If you have the means to even consider such a vain and ridiculous product as the one pictured here, give thanks this holiday.
Gravy, like much of the traditonal Thanksgiving meal, is a recipe based on necessity, scarcity, and not wasting food in hard times. It wasn't meant to be a diet aid, and comes from a time when eating enough protein and fat to sustain yourself for physical work was a major concern for many. To live in a country that has fallen on such relatively depressed times yet can still publicly offer canned, bottled, and otherwise prepared foods of infinite variety speaks to how lucky we all are to be here in this time and place in the world. Despite the self serving Chicken Little pessimism of the news media, most of us are doing just fine, thanks. Well enough, in fact, to create demand for absurdity like this product. Fat-free fat, complete with heart healthy partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil and silicon dioxide. The Pilgrims would proud. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.