Has anyone noticed lately that the long and multifarious (or should I say nefarious?) arm of the Reese’s empire has been slowly and silently reaching its chocolate, peanut-buttery fingers into all corners of the candy market and tightening its grip on sweet-toothed minds in every demographic through a complex ideological apparatus with aspirations of global domination and hegemonic bliss?

Did anyone anticipate that the inchoate dreams of the tiny little candy-coated peanut butter gems of the Pieces would spawn such visions of supremacy in supermarkets and drugstores nationwide? Who knew that cashiers, shelve-stockers and vending machine maintenancers would be so mindlessly and effortlessly recruited as deputies in exercising the subaltern functions of this expansive chocolate-covered, peanut butter hegemony? Read the rest of this entry »