staten island grocery mix
drove to ny last friday and just got back last night at 11:30. saw my girl and we ate lychees and cherimoya and discovered many disturbing food and food-related items in general. these include:
-"potted meat product." more than one brand no less. one of them had a picture of some meaty mush stuff spread on a cracker. at least now we know what to do with it?
-ketchup-flavored potato chips. no no, it's not as bizarre and/or disgusting as it sounds, so the potato chip-makers would have you believe in their including an illustration on the bag of a box of french fries, as if to say, "see? potatoes go with ketchup. remember fries? you like fries with ketchup right? please try some?"
-banana-flavored soda?
-she-crab? in a can???
-waffle-stick maker (as seen on tv??). which means that, apparently, there is such a thing as waffle sticks.
-"granola" bars that were slathered (yes slathered) in icing with various chocolate, caramel, and cream fillings. yea, granola..the healthy breakfast treat. didn't they used to at least put fruit in them?
-taco, hot dog, hamburger, and pizza variety "lunchables." so your kid can avoid the junk they call food in the school cafeteria
-tuna-stuffed olives
-herring party snack? in sour cream??
-"cheesoning." a bright neon orange-yellow cheese "seasoning"??
-powdered butter (yea, i already knew this existed, but i never really thought much about it. powdered butter????)
-ranch-flavored everything
-high-fructose corn syrup everything. i'm seriously beginning to wonder whether the number of items that have this in their ingredients outnumber those that don't in any given grocery store. (try finding bread that doesn't have HFCS in it, health food stores not included) see bill maher for high-fructose corn syrup conspiracy theory..
no magenta-colored eggs, though, like we saw in harrisburg before.
i think i was actually going to say some non-grocery related stuff, but..i don't even remember at this point. this deserves an entry of its own anyway.
-"potted meat product." more than one brand no less. one of them had a picture of some meaty mush stuff spread on a cracker. at least now we know what to do with it?
-ketchup-flavored potato chips. no no, it's not as bizarre and/or disgusting as it sounds, so the potato chip-makers would have you believe in their including an illustration on the bag of a box of french fries, as if to say, "see? potatoes go with ketchup. remember fries? you like fries with ketchup right? please try some?"
-banana-flavored soda?
-she-crab? in a can???
-waffle-stick maker (as seen on tv??). which means that, apparently, there is such a thing as waffle sticks.
-"granola" bars that were slathered (yes slathered) in icing with various chocolate, caramel, and cream fillings. yea, granola..the healthy breakfast treat. didn't they used to at least put fruit in them?
-taco, hot dog, hamburger, and pizza variety "lunchables." so your kid can avoid the junk they call food in the school cafeteria
-tuna-stuffed olives
-herring party snack? in sour cream??
-"cheesoning." a bright neon orange-yellow cheese "seasoning"??
-powdered butter (yea, i already knew this existed, but i never really thought much about it. powdered butter????)
-ranch-flavored everything
-high-fructose corn syrup everything. i'm seriously beginning to wonder whether the number of items that have this in their ingredients outnumber those that don't in any given grocery store. (try finding bread that doesn't have HFCS in it, health food stores not included) see bill maher for high-fructose corn syrup conspiracy theory..
no magenta-colored eggs, though, like we saw in harrisburg before.
i think i was actually going to say some non-grocery related stuff, but..i don't even remember at this point. this deserves an entry of its own anyway.
