EW!! BARF!!! GROSS!! What in the sam hell kinda fuckery is this??? Are people really THIS obsessed with bacon?? Like Seriously??
Bacon MMmvelopes???
The same people who bought you Baconnaise (EW!! BARF!! GROSS!!) have decided the world needs another use for bacon. Because this is what is wrong with the world, not enough uses for pork fat. From their site:
“Technology has given us a lot lately. The car. TV. X-rays. The refrigerator. The Internet. Heck, we even cured polio. But what have our envelopes tasted like for the last 4,000 years? Armpit, that’s what.
Really, people? If we can’t overcome this kind of minor technical challenge, it’s only a matter of time until some super-advanced race of aliens with lasers, spaceships and a delicious federal mail system comes down and colonizes the world. And nobody wants that (except for the aliens, of course).
So, after thousands of years and kajillions of horrible tasting envelopes licked, we’re happy to report that J&D’s Bacon-Flavored Mmmvelopes™ are here to save the day. No longer will envelopes taste like the underside of your car. You can enjoy the taste of delicious bacon instead.
That’s right, bacon. It’s not real bacon, mind you, so you won’t have to start storing your envelopes in the refrigerator. But it really does taste like bacon. Which is what you really wanted in the first place, isn’t it? And it only took us 4,000 years to get there. Eat that, alien invaders.”
Who the hell still uses envelopes anyway?? I mean, any bill I send in an envelope comes in an already addressed envelope from the company requesting it. And everythig except my rent can be paid online, and that will be available soon. And I’m sure the 95 yr old lady who still mails in her requests for her life bracelet isn’t really thinking of the flavor of her envelope. ANNNDDD who buys envelopes you have to lick when they have the self-adhesive ones??? #imjustsaying.
I found this in my dialy hungrygirl.com email – you can check it out HERE
I think that we all really do owe Subway a big thank you (and not just for those hilarious commercials!) even if we don’t eat their food. Personally I’m not a big Subway fan, its more of a last resort, however their $5 Footlongs are making food more affordable again. Even if you don’t eat out, or really eat fast food often, you have to admit that each time you go to do it you look at the menu prices and think that damn these things have gotten hella expensive? Well, if they keep this us, it can only benefit us!
For awhile, Subway was the lone company offering such a deal. I mean, in reality its not the best deal since chips and a soda are extra money, but the idea of a big sandwich for so cheap went a long way. People felt like they were getting a deal since the sandwich itself was sooo cheap. In that time, I’m sure the pockets of these other companies felt the burn…but now its finally paying off in the hand of the lazy consumers! Yay us!!
Arby’s is now offering a $5 BBQ Bacon roast Burger. Now I have never eaten at an Arby’s nor do I eat beef, but it starts with one meal then others will follow!
Annnnd the other day I saw a commercial for KFC having a $5 fill-up box. Now this is an idea I can get down with since for some reason every time I go to visit my grandmother I end up eating KFC on the drive down. I however, would never let my mouth rest on that horribleness they call grilled chicken. I tend to stick to twister wraps and chicken tenders. Great Stuff! I also love me some Quizno’s! Haven’t had the chance to try it yet, but they have these new Toasty Torpedoes that should be good, I mean how can you go wrong at Quizno’s? I happen to love their expensive Chopped Salads, well the ones that don’t have bacon or beef or pork.
The sad part is that none of this food that is becoming more affordable isn’t really the best food for us. I mean, sure we can try to justify Subway by saying, “well Jarred did it” but the more mayo and cheese and other glop you put on it makes your dreams of achieving success on the subway diet slightly unattainable. And anyone who thinks they can get healthy eating KFC often has bigger problems than weight loss, its called denial. While yes this is a good step for consumers, let’s not really forget who’s interest are at heart here!
My NY/NJ friends (and those in select other locations), I discovered a new dining establishment. Grand Lux Cafe. While its not new to everyone, its definitely new to me. And let me tell you, Oh my GOD, it was delicious. And we all know I’m a foodie so my approval means a lot! GLC is operated by the same folks as Cheesecake Factory, so if you enjoy CF, I’m sure you’ll love these people. The decor was very Cheesecake-esque, and the food equally yummy.
