Pollan Disses Colbert's Diet

On The Colbert Report Wednesday night, Michael Pollan told Stephen Colbert that if the bellicose host cooked for himself more often, and ate fewer processed foods, perhaps he wouldn't be so "pasty." Colbert shot back with a zinger about Pollan's baldness, then pointed to his own jet-black mane and said, "This is what high fructose corn syrup gets you."

Pollan also referred to the time, noted contemporaneously in this space, that he was hassled by a judgmental Berkeleyite (OK, redundant) for buying his kid a box of Fruity Pebbles at the Berkeley Bowl grocery store. "I haven't been back to that store," he said.