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Le "Atkins" Sigh
Mar. 1st, 2009 06:21 pmI am mildly annoyed. Atkins has apparently discontinued their "Daybreak cranberry & almond bars". I know they are having financial trouble but why* continue the cruddy drink boxes and the sixty-billion chocolate flavors (it seems) while cutting the fruit-flavored breakfast bars down to just one - "Apple Crisp"?
If I want dessert, I'll eat something like fruit. And occassionally I will eat one of the chocolate-slathered snack bars they offer. But for breakfast or lunch I want something like a granola bar, one with fruit and nuts in it, of which the cranberry & almond was so good that I'd eat it for dessert sometimes. The apple-crisp one tastes like frosted cardboard sprayed with apple scent.
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*Yes, I know that economics fuel supply discisions and the possibility exists that only chocolate-covered stuff appeals to dieters so when down-scaling their business, that's what they went with. But one has to ask - does anybody ever drink those 'milkshake' things? And really - no one else likes cranberries and almonds in a breakfast bar? I haven't been this food-grumpy since Oregon Chai decided not to market "chai nog" this winter!
If I want dessert, I'll eat something like fruit. And occassionally I will eat one of the chocolate-slathered snack bars they offer. But for breakfast or lunch I want something like a granola bar, one with fruit and nuts in it, of which the cranberry & almond was so good that I'd eat it for dessert sometimes. The apple-crisp one tastes like frosted cardboard sprayed with apple scent.
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*Yes, I know that economics fuel supply discisions and the possibility exists that only chocolate-covered stuff appeals to dieters so when down-scaling their business, that's what they went with. But one has to ask - does anybody ever drink those 'milkshake' things? And really - no one else likes cranberries and almonds in a breakfast bar? I haven't been this food-grumpy since Oregon Chai decided not to market "chai nog" this winter!