Their desserts are made to order, some taking up to 30 mins to prepare, so they suggest you order early. I had the upside down pineapple cake and my comrade (Kitty Bradshaw) had the New Orleans Beignets (I ate more of her dessert than mine!) and both were great. The Beignets come with three dipping sauces, but the strawberry & chocolate aren’t even worth your time. The best by far was the Jack Daniel’s sauce. When has anything with Jack Daniel’s in it tasted bad? The Beignet’s were like little Zeppoles covered in powdered sugar and bought to your table in a pretty basket. If Kitty wasn’t careful i was going to sneak her dessert home with me (sshhh don’t tell!). For our entrees we both had the Caramel Chicken, and let me tell you. I had a flavor explosion in my mouth. The flavors were phenomenal! There was chicken, mushrooms, which I hate, and red chili peppers. While it sounds like it might be heavy, it so wasn’t. The appetizer was CrispyShrimp & Chicken Thai rolls, with some dipping sauce that will make you go mmmm!
I’m telling you, this place was good. I wonder why there are so few. I’m getting hungry just telling you guys about it. Trust me this was good, Cleo recommends you see if there is one close to you & try them out. Prices aren’t even that steep. Caramel chicken was around $15 dollars and there were two servings on my plate, and we know its always good to be able to take some home. The only thing I wish I had tried was a drink. Next time I go, I will indulge in a Mimosa. I couldn’t this time because this recession has a foodista’s pockets burning
Unfortunately in NJ there is only one GLC and its in Garden State Plaza all the way in Paramus (for my Garden State Parkway people, that’s exit 163) . And there is only one in New York, and its not even in Manhattan (how the hell did that happen?) its in Garden City, NY. Where the heck is that? Upstate or Long island? They need to bring more of these around (like we really need more eateries, but if they were all this good, it would force the bad ones out of business-sorry bad restaurant owners!).
Imagine if you went to your friends house, or a dates house, for dinner and they took you into a bleach cleaned bathroom and served you dinner on a porcelain toilet. How would you feel? Kinda grossed out right? Apparently some Chinese people don’t feel the same way because there is a popular restaurant, Modern Toilet, making waves in China. Here is where you can go to enjoy dinner on a “stylish acrylic toilet” and drink out of a urinal (don’t deny it, you know you always wanted to do that!). Menu delicacies include: diarrhea with dried droppings, bloody poop, and green dysentery-and these are just deserts!
I’m sorry, but there is no way you are going to get me in a restaurant that does this. Not only do you want me to eat out of a toilet, you want to serve me shit themed names. No matter how you slice and dice, shit is SHIT! I don’t want my food to look like shit. Now, I know its not supposed to be about the look of food, but the flavors; but like this person said in the article, when you see curry dripping down the side of a toilet it doesn’t exactly make you want to lick it up, does it? Apparently the Chinese can take this because they are more “nonchalant” about bodily functions. Damn that. I’m nonchalant about it too, I know we all shit, eat, burp or whatever but I still don’t think it makes for great conversation or artwork over dinner. There are just some things you don’t do with food, like breast milk in ice cream. I mean what’s next? Menstruation Macaroni?
Modern toilet was opened in 2004 by Wang Zi-wei in China. He has 7 of these train wrecks in Taiwan, one in HOng Kong, and opens in Shenzhen China this week. He plans to expand this to other areas in China. Please, keep that shit (pun intended) over there. THis is the ideal restaurant for workers to pull gross “guess the secret sauce” pranks… SMDH!!
Yes.. This is a bacon spread, from the folks who bought you bacon salt-which I didn’t know existed either. Either way, apparently bitches love bacon… Fat bitches that is!!! NO, just kidding. I know people (skinny people) who love bacon. Like my friend, Friend A. Sometimes we go to Au Bon Pain and order salads. I always get the turkey medallion salad which happens to come with bacon. I kindly ask them to hold the bacon, since I don’t eat the hog. She’s like “No, give me your bacon. You can never have enough bacon.” I disagree, because sometimes if you over load on bacon, turkey bacon for me, you can get a little nauseous. So anyway, I discovered Baconnaise from my daily email from Hungrygirl.com. I love some of her tips & tricks. She was introducing Baconnaise Light ( I love how people trying to lose weight want the bad stuff in light).
