a huge sign in the window that they were giving away their cakes for free.  Of course you have to buy a meal laden with all sorts of bad shit that will kill you first.  But here is what you get in your free cake:

Café Valley Bakery® Chocolate Chip Cake
Sugar, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Whole Eggs, Liquid Soybean Oil, Water, Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Soy Lecithin, Vanillin), Modified Corn Starch, Mono and Diglycerides, Whey, Contains 2 % or Less of the Following: Corn Syrup, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Cottonseed, Soybean), Salt, Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Calcium Sulfate, Dextrose, Agar, Locust Bean Gum, Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Propionate (Preservatives), Nonfat Milk, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Polysorbate 60, Vital Wheat Gluten, Sorbitan Monostearate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Calcium Acetate, Titanium Dioxide. 

This totally reminds me of one thing:


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Dear Nike:

I hate statistics. They are frequently swayed.

•A whole lot of Americans are out of work and have been for a while.
•I believe it is because we're not making anything in this country.
•A whole lot of people in America are overweight or obese, and are just straight up not healthy. And we are raising a nation of children who are significantly less healthy than their parents. That's just scary.
•I believe that a major reason why so many Americans and their children are way too overweight is because there are no jobs, and they are eating garbage.

YOU are an athletic company. I dare you to start manufacturing your athletic gear in the US. I don't care what the cost is. It's time to break the cycle. Lives are at stake here, American lives.

Discussion Thread
 Response Via Email (Miguel)04/25/2014 09:28 AM
Dear Karen,

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us.

We appreciate that you took the time to let us know your thoughts. It’s through feedback like yours that we are able to grow and improve as a company, so we have passed it along to the appropriate department within Nike.

Thanks again for contacting us.

Miguel
Nike Consumer Affairs

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