Low fat recommendations competed with the reality of grocery stores and restaurants filled with fattening foods. Low fat made living and eating difficult, requiring both health care practitioners and patients to be counter culture. For some americans, eating loa fat meant denying local or ethnic heritages. Following a low fat diet was also expensive, inconvenient and, in fact, eletist. The result was two cultures, fat and low fat.
They hit the market in 1992. Three years later, they were the best-selling cookie in America. This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the low-fat craze of the 1990s and sample the snack that became the symbol of its rise and fall.
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