Get Slim with Slim Chips – Because You’re Eating Nothing

From Eat Me Daily: 

Designer Hafsteinn Juliusson has apparently come up with a new dieting fad: Slim Chips.

The label reads: “Slim Chips are good and they contain no calories.  Instead of getting fat you can now eat paper with different flavors.  It’s like eating tasty air.  The Slim Chips are made out of edible paper and pure organic tastes.” 

What better way to start off a discussion of our relationship with food than with this weird creation? 

How anyone could be satisfied enough after eating “tasty air” to not attack the first Big Mac they see is highly doubtful in my opinion. 

No wonder we’ve been the unhealthiest generation of all time – because instead of choosing foods with low calories and high levels of vitamins such as fruits and vegetables, we choose instead to face our health problems with fake foods.  How much faker can a food product get than edible paper chips with zero calories? Is this a strange new manifestation of the organic fad we’re seeing, considering Slim Chips are made with “pure organic tastes”?  

And why the emphasis on being thinner, instead of being healthier? You think Slim Chips will make you healthier, or thinner, for that matter?  I think Slim Chips will just make you more hungry.  For Oreos and Reeses Pieces and 12 oz steaks.

I still can’t tell whether this is actually a real product or if it is an ironic one, created to critique the food and nutrition industries today.  Either way, it’s creepy enough to think that this has become our reality.  We’ve created this grotesque relationship we have with food, we’ve sustained it, and now we’re just digging the hole deeper and deeper.