Anyway, back to this Baconnaise crap. After seeing it there, I promptly used a search engine (nope, I will not say I Googled it!!) and came across the official baconsalt/baconnaise site. Apparently, after the growing popularity of bacon salt, someone suggested they attempt a bacon flavored spread, so they set out on an experimental journey to find it. Thier words from their official website:
“So we set out on another bacon-flavored adventure. Could we make a mayonnaise product that met our own high bacony standards? Could we get people as excited as they were for Bacon Salt (for which shrines have been built and songs have been written)? It was at that point that we began a very unhealthy morning routine: eat a slice of bacon, try a version of Baconnaise, eat a slice of bacon. Compare. Improve. Repeat. Over the 6 months it took us to make Baconnaise, we estimate that we probably ate 20 pounds of bacon, consumed 5 large jars of mayonnaise and took 2 years off of our lives – looking for that exact and delicious flavor that we would be proud to call Baconnaise.”
I find this stuff to sound gross. I would NEVER EVER try it. I find the fact that they boast about it being vegetarian to be a mockery of what good bacon is too, and I don’t even eat pork. I’m just putting this out there for everyone to be disgusted with too. But I know somewhere out there someone’s mouth is salvating and they are trying to find the store nearest them to buy it.
I don’t know if its been made clear in the past, but I like to cook, I might even venture to say that I borderline love to cook. I am intrigued by the way different flavors mesh and can’t wait to buy The Flavor Bible, when it goes down in price. So, one day I’m blog strolling and I came across this blog, Dolcecakes.wordpress.com which features different baking recipes. Now, while I think I have the cooking thing done pretty well, but don’t ask me to make a Beef Wellington anytime soon, I have not conquered baking. So, on this blog I found her recipe for Chocominty Coconut Cookies. I love mint chocolate so these instantly got printed and I conspired to make them. The ingredients sounded like things I could pick up from my local supermarket,so I decided to give them a go. After all, I love trying new things, and baking is my next goal. Well, there are a few more dishes I’d like to master, but I can multitask..
Now, I don’t know the difference between pastry flour and regular flour. The recipe called for wheat pastry flour, however in the aisle at Stop & Shop they only had wheat flour. On the package it said great for baking so I went with that since pastry flour wasn’t there. All the other ingredients were easy, brown sugar and coconut among them. I get home and set my butter out to become room temperature, which takes forever. I was getting anxious so I put it in the microwave for 10 seconds. Then I let it sit while I mixed all the other ingredients. After adding the butter, I wish it was a little softer, but it was pretty thick cookie dough. I’ve only made cookies from scratch one or two times and they were oatmeal cookies, so they should be dry. Since then Pillsbury and Tollhouse have been my cookie go-tos, so this was pretty dry, but i did as the instructions said and rolled it into a log and refridgerated it for the designated two hours. It instructs you to cut in in 1/4 inch slices, but I had no clue how to judge that, so I decided to wing it and came out with some different sized slices on my cookie sheet. I baked them for the instructed 10 minutes, but they didn’t seem done, so I left them in for a few more minutes. Not the best idea.
Cookies!
After taking them out and letting them cool, I had a very delicious mint choco cookie. However, it was tough on the teeth. Not the best results for cookies. But they were so good, strong flavors.. At first I had doubts because it used so little mint extract (half teaspoon). I wondered if the mint flavor would stand out, and it really does. I will definitely try to make these again, I would like them to have a “gooey” factor, so after I get the recipe down, I might add in some semi-sweet chocolate chips for added “gooey” ness. They may be hard, but they taste damn good with milk! I shall master baking . . . one day…
Holy Moly! I found this article about a lady finding a black widow spider in her Costco Grapes. For those who don’t know, the Black Widow is the deadliest American arachnid-even their web is poisonous! Not something I’d like to find in my grapes-sometimes I just pick grapes up in the store and eat one (don’t judge me, everyone does it!). Then we I get home, I run water over them and put them in the fridge. Imagine, ingesting poison that way and not even knowing. Imagine that thing getting lose into your house and possibly biting you!
