It's Thanksgiving week. Most of us have made lists and are in the process of getting everything we need for Thursday. There are advertisements everywhere you look for food. On television, there's a constant dedication to food commercials. Morning shows have been spotlighting dishes for weeks that we can cook for the family. Desserts flash before our eyes. Just watching TV can make you hungry. Heck, I'm almost inspired to cook a few things myself.
You be careful though. This is just the beginning. Sure, they encourage you to eat now. Images of happy people with family and friends enjoying food and drink dance before our eyes. Beautiful music plays in the background while the unknowing stuff their jolly faces.
This trickery will continue through the month of December and then advertisers will hit you with a brick full of guilty. Just you wait til January.
On the first day of January we're all overweight slobs who've indulged way too much and shame on us--Jenny Craig is calling. How dare we eat everything we're encouraged to buy. Now, they're selling guilt in a package on the morning shows. They're telling us how to get rid of the tire around our waists. Diet soda commercials replace the chocolate candy ones and a tear of disbelief rolls down our chubby little cheeks.
So, keep all this in mind as this week kicks it all off in royal fashion. Gobble, gobble they tell us now, but just you wait. They'll be singing a new tune. But really--do we have to dance to it?
2 comments:
You are so right! It's a vicious circle and "they" know it!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Eat all the turkey you want! :-)
You too woman!
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