Not one of these things belonged to these manufacturers, but consumerism has consumed them, and then has persuaded society to buy them back, and to pay, furthermore, through the neause. Mcjunk, for instance, the greatest McGobbler of them all, pretends to be responsible for the wholesome confection of McMom's apple pie, but it is actually responsible for the wholesale McPapping of culture, the loss of local cuisine, the loss of forests to cattle pasture, and the death of tribes which used to live in those forests. There is a McCon even in the Mcjunk product itself. Consider the specific pleasure of bringing the shopping indoors, bringing the prey back home. Hurry hurry hurry, while stocks last.
Auctions appeal to a sense of competitiveness for limited food supplies.
Every summer and winter shops see outbreaks of sales-rage. In Hansel and Gretel's house of sweets, food - the gingerbread pretends to be product. Consumerism does it the other way round. The ideal consumer product is one which pretends to be food. Like food it is to be hungered for, and like food it is to be perishable.