Bryson's Irony

Sometimes the things we want aren't necessarily what we need. This irony is shown in Bryson's junk food experience. While cleaning out the fridge, Bryson uncovers a breakfast pizza "the last  surviving relie of a bout of very serious retail foolishness on my part." Several weeks earlier he convinced his wife to purchase a great variety of junk food because "we are living in a paradise of junk food." Once Bryson had the junk food, it wasn't as great as he thought it'd be. Particularly the breakfast pizza which Bryson found to be "lim, chewy, and listless." Bryson's dilemma can be an analogy for what we feel we have to have in our lives. When someone really wants something, but doesn't actually need it, the importance diminishes once it is attained.