Read + Write + Report
Home | Start a blog | About Orble | FAQ | Blogs | Writers | Paid | My Orble | Login

Who killed the calorie?

October 29th 2008 08:01
beer barrel
Low-kilojoule beer. Yum.

You'll never catch me complaining about anything, but who decided to sack the word calorie and employ in its place the word kilojoule?

This could only have been considered, proposed, tabled, agendaed, discussed, analysed, ventilated, agonised over and implemented by a committee. Here we have a great word, they would have said, perfectly functional, widely understood, and automatically connected in the public conscious to the twin issues of health and fitness. Let's get rid of it.


Kilojoule is an undistinguished, unlovely word. It has no cachet. It has no gravitas. It has no place on my chocolate cake mix packet because, for me at least, it has no meaning.

The decision to discard the calorie should be overturned and all evidence of the regrettable presence of the kilojoule should be removed.

Except on beer labels - I'm happy not to know how many calories are in my beer.

63
Vote

   
subscribe to this blog 


   

   

[ Link ]
Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: No Category
Related Posts:

Comments
4 Comments. [ Add A Comment ]

Comment by katyzzz

October 29th 2008 08:39


Photography Tips
MS Paint Art
Oh, Chris, people build careers sitting behind desks doing nothing positive, just continuing to change things that ain't broke and don't need fixing. And getting paid exhorbitant amounts for doing it.

Comment by Chris Champion

October 29th 2008 08:45


Vyoos
Zoomies
Bloggercises
The Blog of Lists
Newly Old
Money Whither
I know katy. Waste of a good desk

Comment by Janet Collins

October 29th 2008 12:57


Acceptable Etiquette
The Social Critic
Janet Collins Blog
Me too. I don't drink beer regularly - only very occasionally so I didn't know they still listed calories on them. Maybe they thought that after a few beers people wouldn't be able to calculate calories from kilojoules!

Janet

Comment by Chris Champion

October 30th 2008 00:45


Vyoos
Zoomies
Bloggercises
The Blog of Lists
Newly Old
Money Whither
Personally, Janet, I suspect supercomputers were invented for the primary purpose of calculating kilojoules. I mean, everyone knows what a calorie is: it's the energy required to blow out three candles immediately after running five kilometres in orange tights. But kilojoules! I think they're the real reason ET went home.

Add A Comment

To create a fully formatted comment please click here.


CLICK HERE TO LOGIN | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Name or Orble Tag
Home Page (optional)
Comments
Bold Italic Underline Strikethrough Separator Left Center Right Separator Quote Insert Link Insert Email
Notify me of replies
Your Email Address
(optional)
(required for reply notification)
Submit
More Posts
January 2012
2 Posts
April 2011
2 Posts
March 2011
1 Posts
Older Posts
72 Posts dating from September 2008
Email Subscription
Receive e-mail notifications of new posts on this blog:
0
[ View Blog Summary ] [ Create A New Post ] [ Add A Comment ]

Chris Champion's Blogs

11032 Vote(s)
758 Comment(s)
121 Post(s)
4339 Vote(s)
33 Comment(s)
39 Post(s)
3761 Vote(s)
208 Comment(s)
44 Post(s)
24448 Vote(s)
1007 Comment(s)
302 Post(s)
16201 Vote(s)
1590 Comment(s)
242 Post(s)
Moderated by Chris Champion
Copyright © 2012 On Topic Media PTY LTD. All Rights Reserved. Design by Vimu.com.
On Topic Media ZPages: Sydney |  Melbourne |  Brisbane |  London |  Birmingham |  Leeds     [ Advertise ] [ Contact Us ] [ Privacy Policy ]