Kansas City Foodie Juxtaposition

A missive on junk food juxtaposition that kinda misses the point . . . Junk food is pervasive THROUGHOUT ALL OF AMERICAN CULTURE. It's not so much a sign of disparity as it is a unifying factor of American life and late stage capitalism.

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Food Deserts and Demand

The Kansas City Star published a 2,500 word front page story on Sunday that asked, "Why do so many stores east of Troost lack healthy food?" It wasn't until the 11th paragraph that we got the answer: demand. This answer shouldn't surprise anyone-we've known it for years.

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  1. Yup, strawberry pop, tater chips and candy are king in the hood, no wonder those people are HUGE!

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  2. I'm so old I remember when Americans were thin.

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  3. I love how this was a news story last week! Anyone who has lived a full life has seen first-hand the disparities in food choices/options. Did some hipster just figure this out a few weeks ago? Hahaha. A bunch of pussies. I'm sure all of the JoCo readers were like, oh my - I had NO IDEA. This is crazy! Been this way for forever.

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  4. Stores sell what the customers want. If they stock the healthy stuff and it does not sell they will stock the crap so it will sell. They have to offer the items they can sell or they will be out of business.

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  5. So the grocers are "hiding" the healthy food in the back of the store - a 100 ft. walk? All food stores place junk food and other cheap eats all around the store - just take a look at the cereal selections and count the number of sugared cereal. Also look at the chips, candies, pastries being offered. All stores do this because it's what people want to buy. I do think that healthy food isn't as popular because of cost. Hungry and poor forces you to choose filling but bad for you items.

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  6. Laughable. KCMO public education and people think that east side KCMO wants healthy choices in diet? Cmon now. Kids are having kids in these schools. The males are killing other males over nothing and shooting up baby moma house.

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  7. Like three brands of corn in most stores, but an entire aisle of chips - corn and potato, and various dips, salsas, and other get-fat goodies. Same in the cookie aisle. You fatties should spend more time in the fresh vegetable aisle.

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  8. The produce may be overpriced just like organic milk or ypgurt at walmart or hyvee costs $1-2 more than at an organicy grocery or trader joes that are too big of pussies to use plastic bags. Ppl either go elsewhere to get vegetables, eat at QT, or assume that meals made for you are cheaper.

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  9. i went to some store and they had these crappy ass bags of little apples for like 6or7 dollars that were everywhere.

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  10. It’s supply and demand- cannot break it down more than that. I went into an Indian graocery and know what? Indian Food. Everywhere. And no massive junk food aisles either. If the Indian clientele wanted Doritos I am sure that is what would be stocked. The Star’s agenda was to write yet another, “look at all the racism” article. The Star continues its disservice to the community

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  11. Instead of blaming grocers for selling what their customers want, prograssives could lobby lawmakers to limit food subsidies to purchase of commodities (vegetables, fruit, meat, grain, eggs) and prohibit purchase of processed and fast foods. But then they'd lose the poor, fat and unhealthy voters, so that won't happen.

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