The other night when I was putting The Cheese-Hater to bed, I read him a book called Room on the Broom that contains a scene in which a dragon threatens to eat a witch and bellows (meaning I bellow, because if I try to just read it in a normal tone of voice The Cheese-Hater makes me go back for a do-over):
“I am a dragon, as mean as can be,
And I’m planning to have WITCH
AND CHIPS for my tea!”
Once we had gotten past this tense moment in the narrative (the witch, in case you’re worried, prevails–but if he’d managed to eat her, would she count as local food?), The Cheese-Hater turned to me with utmost seriousness:
“Mama?” he said. “Yes?” I answered, bracing for a question about fire-breathing dragons and whether or not they eat little boys. “I like chips.”
That’s my boy!
As it happened, I already had chips on the brain because earlier in the day I’d read an item about how Frito-Lay is planning to introduce a fully compostable bag for Sun Chips by Earth Day 2010. As they put it, “You eat the chips. The earth eats the bag. And we all live in a cleaner world.”
Of course, compostable bags don’t make Sun Chips any less mass-produced or Frito-Lay any less of a gigantic corporation. Still, given the reality that we all find ourselves in gas stations and airports and other places needing a snack with nothing available except such items–does this decision make you more likely to go for the Sun Chips as opposed to something else?
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