Says the first sentence I read in this Vogue article Meade sent me — Meade sends me Vogue articles?! — "9 Foods That Are Healthier Than You Would Think."
That article is from March 2024, and no one has corrected the error yet?
I'm giving Vogue a "bad wrap" — perhaps a tainted burrito or a scruffy mink stole.
By the way, these 9 foods are healthier than I "would think" if I hadn't already read numerous articles touting potatoes, eggs, coffee, butter, cheese, whole milk, nuts, chocolate, and fatty fish.
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This is all garbage. Research on what is a "Healthy" food is all survey garbage. They ask people what they ate for a period of time and then they take 1 or 2 samples on a particular health metric.
It is all paid for garbage so they can make an advertisement shaped like a study report that some food a giant corporation sells is good for you.
I'm bad at homophones, but I don't make my living writing articles for mass consumption. Perhaps the author was thinking of going out for a wrap while writing. Wraps seemed to be a fad of people thinking they were cutting carbs by getting their bread compressed into a disk. As for healthy foods, claiming potato is healthy because of vitamins is like saying pizza is healthy because it has something from all 4 food groups.
In 20 years they will be comparing the food pyramid campaign to the smoking is healthy campaign.
Bad wraps? So it's the packaging that's bad? The word is rap, a sharp blow with something hard, and by extension the blame for something. Vogue has never impressed me as a magazine with a generous dose of brains on either side to the transactional relationship, but come on...
Wintour should ditch those dark glasses. Maybe then she could see the nonsense she allows into print a bit more clearly.
I assumed it was a pun.
Since going carnivore I've realized I have a nightshade allergy. You never realize how ubiquitous potatoes (and tomatoes) are on restaurant menus until you can no longer eat them, healthy or not.
Typo alert: ...on either side OF the transactional relationship...
"I assumed it was a pun."
I checked to see if burritos were on the list of maligned edibles before I delivered the tainted burrito award to Vogue.
"I assumed it was a pun."
That makes it even more egregious.
If you have a bad rap, it refers to your 'rap' sheet, or Record of Arrests and Prosecutions. But I'll admit, I scanned the 3 dozen advertisements in the article to see if there were any fashionable wraps.
If wraps was intended as a (very weak) pun, wouldn't the inverted commas enclose it?
Life is a lot easier if you eat what you want in moderation. I think food "experts" lack common sense.
the odds vogue will get anything right on purpose is entirely hypothetical,
Thanks Kate. I've noticed similar issues, but it is mostly swelling and mild enough that I don't need to consult a physician. I didn't have a name for the issue until now. The more I avoid them, the more pronounced the symptoms when I have them. Usually, a half-Benadryl will settle things down. I do wonder if my case is more than just "nightshades", because other starches, like rice or noodles, set off my sinuses.
As for going carnivore, I've lost a good deal of weight and feel a lot better. All my labs are in the green. It is a shame how few restaurants exist that cater to the diet.
Error or bad pun? Some say bad buns are always in error.
Imagine coming of age when "rap" has always meant music and "wrap" has always meant food. Within that very realistic context that sentence would be a natural.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
Error or bad pun? Some say bad buns are always in error.
Milennial wit!
Nutrition for adults is mainly about calories, starches and fats for the most part. Your diet can hit all the vitamin and micronutrient high notes and leave you nevertheless dying of starvation. The key is to avoid monotony. Polished rice is good as long as you have another source of thiamine. But if it's all you eat, then Welcome to River Kwai camp, British prisoners! It's astonishing how many elderly people suffer from malnutrition and even starvation, not because of poverty but because of dietary monotony -- eating only what they enjoy day after day, week after week.
"Within that very realistic context that sentence would be a natural."
One would think an Ivy League diploma would represent slightly broader horizons than that.
Once upon a time there were copy editors. Did Vogue fire them, thinking that Autocorrect would be good enough? Or are the present crop of young college grads just really that bad?
Wrap city and blew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNbAtTMZXc
It might be more useful to make a list of foods that are less healthy than you might think. First on my list: dried fruits. I thought (e.g.) dried cherries were healthy as well as delicious until I checked the nutrition label: "32 grams of sugar per serving". How bad is that? "Serving size: 40 grams"?! So dried cherries are 80% sugar by weight, with all the flavor and roughage in the other 20%?!? They don't taste all that sweet, so I guess there's a lot of sour flavoring in the 20%.
Too bad. There's nothing tastier at breakfast-time than a big bowl of oatmeal with heavy cream, maple syrup, dried cherries, and chopped walnuts.
I'll point out that if the commenters on this block g were subjected to the same rigor, m
I'll point out that if the commenters on this blog were subjected to the same rigor, most of us would be found wanting (raises hand).
Ugh! My phone keyboard interface is beyond useless some days.
If a pun had been intended, the scare quotes would have been around "wrap," but they were around "bad."
