I happened to be at the checkout line at Sam’s Club the other day, buying my usual 20 gallon jars of mustard and ketchup, when I noticed a mother ahead of me in line. She had her two little fat kids with her, begging for soda. Nothing says good parenting like buying 44 oz Cokes for eight year olds. In addition to the soda being bought, I noticed that she had two cases of Ding Dongs in her cart.

Ding Dongs are supposedly a baked good, however, they almost look like they were created with injection molding. In any case, I decided to look at the nutritional information of this “treat.”

I wasn’t surprised to find that a single serving of a Ding Dong is considered one whole Ding Dong, and that the single serving contains 368 calories, 11 g of fat, and 45 g of sugar. Technically, Ding Dongs are low in cholesterol, but who cares about that, when each Ding Dong is a chocolate brick on the road to “Diabetes City”. The picture on the box is somewhat nauseating. What is that white filling made up of anyway?

The mother either didn’t know about how bad Ding Dongs are for her kids, or just wanted to kill her kids with sugar. Judging by the round shape of her kids, I’m not sure which.