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.