An Anthropological Guide to Dollar Store Food

Object

Item Name:	Elite Caramel Minis
Item Type:	Candy
Country of Origin:	Israel (http://www.elite.co.il/)
Price:	$0.99
Total Calories:	1350 kCal
Value:	13.6 kCal per dollar.
Testing Date:	24 August 2002

Brief review

Chemical, grainy chocolate-covered caramels.

Cultural: We refer interested readers out to other books on the economy, socio-political, aesthetic, and culinary manifestations of the modern Israeli state, as it is far too much to cover here. Needless to say, religious considerations are universally present in the factories of the theocratic state, with the inevitable result: kosher candy tastes like crap.

Physical: Caramel - grainy, as if it wasn't prepared hot enough. Inside chocolate - grainy, as if it, too, was not made correctly. Various ingredients used in the modern world are not acceptable to people obeying various dietary codes of various legitimacy ('low carb', 'raw foods', 'living foods', or any number of religious restrictions) and thus seek control over a population by making their food less tasty.

Archaeology: Provenence lost. Relatively new in the store.

Linguistic: English, Hebrew. Appropriate, given geographical origins.