Shut Up, Mandatory Calorie Information

Man, I saw this story on MSNBC today, and trust me: it is so painfully, painfully true. Once you’ve seen that there is not a snack in the Starbucks bakery case that clocks in at fewer than four hundred calories, you can’t un-see it — not even when you then go to a Starbucks in Tennessee that has the decency not to put such appalling information in front of your face all the time. I used to sometimes get the Rice Krispies square, because I thought it wouldn’t be that bad in terms of fat, but then I forgot that marshmallows are all sugar and sugar is all calories, and boo. But the caloric information won’t actually make you swear off eating the stuff all the time — you just might have them less (which, yes, I realize is the point), and feel way more guilty about it on the fewer occasions when you do.