The theme of garbage continues.  The connection between garbage and food is convenience.  Modernity's requirement that we be constantly busy and running around makes the convenience of things like plastic and processed foods unavoidable and necessary.  Ergo we will be adding processed food to the topic of garbage.

Why do we still have more than one fork?  Are we trying to prove something like we are  by still making the penny?

Mt. Everest is covered in garbage and it's a good lesson for the moon and Mars, the first thing we do when we ascend to new heights is toss our garbage out the window. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/asia/mount-everest-trash-cleanup-scli-intl/index.html

If an Internet company eradicate mosquitoes I think we can finally claim the tech boom was a net positive. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-28/how-to-kill-mosquitoes-google-and-verily-have-a-plan

There is no such thing as a halfway ban, Cleveland wants to be New San Fransisco but instead is just enabling the ongoing mental game called recycling https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/05/cuyahoga-county-council-poised-to-pass-countywide-plastic-bag-ban.html?utm_campaign=cleve_sf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

The "bliss" point of processed foods is achieved through the mixture of the following

• sugar
• salt
• fat

Back to Oreo's: Oreo's are the GOAT of Cookies - best selling cookie of all time.  The recent different variations of oreos is the result of competition. Other higher fat, higher sugar cookies were released for people who had built up a tolerance for standard sugar cookies.  Nabiso had to pivot to "Banana Nut Pina' Colada Explosion Oreos" to add the sugar and fat needed to compete. Plus Prego discovered that people like to think they are unique.

Stomach Share vs. Landfill Airspace

• Airspace is the business of landfill operators
• Stomach Share is the business of food companies

Big food is a customer for big tobacco marketing and consulting services….the food giant General Foods (now known as Kraft) was purchased in the 1980s by Philip Morris.  

Honey vs synthetic honey is why people are so aggravating.  All people do is scream about is supermarket honey not being real while all the labels say it is the realest ever.

The term "Lost Dog" is demeaning to dogs.  Dogs do not get lost. They should be called "Runaway Dogs" because it is very rare that a dog is so stupid that it actually gets lost.