Here's the question: What's is the best mass-produced food product ever invented?
I've thought about this for a long time, to the point where I heard the sound of one hand clapping.
By the way, the sound goes "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."
My answer, and I'll put my choice up against any competition, is the Ice Cream Sandwich.
I don't know and don't care what that black stuff is that functions as the buns of the food product, but it is the superior mass-produced food product ... ever.
Mrs. Nasty's candidate is a foodstuff that has many variations, the potato chip.
I can see why many people would choose the potato chip as the main competitor to the ice cream sandwich, its main rival to the correct answer to this question.
Or do you have other competitors for this important question?
I invite you to provide any worthy candidates.
I still side with the glory of the ice cream sandwich even though the either-or choice between sandwich and chip exemplifies the sweet/salty dynamic. And of course, we're talking about matters of taste here. People could go around and around about this almost metaphysical question forever.
The choice between ice cream sandwich and potato chip reminds me of a little test Audubon put on recently where they pitted two of the smartest birds against one another in an intelligence test. You can read all about it in "Crow vs. Parrot: Who Is the Wisest in All the Land?"
But the problem with that test is that they should have used ravens instead of crows because the Common Raven is a highly intelligent species. Ravens would have kicked parrot and crow butts that day.
In my mind, the ice cream sandwich is the best food product ever invented just like the raven is the smartest bird in the world.
