Friday, August 14, 2009

Apple, the Hunger Enhancer

Imagine if you will, that it is sometime late afternoon, let's say, 3 or 4, much too late to have a full lunch and much too early to eat a substantial dinner, but just the right time to eat a small snack. You are not starving, but you know that you probably wont be eating dinner until later that night, due to some very important prearranged social engagements. Now, let's imagine that you are the age of a college student, so browsing through your cupboards takes all of fifteen seconds. What should one eat for a snack? Hmmm.... one could eat that granola bar, but no, you ate one just hours ago for lunch, and two in one day is fairly unhealthy. What about some pretzels? Ugh, no, those have been shoved in the back of the cupboard much to long and are too stale to enjoy. What about a cookie? That's worse than the granola bar dummy. Carrot sticks? What am I, a rabbit? Then wait, it hits you. A healthy, easily accessible snack presents itself in the form of a crimson gold orb. An apple. It's sheer brilliance. You only need one hand to devour said snack, and to top it off, it's a fruit, and therefore it is healthy! No unwanted calories and no unnecessary trip to the gym later that night. So you grasp said apple and sink your teeth into the crispy substance. It tastes like, well... it tastes like and apple. Luckily enough, it's a juicy one, and not mushy, like apples tend to be. Within minutes, you've made your way around the circumference of the apple and you come in contact with the core. The snack has disappeared quickly, but you're satisfied with your choice and decide to veg out on your computer until you need to be wherever it is that night. You're just settling into your groove when a noise like an angry lion rips through your stomach. You look down at the hidden organ in surprise. It couldn't have been more than a half hour ago that you ate that apple, and yet, you find yourself to be more hungry than when you started in on that crispy apple. How can this be? You think, Maybe it was a false alarm. So you ignore the first growl. But no, only seconds later another rumble shakes your inner organs like an aftershock of an earthquake. Is it possible that two false alarms have just occured? Is it all in your head? NO!!! The apple has made your hunger more real than it was before you ate it. That smart idea you had? Not so smart after all. Apples may be healthy, but they enhance the hunger you didn't think you had before, which leads you to rummaging through your bare cupboards again, searching for something that will take the edge off for just a few more hours until you can justify making dinner. That granola bar you passed on earlier, looking a lot better now. To heck with eating two in a day! And those stale pretzels you didn't want not 45 minutes ago? Maybe not so stale after all! You go into the apple thinking you're healthy. But an hour later, you've eaten an apple and whatever else you could get your hands on because that apple made the hunger trigger in your brain go off like mad.
So What I'd Like to Say is....
Apples are the fruit of the Devil.

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