Bear-y Tasty

Bear-y Tasty

October 2020   minute read

Some bears need their junk food fix, too. A woman captured on video a bear crawling into a California grocery store and leaving with a bag of Tostitos chips in its mouth. Before she started recording, the woman nearly ran into the bear, which was hanging out by a trash can. She then started filming the bear eating garbage from a safe distance. The bear then strolled into the grocery store, grabbed the tortilla chips, clearly its preferred comfort food, and walked out. Luckily, no people or bears were harmed in the incident.

Convenient Music

A recent week’s Billboard Top 10 featured a song that is also the name of a convenience store chain (“Come & Go”), even if it’s spelled differently. So we had to ask—is this the highest charting song with a convenience store company in the title? Let’s take a look.

  • Wawa: Again, not spelled the same, but George Harrison’s first album had the radio hit “Wah-Wah.” And a lesser-known band Young-Holt Unlimited had the song “Wah-Wah Man” in the 1970s.
  • Sheetz: Trey Songz has the song “The Sheets.” While it’s not exactly the store name, he did “Sheetz-ify” his name with a “z” at the end.
  • Kwik Trip/QuikTrip: Noted writer Shel Silverstein, who penned a lot of well-known songs for Johnny Cash and Dr. Hook, among others, has a song called “Quick Trip,” but it is only 13 seconds long. However, there is a rapper named Quicktrip, who has a bunch of songs.
  • Speedway: There are a few interesting songs, including Elvis Presley’s “Speedway,” the title track of his 1968 movie, and Morrissey’s “Speedway.”
  • Pilot: Elton John’s first single was “Take Me to the Pilot,” which sounds like a great ad campaign! There is also a band from the 1970s named Pilot who hit No. 5 with the song “Magic.” If you think you’ve never heard it, you probably have. The chorus goes, “Oh, ho, ho, it’s magic, you know.”
  • Casey’s: Former Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes released the song “Casey.” The band City & Color released “Casey’s Song.”
  • RaceTrac: The English rock band Bad Company had a 1982 song called “Racetrack.”
  • 7-Eleven: Beyoncé’s song “7/11” surprisingly only peaked at No. 13.
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