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Any Big Brother fan worth his/her weight in peanut-butter-and-jelly knows that the PB&J diet has long been a punitive diet for those houseguests who lose competitions.

This season, however, peanut-butter-and-jelly was deemed by the producers to be “too good” for the losing contestants. Instead, the producers cooked up a new delicacy, something they quaintly refer to as “slop.” This mysterious mélange was designed to be incredibly unappetizing, and thus serve as an ever-greater incentive for the incarcerated houseguests to prevail at competition time.

So, as a public service for those of you who’ve been wondering exactly what is in this so-called slop, I hereby present the official ingredient list:

- oats
- whey protein concentrate
- soy protein isolate
- milk protein isolate
- vitamin A palmitate
- thiamine mononitrate
- riboflavin
- pyridoxine hydrochloride
- cyancobalamin
- vitamin D3
- alpha tocopherol
- niacin
- biotin
- pantothenic acid
- calcium carbonate
- magnesium oxide
- zinc oxide
- copper gluconate
- manganese sulfate
- ferrous sulfate
- folic acid
- potassium iodide
- cellulose gum
- sale
- acesulfame potassium


“Unappetizing” hardly seems to describe it. It almost makes the pizza from Pepperoni's Pizza Restaurant in Warwick seem worth eating. Then again, on second thought maybe Big Brother slop wouldn't be so bad after all...