In case you’ve noticed more spiders around this year, which I’ve heard people say, it could be because in California farmers have been using spiders as a natural pesticide to keep insects off of the crops. While I applaud these efforts to stop the use poisonous pesticides, I think that they maybe should not use spiders that are dangerous to our health as well. Seriously, what kind of logic is that, let me not give you a man made poison, but a natural one instead. Although maybe their logic comes from the fact that no one has died from a Black widow bite since 1960 in America, but still. Confusion. This is definitely confirmation and reinforcement to always, ALWAYS wash your fruit. Like really wash it, just just run the water like I do and shake it. Not enough.
After reading this I knew I wanted to blog about this. So, first I sent it to a few of my nearest and dearest friends for conversation ideas at work and kinda let the day slip away.
Anyway, sometimes we forget that plastic surgery is not an American addiction, it is coveted by many across the globe. Hang Mioku, 48, is a Korean woman who became addicted to plastic surgery after having her first surgery at age 28. After her first surgery she moved to Japan and had many more operations eventually leading to her face being left enlarged and disfigured. Her face was so disfigured that her parents didn’t even recognize her. Some saw this addiction as a sign of a psychological disorder. Her parents, after the shock that this was actually their daughter, took her to a doctor and she began treatments that were too expensive to maintain so she eventually fell back into her old ways.
Now, this is where it gets really interesting. She eventually found some doctor who was willing to give her silicone injections, AND he gave her a syringe and silicone to take home and do some herself. The blasphemy does NOT stop there. When Hang ran out of silicone she began to inject cooking oil into her face. Yes, Hang decided that she would freshen up her face with Crisco. Her face eventually became so large that she began to get teased by children in her neighborhood, children as just cruel, calling her “standing fan” because of her large face and small body.
Eventually she was featured on TV in Korea and money was donated to help her have surgery to reduce the size of her face. When I read this, I did not laugh. I seriously had a WTF reaction, because this is crazy. I’m not going to post the pics, but I will post a link to them, because its sad. She was a cute girl, by our American standards, to begin with and now she says “she would simply like her original face back.” This is why plastic surgery isn’t something you want to get hooked to. I’m sure she is not the first person in regret of plastic surgery-say Hi to Tara Reid. Or we’ve all heard the stories of girls who got breast implants that nearly killed them or people who got Liposuction and had fat grow back patchy in some areas. Some things are just too much.
So, the other day I read an article on the NYtimes website on my Blackberry titled “Calories Do Count.” Basically, the article talked about the rising resurgence of calorie-counting, which is something many dieters have done or currently do; and how this has led to, at least in New York right now, the now ever popular occurrence of calorie contents of food posted on menu items. I know it happened to me one day. I was in New York, near Time Square at the NewsCorp building and I went to a Wendy’s for a cheap quick lunch. Now, I know damn well I shouldn’t be eating Wendy’s, especially since I’ve been gym slacking. But I wasn’t about to spend $15 dollars on a salad I wasn’t guaranteed to like. And I hadn’t really eaten all day, so Wendy’s it was. So I head in there, and right there next to my #6 were numbers that said depending on my size I could be expending about 1000-1600 calories on a spicy chicken sandwich with fries and a drink. Shocked and appalled I was. I almost thought about not getting fries. But its not the same if you get a sandwich and a baked potato. So I settled for a small and a bottle of water. With Wendy’s a small is really a medium. I once got tricked into ordering a medium and had this big ass soda I couldn’t finish. But I knew i wasn’t trying to waste my whole daily caloric intake on just one meal. Do you know how hard it is to burn 1000 calories at the gym? HARD! Super HARD!!
Anywho, there is a law in NY that restaurants with 15 or more outlets were forced to post the calorie content of food next to the price. Now, do I agree? Yes and no. I think that yes, people should know more about what they are ingesting, however, I was perfectly happy going online or looking at the pamphlet they were supposed to keep in store if you had questions about content. I don’t like scare tactics. And this is a scare tactic driven by rising concerns over the obesity of Americans. Restaurants should have thought of this before they made heaping portion sizes the norm. In fact, as a result of this some restaurants have realized their food has very high caloric intake and to not reduce sales, they have reduced portion sizes-but not cost. So that is a win-win for them. Still sell and make more. You have to wonder, do they really care about the health and concern for Americans? I know who doesn’t, The FDA!
