Donut Shack

Eat-a-Donut

Still Hungry

Top Donut

See the full What’s Up With Lowell And Donuts Flickr photoset with slideshow. Follow that with the Post-Donut Tour photo set.

Story/explanation/narrative to follow. Sometime.

Road-trip Music:

We compared the Magnetic Fields’ original version of Book of Love from the 69 Love Songs set to the new Peter Gabriel rendition from the Shall We Dance soundtrack.

We spent much time laughing at and singing along with William Shatner’s new album: Has Been, especially the faux-Western title track: Has Been.

As much as Shatner’s new album rocks, his art is really the spoken word. He doesn’t sing so much as talk…with style. To that end, I had to share some Ken Nordine tracks with the donut-eating crowd.

Finally, after getting our fill of Nordine and Shatner, we cruized around listening to Swearing at Motorists and other tracks from 69 Love Songs.

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The marketers and designers for this product found their audience, and know how to speak to them. Just look at the pictures.

“I know what I like, and I like a lot of it” reads the text next to the over-weight, blue-collared white boy on the back. In bold yellow type at the bottom, it reads “it’s good to be full.”

With 1.5 pounds of food, this preprocessed meal delivers 1140 Calories, 70% of your recommended fat intake (84% of saturated fats), and 123% of your recommended sodium. It proudly provides more of everything that Americans want in their food.

[update:] Amanda Brenner comments on the The Hungry Man XXL double standard and a recent TV commercial for the product:

Oh! Did I mention that both of the men are FAT?

I don’t mean pleasingly plump. I mean lard bucket big jeans break the sofa springs fat.

These are fat guy dairy cows. The slogan is, believe it or not, “It’s good to be full”.

Is it good to be lonely? Is it good to die at 30?

Lay off the Hungry Man XXL. Your car is leaning to the left.

There’s also a story about Hungry-Man XXL Breakfast at X-Entertainment.com:

…64 grams of fat, 2,090 milligrams of sodium, and enough cholesterol to kill anything that’s ever lived. The ‘justification’ is that you’re supposed to eat shitty food in the morning, as it supplies you with a suitable amount of energy to get through the day. Unfortunately, Swanson’s supplying you with enough ‘energy’ to get through a week, and even if the only other thing you ate after this breakfast was oxygen, there’s still a relatively high chance that your ass will grow hands and tie your intestines in knots to prevent this shit from ever passing through. Really, really awful stuff.

And mystery of mysteries, it looks like a few of the Hungry-Man XXL dinners are available from Amazon’s Gourmet section.

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