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thebitterguySo, the other day I was in my local Great Canadian Superstore, and I played a little game with myself. The game was "Guess how horrible for you the Swanson TV Dinners are".
It’s very fun. Because, let me tell you, them Swanson Hungry Man dinners should be re-named Swanson Cause of Death dinners. I can’t find the actual item I was looking at, but there are a lot of places to find people who’ll talk about the full range of Hungry Man dinners.
This article from X-Entertainment.com is an amusing, if somewhat over-snarky, look at the All Day Breakfast, titled such because if you eat anything else that day you’ll likely die.
The breakfast, btw, is one of the crowning achievements of Bad Boxed Dinners. It almost makes the Sports Grill American Classic look like salad greens with vinegar. This SF Gate story takes a rather pessimistic view of everything, including the so-called "obesity epidemic" (because no one takes anything seriously until war gets declared on it).
These remind me of something (as do most thigns in life) from a Neil Gaiman story. This specific one is from Good Omens. In it, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse were rather bored with no apocalypse to work on at that time, so they all went off to do stuff. Famine, in a nice touch, went into fast food. His speciality was super low nutrition foods filled with fats and sugars. So, people could slowly starve to death, while getting fatter and fatter.
Who says Fantasy books are irrelevant to everyday life?
It’s very fun. Because, let me tell you, them Swanson Hungry Man dinners should be re-named Swanson Cause of Death dinners. I can’t find the actual item I was looking at, but there are a lot of places to find people who’ll talk about the full range of Hungry Man dinners.
This article from X-Entertainment.com is an amusing, if somewhat over-snarky, look at the All Day Breakfast, titled such because if you eat anything else that day you’ll likely die.
The breakfast, btw, is one of the crowning achievements of Bad Boxed Dinners. It almost makes the Sports Grill American Classic look like salad greens with vinegar. This SF Gate story takes a rather pessimistic view of everything, including the so-called "obesity epidemic" (because no one takes anything seriously until war gets declared on it).
These remind me of something (as do most thigns in life) from a Neil Gaiman story. This specific one is from Good Omens. In it, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse were rather bored with no apocalypse to work on at that time, so they all went off to do stuff. Famine, in a nice touch, went into fast food. His speciality was super low nutrition foods filled with fats and sugars. So, people could slowly starve to death, while getting fatter and fatter.
Who says Fantasy books are irrelevant to everyday life?
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Date: 2006-05-09 05:54 pm (UTC)Not even I would eat that.
Have you seen X-Entertainment's report on the can of rusty ten-year old Hi-C juice they bought at a local corner store? Made me hurt my sides, it did, what with the laughing.
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Date: 2006-05-09 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 05:55 pm (UTC)That all-day breakfast is hideous.