Sometimes it pays to read the Nutrition Facts. At least, looking at the facts behind America's Favorite Buttery Spray gave me something to write about.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter,
but I can believe it’s the Platonic idea
of butter, preserved in plastic, to be
sprayed on pasta or bread- ethereal
incense for some sacred ceremony.
“No calories, fat, sodium, carbs or
protein,” the label proclaims. Nothing
to prove it exists, yet it is there to be
savored: butter unchurned to its purest
essence, distilled from ingredients
the Magi could have carried: xanthum,
lechtin, and carotene. Each spray, a leap
of faith, but the proof is in the topping,
for then 15 milligrams of sodium
appear when poured, not sprayed, on potatoes.
Something comes out of nothing, defying
reason as all everyday miracles do:
the wine bottle glugs before the wine pours
out, fireflies burn without heat, and sea mist
hovers over our daily wonder bread.
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