What do you call milk that’s not milk? Erica Wides explores the overlooked language of food on a new episode of Let’s Get Real . Why do we use certain words to describe certain things? And why would something be called milk if it didn’t come from a nipple? Tune in as Erica talks about coconut and almond not-milk and why foodiness hijacks even these – in theory – simple food items. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery . “If it doesn’t come from a nipple, it’s not milk.” [...
Aug 12, 2014•31 min•Ep. 64
Today’s episode of Let’s Get Real is all about identity crises. How do you know what you’re supposed to taste like if you’re a boo berry? How has foodiness committed crimes against nature? Why shouldn’t you send your kids to art school? Erica Wides makes sense of it all on another poignant and reflective episode of Let’s Get Real . This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery . “Mama’s don’t let you babies grow up to attend art school – that’s how the song should go.” [03:00] –E...
Jul 22, 2014•31 min•Ep. 63
It’s berry season! On a fruity episode of Let’s Get Real , Erica Wides discusses all the berries – black, blue, mul, cran….you get the point. Find out why she eats them off the vine, why blackberries are the holy grain and why supermarket berries are so bland. What does IHOP and Brooklyn high-rises have to do with berries? How has foodiness held berries hostage? Find out on Let’s Get Real . This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “I’d rather eat street berries than industr...
Jul 15, 2014•33 min•Ep. 62
Did you know LGR has a bigger brother…WWC? Does this make any sense to you? Tune in and find out what all the fuss is about on a brand new episode of Let’s Get Real as Erica Wides looks at the past, present and future of her fight against foodiness. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery . “When 1 in 3 americans is now diabetic and 70% of people over the age of 75 are diabetic or pre-diabetic — doesn’t that mean its time for a huge wake up call, America?” [17:00] –Erica Wi...
Jul 08, 2014•24 min•Ep. 61
Let’s Get Real is officially 100 episodes old! Can you believe it? Erica celebrates with a “fancy” tale about squeezy fruit packages, “motherhood”, fiber gummies and foodiness. Tune in and celebrate! Today’s show was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 01, 2014•32 min•Ep. 60
Hear how Let’s Get Real has evolved from a podcast into a TEDx talk on this week’s episode. Erica Wides talks about how she went from the world of guerilla PR to the main stage for TEDx Berkeley. Later, Erica performs her TEDx speech for her Let’s Get Real listeners. What distinguishes real food from foodiness? Learn how ‘the real food movement’ falls short and doesn’t serve the people who really need it. Erica doesn’t preach compromise, but talks about realistic goals for consumers. This progra...
Apr 30, 2013•29 min•Ep. 59
Cereal has been a part of Americans’ breakfast since the 1950s, but Erica Wides is here to tell you that- once again- the public has been hoodwinked by Foodiness. This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica is diving into a big bowl of sugary cereal to tell listeners that cereal isn’t real food. Tune into this episode to hear how industrial agriculture has taken over the Midwest to turn grains into corn syrup clusters. How have the fake food corporations brainwashed people to believe that breakfast cerea...
Apr 23, 2013•29 min•Ep. 58
Find out what’s “trending now” on this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real! Erica Wides opens up the show by talking about the immersive advertising at New York City’s Columbus Circle subway station. The ads are literally consuming New Yorkers in the streets! Listen in to hear about Colombian supermodels who claim that chicken with added hormones is turning little boys and girls into homosexuals! Find out how this statement is making Tea Partiers across the country feel about their monetary contrib...
Apr 02, 2013•33 min•Ep. 57
What “food” product do Americans spend 2.7 billion dollars on per year? Gum! This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is crusading against gum. It doesn’t provide nourishment, and it’s filled with toxic chemicals; why are we so drawn to gum? Find out how gum has evolved in our society from being a treat to a performance enhancer. Hear about the social history of gum, and how the stigma of chewing gum has dissolved. Performance-enhancing gum cannot hydrate an athlete, and caffeine-infused gum can...
Mar 19, 2013•27 min•Ep. 56
It’s official. We’ve reached rock bottom. Erica Wides is all doom & gloom this week on Let’s Get Real , and she’s officially found the bottom of the foodiness rabbit-hole. If you think orange flavored drinks with no orange is bad, how about an edible Fanta paper advertisement that tastes like orange beverage with no orange. Yikes. Get a reality check on a very disturbing episode of the most “real” food show on the airwaves. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery . “What’s t...
Mar 05, 2013•29 min•Ep. 55
Why are Americans so afraid to eat horse? This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about the trendiness of meat, and falsehoods in the industrial food system. Would horse meat be a problem if it weren’t hidden in microwavable lasagna? Erica thinks not! Later, tune in to hear Erica talk about the invasion of tattooed and moustachioed butchers in Brooklyn and beyond. Why has working with real food become an identity marker? Shouldn’t eating food be the norm? Erica wraps up the show by e...
