candy vs fruit

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One of the things i have always found way to funny is the genius marketing ploy done by the candy industry to name them all after fruits. Id say almost 99% of candies really taste nothing like the actual fruit that they are trying to imitate. And we get crazy fruit flavors like blue raspberry, what the hell is a blue raspberry. I think it is sad that we have been so brainwashed that when we want to have something sweet we ingest something that is so bad for us on so many levels. Now i am not going to sit here and say i don't enjoy candy every once in a while i love it. The problem is that there are people who never even try fruit because of their ignorance of just how great good fresh fruit can be. Not only is are fruits the best things we can be eating for our health when they are fresh and grown without all the gmos they are grown with today, they taste better than anything you can imagine. Sad thing is that the way our food industry is set up these days most people never get farm fresh fruits on their table, and never get to taste the beauty of natures nectar. We eat disgusting processed foods on a daily basis, and when we do decide to eat an apple it's a freakin  sour apple lollipop. I try to eat fruit as much as I can, but the sad thing is it is truly hard to consistently get good farm fresh fruits. Instead our racks are filled with processed sugar named after the fruit we should be eating.

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