Welcome to the Ready to Eat Forum!

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Welcome to the new Ready to Eat forum, where you’ll find discussions about all kinds of packaged and prepared foods -- fast food, “junk food,” convenience food, and soft drinks. Want to talk about Slurpees, supermarket hot dogs, or potato chips? This is the place for these topics and more – candy bars and frozen pizza, tater tots or Miracle Whip.

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Our members’ questions and comments make this forum interesting, exciting and useful – we look forward to your contributions. Before posting, you may want to browse through the forum to read up on current and older topics. If you’re looking for something specific, or wondering if there's already a topic on the subject you wish to discuss, try our Search feature (use the Advanced Usage Help link to improve your results) or our built-in Google Search function.

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