Feb 27, 2013•30 min•Ep. 54
Will anyone stop the 7-Eleven invasion of the East Village? This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is talking with two activists from the No 7-Eleven group, Bob Holman and Rob Hollander. Tune into this episode to find out how gentrification and foodiness are intertwined in the case of the 7-Eleven infestation in Downtown Manhattan. How is corporate control of neighborhoods related to the corporate influence in food? 7-Eleven’s infiltration of the East Village and the Lower East Side undermines...
Feb 13, 2013•1 hr•Ep. 53
Dieticians are in bed with Foodiness, Incorporated! Erica Wides is once again joined in the studio by nutrition expert Kristin Wartman to talk about her recent article in Civil Eats about big food’s influence on The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Hear how companies like Coca-Cola and General Mills fund nutrition studies on sugar and processed food. Doesn’t that just seem like a conflict of interest? Kristin spoke with a dietician employed by Sodexo off the record; hear how a food profession...
Jan 30, 2013•34 min•Ep. 52
Propaganda creates reality. Foodiness exists because we continue to consider it real food. Erica is here to continue in her quest to destroy all things foodiness, and convince listeners that real food is real food – and nothing else. Tune in for an exploration into the stranglehold Hollywood and television has on our decision making when it comes to food, and find out how her appearance on Dr. Oz helped move things just so slightly in the direction of what’s right. This program was sponsored by ...
Jan 22, 2013•32 min•Ep. 51
Today’s Let’s Get Real is all about fake food nutrition- stuff like enhanced peanut butter & low-fat dairy. Well, Erica Wides is here to tell you that these products are not food! Joining Erica in the studio is a nutrition educator Kristin Wartman, and she’s on the show to debunk the mythology of foodiness nutrition. Learn about the differences between Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids, and why skim milk cannot be considered a whole food. Hear about some food products that are some of the bigg...
Jan 09, 2013•39 min•Ep. 50
The apocalypse is imminent! What- or should I say ‘who’- are you going to eat? Erica Wides is back with another episode of Let’s Get Real to teach you how to survive the end of times. Hear how the apocalypse will eliminate the irony from Brooklyn rooftop farming, and why it’s better to eat a pigeon than a rat. Looking to make a reservation at the Foodiness Fall-Out Shelter? Hear what skills are necessary to learn in an post-apocalyptic New York City. New York has been hit with storms and blackou...
Dec 19, 2012•31 min•Ep. 49
Are you ready for week two of Foodiness Reeducation Camp? Do you have what it takes? Well then get in line and tune into this week’s episode of “Let’s Get Real”. This week at “camp”, listeners live in a world where food is not a product. Breakfast is tiny and meat must be hunted. The raspberries aren’t flavored, they taste like…. raspberries! There are no garden burgers or vegan lasagna. The veggies are not made into chips and there are no protein bars. By the time you’re “de-programmed”, you’ll...
Dec 11, 2012•33 min•Ep. 48
Are you the “right” kind of person? Lucky for you, Erica Wides is here to sign you up for a session at Foodiness Reeducation Camp! Are you getting hungry after Erica’s boot camp regiment? Well, Foodiness Reeducation Camp only serves real food in its cafeteria, so you better be hungry for rabbit legs and greens! Breakfast will consist of real, organic oatmeal… with no artificial sweeteners! After breakfast, you will be helping build a stone wall to keep out the GE Monsanto militia! Re-train your ...
Dec 05, 2012•36 min•Ep. 47
This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica is talking about her favorite non-secular, genocide-filled holiday: Thanksgiving! But Thanksgiving has really changed since the days of The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. Foodiness has co-opted another American tradition, and Erica is here to tell you what “food” to steer clear of on your family’s Thanksgiving table. How will Erica survive this year’s Thanksgiving on Long Island- the bastion of foodiness? Fight the power, and have real food this Thanksgiving! Thi...
Nov 21, 2012•35 min•Ep. 46
How does “foodiness” relate to wine? Friend of the show and sponsor of the network, Christopher Howell of Cain Vineyard & Winery in Napa Valley joins Erica Wides for this week’s episode of “Let’s Get Real”. Learn what goes into making “real” wine – from fermentation to “organic” or “biodynamic” grapes and everything in between. Chris and Erica discuss scale of production, ingredient labeling, regulation, and authenticity as they relate to wine – and dispel many common myths. Get real about w...
