Let's Get Real

On this weeks episode of Lets Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about how foodiness is invading New York City neighborhoods and stripping them of all culture and personality. Hear how Chelsea has evolved since the mid-80s, and how greenwashing has infiltrated the minds of the liberal elite in so many New York City neighborhoods. Do you think that nine dollars is reasonable for sixteen ounces of juice? And how can lasagna be raw and vegan? Erica is crusading for real food! Hear how raw and vegan establishments like Organic Avenue compare to places like Foragers Market. Hear how neighborhoods have been sterilized by foodiness vendors, and why the people who work at these places have become androgynous. Dont eat sh\*t, and dont support it, either! Listen to Lets Get Real! This episode has been sponsored by Whole Foods Market.

On this weeks episode of Lets Get Real, Erica Wides is joined in the studio by nutritionist and food writer Kristin Wartman to discuss foodiness fad diets. What famous diets are real food, and which ones are foodiness? Why do all of these fad diets use terrible ingredients and preservatives in their food? Tune in to learn about the importance of cutting out refined carbs and sugars and incorporating real fats and cholesterol. Hear why Subway might not be as fresh as you think. Dont touch that dial- find out what Slimfast and infant formula have in common. Erica and Kristin call for a cultural shift that needs to occur for the physical and mental health of our society. This episode has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. The answers that foodiness creates for its own problem: diets and diet products. [4:20] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real Pesticides and fungicides that are sprayed on commercial crops are, in fact, obesogens. [7:05] Its important that children and teens get fat and cholesterol. These are things that we need for our brain and all of the cells in our body. [19:40] -- Kristin Wartman on Lets Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides celebrates Columbus Day by talking about the modern day Columbian Exchange: foodiness. Instead of smallpox, we have diabetes. Leave it to the Europeans to take corn from Native Americans and turn it into high fructose corn syrup and pour it down the throats of the masses! Tune into this episode to hear Erica Wides talk about her experiences taking food science classes, and how she felt she was being primed to be a secret agent for Foodiness, Inc. Hear about some of the wacky food inventions that Erica encountered such as pre-flavored grilling skewers or spinach powder. Look out! You almost fell down the foodiness rabbit hole! Check out this episode of Lets Get Real! This episode has been brought to you by S. Wallace Edwards and Sons. The foodiness megacorporations are all on the prowl and theyre all looking for real chefs these days because they want chefs to help them make foodiness that looks more like real food. [22:09] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

What do Hasidic weddings and foodiness have in common? Answer: theyre both filled with awful food and gender segregation. Tune in to hear Erica Wides discuss why foodiness has decided to target genders separately in their takeover of the food system. Why should their be separate yogurts for men and women? Yogurt is yogurt! Listen in to hear Erica talk about some of the many food products that target traditional ideas of man and woman, and why they are so bad for you. Dont be a supersucker! Check out this episode of Lets Get Real! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Foodiness marketers and makers are savvy, savvy people. They know what you think you want because they told you to want it! [19:45] Food is for everyone! Food is for people, and foodiness is for suckers. [23:30] -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Congratulations to Erica Wides; its the one year anniversary of Lets Get Real! More importantly, its the I Told You Show, and Ericas here with the Foodiness Time Machine to take you back in time to show you that all of her food predictions have come true. Learn that the dietary saturated fat in butter does not actually contribute to coronary disease, but that foodiness is the real culprit! Erica also revisits the fitness foodiness fad, and finds further evidence that protein shakes dont help you perform better. Erica also talks about genetically modified apples that take 3 weeks to brown, as well as the benefits of real fermented foods. Would you believe that foodiness has been linked to diabetes, Alzheimers, and even stupidity? Tune in and get educated on this very special episode of Lets Get Real! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Foodiness has retrained us to mistrust our senses! Fermentation is food thats slowly going bad. Isnt that what I said? Youre supposed to eat food that goes bad. -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Freedom Fries Aint Free! This week on Lets Get Real, Erica gets real about how war created foodiness; how foodiness created a nation of obese SUV driving potato people, who then needed oil for their SUVs (and now for their mobility scooters), and who now cant pass the army physical fitness test because theyre too fat to fight. Tonight she is joined by special guest and First Gulf War veteran Corporal Chad Pagano to take us down the foodiness foxhole full of M.R.E.s and, now, Marys. Hear him retell stories of food, hunger and everything in between in the military. This program was sponsored by Fairway Market They have portable field kitchens they would set up behind the lines. Generally depending on the tactical situation you could end up going there three times a day. As an infantry man youd be lucky if you got in there once a day. The food was pretty bad for the most part. --Corporal Chad Pagano on Lets Get Real

