Obsessed With Seeds In Nacho Cheese
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Around 2010 (not sure when) for some dang reason, David's company stopped selling nacho cheese flavored sunflower seeds. I searched everywhere, even up in Salt Lake and I only found them almost sold out in some gas stations. I have no idea why they were discontinued. Today I took a look and saw that they can now be ordered online. But why Utah won't sell them, I don't know. They have everything else, from dill pickle to Jalepeno!! I am obsessed with things sometimes, so this poem is about my frantic search to get all the bags of these seeds I could find in Utah County. Woe to anyone else out there who enjoyed them as I did. I would eat a few bags a week for my snacks and in a year the ones I found ran out!
Today I do not eat flavored sunflower seeds. The seed itself is healthful but not the flavorings they use. I now buy the healthier plain salted pumpkin seeds to replace my much loved snack of flavored sunflower seeds!
I’m noticing the seeds I like to buy
are running out in flavor “Nacho Cheese.”
They’ve got sunflower seeds in Ranch, but I
require my nacho cheese ones. Geeez Louise!!
I look it up on Google and I find
they’re selling out. I run to every store!
They’ve got that dang “Dill” flavor, but my kind
is not in stock and won’t be any more.
I know a service station that’s still got
those seeds I love. I’m off! The hunt is on!
I’ll buy up every bag in every spot
where I can locate them before they’re gone.
Some other stations carry them. I dash
from Pleasant Grove to Provo, brandishing
my credit card. I buy them. In a flash,
all seeds in Nacho Cheese are vanishing!
I’m driving south as far as Mapleton!
The chance of finding bags of them is dire
for fellow addicts. I’ve found sixty-one
to last a year before they all expire!
A true story that happened to me about five years ago
See "About Poem" above. When I love something, I try very hard to get it!!
For the Obsession Contest of Silent One
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2016
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