The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson.

And is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Six food products I love to hate, and five I just love.

Any old-time readers remember the fuming Fuji?

He was the lovable yet ornery food critic of early MDA who railed against chocolate

milk, cocoa puffs, chicken fries, applesauce, he was seriously biased here, and frozen waffles

to name a few targets.

He'd get a little carried away and we eventually had to put him down, ironically by turning him

into applesauce, but his heart was in the right place.

Today, I'm paying homage to fuming Fuji by having a little fun with some of today's more

absurd food offerings.

Then I'll follow up with some that I'd actually recommend. Let's go. Number one, peeled sumo mandarin's and shrink wrap.

Whole Foods is a great store. They carry the best brand of mayo for one, and two, they offer some of the

most nutrient-dense foods around.

But now and then, I find myself raising an eyebrow or two at some of the choices.

Last year, they began offering pre-peeled sumo-mandarin oranges in plastic shrink wrap.

Because mandarin oranges weren't already expressly bred to be easy to peel?

Because orange peels weren't crafted by evolution to protect the delicious interior.

Because even if you were able to somehow peel your own orange,

what the hell are you going to do with the peel?

That said, they must be selling if Whole Foods continues to carry them. I'm not sure what

that says about the culture we live in. Number two, fried gluten with peanuts. The antiprimal fried

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