Pepperoni Pizza Cracker Combos. Not the Pretzel flavor, like you can find everywhere in Los Angeles, but the Cracker variety. A simple snack. A tasty snack. Let’s be honest…fattening as fuck.

Every time I take a road trip to San Francisco or Las Vegas, I always see these in the roadside Kwik-E-Mart type places. They are always horribly overpriced, but I still buy a dozen or so. Why? You can’t get them in Los Angeles!

To prove my point, I was “that guy”, and contacted Mars Incorporated through the Combos web site, stating how I only find these damn things when I drive over 250 miles from my house, and why doesn’t the local 7-11 have “the good Combos” (screw “cheddar cheese”, and forget your damn “pretzel”)? A few days later, I received an email with links to a Product Locator, as well as an Online Distribution Center.

The product locator confirmed what I said:
Searching for “Single” size on the product locator page generated this:
Albertsons 4421 E Bonanza Rd Las Vegas NV 89110 702 453.6501 230.7 miles

Searching for the “Medium” size got me this:
K Mart 491 Tres Pinos Rd Hollister CA 95023 831 637.5730 252.2 miles

The product is not even available on the Liberty Distribution page, period.

Fail. Epic fail.

True, I could hit up Amazon or Costco to find these, but - dude, seriously - it’s just a snack. They have every other flavor locally, so why not the one good one? I should be able to just walk into my local shop, and get these artery clogging masterpieces of fake Pizza flavoring.

I’ll go so far as to say it’s a sign of a crap economy and business plan. More and more shops are closing, or converting to “online only”. Brick and mortar is dying. I don’t know about you, but I prefer actually walking into a shop than “pointing and clicking”. I’m already going to get fat as fuck from the damn snack. At least let me burn a few calories to get the stupid thing!