"Not at first," he says, thinking back to those first days. Even after all this time, it's still not a time he likes to revisit. "At first there was a lot of looting stores that hadn't been destroyed, salvaging what canned goods and perishables I could. At least until everything started going bad."

He'd been so young then, and it'd taken a couple of bouts of food poisoning before he started turning to alternative means for food.

"You know that rumor about Twinkies? It's bullshit."