Let's Get Real

What do you call milk that’s not milk? Erica Wides explores the overlooked language of food on a new episode of Let’s Get Real. Why do we use certain words to describe certain things? And why would something be called milk if it didn’t 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 & Winery.

–Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real

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Today’s episode of Let’s Get Real is all about identity crises. How do you know what you’re supposed to taste like if you’re a boo berry? How has foodiness committed crimes against nature? Why shouldn’t you send your kids to art school? Erica Wides makes sense of it all on another poignant and reflective episode of Let’s Get Real. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery.

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It’s berry season! On a fruity episode of Let’s 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 Let’s Get Real. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery.

“I’d rather eat street berries than industrially grown berries from A&P, that’s for sure.” [18:00]

“For me – the holy grail is the blackberry – the perfect blackberry. The blackberry is the ultimate berry reward.” [20:00]

–Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real

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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 Let’s 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 & Winery.

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Let’s 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! Today’s show was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery.

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Hear how Let’s Get Real has evolved from a podcast into a TEDx talk on this week’s 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 Let’s Get Real listeners. What distinguishes real food from foodiness? Learn how ‘the real food movement’ falls short and doesn’t serve the people who really need it. Erica doesn’t preach compromise, but talks about realistic goals for consumers. This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. Music has been provided by Idgy Dean.

— Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real

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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 Let’s Get Real, Erica is diving into a big bowl of sugary cereal to tell listeners that cereal isn’t 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 & Winery for sponsoring today’s program, and thanks to Knifeshow for today’s break music.

“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]

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Find out what’s “trending now” on this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real! Erica Wides opens up the show by talking about the immersive advertising at New York City’s 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 don’t want to miss this one; tune in to hear Erica diss some recent foodiness trends on Let’s Get Real! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. Thanks to SNOWMINE for today’s music.

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What “food” product do Americans spend 2.7 billion dollars on per year? Gum! This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is crusading against gum. It doesn’t provide nourishment, and it’s 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 week’s episode of Let’s Get Real! Thanks to our sponsor, Cain Vineyard & Winery.

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It’s official. We’ve reached rock bottom. Erica Wides is all doom & gloom this week on Let’s Get Real, and she’s 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 & Winery.

“Edible advertising is the toilet baby of food. It’s as low as you can go.” 16:00

–Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real

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