Wal-Mart Selling More Peanut Butter And Spaghetti, People Eating Pet Food Not Far Off?

By Ben Popken May 1, 2008

Wal-Mart reports a significant uptick in peanut butter and spaghetti sales. A retail consultant says the last time this happened was in the stagflation 70′s, and it represents close to the bottom of consumer food purchase downgrading (the slope goes from red meat to pig meat to chicken to pasta, and then PB&J). “It hasn’t gotten to human food mixed with pet food yet, but it is certainly headed in that direction,” he says. That sounds both disgusting and sensationalist. How does pet food even taste? Well, according to an NBC intern, “It honestly didn’t taste too bad! They had three different types and all were like a thick soup. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t order it at a restaurant, but I’ve tasted worse. I imagine they’d love it in prison.”

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  1. Dustbunny says:
    May 2, 2008 at 12:54 am

    @fuzzymuffins:

    I hope those folks have a well-ventilated home ;-)

  2. thalia says:
    May 2, 2008 at 4:10 am

    Pet food? No way…that stuff’s like 50-80¢ a can! A can of beans would be more like it.

    And I’m no stranger to spaghetti and PB&J…for college kids who don’t like Kraft or Ramen, spaghetti and PB are the stuff of life!

  3. radio1 says:
    May 2, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    @elijah_dukes_mayonnaise: Yeah, it was that old woman that everyone supposedly cared a lot about– but was only in that one episode.

  4. Anitra says:
    May 2, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    @Orv: Except cows CAN eat cheap grass instead of expensive grain. It’s just the modern industrial farm that has taught us differently.

  5. MissCellania says:
    May 2, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    Potatoes. Cornbread. Beans. I know people who survive on this diet all their lives, with garden vegetables in the summer. No need to eat pet food.

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