If you're wondering why there's no picture, it's because the Doritos official site is the ugliest fucking nightmare of a site I've ever seen, and the only picture Google can find comes from a "review" on a "website" that is so glowing with unearned praise that someone clearly either got paid, blown, or both to publish it. And it wasn't even a good picture.

So Liz was kind enough to bring a bag of these to the Sunday shindig, and most of us tried them. 

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Cathy returned from California yesterday. Amongst the various and sundry items acquired during her travels was a box of cookies she knew I'd love, even though I'd never seen or heard of them before:

So, after an experiment over the summer, sugar Pepsi has returned to stores with an even more retro logo than the weird cursive blue-on-blue Pepsi Throwback had before.

Goddamned Costco coupons.

They did this with the Izze, too. First one's not free, but it is a few bucks off. Then you get hooked on fruity sodas, or little balls of dark chocolate wrapped around pomegranate jellies.

We will not discuss how quickly the two-pound bag has vanished, because you don't need to know that.

In case you're wondering, no, I haven't done any cooking OR eating worthy of blogging about since the lettuce wraps on Sunday. The most significant food-related event of my entire week has been the discovery that the strange barbecue-sauce substance dripping on the bottom shelf of my fridge is actually adobo juice from some stored chipotles. That's life sometimes.

It's October. And you know what that means. The single greatest mass-market major-company carbonated corn-syrup product is back on shelves, where it will remain until late December or early January.

What is an Ancestral Snack? It is a snack food of my youth, one that I am still physically capable of eating today.

In the world of snacks, beef jerky is a tricky, tricky beast. Assuming you don't want to shell out for the good stuff, commercial beef jerky comes in two forms. Dry, tough, traditional beef jerky, which ranges from completely fucking awful to pretty good, and then processed beef-like substances labeled as beef jerky, but with a consistency somewhere between Slim Jims and dog treats.

If an unclicked-on post that got dumped into my Google Reader by the Huffington Post is to be believed, today is National Junk Food Day. Which actually raises an interesting philosophical question. If the answer to "why is there a Black History Month and no White History Month" is "because in America, EVERY month is White History Month" (and that is the answer, by the way), then why is today National Junk Food Day? Maybe instead we should have a National Celery Day or something.