What do you call milk thats not milk? Erica Wides explores the overlooked language of food on a new episode of Lets Get Real. Why do we use certain words to describe certain things? And why would something be called milk if it didnt come from a nipple? Tune in as Erica talks about coconut and almond not-milk and why foodiness hijacks even these - in theory - simple food items. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. If it doesnt come from a nipple, its not milk. [09:00] --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Todays episode of Lets Get Real is all about identity crises. How do you know what youre supposed to taste like if youre a boo berry? How has foodiness committed crimes against nature? Why shouldnt you send your kids to art school? Erica Wides makes sense of it all on another poignant and reflective episode of Lets Get Real. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Mamas dont let you babies grow up to attend art school - thats how the song should go. [03:00] --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Its berry season! On a fruity episode of Lets Get Real, Erica Wides discusses all the berries - black, blue, mul, cran....you get the point. Find out why she eats them off the vine, why blackberries are the holy grain and why supermarket berries are so bland. What does IHOP and Brooklyn high-rises have to do with berries? How has foodiness held berries hostage? Find out on Lets Get Real. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Id rather eat street berries than industrially grown berries from AandP, thats for sure. [18:00] For me - the holy grail is the blackberry - the perfect blackberry. The blackberry is the ultimate berry reward. [20:00]

Did you know LGR has a bigger brother...WWC? Does this make any sense to you? Tune in and find out what all the fuss is about on a brand new episode of Lets Get Real as Erica Wides looks at the past, present and future of her fight against foodiness. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. When 1 in 3 americans is now diabetic and 70% of people over the age of 75 are diabetic or pre-diabetic -- doesnt that mean its time for a huge wake up call, America? [17:00] --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Lets Get Real is officially 100 episodes old! Can you believe it? Erica celebrates with a fancy tale about squeezy fruit packages, motherhood, fiber gummies and foodiness. Tune in and celebrate! Todays show was brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery.

Hear how Lets Get Real has evolved from a podcast into a TEDx talk on this weeks episode. Erica Wides talks about how she went from the world of guerilla PR to the main stage for TEDx Berkeley. Later, Erica performs her TEDx speech for her Lets Get Real listeners. What distinguishes real food from foodiness? Learn how the real food movement falls short and doesnt serve the people who really need it. Erica doesnt preach compromise, but talks about realistic goals for consumers. This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Music has been provided by Idgy Dean. Processed foods are super convenient. All you need is a hand, a mouth, and a dollar. [13:10] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Cereal has been a part of Americans breakfast since the 1950s, but Erica Wides is here to tell you that- once again- the public has been hoodwinked by Foodiness. This week on Lets Get Real, Erica is diving into a big bowl of sugary cereal to tell listeners that cereal isnt real food. Tune into this episode to hear how industrial agriculture has taken over the Midwest to turn grains into corn syrup clusters. How have the fake food corporations brainwashed people to believe that breakfast cereals are a necessary part of every morning? Listen in to learn how some cereal brands have expanded to make other foodiness products in addition to their unhealthy, bastardized oats! Thanks to Cain Vineyard and Winery for sponsoring todays program, and thanks to Knifeshow for todays break music. Cereal is the quintessential foodiness product because we were raised to believe in it. [6:45] If cereal was the original foodiness product, it has gone even further down the rabbit hole because now there are foodiness versions of foodiness those products. [18:00] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Find out whats trending now on this weeks episode of Lets Get Real! Erica Wides opens up the show by talking about the immersive advertising at New York Citys Columbus Circle subway station. The ads are literally consuming New Yorkers in the streets! Listen in to hear about Colombian supermodels who claim that chicken with added hormones is turning little boys and girls into homosexuals! Find out how this statement is making Tea Partiers across the country feel about their monetary contributions to Chick-Fil-A. Later, Erica goes off on artisanal cocktails with eighteen dollar price tags in Cleveland, Ohio. You dont want to miss this one; tune in to hear Erica diss some recent foodiness trends on Lets Get Real! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Thanks to SNOWMINE for todays music. If you want to taste the rainbow, and the forest, and the dirt- thats okay! But dont charge me the same amount as an entree for a cocktail! [29:40] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

What food product do Americans spend 2.7 billion dollars on per year? Gum! This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides is crusading against gum. It doesnt provide nourishment, and its filled with toxic chemicals; why are we so drawn to gum? Find out how gum has evolved in our society from being a treat to a performance enhancer. Hear about the social history of gum, and how the stigma of chewing gum has dissolved. Performance-enhancing gum cannot hydrate an athlete, and caffeine-infused gum cannot replace sleep! Learn more about the twitsted marketing of gum on this weeks episode of Lets Get Real! Thanks to our sponsor, Cain Vineyard and Winery. Gum makes you hungrier because it stimulates your salivary glands and tells your brain that food is coming! [8:05] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Its official. Weve reached rock bottom. Erica Wides is all doom and gloom this week on Lets Get Real, and shes officially found the bottom of the foodiness rabbit-hole. If you think orange flavored drinks with no orange is bad, how about an edible Fanta paper advertisement that tastes like orange beverage with no orange. Yikes. Get a reality check on a very disturbing episode of the most real food show on the airwaves. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Whats the seventh degree of foodiness? Fanta flavored advertisement paper. 08:00 Edible advertising is the toilet baby of food. Its as low as you can go. 16:00 --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real