American is driven by profit. Companies are taking super advantage of the average Americans obsession with weight. Caloric content is spewed all over every damn product these days, and they make 100 calorie products in so many lines now. If people want to be fat, let them. You can’t make them eat right and you damn sure can’t make them work out. They have to come to the realization on their own.
I remember those commercials where it would ask you what would you do for a Klondike bar. They would have this crazy situations to see how far someone would go and at the end they’d get that wonderful ice cream with the chocolaty coating. It’s not quite an ice cream sandwich but there is no other real word for it, but a Klondike. Well, these brothers had their own version: What would you do for that Hot Pocket.
Well, apparently he’d stab his own brother for it. Ok, lets imagine this scenario. I go in the kitchen, I’m hungry and I see some hot pockets in the freezer. Chicken Fajita, because that’s my favorite, and I bust that baby in there for about two minutes. I take it out, I’m taking it out the new crisping sleeve and here comes big or little bro depending. And he’s like “Hey, gimme that pocket.” I’m like “pssh, please” and then we begin to wrestle for it. So, in the heat of the moment, this hot pocket is the only thing that can attack these hunger pains so I reach over and grab a steak knife and stab you brother. After we continue to wrestle for awhile I take the hot pocket and run because your crippled by the wound. wow. Just wow. But like, don’t hot pockets come two in a box? Where was the other one. Where was HP2?
I don’t have any siblings so I know nothing about sibling rivalry. It could have been that those were HIS hot pockets and bro just came along and rummaged them out. I’ve definitely had that happen to me. I think about it all day. I’ll be at work thinking,” I”m going to go home and eat that last square of lasagna.” I’ll come home, ready for dinner and open the fridge and its gone. someone got it. I see the empty bowl in the sink and I’m like ‘”OH NO! I’ma kill ‘em!” But never have I actually wanted to draw blood over food. NEVER! And I love food. When I was younger I was like Mikey so I know all about love for food. And I know about having people come and take your food. But drawing blood is just wrong. How do you tell your parents?
“Johnny, why’d you stab Tim?”
“MOoommm! he tried to eat my hot pocket.” How is that acceptable? Why is this ok? Is this ok? At the time of the article the police had yet to find the uninjured brother nor determine the fate of the Hot Pocket. Wait, maybe its for sale on ebay with baby Jesus’ face on it? He did show up on the grilled cheese! Remember that?
Check it… High Fructose Corn Syrup, one of the top ingredients in most of the food consumed in America. Linked to the rising levels of obesity in this country. So why is the Corn Refiners Association trying to promote that HFCS isn’t nearly as bad as we think it is. Have you seen these commercials. I saw one the other day while watching my daily dose of 30 minute meals with Rachel Ray. And frankly, I was disgusted. Then I saw another one on Vh1 Soul one morning. In the commercials and on their website they deem that:
“High fructose corn syrup offers numerous benefits. It keeps food fresh, enhances fruit and spice flavors, retains moisture in bran cereals, helps keep breakfast and energy bars moist, maintains consistent flavors in beverages and keeps ingredients evenly dispersed in condiments.”
Among other things. Now, I know that anything that is chemically modified cannot have all the benefits they claim. And of course corn manufacturers want us dependent on their product so its no wonder that we are being bombarded with this tom foolery. But anyway, I did some of my own research to make sure I wasn’t being a sheep. So I found an interesting article about the crap, i mean about HFCS and here is some of what I found.
Do we even really know what HFCS is? I mean sure, the name is self explanatory right? Its extra sugary corn syrup? But how did it get there? Well, HFCS is any of a group of corn syrups which have undergone enzymatic processing in order to increase their fructose content and are then mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose) to reach their final form. The typical types of HFCS are: HFCS 90 (used almost exclusively in the production of HFCS 55) which is approximately 90% fructose and 10% glucose; HFCS 55 (most commonly used in soft drinks) which is approximately 55% fructose and 45% glucose; and HFCS 42 (used in a variety of other foods, including baked goods) which is approximately 42% fructose and 58% glucose. I never knew that all HFCS wasn’t created equal… Figures..So anyway, what that means in terms of sweetness for us regular ole’ folk? HFCS 55 is comparable to table sugar (sucrose), which is a disaccharide (A carbohydrate that is made up of two monosaccharides) of fructose and glucose. This makes it useful to manufacturers as a possible substitute for sucrose in soft drinks and other processed foods. HFCS 90 is sweeter than sucrose, while HFCS 42 is not as sweet as sucrose.
