I was watching my local news last night and they had a brief segment about a product called Le Whif. I don’t usually get too riled up about these kinds of things but for some reason this one really bugs me.
Le Whif looks a bit like a tube of lipstick, or a fat cigarette, but it is actually an inhaler – and what you inhale is calorie-free chocolate according to their website. Le Whif apparently means “to whiff” – to breathe chocolate into your mouth.
There are a couple of issues that I have with Le Whiff.
First of all, do we really need yet another product that throws self-control and accountability out the window and adds something artificial to counteract our lack of self-control? I know chocolate itself doesn’t grow in its edible form on a tree like an apple, but it certainly is a long way from an inhaler that puffs out “inhaled particles.”
Second, “to whiff” – seriously? Like there aren’t enough problems in our society with kids inhaling substances that are potentially lethal, we are going to add this to them mix to make it just one more thing that is ignored as something that has a negative impact on the way our children perceive right from wrong.
The website talks of innovations that involve eating by breathing. Huh? Those two things are not mutually exclusive and it certainly is ridiculous for society to continue to warp our natural sense of physical health with all these artificial products. I know that there is medicinal value in certain things such as a menthol rub but that product is a natural response to something beyond our control. Le Whif is just another product that is basically a substitute for self-control – and who knows what it is even made of.
Go plant a garden.
Eat a plum.
Heck, eat a Hershey bar if you must.
Just find something real and eat it.
I’m just so fed-up with the gimmicks and the weird things we are doing as adults that are not only messing up are internal chemistry, but will profoundly affect our childrens’ outlook on life, but we won’t realize it until it is too late.
Does this bother anyone else like it bothers me?
Does this product appeal to anyone? Would you buy it?
Am I over-reacting?
About Kim
No it doesn’t appeal to me at all.
On an unrelated note, I now think of you every day. Have you seen that Glad trsh bag commercial that starts out with the guy saying “what’s that smell?”? Every time I hear that commercial I think of you.
While some people aspire to be known for doing great deeds or for their skills and accomplishments, I am VERY content being known for my relationship to a garbage bag commercial. LOL
That is so crazy! I have never heard of such a product before.
I’m CRAVING to SMELL CHOCOLATE RIGHT NOW!
Just kidding, like that would EVEN do it for me!
It is nice to hear others who find these things ridiculous and dangerous to our society’s already warped impression of what and how we be. I believe you very correct and I too am so tired of people messing with their internal body chemistry and warping our children’s minds. This is yet one of a long line of products that amase and annoy me. Thank you for writing this blog post!
I would never buy something like that…wierd!
Seriously if you want chocolate that bad, just walk to the store and get yourself a bar.
Wow…somehow sniffing chocolate just doesn’t appeal to me either. What’s next? The kids will be crushing it up and snorting it in the bathroom? People are just crazy.
Oh yeah, someone’s a genius. (can you see the dripping sarcasm?) I can’t buy Sudafed or cough medicine for rmy kids because of the little tweakers, but they can now inhale chocolate? Nice. Plus you KNOW someone who’s asthmatic like me will use it, it’ll make their breathing problems worse, and they’ll sue for money like the McD’s hot coffee lady. I’d still love to know who thought this was a good idea.
That reminds me of that diet where you chew the food but spit it out. Yeah, I’ll pass and just eat it thank you very much.
Seriously? Chew the food then spit it out? That is nuts!
I had a dream that I invented that diet and it made me rich. Then people realized it was ridiculous.
So, do only Le Huffers use Le Whif?
Let me try and understand – I spray this whif so I can smell chocolate and it’s supposed replace actually eating chocolate? In my experience, when I smell a gyro – I want to EAT a gyro. The same goes for…well…pretty much everything else in the food sense.
I’m sorry, a sniff just isn’t enough.
LOL about the gyro, I can TOTALLY relate. Somehow they said since it goes into your mouth, these tiny particles hit your taste buds and somehow make you feel like you ate it. And you are soooo right, I mean smelling a loaf of freshly baked bread isn’t enough…I want to EAT THE WHOLE LOAF, and not just suck on it. EAT IT!