Convenience store indulgences

Grandma’s Oatmeal & Raisin cookies. Two large cookies to a package for 50-cents. Add a Diet Mountain Dew from the fridge case and I’m good for the next couple hours.

Those little packs that have both a meaty, sausagey type thing, and a hunk of the greasiest, most clay-like cheese that man has ever created. That cheese is so slick and unnatural. It feels like the smooth side of a Lego, but oh maaaannnn is it good. Why don’t they sell just the horrible, salty, firm cheese by itself?

I also like the cream cheese and blueberry pastries they have at my 7-11. No, I’m not allowed to go in there anymore.

Ha, we have those in the vending machine at work. Every time I eat one I wonder if I might just excrete a little molded polar bear or something, just like those machines at the zoo.

One of mine may be forever gone, there was this gas station that opened up a pizza restaurant, but like a prepackaged pizza restaurant (why not?) and they made both individual size and full size pizzas. They also made a breakfast pizza with eggs and sausage and cheese and bacon all over it that probably clocked in at around 30 jillion calories, but day-um, they were good. The pizza joint was a flop, so I don’t know if I’ll ever have that goodness again.

Now it’s peanut butter Twix. You can’t find them everywhere, but when I do…

I admit it, I am weak. And my weaknesses are French vanilla cappuccinos, from that wonderful machine that whirs and grinds and wheezes them out while you hold the button, and Zingers, also of the vanilla variety. Although a convenience store near me recently picked up some devil’s food Zingers with white icing, which was kinda neat for something different.

When I’m home in Canada, I can not resist Hawkin’s Cheezies and Canadian Coke (made with sugar and Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so good). Well, I can. I just choose not to. I’ll only have them once or twice a year, though.

I am a huge and life-long fan of the generic cinnamon bear. You know, the ones that come in bags that are about two for a dollar? (I wouldn’t know what a single bag costs, seeing as how I always buy two. Or more.) So cinnamony and chewy and kinda cute-looking! Yum!

Combos – pretzel with cheddar cheez. The BIG bag. My delusional justification: “Well, I’ve got a two-hour drive to get to that 1 p.m. meeting on main campus, and I won’t have time to stop for lunch. Better get a 20 oz. bottle of Diet Coke, too.”

Let’s see… hubby’s fave is Nacho Cheese Doritos and a cold milk.

I like Funyuns. And I don’t even smoke pot anymore… :cool:

Annabel’s makes some cool old-school candy. I was watching a show on snack food on Discovery and they visited the Annabel’s factory (I think it is here in SoCal, actually). I had to go out the next day and buy a Big Hunk!

Abba Zabbas also rock (they were on that show, too).

Um, what else? Munchos, beef jerky, Slim Jims, coffee that’ll keep you up for 2 days…

I love these! Since they’re probably unimaginably horrible for you, I strictly limit my intake of these and pork rinds to road trips.

Between my city and my hometown, there’s a convenience store that used to sell rock-hard strawberry-and-cream licorice ropes. I wasn’t sure whether they were supposed to be that hard or they were just selling off a box they found from 1989, but I love them and got one every time I stopped. Eating it killed ten minutes and the ache in my jaw distracted me for ten minutes past then.

A calorie free soda and a few pieces of candy aren’t really that bad for you, compared to the hundreds of other snacks on the shelves.

Actually, the Annabelle plant is here in my hometown - Annabelle Candy. Too bad I can’t stand marshmallows.