Tuesday Photo Challenge – Junk

Welcome to week 202 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!

You really went Yard with last week’s theme (the round up will be posted later today). As this took me back to a moment in Scotland, it detoured me to a moment in Inverness, filled with unexpected American exports that led me to the theme of Junk! Junk food to be precise in this instance, as you can see in the photo below. Of course, Junk can be used in many ways from one person’s garbage to another one’s art or treasure! Your challenge is to find some Junk that speaks to you and share it with all of us!

I hope that you can have a lot of fun with this theme, and can’t wait to see the best junk yet!

Here’s the storefront window that inspired me…

Junk Food Galore!

Walking around in Inverness and enjoying the local scenery, this store caught me by surprise and elicited some laughter from me! Of course, I had to capture this moment and preserve some of our (not so) finest exports. Part of the fun here was that at that time Twinkies were not on the shelves in stores in the USA; there was a hiatus in their availability from November 21, 2012 until July 15, 2013 due to bankruptcy proceedings.

The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:

  • Write a post with an image for this week’s topic
  • Please tag your post with fpj-photo-challenge (if you’re not sure about how tags work, please check out this WordPress article about tagging posts)
  • Create a pingback link to this post, so that I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week (note: pingbacks may not appear immediately, as my site is set up to require approval for linking to it; helps against previous bad experiences with spamming)
  • Have fun creating something new (or sharing something old)!!

Don’t just throw out that junk, but capture it this week!!

71 thoughts on “Tuesday Photo Challenge – Junk”

      1. It’s a magnificent kettle, isn’t it?
        As for what’s junk and what’s ‘junk’ … 😉 We’ll leave some things unsaid, eh? 😉

  1. As an American, I find this photo hilarious! I am not sure what “fluff” is — I guess it is marshmallow in other states. Twinkies and gobstoppers do take me to my childhood. I do see the Smucker’s jar in the background — it’s the jar with the peanut butter and jam together. I hated it back and I still hate it now. Thankfully, I make my own peanut butter and like to top with fresh fruit.

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  3. I cannot believe that is the storefront!I have to admit I used to love Twinkies. They have changed though. Not as soft and spongy as they used to be. I heard once that Twinkies have something like a 30 year shelf life, unwrapped!

    1. I thought the same about their shelf-life, but I found out that the manufacturer indicates that they are good for about 45 days only. Time for an experiment!

      1. If you want we can plan on the same day! Hahaha! And do they mean with the wrapper or without? I heard the same thing about McDonald’s French Fries. I don’t know who even thinks of this stuff!

      2. I think we’d have to try both methods…I’ve seen the McDonald’s french fry experiment and it’s disturbing 🙂

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