Americans love junk food. The world loves junk food! We’re sure somewhere on other planets, aliens eat junk food (and love it just as much).
The Gorillamen are powered by junk food, so…it’s time we discussed everybody’s favorite thing!
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It’s a busy week, so here’s what we discuss this time around:
- What is the first junk food we remember eating? Did we like it?
- Were we caught up in the Healthy Eating Craze of the mid-80s?
- What’s the last thing we ate that we’d consider junk food?
- What’s our criteria that makes a food junk?
- What’s a junk food from our childhoods that we miss?
- Have we ever had a problem with too much junk food?
- What is the best junk food of all time?
- Is there such a thing as healthy junk food?
- What’s our go-to snack? Is it junky?
- Do we think we’re on the verge of another healthy eating craze?
- What’s the weirdest junk food we’ve ever had? (And the worst?)
- What junk food we thought was dead suddenly rose from the grave, or is still sold in other states/countries?
- What’s the future of junk food?
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first junk food we remember eating? Red Hots I snuck at my Gramma’s house / candy I stole from my grade school classmates (forget which came first). like it? Yep!
caught up in the Healthy Eating Craze of the mid-80s? Yep!
last thing we ate that we’d consider junk food? I’m eating Chex Mix right now.
criteria that makes a food junk? Extra-processed with extra oil / salt / sugar.
junk food from our childhoods that we miss? Crack seed. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91G%2BMkXZkwL._SL1500_.jpg Also Space Dust / Pop Rocks.
had a problem with too much junk food? I used to drink my self into a sugar stupor with a 2-liter of dollar soda every night. Usually “Big Red.”
best junk food of all time? Crack seed.
such a thing as healthy junk food? Not by my definition.
go-to snack? Chex Mix. Is it junky? Yep!
on the verge of another healthy eating craze? Nope!
weirdest junk food we’ve ever had? Wax lips and things (might have been filled with red corn syrup or something?)… got them at Village Pantry. (And the worst?) Those wax lips. I had to try them a few times before I decided this.
junk food we thought was dead suddenly rose from the grave, or is still sold in other states/countries? Space Dust became Pop Rocks.
future of junk food? Celebrity jerky. http://www.bitelabs.org/
So what you’re saying is we need to order a pile of Crack Seeds from Amazon and make them the official snack food of Men in Gorilla Suits?
Wax lips and those wax “Coke” bottles full of syrup. I know we’re supposed to just CHEW the wax, but they wouldn’t tell us to put it in our mouths if it were not to be ingested!
The BiteLabs site is wonderful…and that day WILL come! (There is no vaguely decent joke I can make, so I will stop, here.)
-Gorilla Christopher
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Chex Mix…
Yes, a pile of crack seed must be ordered. Beats deep-fried demon intervertebral discs every time. 🙂
Freaking Stuckey’s pecan rolls are REAL?! I thought those had been conjured by my mind to inhabit my most disturbing nightmares! Daaamn…