HFCS is so popular here because it is cheaper than importing natural sugar to be used. I mean, even Coca cola uses natural sugar in other countries but not here in the US. WTF kinda BS is that?? To be fair consumption of sugar as a whole is linked to obesity and weight issues and there is no direct link to HFCS and obesity, however there is a correlation between the rise of obesity in the U.S. and the use of HFCS for sweetening beverages and foods. Personally, I don’t see how you can chemically alter the effects of a natural product and claim that it is not any different. I feel that chemicals have a bad effect on us as people, especially in the volumes that they are consummed. And the chemicals they use have to react with the chemicals in the soft drinks or whatever else they go in, all those chemical reactions can’t be healthy or good for you. There was a study done in mice (because we love to torment mice, that suggested that fructose increases obesity. I mean, humans used to be hunters and gatherers so to evolve into these chemically reliant creatures isn’t right. And to trust the FDA is just stupid… But that’s a whole different article for a different day. But never trust a label that just says FDA approved as natural, look for another seal. For more info on that you should check out the book “Skinny Bitch…” very enlightening on FDA practices.
The point of all this was that I think that people, specifically those in control with money, think that the average American is an idiot. They want to continuously peddle unhealthy things down our throats and perpetuate the system that we have of increased preventable diseases to fuel the medical industry and whoever else. Don’t believe the hype… just don’t!
So yesterday on my daily scroll of CNN I came across an article about some colleges and universities that hope to change the legal drinking age to 18 from 21. I think this is a bad, bad, bad idea. So I spoke to some of my friends and got their opinions on it-surprisingly many of them supported the idea, for a number of reasons. Many of them said that sure, since people sneak and do it or because if you can vote you can drink. If you can enlist you can drink. The universities that support this idea feel that by lowering the drinking age they will reduce instances of binge drinking.
I have a counter argument for each of those proposed reasons for supporting the reduction in the drinking age. While my logic may be flawed, it is still my opinion and I will try to explain it as best as I can. Let’s go.
So because people sneak and do it we should allow it? Last I knew, sneaking things was a part of growing up. You have not had a full adolescent experience unless you were sneaking something. And if you lower the drinking age to 18 you will have more people actually in high school drinking. Can you imagine 18 year old high school seniors (and juniors) drinking with 14 year old freshmen. I take peace of mind knowing that if my high school student is going to sneak and drink they worked hard their efforts to deceive me. An 18 year old is more likely to buy liquor for that underage 16 year old. A 21 year old, sure they may support their 18 year old friends drinking but not someone as young as 16. Because face it, in America there are a large portion of teenagers who are around 16 who are going to parties and drinking. But just because they do it, doesn’t mean we should condone it.
As far as being able to vote or enlist therefor you should be able to drink at 18, I cannot agree with that. Well, first things first. I don’t agree that 18 year olds should be able to enlist. They make these decisions very blindly, and recruiters prey on young high school kids with the promise of a free college education if they enroll for some fake ass sense of patriotism. It is bullshit. Perhaps that is why I don’t think its just to say if you can enlist you can drink. Because a lot of 18 year olds who enlist do regret it and are just there serving out what they’ve locked themselves into.
People are more informed when casting a ballot than they are about the consequences of drinking. I bet if I asked an 18 year old about Barack they could answer that more quickly than what are the repercussions of alcohol poisoning is or what the legal limit is when it comes to drinking and driving. It is about awareness.
The colleges that are pushing for the Amethyst Act are not doing so from an altruistic point of view. They are looking to alleviate their liability in instances where drinking occurs on campus. It is easier to fight for the lowering of the drinking age than to police students more heavily. No one wants to be the bad guy. Let’s talk about teens and driving. Teens are responsible for a large number of accidents. Lowering the drinking age will lead to more instance of accidents and higher rates of drunk driving. Because face it, teenagers think they are indestructible. Hell, sometimes I do at my age. Expect to see drunkteens, texting and driving while smoking a cigarette talking to their friends in the car.
