You'll never know what you'll find.
Today I ordered 24 Munchkins, jelly and glazed. Though the slip says 25, I swear the menu said 24.
I was given 17 or 18 glazed. (I forget exactly how many I ate before work.)
Horrendous disparity, don't you think?
Except that I can't complain, because I have 14 jelly.
I want that chick counting my donuts all the time!
After Easter, I bought a bunch of cheap candy at CVS. And I mean really cheap. Not that this makes it any better for me to be eating it, but hey.
I thought the Whoppers malted milk balls would be sure to be better than the Necco Paas ones, but it turns out I was wrong. So it's a good thing I got both. ;)
The Whoppers ones were the usual Whoppers, but in a candy coating. And it wasn't a very good candy coating. It just about ruined the malted milk ball experience.
The Necco Paas ones on the other hand managed to be a pretty white with colored splashes by using white chocolate. But it's not just white chocolate, as there's milk chocolate underneath, before you finally get to the malted center.
So, now you know.
I had some Gardenburger sweet and sour pork sitting in the freezer for the longest time. It intrigued me enough to buy it, but I wasn't ever in the mood to be daring and try it. I should've tried it sooner!
I scraped off the vegetables. They looked like green peppers and onions and I don't like green peppers and onions. So I'm probably not getting the full experience. But it tastes remarkably like their riblets. Which I love, but can't always find. (And which are also ridiculously high in sodium, but what're you gonna do?)
So they make a good substitute for the riblets. But there's less 'meat' in the package, so it might not be a better buy.
Probably be very good with rice, but I think I'm out of rice.
Does it taste like pork? I have no freaking clue. :)
My favorite donut hole is a jelly donut hole. So when I get some Munchkins, I ask for 'mostly' jelly, and glazed and chocolate glazed. It never fails, however, that they ignore the 'mostly' part. They are downright stingy with those jelly Munchkins!
Today, out of 25 Munchkins, I got 6 jelly, at least 12 chocolate, and the rest glazed. Sounds to me like that was 'mostly' chocolate! Is that what I asked for? Nooo. It's like he knew that the chocolate was my least favorite of the three. I just like a little variety.
Are the usually running low on jelly when I go in there? Well, it looks like it, but you have no idea what they're hiding in the back. Does that mean they're trying to save some for the other customers who come after me? Well, they should've made more then!
Do the jelly ones cost more to make? Tough. You priced them equally, so you should treat them equally.
What if it's some combination of the two? They cost more to make, so maybe they don't make quite so many, so they're always running low. Or maybe they're not really running low, but love to make it seem that way so you won't be greedy and ask for a lot.
Well, I'm decided now. Next time I'm asking for half jelly and half glazed. I'll throw them a bone. They can (and will) give me 13 glazed and only 12 jelly.
Stay tuned, because if this 'half' method yields an even greater disparity, I'll let you know. And if they seem to run out, maybe I'll be bold enough to ask if they have more in the back.
I bought whole grain spaghetti. It's good for you! I've done it before, so this isn't new or anything. The reason I mention it is because I bought 'thin spaghetti'. I don't like regular spaghetti; it's too thick. However, when I went to make some pasta with it, it turned out to be angel hair-sized! Only the fact that it was whole grain saved it from being angel hair mush. So at least it's slightly better than angel hair for that reason. But it's still not 'thin spaghetti'. Perhaps 'size 0 spaghetti'.
Usually I read on the bus, but I happened to not be when we drove by the Mexican restaurant today. So I was able to read the sign. The sign advertising their corned beef and cabbage. Yum!
Somehow that made it less disturbing when we later passed a pizza place offering green corned beef and cabbage.
I went to buy some Tylenol Cold. They've changed the active ingredients, because it's just too dangerous to let us have pseudoephedrine anymore, so I looked over the package more carefully than I might have normally. And among the inactive ingredients, I found sucralose.
What the heck?
This is a pill that I'm going to swallow. I'm not going to suck on it, chew it, savor the wonderful flavor of a Tylenol Cold pill. If I even could taste it if I had a cold. I don't need it tasting all sweet and wonderful.
So why are they trying to dose me with fake sugar? I don't like the taste of sugar substitutes and I don't quite trust them either, so I try to avoid them. If they're going to randomly put them in my drugs, though, they're making it difficult!
(I bought a slightly different variety of Tylenol Cold - Rapid Release - which didn't seem to list sucralose. We'll see if it's effective when it comes down to it.)
Wheat Thins - Multi-Grain. Sounds super-healthy, doesn't it? "Excellent Source of Whole Grain" "0g Trans Fat" "May help reduce the risk of heart disease" "16g whole grain" "good source of fiber" "no cholesterol"
Except it contains sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
Which starts a new category for my blog: Things that have high fructose corn syrup (h-f corn syrup).
Edit: I changed the category to Pointless Ingredients, because it's broader and looks nicer.
