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July 21st

National Junk Food Day

Somewhere in the food science laboratories of major snack companies, teams of researchers are working on a problem that sounds like a punchline but is, in fact, one of the more sophisticated applied psychology challenges in commercial food: how do you engineer a food product that people will find deeply pleasurable in the moment but that never quite satisfies — that produces the desire for another handful before the first one is finished? The answer involves a concept called the "bliss point," identified by food scientist Howard Moskowitz in the 1970s: the specific combination of sugar, salt, and fat that produces maximum pleasure without triggering the sensory-specific satiety that causes us to stop eating. The Dorito, the Oreo, and the potato chip have all been optimized toward this target. They are not accidentally irresistible. They are engineered to be irresistible. The food scientists who designed them knew exactly what they were doing.

National Junk Food Day on July 21st celebrates — or at least honestly acknowledges — the foods that have been most thoroughly optimized for pleasure without nutrition: chips, candy, cookies, fast food, soda, and the vast industrial category of snacks that line the center aisles of every grocery store in America. It is not a holiday that recommends daily junk food consumption or dismisses its health implications. It is a holiday that says: today is the occasion for the bag of chips and the bowl of ice cream and the thing you crave but usually resist, eaten without guilt for one afternoon in July. Understanding why junk food works so well doesn't make it less delicious. It just makes the pleasure more interesting to think about.

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