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Welcome to The Leftovers. I'm Rachel Bell. The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal interview. And today you'll hear never before heard cuts from Chuck Pollanick, the prolific novelist most famous for writing Fight Club. The bestselling book turned into a film starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton.

Chuck has written nearly 20 books over the past two decades, and his new novel is called

Shock Induction.

Last week on your last meal, Chuck talked about the foods he loved as a kid.

We would eat these ancient hostess treats, fruit pies, ho-hos, ding-dongs, twinkies,

snowballs, which by then were gummy and stale, and they had an even better mouth feel. The

marshmallow parts of the of the snowballs would be rubbery and it would take forever to eat. And there was just something

so incredible about having the sugar migrated to the outside. Oh, yeah. Rust on it. Yeah, yeah.

And the foods he hated. And at one point, my mother must have canned or frozen 500 pounds of peaches. We ate peaches for so long that I really can't not stand to even look at a peach.

And she made pies out of them too, right? And burnt them? She made a million pies. The thermostat in the oven was bad. She burned every single pie.

She froze them and we still had to eat them,

which was another curse of the peaches.

I recommend listening to last week's full episode before listening to this one.

But if you're all caught up,

let's get into the leftovers with Chuck Pollanick.

In the early 70s, there was this whole movement towards convenience foods.

And it was after so many women went back into the workforce.

And so there was really nobody at home to cook.

And one big food convenience gimmick was Knox gelatin, wanted to sell everyone packets of flavorless

gelatin. So they came out with Knox blocks where you would make regular flavor gelatin,

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