Here's another commercial for you.
Trainee guy at Wendy's is told to go get some more burgers. He heads for the freezer to get them. Inside, he finds three people performing Hamlet. At least, I think that's what they're doing. They tell him that the burgers aren't in the freezer, dummy, because Wendy's doesn't freeze its burgers.
Um... what?
Message to me: Walk-in freezers are perfect locations for out of work actors?
I'm creating a new category. 'Stupid Commercials'. I've seen too many lately.
We'll start with a Burger King commercial, because they're the King of teh Stupid.
People eat this new Western Whopper and sprout facial hair. Chicks, guys, old ladies, dogs, doesn't matter.
The commercial's message to me: Our burgers are not only full of bovine growth hormone, but obscene levels of testosterone too.
I remember when Girl Scout cookies were $1.75 a box. And I swear there were more of them in a box as well. Now they're $3.50, though not in all areas. Thought I'd do a bit of math.
Peanut Butter Patties (aka Tagalongs) | 15 in a box = 23.3333333 cents per cookie
Carmel DeLites (aka Samoas) | 15 in a box = 23.3333333 cents per cookie
Peanut Butter Sandwiches | 22 in a box = 15.909 cents per cookie
I'll update when I get a chance to count the other package my parents sent me, or if someone gives me figures on the other varieties. Feel free to leave numbers in comments. I believe the best financial choice is either Thin Mints or the shortbread.
Check this blog entry 10 years from now and boggle at how cheap they used to be and how there used to be more than 5 per package!
Lots of new photos in my photo album. Highlights include shots from Albacon with Peter David, more kitties, Christmas, the ice storm, and pengi-sans!
If you forgot the password, just ask. :)
I am not employed by Domino's and have no inside information. This is what I've learned from reading and participating. Repeat, this is unofficial information. What you do with it is your own business and I'm not advocating any particular course of action. If you want to play, you should read all the official legal information yourself and make sure you understand it.
Domino's Pizza is running a promotion involving Ebay, though not actually affiliated with Ebay. It's the Anything Goes Deal.
You sign up to participate. Then you check back every day for the puzzle. Solve the puzzle and it gives you a search term to use on Ebay to find the prizes. Each prize is available for $9.99. You have to be registered with Ebay and Paypal.
I signed up before, but this is the first time the prize and time sort of coincided to make me interested in really trying.
From 7:15pm to 10:15pm Eastern, they would be posting the puzzle within that time frame. You'd definitely better be doing something else while you're refreshing, because they posted it after 10pm.
The question was something along the lines of "How many slices of pizza does each man, woman, and child in America eat on average in a year." Which I found a little ambiguous. Was it asking the total slices consumed by all Americans in a year? Well, I figured the 'each' probably meant no. So I dug around for the answer.
The answer is 46. Well, isn't that lovely? So I had to search for 46 or forty-six or forty six, and also hope they knew how to spell it.
I managed to hit upon a listing by typing '46 -sword'. Lots of 46" swords on Ebay. I found the listing, but by the time I clicked on it, it had closed. The search term was '46 slices'.
So then I didn't know if all 10 digital cameras that were being given away (sold) were in that one listing, or if it was only one of them. So I had to keep trying until the official closing time of 11pm or when the puzzle page told me they were all sold. I figured it was probably the same search term, but I wasn't entirely certain.
I managed to find another listing at 11pm. I even got to click Buy It Now. But I was suspicious, because it didn't look like the first one I'd seen. Was it bogus? I hemmed too long and a few seconds later when I clicked through to Paypal, it'd already been sold. In retrospect, I don't think it was bogus.
I've won a Domino's prize before with one of their Flash games. Free pizza and soda (just one time, not for a year). So I may try again. Or I may not.
I could help you out more with tips and things, but really, if I'm going to try again, I shouldn't give away all the secrets!
One thing I do want to frown at Domino's for is that when you click on their puzzle page, they make you sign into Ebay, but then you're redirected to an unsecure site with that information. Are they insecurely transmitting your Ebay password? Are they storing it themselves? Makes one wonder.
Here's a screen cap of a Domino's Ebay listing. That's the first one I found.
If you have questions, leave a comment. I might answer. :)
Introducing the creation, finally, of a new category called "Things That Suck". And first up is why Kellogg's Raisin Bran sucks.
I admit that Kellogg's Raisin Bran generally tastes better. Probably at least partially because of the sugar encrusted in the cracks of the raisins. But that is outweighed by its other suckiness.
There are bits of wheat husk or something that occasionally crop up. They're unchewable, and, one assumes, undigestible. Sometimes they float on the milk, so you can see them and avoid them.
Gritty raisins, so that there's bits of grit all in my teeth.
So that is why Kellogg's Raisin Bran sucks. Not that Post Raisin Bran is perfect, mind, but it is much better in the husk and grit department.
