I’ve worked behind the camera a lot in the last few years, but this week, I combed my hair and appeared on the national show Daily Flash as an expert in new foods on the market. Thanks to Mitch and Andrea and the crew for letting me broadcast my very specific knowledge to the world. Please check out the link below.
Froot Loops may be a bunch of different colors in your cereal bowl, but each little nugget is the same flavor as the next – a combo of orange, lemon, lime, apple, cherry, raspberry, and blueberry. Mixed together with corn, wheat, oats, sugar, all kinds of food coloring, and milk – Froot Loops are a little flashback to childhood fortified with vitamins and minerals.
Singer/songwriter Kinky Friedman died June 27 of Parkinson’s disease. I never saw Kinky perform live, but I read all his mystery novels and admired that he was able to create a more clever fictional version of himself that replaced the real guy in the public eye.
I imagine he’d appreciate that when People magazine wrote his obit, it neglected to mention his song, “People Who Read People Magazine.”
Doctor Goodwin is a $2.50, “healthy” Dr. Pepper clone from Olipop. It’s got 45 calories, lower sugar than a regular soda, and fiber for pooping. There are also fiber-adjacent prebiotics, promoted as good for your “microbiome,” although the FDA has not, last I checked, recognized any particular food product for its “gut health” claims.
Real Dr. Pepper claims 23 flavors, but the main ones are cherry and almond (the flavor of maraschino cherries). Doctor Goodwin tastes more like a cherry fruit punch with hints of air freshener and, I swear, caramel corn. Famously, Dr. Pepper has denied the rumor that it contains prune juice, but Doctor Goodwin has both prune and plum concentrates.