Healthy food doesn't need to taste bad

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

From tumblr user lastoneout

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

We figured this out around 2010.

[hammerofglass]

I can't imagine the success rate for shooting imagined spirits with a real gun is particularly high.

[Riedquat]

There's a quite logical reason that a lot of things we call unhealthy taste good. It's because they're not unhealthy. Too much of them is though, and they're things that are very beneficial if you're a hunter-gatherer trying to survive in a tough environment. Salt's not easy to get hold of, fat is a good store of energy, and getting too much in those conditions is pretty unlikely and so on. So we've got a built-in drive to seek it out, even though we've arranged things so that we can get hold of them easily.

That said doesn't anyone feel a craving for a simple salad if they've been eating too much stodge?

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Oh, I definitely crave salads. I just have a barely-repressable urge to bite anyone who says "well vegetables have a lot of sugar in them" or bitches about my choice of dressing.