Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Supermarket Bay View

For a lark I just went through all my Bay View collection pictures. I looked at all the plastic wrappers / labels / stickers / lids, and started a list of all the brands & foods that I've found. Here's the litany, all found since mid-June:

Fruit Candies:
* Walmart Fruit Smiles - Raspberry
* Fruit Rollups
* Kellogg’s Fruit Rolls - Wizards of Waverly Place
* Yogos Crashers - Berry Melon Mania
* Welch’s Fruit Snacks - Mixed Fruit

Crackers:
* Austin - Peanut Butter
* Lance - Smoke House Cheddar
* Ritz - Peanut Butter

Chips:
* Kettle Brand - Salt and Fresh Ground Pepper

Grain/Granola Snacks:
* Rice Krispies Treats - Original
* Walmart Granola - Peanut Butter & Choc Chip
* Nature Valley Granola - (Unk. variety)
* Quaker Chewy Granola - Chocolate Chunk

Sweets:
* Hershey’s Bar - Original
* Airheads
* Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
* Tootsie Roll
* Tootsie Roll Pops
* Betty Crocker - Scooby Doo Fruit-Flavored Snacks
* Good Humor - Ice Cream Sandwich

Condiments:
* Ketchup - McDonald’s
* Ketchup - Heinz
* Generic - Pepper pack
* Salad Oil - generic

Gum/Mint:
* Listerine Cool Mints
* Trident
* Wrigley’s
* Hall’s

Drinks:
* Sam’s Club - Water
* Capri Sun - Fruit Punch
* Capri Sun - Surfer Cooler
* Capri Sun Roarin Waters - Grape
* Shaw’s - Natural Spring Water
* Gatorade - Performance (Orange)
* Poland Spring - Water
* Price Chopper - Sparkling Water (Blackberry)

Drink Flavorings:
* Crystal Light - Green Tea
* Crystal Light - Fruit Punch
* Generic - Raspberry
* Totally Light - Lemonade

Fresh Fruit:
* Banana
* Apricot
* Nectarine
* Apple - Macintosh

Meats/Serious Foods:
* Little Caesar’s Pizza Heat Sheet
* Oscar Mayer - Lunchables w/cheese


That's just the labels that I can identify from my pics (which are inexcusably blurry). Eventually I want to swap out my pile of garbage bags for genuine storage containers. When I do, I'm sure I'll flesh the list out more.


We all know it's a plastic world. But when you start tallying the list of ordinary, everyday food packaging that winds up as permanent junk on a nice beach -- that's when you realize just how far down the rabbit hole we've come.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Harry,

    Programme on UK archaeology coming up - August 19th Thursday 9pm BBC2 (series of 4) called "Digging for Britain" and on BBC HD at 10pm same day. Happy hols!

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