Being Green is So 90s

A lot of the people in my office live pretty healthy lifestyles. I don’t know if this corresponds with the fact that I work in a health care company, but lets just say it does to make my company look good.

Part of this healthy lifestyle apparently involves drinking a lot of smoothies. There are smoothies everywhere. Fruit smoothies, protein smoothies, smoothies in the morning, smoothies as an afternoon snack and the latest: hemp smoothies. Um, I beg your pardon? Hemp smoothies.

I am so glad that I require a second cup of coffee immediately following the completion of my first coffee because this need placed me in our office kitchen right in time to take part in the following dialogue. One of the organic eaters anonymous staffers was preparing her early afternoon smoothie with the assistance of a jar full of green looking paste. Another lady just had to ask.

“Um, what is that?”

“Oh it’s hemp protein. I use it to make my smoothie.”

“Haamp? What is that?”

Another participant joins, who, just to add to my amusement, has a heavy accent. “haha no heeem.” (he said hemp but it sounded like heeem)

“Heeeem??”

“hahaha no silly, hemp!”

I immediately became involved because I could see this getting good. “H.E.M.P. Hemp”

“Oh hemp, what is that?”

OK, wow. The organic eaters anonymous girl looked right at me and said, “um, how do we explain this?”

I knew. “You know, hippies, pot, all that. Hemp.” I don’t beat around the bush.

The purpose of this post is to laugh at the fact that there are some people out there who did not enjoy the 90’s craze of hemp. I LOVED hemp. All of the cool girls could make hemp jewelry. I wasn’t actually one of these people, but I was cool by association and got to at least wear the jewelry the cool girls made.

But onto the earlier question, why are people now DRINKING hemp? Seriously? I am all about eating organic. I read Skinny Bitch. The truth is I am sure it is healthy. But this isn’t the 90’s anymore people. Being associated with hemp doesn’t automatically make you cool. But I guess these days, if you associate hemp with eating organic and not to “I smoke weed therefore I wear hemp therefore I am cool,” then you “live green and are healthy and don’t eat animals or pesticide therefore you are cool.” Interesting.