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four odd things
Apr. 30th, 2008 09:28 pmTwo of today's odd things showed up in the mail. One was my copy of The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman. It's a warped little children's book. I'm so glad I have a copy of my own. Now to try to convince myself that I shouldn't take it with me to my mini-reunion over Memorial Day to read to my small cousins. Mwahahaha!
The other odd thing is sort of a relief.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
revrb, I'm going to have to get you some new cookies and rewrap it, but the book has survived. I'm totally amused that it took 5 months to get back to me with a Refused by Addressee stamp on it. I haven't unwrapped it yet, but I imagine that the Hogswatch cookies are a little...something by now.
The other two things are more along the lines of Public Service Announcements more than anything. If you see the Snickers with Coconut in the gas station, avoid it! Downwood refused to try it on principle, but I decided that I had to test it in the name of Science.
Not delicious. Not bad, but not delicious. Not worth going off the diet for. I love coconut and I usually love Snickers, but unlike chocolate and peanut butter (or garlic and ginger or mint and vanilla), these are not two tastes that are better together. Not worth it.
But the Snickers with Coconut isn't the only new one that they have out right now. They also have Snickers Charged!, which have caffeine, taurine, and B-vitamins inside the tasty Snickers matrix. When I actually found them in a store in the middle of Illinois, I bought three.
I have two that I'm willing to give out to anyone else who has the morbid curiosity of a distracted chipmunk. It started out tasting just like a regular Snickers, but about 2/3 of the way through, I started getting the strong metallic aftertaste of caffeine. I was, in fact, wired after having the candy, but it is NOT something that I want to try again. It might be because I've been severely limiting the caffeine I have on a daily basis, but the Snickers Charged! did not do good things for me.
So, to recap: Good book, need to resend package, wave off the coconut, and two caffeinated Snickers bars are looking for test subjects.
The other odd thing is sort of a relief.
revrb, I'm going to have to get you some new cookies and rewrap it, but the book has survived. I'm totally amused that it took 5 months to get back to me with a Refused by Addressee stamp on it. I haven't unwrapped it yet, but I imagine that the Hogswatch cookies are a little...something by now.The other two things are more along the lines of Public Service Announcements more than anything. If you see the Snickers with Coconut in the gas station, avoid it! Downwood refused to try it on principle, but I decided that I had to test it in the name of Science.
Not delicious. Not bad, but not delicious. Not worth going off the diet for. I love coconut and I usually love Snickers, but unlike chocolate and peanut butter (or garlic and ginger or mint and vanilla), these are not two tastes that are better together. Not worth it.
But the Snickers with Coconut isn't the only new one that they have out right now. They also have Snickers Charged!, which have caffeine, taurine, and B-vitamins inside the tasty Snickers matrix. When I actually found them in a store in the middle of Illinois, I bought three.
I have two that I'm willing to give out to anyone else who has the morbid curiosity of a distracted chipmunk. It started out tasting just like a regular Snickers, but about 2/3 of the way through, I started getting the strong metallic aftertaste of caffeine. I was, in fact, wired after having the candy, but it is NOT something that I want to try again. It might be because I've been severely limiting the caffeine I have on a daily basis, but the Snickers Charged! did not do good things for me.
So, to recap: Good book, need to resend package, wave off the coconut, and two caffeinated Snickers bars are looking for test subjects.
