Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Junk-Food Heaven
In Bill Bryson’s chapter Junk-Food Heaven (chapter 15) he discusses the variety of junk food he can choose from in America. Bill looks through the refrigerator and realizes that he does not have any sweets in his home so he decides to go to the grocery store with his wife. While in the grocery store Bill starts to go junk food crazy by picking up sweets such as chocolate filled devil dogs and whipped marshmallow sandwiches. Bill brings this food back to the house and starts to eat it all but after a while he starts to become sick of all the junk food he has been consuming. He states that the most awful product that he purchased was the breakfast pizza.He said that he tried baking it,zapping it with microwave, and he even tried to served it with marshmallows. At the end of the day he decided that he was tired of the junk food so he threw out the remaining of the breakfast pizza. He goes into the refrigerator and finds himself some Swedish crisp bread and a stick of celery to get something healthy.
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I like what you wrote and understood it. Most people would agree with you to. In my opoinon i would say that junk food is good for people. It helps you have fun while you are in date or in a movie too. The junk food makes the person that is mad at you happy like if my girlfriend is mad at me i would buy her a candy or chocalate then she will be happy and forgive me.Also if you are babysitting a kid then you can give them a candy and they will be quiet and respect you and listen to you.
ReplyDeleteI actually chose this chapter my self and I thought it was hilarious in a good way,to me it makes fun how this country is obsesed with junk food. when he went to the supermarket, with his wife and he started buying all that junk food like toaster strudels, marshamallow, and endless cereals i though to my self what is this country coming to, where everything we eat is a mountain of calories and sugar. I thought to my self why can't we be like his wife who was actually trying to get celery sticks instead of toaster strudel, we should be more like the British.When I go outside i see endless enticing delicous, and very cheap restaurants where you can get a hearty good tasting meal for only a few dollars. Now I'm not a critic of fast food, I personally live on it, but i dont think we should be bombarded with a fast food restaurant on every corner, and then to add to it endless cereals, poptarts, and other sugary foods at your local supermarket. All we need is a little self control.
ReplyDeletemohamed i understand what you wrote and would have agreed with you. If you think that a person would be happy for you when you give them a candy then in my opnioin you are wrong. If i was mad at my boyfriend and he gave me a candy then that would not do anything. The other example you gave about giving candy to the little kids whill you babysiitting is also wrong. If you babysitting a kids then you should give them a healthy food and not a junk food. Other then that you are correct for the junk food for movies or datiing but not forgiving people.
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