Trail Mix

I don’t like trail mix.  If you remember my post about the amount of ingredients in foods, you already can guess why.  I would like to expand on the specific example of trail mix and hopefully illuminate some insights along the way.

The design behind trail mix, if there is one at all, is that the salty components combine with the chocolately M&M’s to form a distinctive taste combination.  Although I can admit that there is some validity to this combination, it is ruined by the overall disgusting nature of the nuts, raisins, and little broken pretzel bits.  (I like pretzels, don’t get me wrong.)  Honestly the only reason kids or adults with odd snack choices tolerate trail mix is because of the M&M’s.  I would be the first person to pick out and eat all the M&M’s, but they are usually so contaminated by the salts and bad-tastiness to the point of inedibility.

Trail mix provides a unique metaphorical insight into our own lives.  I guess the point is that you shouldn’t let the nuts and raisins in your life contaminate the M&M’s.  Or you could just buy a pack of M&M’s from the vending machine instead.  I don’t know what that would symbolize.  But now all I can think about is that I want some M&M’s.