One-a-Day

...plus Iron! Which always puzzled me: why would they put iron in your vitamins? I always figured the iron they advertise in your vitamins and breakfast cereal must be something different from regular old iron metal but seemingly it's the same. And they put silicon dioxide, aka sand, in my instant soup! Or at least they used to. I haven't had instant soup in many years so I don't know if they still put sand in it. My feeling is that if I wanted sand in my instant soup, I can always go to the beach to eat it and the sand will get into it whether I want it or not, but otherwise, I'd just as soon they leave the sand, and the iron filings or whatever, out of the food. I guess they must do it for the sake of people who don't live just a few blocks from the beach, but even so, the people who strongly desire sand in their instant soup are surely few and far between. But maybe I'm the strange one, and sand-eating is wildly popular amongst the general public, although if it is I've never heard about it; just one more way in which I'm badly out of touch with popular culture, I guess. I really have to start paying better attention to the world.