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Well. America is quite bewildering. They have a huge range of junk food, as we all know, but the funny thing is that much of it is kosher, really, truly, properly kosher. I mean, you can go into a shop and buy confections of rubber sponge cake and cream and as much sugar as you can conceive, and it's kosher. Compare this to England, where you can't really get kosher baked goods outside London, and to Israel, where it all tastes like sawdust, and you see that I'm in severe danger of being in kid-in-a-candy-store mode, eating doughnuts 24/7.
It even feels naughty, buying packages of cookies and eating them. Sort of unbelievably extravagant. I'm used (especially of late) to kosher being a tremendous pain in the arse whose main point is to restrict everything I eat, so the relative ease of having instantly-available edible food - and not boring healthy food at that, but disgusting, totally uneccessary junk food! feels just far too easy. Like having a bath during a water shortage, except that there isn't anything obviously wrong with eating doughnuts.
(back to the trough...)
It even feels naughty, buying packages of cookies and eating them. Sort of unbelievably extravagant. I'm used (especially of late) to kosher being a tremendous pain in the arse whose main point is to restrict everything I eat, so the relative ease of having instantly-available edible food - and not boring healthy food at that, but disgusting, totally uneccessary junk food! feels just far too easy. Like having a bath during a water shortage, except that there isn't anything obviously wrong with eating doughnuts.
(back to the trough...)