The final holiday of the summer is quickly approaching. Erica Wides is hosting another episode of Lets Get Real and asking the question, What can an orthorexic eat on Labor Day? Tune in to hear how food and health fads have changed over the decades through the lens of Ericas cousins wedding. Low-fat, carbs, organic? Just eat real food! Later, Erica talks about this past Fourth of July, and how her Prospect Park picnic was filled with local, seasonal, artisanal food- very Brooklyn! Hear about how you can eat good food on Labor Day without alienating all of your friends! This episode has been brought to you by Whole Foods. If everyone was as cognizant as the Park-Slope Food Co-op circle, it would be a better world. But real food people are like fetish fans- you have to be into it to do it, and if youre not into it, thats not what you wanna do. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

On this weeks episode of Lets Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about yogurt, and how foodiness has pumped a delicious, ancient, probiotic treat with artificial sweeteners and flavors. The masses have been brainwashed into thinking that eating sugar and corn syrup is healthy, as long as it is disguised as a tub of Yoplait or Danon. The public has not only fallen for this not-so-subtle charade, but it has also become acceptable to slurp the stuff out of a plastic tube! Tune in to hear Erica discuss the newest food trend, Greek yogurt, and why it has the potential to be extremely healthy. Learn about yogurts ancient beginnings, and how you can make it at home! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Foods have become vehicles for interchangeable, synthetic components. Its not key lime pie- its key lime pie, artificially-sweetened yogurt. No, lets not even call it yogurt. Lets call it faux-gurt; its neither pie nor yogurt! -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

Has foodiness co-opted peanut butter, too? Unfortunately, yes. Tune into this weeks episode of Lets Get Real to hear Erica Wides dish the cold, hard truth about peanut butter. See the ingredient list on that jar of Skippy? Thats right, its filled with hydrogenated oils and corn syrup! But dont fear- you can still reap all of the healthy benefits of peanut butter if you just make it at home. Learn how to make peanut butter with a little know-how and your everyday kitchen appliances. Tune into this episode to hear more from Erica about the Brooklyn food movement, Plumpynut, powdered peanut butter, and the increasingly common peanut allergy. This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Peanut butter has one ingredient- peanuts! Maybe salt if you want it salty. -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

This past weekend, Lets Get Real host Erica Wides stumbled upon some wild blueberries while hiking, and was stunned by the flavor! Do the fruits that we eat actually contain the flavors that theyre supposed to harbor, or has foodiness diluted them to the point that theyve lost their...fruitiness? Erica also talks about artificial flavoring, and how the average American palate has come to expect fruit to taste like candy. Erica also talks about the essence of fruit that does not exist in vegetables, meat, dairy, etc. Hear about how the pursuit of fresh fruit has driven Erica to do some pretty sneaky deeds! Finally, Erica uses her Six Degrees of Foodiness scale to show you how an apple can turn into corn syrup-filled pastry mess. This episode has been brought to you by Whole Foods. Talk about being so far down the foodiness rabbit hole- we cant even identify the flavor of a real fruit when we stumble upon it the wild! Theyve taken the real flavor out of fruit and put it into bars and drinks and gum and Go-gurt and vodka where it doesnt synchronize with its surroundings and its totally out of context. -- Erica Wides on Lets Get Real