Nov 14, 2012•34 min•Ep. 45
On this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about how foodiness is invading New York City neighborhoods and stripping them of all culture and personality. Hear how Chelsea has evolved since the mid-80s, and how greenwashing has infiltrated the minds of the liberal elite in so many New York City neighborhoods. Do you think that nine dollars is reasonable for sixteen ounces of juice? And how can lasagna be “raw” and “vegan”? Erica is crusading for real food! Hear how “raw” and...
Nov 07, 2012•44 min•Ep. 44
On this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is joined in the studio by nutritionist and food writer Kristin Wartman to discuss foodiness fad diets. What famous diets are real food, and which ones are foodiness? Why do all of these fad diets use terrible ingredients and preservatives in their food? Tune in to learn about the importance of cutting out refined carbs and sugars and incorporating real fats and cholesterol. Hear why Subway might not be as “fresh” as you think. Don’t touch th...
Oct 16, 2012•40 min•Ep. 43
This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides “celebrates” Columbus Day by talking about the modern day Columbian Exchange: foodiness. Instead of smallpox, we have diabetes. Leave it to the Europeans to take corn from Native Americans and turn it into high fructose corn syrup and pour it down the throats of the masses! Tune into this episode to hear Erica Wides talk about her experiences taking food science classes, and how she felt she was being primed to be a secret agent for Foodiness, Inc. Hear a...
Oct 09, 2012•47 min•Ep. 42
What do Hasidic weddings and foodiness have in common? Answer: they’re both filled with awful food and gender segregation. Tune in to hear Erica Wides discuss why foodiness has decided to target genders separately in their takeover of the food system. Why should their be separate yogurts for men and women? Yogurt is yogurt! Listen in to hear Erica talk about some of the many “food” products that target traditional ideas of man and woman, and why they are so bad for you. Don’t be a supersucker! C...
Oct 02, 2012•40 min•Ep. 41
Congratulations to Erica Wides; it’s the one year anniversary of Let’s Get Real! More importantly, it’s the “I Told You Show”, and Erica’s here with the Foodiness Time Machine to take you back in time to show you that all of her food predictions have come true. Learn that the dietary saturated fat in butter does not actually contribute to coronary disease, but that foodiness is the real culprit! Erica also revisits the fitness foodiness fad, and finds further evidence that protein shakes don’t h...
Sep 25, 2012•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 40
Freedom Fries Ain’t Free! This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica gets real about how war created foodiness; how foodiness created a nation of obese SUV driving potato people, who then needed oil for their SUVs (and now for their mobility scooters), and who now can’t pass the army physical fitness test because they’re too fat to fight. Tonight she is joined by special guest and First Gulf War veteran Corporal Chad Pagano to take us down the foodiness foxhole full of M.R.E.’s and, now, Marys. Hear him...
Sep 18, 2012•44 min•Ep. 39
The final holiday of the summer is quickly approaching. Erica Wides is hosting another episode of Let’s Get Real and asking the question, “What can an orthorexic eat on Labor Day?” Tune in to hear how food and health fads have changed over the decades through the lens of Erica’s cousin’s wedding. Low-fat, carbs, organic? Just eat real food! Later, Erica talks about this past Fourth of July, and how her Prospect Park picnic was filled with local, seasonal, artisanal food- very Brooklyn! Hear abou...
Aug 28, 2012•47 min•Ep. 38
On this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about yogurt, and how “foodiness” has pumped a delicious, ancient, probiotic treat with artificial sweeteners and flavors. The masses have been brainwashed into thinking that eating sugar and corn syrup is healthy, as long as it is disguised as a tub of Yoplait or Danon. The public has not only fallen for this not-so-subtle charade, but it has also become acceptable to slurp the stuff out of a plastic tube! Tune in to hear Erica di...
Aug 14, 2012•45 min•Ep. 37
Has foodiness co-opted peanut butter, too? Unfortunately, yes. Tune into this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real to hear Erica Wides dish the cold, hard truth about peanut butter. See the ingredient list on that jar of Skippy? That’s right, it’s filled with hydrogenated oils and corn syrup! But don’t fear- you can still reap all of the healthy benefits of peanut butter if you just make it at home. Learn how to make peanut butter with a little know-how and your everyday kitchen appliances. Tune int...
Aug 07, 2012•47 min•Ep. 36
This past weekend, Let’s Get Real host Erica Wides stumbled upon some wild blueberries while hiking, and was stunned by the flavor! Do the fruits that we eat actually contain the flavors that they’re supposed to harbor, or has foodiness diluted them to the point that they’ve lost their…fruitiness? Erica also talks about artificial flavoring, and how the average American palate has come to expect fruit to taste like candy. Erica also talks about the essence of fruit that does not exist in vegetab...
Jul 17, 2012•45 min•Ep. 35
