The Cranberry Conspiracy Pt. 4

In "recent" memory, I related my opinions of the Cranberry Conspiracy to my wife. She laughed at me, of course, they all do, and insisted how much she loved cranberries. She had just bought some cranberries and proceeded that next Thanksgiving to make a cranberry relish. She had two bites with her meal, which I had to remind her to take, and put it away in the fridge. In the interest of marital harmony, I didn't shove the moldy remains under her nose some weeks later when the fridge was cleaned out, but I did point out what I find inescapable. People hate cranberries.

In an effort to defy me, or rather my opinions of the cranberry, she went out of her way to produce a similar dish a year later, with similar results. She's since bought more cranberries, that remain in the freezer, uneaten.

I refer to this as "The Cranberry Conspiracy" in the accepted definition of a 'conspiracy' as a group of people out to commit a crime. The crime in this case is fraud. We as a people have been led to believe the cranberry is a good thing, when you could be getting significantly better health benefits from drinking water, or eating blueberries.

If not for insanely good marketing, we'd all still be looking at the things and wondering what to do with them, other than using them as cheap bearings in jury-rigged mechanical contraptions. (Something I don't think anybody's actually done, but I think if given half a chance, or the need due to decreased demand, they would try to market them with such intentions in mind.)