lo-carb, lo-cash, hahahaha

Talk about a crash. Atkins Nutritionals filed for Chapter 11 just recently. For those not in the know, and I'm assuming you are stick-thin glamour models who can wolf down pasta and potatoes and fried rice without gaining an ounce of fat (that's you, Bambi, I hate you, you vegan beanpole), the Atkins diet purveyed carborhydrates as evil, and steak and bacon as manna from heaven.

Stupid as it may sound, the diet worked for a lot of people. I followed a low-carb diet once. Very little rice, no potatoes, no pasta...I thought I was going to die. I'd have taho for breakfast, one cup of rice plus a protein-packed ulam for lunch, lots and lots of water throughout the day. Dinner was a nightmare. Yaya would make nilagang baka and sinigang and all those great lutong-bahay dishes, and I'd only have the meat and veggies, and sneak in two spoonfuls of rice once in a while.

Anyways, back to Atkins. The diet was supposedly revolutionary...it actually hurt the the wheat industry, and bakeries started losing money. American per-capita consumption of beef, however, shot up. Imagine low-carb beer.

Well, now that the company's bankarote, pasta lovers, rejoice! I'll be at A Veneto later for my puttanesca.