[nightski]

I don't think commodity means what you think it means. Protein bars are not indistinguishable from one another, there exists significant differences between various products.

[__d]

Yes, but.

When you’re broke and hungry, those differences become immaterial compared to the protein-bar/no-protein-bar tradeoff.

[rrr_oh_man]

Sounds like you’ve never been broke.

[hackable_sand]

It sounds exactly like they've been broke