Stymied about carbs
The other night I was buying a salad at a sub shop (go figure) and it was one of those "Zero Net Carbs" items that are popular these days. Since there was a wait time I started to muse on the idea of why the word net is in the phrase.
Did the salad start off with a number of carbs to which they had to add an equal number of "negative" carbs to balance the equation? Maybe there is a carb line that is the dietary equivalent of the mathematician's number line.
In cooking schools around the world, are there young chef-wannabes learning to balance cooking equations? "Hmmm ... le'see ... 12 carbs plus (-7) carbs equals 5 net carbs."
Or maybe they figure that the consumer is going to burn off a certain number of carbs by stirring the salad around to mix in the dressing so it is okay to have that many carbs initially and thus your "net carbs" are zero.
This is why I should never be given free time.