If the problem is Vogue can't get a bad pun right, it's almost worse. But since the article had nothing even close to a wrap sandwich, I can't credit them with attempting a bad pun.
One of those fox wraps with the poor little dead head is biting its tail.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1427854821/big-vintage-collar-full-size-white-fox
Would Grok or ChapGPT would make that kind of mistake if they put together such an article? It kind of points to a spelling mistake founded on the poor education and lack of historical depth you'd find in a Millennial.
"If a pun had been intended, the scare quotes would have been around 'wrap,' but they were around 'bad.'"
When I saw those quotes around bad, I said to myself, "Self, WTF?"
"Did Vogue fire [the copy editors], thinking that Autocorrect would be good enough? Or are the present crop of young college grads just really that bad?"
Embrace the power of AND, Big Mike.
Back to the topic, which seems to be the American diet since taxpayer-funded nutritional advice (and concomitant ordinances) became a vital function of government...
Anthropologists used to assume that Ice Age Europeans, Cro-Magnons and their Neanderthal predecessors, were primarily carnivores -- living more or less exclusively on the flesh of the animals they hunted, in other words, living the dietary lifestyle of a top-of-the-food-chain predator like a lion. That assumption was based on their tools and other artifacts (cave paintings, for example) and the remains of their meals, horse bones at inland sites such as at many archaeological sites in the Dordogne, and mollusk shells at coastal sites in Iberia. However, isotopic studies and pollen analysis indicate that both Neanderthals and Paleolithic modern humans ate quite of lot of plant matter. During the Weichselian glaciation much of ice-free Europe was grassland supporting large herds of horses and antelope. Humans can’t eat grass, at least not the parts that show above the soil, but we can eat the rhizomes of some grasses, and judging from the evidence, the Cro-Magnons of the Dordogne ate significant amounts of grass with their pony-burgers. In coastal settlements where shellfish were a staple food isotopic evidence suggests seaweed was also on the menu. Consequently, the Paleo Diet may not be all that paleo.
"If you have a bad rap, it refers to your 'rap' sheet..."
Forgive me if that strikes me as to be as likely as fuck being an abbreviation of fornication under the consent of the king. I don't subscribe to the OED, but I'm willing to bet real money that rap as a slang term for blame or guilt is far older than the 20th-century American police term. Rap as in blame or reputation, good and bad, appears in the vernacular of nearly every nation in the former British Empire, and I very much doubt the dialog of American television crime dramas has been quite that influential.
these 9 foods are healthier than I "would think" if I hadn't already read numerous articles
That seemed more like an Upworthy article--clickbait title followed by a disappointing story. All 9 were foods I already knew were healthy. (I doubt many people would be surprised by more than 1 or 2.)
Seems obvious to me that it's a pun--many foods are wrapped. So obvious that it didn't occur to me that that was the mistake Althouse was flagging. I thought the mistake was the poorly placed quotes. They should have written "bad 'wrap'."
Leland said...
"I'm bad at homophones, but I don't make my living writing articles for mass consumption."
There were many articles for mass consumption written about the Iraq war.
"That article is from March 2024, and no one has corrected the error yet?"
Everyone knows that spell check is never wrong.
(BTW, it if was actually intended to be a pun, they should have put it in quotations or something.)
"...edible villains..."
My first thought was the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Quaestor @10:30am,
Those things are genuinely part of the paleo diet, which is mostly about eliminating most starches and sugars.
@Questor, .."Rap as in blame or reputation, good and bad, appears in the vernacular of nearly every nation in the former British Empire.."
I haven't seen that before - are you sure it's not conflated with 'reputation', i.e. a 'bad rep'?
"early 14c., rappe, "a quick, light blow; a resounding stroke," also "a fart" (late 15c.), native or borrowed from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish rap, Swedish rapp "light blow"); either way probably of imitative origin (compare slap, clap).... Slang meaning "a rebuke, the blame, responsibility" is from 1777; specific meaning "criminal indictment" (as in rap sheet, 1960) is from 1903; to beat the rap is from 1927. Meaning "music with improvised words" was in New York City slang by 1979 ....."
"9 Foods That Are Healthier Than You Would Think." Potatoes, eggs, coffee, butter, cheese, whole milk, nuts, chocolate, and fatty fish - I hadn't realized the poor dears were unwell. Wait, the sentence means healthier for the Vogue reader. Why? Is it because the fries are done in beef tallow now? Or, no, I see the foods used not to be properly wrapped. Well, now, I think most food packaging is totally over the top, far too difficult for arthritic hands, but I'm surprised to see that in Vogue. And it's not just fatty fish that is wrapped wrong, I can tell you. But wait. Everyone else is talking about rap music. Why? What is going on? You know, the fact is, I can't handle the morning till I've had my coffee and buttered toast.
Later. OK, I missed some bulletin from .gov shaming all my favorite foods but now they're back. Next, religion.
Today "In Vogue" means ten years ago
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