grocery.

In the past week, I have had occasion to visit a grocery store multiple times and have discovered several food(ish) items that I would like to share.  The first – and least odd – is a new offering from Keebler: Flip Sides Crackers.  Apparently one side is a cracker, and the other side is a pretzel.  As someone who likes to keep their food separated whenever possible, this item seems to come straight from hell’s pantry.  I’m sure someone out there thinks it’s a good idea, though.

Secondly, I offer you Hormel’s Potted Meat Food Product.  I kid you not.  I’m walking down the non-Caucasian food aisles at Wegmans, turn around, and see a tiny can on the shelf that says “Potted Meat.”  What the heck is this?  The Wikipedia entry on potted meat cleared this issue up for me, but not without making me shudder at the thought of actually consuming this food product.

And finally in this installment of bizarre food-ish sightings, I noticed on the label of Taco Bell’s new Thick ‘n’ Chunky salsa (which itself brings up an awful image) that the slogan across the top says “Real Taste.  Real Ingredients.”  If Taco Bell had not specified this, I may have purchased a salsa that contained imaginary taste or fake ingredients.  Sadly, its slogan was not enough to dissuade me from the non-tasty, non-ingredient, non-Taco Bell salsa.  But still – what does this mean?!