Comments on: Junk food

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:24:00 +0000

Bud light is rice water with a few bubbles and a dash of alcohol. It’s a damned low bar.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:09:00 +0000

Better than bud light. I’ve never noticed myself to be particularly prone to headaches after drinking PBR in the first place, but hey everyone’s different.

By: Steve Miller

Steve Miller — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:07:00 +0000

Here ya go, Donald.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:24:00 +0000

Are you sure they’re not swilling some PBR’s with their snack cakes? That’s how the idiot hipsters roll in these parts. (I say ‘idiot’ because PBR is a headache in a can. I seriously have no idea why anyone would drink it ever unless it was the last so-called ‘beer’ remaining on Earth a la Tallahasee and his Twinkie quest.)

By: jbond

jbond — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:19:00 +0000

I wonder what the shelf life is on all that stuff. And why.

By: noah django

noah django — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:36:00 +0000

yeah, sure thing, Cory. meanwhile, the food in England is world-renowned for it’s taste and nutritive value.
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By: kringlebertfistyebuns

kringlebertfistyebuns — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:48:00 +0000

Cloud Cakes (center left) are the Little Debbie equivalent of Twinkies.

By: oldtaku

oldtaku — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:25:00 +0000

Since it’s Texas, was this the ‘Organic Health Food’ section?

Also, winter is definitely the best time to visit Houston. In summer it’s the state’s reeking, dripping, diseased taint. In winter it’s just charmingly dirty.

By: jellyfibs

jellyfibs — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:59:00 +0000

The first thing that popped into my head when I saw this pic was a similar view I had when stopping at a Wal-Mart in Nevada on the way to Burning Man a few years ago….

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:51:00 +0000

The Nutty Bars are so good, but some of their products just look like garbage.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:37:00 +0000

I hate to say this but I could snarf a whole entire box of Oatmeal Creme Pies.

By: John Clavis

John Clavis — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:57:00 +0000

At my local Key Food here in Astoria, Queens, NYC, we have a pretty healthy Little Debbie’s section… so I guess the quipsters (that’s short for “Queens hipsters” [I just made that up... and now I taste bile]) like themselves some Little Debbie’s to wash down their hateful coffee drinks!

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:34:00 +0000

Either?

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0000

And yet no twinkies.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:39:00 +0000

I'm a very bad person, I guess, since I always felt that the company motto, "Little Debbie Has A Snack For You", seemed to be followed by an implied "Heh Heh Heh." As if Little Debbie Does Dallas.

By: OriGuy

OriGuy — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:03:00 +0000

In San Jose, and I suppose in Houston, too, the Mexican supermarkets carry Bimbo brand junk food. One of the varieties is a Twinkies-like product with strawberry filling. Another is a roll with dulce de leche. You can keep your Hostess crap.

By: Christopher Houser

Christopher Houser — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:58:00 +0000

I’m going to get you, Cory Doctorow! Just 2 hours left. Muahaha.

But first, I need to go by the store and get some junk food…. because I’m a fat Houstonian.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:33:00 +0000

Okay, half way point on my jog, just gonna duck in here for a drink. Don’t look at anything at all, just keep your eye on the ground and head for the drink aisle. Okay, got my drink, don’t look at anything. had for the check out, eyes on the ground and . . . what’s this . . . OMG!

By: Freddie Freelance

Freddie Freelance — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:33:00 +0000

Those prices are pretty high; I usually buy those exact same products at the Dollar Tree.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:31:00 +0000

We have aisles for each of those usually. Chips are with soda/pop/soft drinks, cookies are usually opposite baking products or on the same aisle as crackers, and chocolates are usually somewhat random. Like 25% of what is in a grocery store is junk food, and that’s just counting the stuff that’s actually designed to be loaded with fat and sugar.

By: fadetomute

fadetomute — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:58:00 +0000

notice, the oatmeal creme pies seem to be selling… .

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:45:00 +0000

Really looks like any grocery store in Texas/Oklahoma we just got Tastykake last year. I love the peanut butter sticks, nutty bars, and the brownies but only the regular ones with walnuts no cosmic brownies for me! Although they all tasted better when I was a kid so it’s probably more nostalgia than anything because I don’t buy them now.

By: Justin J. Snelgrove

Justin J. Snelgrove — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:44:00 +0000

As a Canadian, I can sure say that looks disturbing. I mean, our grocery stores have junk food but the bulk of it is things like potato chips, chocolate bars, and cookies. Not that much of those sort of monstrosities.

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:44:00 +0000

There are multiple bakeries, all these people going on about Oatmeal Creme Pies — but I wonder if they get them from the Collegedale, TN plant? Houston is closer to Gentry, AR which means they are really getting the sub-par product. The Collegedale cakes are still handmade by artisans and are shipped only to discerning metropolises such as Portlandia, Austin, and Hoboken.

By: Keith Tyler

Keith Tyler — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:42:00 +0000

Thanks, this saves me the trip to any of my own local supermarkets to see what the snack aisle looks like. Like you do.

By: axoplasm

axoplasm — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:40:00 +0000

Yea ye pharaohs,
let us walk through this barren desert
in search of truth and some pointy boots
and maybe a few snack crackers

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:37:00 +0000

I’m glad, for one, to see the shoe on the other foot. Through high school, the Arts Magnet kids in Dallas would sneer at us because we were from the suburbs. I figured that was all behind me until I started college, where the Houstonians were top-tier, I mean they thought their shit had no stank. Houston, Houston, Houston! Take that, Houston. Take your Little Debbies and cram ‘em. Sideways.

By: NelC

NelC — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:37:00 +0000

If the touring author happened to visit it. Which, given the kind of schedule publishers can put one on, a touring author may not have time to do. Whereas a touring author still has to find time for the necessities of life, such as food (or toiletries, or biros, or memory sticks, or whatever one might visit a supermarket for while on tour).

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:33:00 +0000

I’m in the Detroit area and had the same thought about the…completeness, shall we say, of the selection in Cory’s pic.

By: thekinginyellow

thekinginyellow — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:31:00 +0000

i would say it looks like randall’s. i can’t think of anyone else with those big yellow tags. maybe they all do!