But I do know who is in favor of this.. call Anheuser-Busch and see if they object.
Once upon a time I lived off of caramel iced coffees from DD. But over the past few months I’ve been relying on the Green Mountain coffee provided by the convenience store at my job. But every so often I manage to still get my beloved coffee from the Dunkin. So yesterday, I was visiting my hometown, and it was about 5 pm and I said hey, I haven’t had my coffee today. So I went to the one that was closest. I pull into the drive thru of the combo Baskin Robbins/ Dunkin donuts and I say to the speaker ” can I have a medium caramel iced coffee with skim milk and sugar.” Nice nd polite. I should have known something was going to go amuck when she asked me how many sugars. No one had ever asked me that in all the years I’d been drinking these iced coffees. So, I spurted out 3 because a medium iced coffee is pretty big and I wasn’t sure. But as I approached the window to pay I was full of dread that the iced coffee would be too sweet. Thinking to myself all that sugar and caramel syrup I’m gonna have diabetes. I wonder if it’ll be finished when I get to the window, if not i’ll tell her only two. They really have never asked me how many sugars I wanted.
So I pull to the window and the lady says my total is 2.77. I look at her with my blank face, which I reserve for stupid people, and I say for an iced coffee. She, being the ever so professional DD attendant is like “yup, wanna see your receipt.” I laughed because its not like I didn’t believe her but I was taken aback by the increase in cost from my local DD, where my iced coffee only cost me 1.99. I mean, I realized the cost of damn near everything has increased, but sheesh an increase of sixty cents for a coffee.
Today I was robbed by DD. Don’t they regulate the prices to have some sort of consistency in their stores, or can managers hike up prices and justify it on a sinking economy, and if the economy is so bad why hasn’t the coffee anywhere else gone up??? Yes indeed, today I was robbed.
And the coffee wasn’t that good. Over priced DD didn’t shake it so my ingredients would mix well. Glad I didn’t go for that donut too.
So, I’m @ the Walgreen’s today after work and I’m buying my shampoo and my hair gel, which is very vital–See, I have wild and unruly curly hair. So when I need to buy new hair products of a different brand, I stop at the Walgreens, (yes, I always say The Walgreen’s) and see what they have on sale. They almost always have a brand name on sale for buy one get one free. So no matter what brand it is, unless its like cheap ass Sauve or something, I buy it. Today it was some Mark Anthony or some crap that was on sale. but anywho, that’s not why I write today. I’m checking out with my hair product, toothpaste, eyeliner and sharpi mini and I see at the counter a box of “Premium M & M’s!!!!” What in sam hell is this. They were in flavors like mint chocolate (see picture), mocha, and triple chocolate. So I came home and googled that and they have even more flavors!!! I was outraged. I mean here we have little chocolate candies being revamped and sold for 4.99. Is everyone all bougie now??? M & M’s are supposed to be the little quirky candy that melts in your mouth not in your hand. How can I watch the commericial with Red & Yellow knowing that M&M is trying to phase them out in favor of these new bougie m&ms. And poor green M, now she has a rival! She better punch mint chocolate right in her hoohas can call it even. Tell her no one likes them bougie chicks around here. I’m just saying…. It’s a sad day in history when even our candy gets all fancy on us.
Cleo Sunshine is a lover, friend, blogger, writer, journalist. I love to live life and enjoy it. I'm a Jersey girl tried & true! This blog isn't strictly news or entertainment, but its definitely opinion. Come join me & experience life under the sun w/ Cleo.
Holy Moly! I found this article about a lady finding a black widow spider in her Costco Grapes. For those who don’t know, the Black Widow is the deadliest American arachnid-even their web is poisonous! Not something I’d like to find in my grapes-sometimes I just pick grapes up in the store and eat one (don’t judge me, everyone does it!). Then we I get home, I run water over them and put them in the fridge. Imagine, ingesting poison that way and not even knowing. Imagine that thing getting lose into your house and possibly biting you!
