LighterLife, please never thrust wasteful crap at me again
I was a little angry this morning. As I was trying to catch a train from St Albans, a smiley, bouncy young lady thrust a carrier-bag into my path. “Would you like a free lunch,” she chirrupped. It wasn’t a question. She was coercing me into her sinister game of wasting resources and fattening the nation.
I took the bag, more out of bewilderment than anything else. Lost inside it were a LighterLife chocolate bar and a couple of leaflets telling me how to lose weight.
I object to this on a number of levels, but two things particularly irked me.
Firstly, what an outrageous waste of resources. I don’t need a plastic carrier bag, especially as its contents would have fitted in my pocket. I don’t care that it’s ‘made from 100% recycled material’: presumably it’s not itself recyclable as it would have screamed that at me, and I suspect the majority of people will simply chuck it in the bin.
The other thing is that I hate people telling me that a tempting bar of confectionery is a healthy alternative to lunch. Maybe the bar in question really is better for me than a ham salad sandwich, but it’s still a chocolate bar. No wonder the nation’s health is in trouble if we’re encouraged to view munching chocolate snacks as equivalent to eating well.
Bah.
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