🍟 National Junk Food Day: An Ode to the Glorious, Greasy, and Gluttonous

Let’s all take a moment to not count calories and instead pay homage to the real MVPs of our childhoods, breakups, road trips, sleepovers, hangovers, and let’s-be-honest…last week: junk food.

July 21st is National Junk Food Day, and I, for one, am celebrating it with zero shame and extra cheese. National Junk Food Day deserves a full-on snack attack of a post.

🎉 Why Junk Food Deserves Its Own Holiday

Because it’s delicious. Because it doesn’t pretend to be anything it’s not. Because sometimes your soul doesn’t want a kale salad—it wants a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and a Mountain Dew Code Red.

Junk food is pure, unfiltered joy. It’s crunch and fizz. It’s sweet when you’re salty, salty when you’re sad, and a miracle when you’re hungover and can’t face real life. It’s vending machines at 2 AM. It’s birthday parties with pizza and neon-colored frosting. It’s freedom in a crinkly plastic wrapper.

🍕 My Mount Rushmore of Junk

Let’s be real, everyone’s got a Top 4. Here’s mine:

1. Mike & Ikes– Those color bullets of flavor? Iconic.
2. Taco Bell Chalupas – The crunch? The grease? A full-body experience.
3. Hot Tamales – Chewy, sticky, and probably 92% corn syrup.
4. Cool Ranch Doritos – The flavor dust alone deserves its own museum wing.

Honorable mentions: gas station taquitos, sour gummy worms, and anything with artificial nacho flavoring.

🧠 Is It “Good” for You?

Maybe not in the ways your doctor means. But in the ways that matter—the nostalgia, the joy, the stress relief, the absolute delight of licking cheese dust off your fingers after a long day? Junk food is the real deal.

Sometimes, you just need a day to say: “Screw it. I’m eating Pop-Tarts for dinner.”

✨ Let’s Get Real

So tomorrow—Monday or not—if the spirit moves you, go grab a Slurpee, a corn dog, or that weird snack you used to love in high school.

Make peace with your cravings. Honor the crunch. Live your truth.

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