BRETT writes:

You got me thinking about what types of food are popular in modern times. While I think canned food is emblematic of the era, I also noted that in addition to your favorite (pizza) there are sandwiches, the burrito, the salad and the wrap. These are all popular because, like modernity itself, they are the same mundane experience dressed up as variety. It’s all surface — if you put avocado on/in your pizza/salad/wrap/burrito, it’s California style; if you add chicken and peanuts, it’s Thai; if you scatter pineapple on it, it’s Hawaiian. But underneath it’s the same carb-heavy, fat-heavy sort of nutritionless stuff. This reminds me of how modern society creates anonymous hallways and gridded cities, then creates drama to distract us from the basic pointlessness of it all.

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