One whole grocery aisle dedicated to potato chips. Another for colas (or pop, or soft drinks, whatever you like to call them). Yet another just for breakfast cereals – many of which come out with special “limited edition” packaging named after the cool cartoon or movie in the public popularity spotlight. Several yards worth of frozen pizza brands. Freezer after freezer of ice cream – including twelve kinds of vanilla (c’mon folks, there’s only so much you can do to a vanilla bean!) all the way up to glow-in-the-dark choco-nuggets in every bite! Okay, maybe not quite on that last one, but close. I did see pop-rocks (you remember, the candy that explodes when you put it in your mouth?) mixed into a new flavor – I just can’t figure out how they keep the containers from blowing up when they start to melt.
And this is just at the local gas station quicky-mart.