Pollan compares alcohol to corn, which seems to be a very accurate comparison. Back in the day, alcohol was very cheap, people could afford to drink large amounts of it, and that’s what they did. Just like us today with fast food, it’s cheap so we eat a lot of it. I feel a lot more cautious about checking the nutrition labels for High Fructose Corn Syrup now and doing my best to stay away from it. Like the rats tested, we too will eat ourselves sick if it’s a treat we don’t get often. This makes me think of how I feel when I eat McDonalds and when Pollan said “And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettable, full.” I’m never satisfied from eating so much of the rare treat, I always regret eating too much of it and I always feel sick.
A templates from “They Say I Say “ that I think I would use in my writing was the templates for introducing summaries and quotations, I always find it hard to come up with different ways to start the summaries and quotations, so I also like that it gave a bunch of example verbs you can use in a paper as well. A template that I wouldn’t use is the “on the one hand… on the other hand…” I think it sounds kind of awkward in my writing.
