So a co-worker recently got me hooked on Starbucks iced mocha frappuccinos, though I can't actually say it without thinking of that one scene in Zoolander where Ben Stiller's three male model friends all yell out, "Orange mocha frappuccino!" in unison. Given that I am trying to lose weight and that I've found some disturbing numbers in quick things that I thought would be better for me but aren't -- such as a McDonald's milkshake which turns out to have more fat than an uncut 16 ounce steak -- I figured it might be time for me to actually look up the nutritional information on the frappuccino and see whether I really should be going without it.

I can't find the nutritional information. Anywhere. Starbucks has apparently kept the lid on their nutritional information so tightly that no one seems to know just what's in their products. I find it odd and a little suspicious that a company that has such a hold on all of us does not willing offer up caloric and fat count on their beverages. They probably don't want us to know, because the 50% of Americans who are dieting at any given point in time might freak out and riot if they actually knew how bad these products were for them.