Cheese Bit

While we were on our recent vacation we also stopped at a busy cheese shop. They had cheese varieties from all over the world. It was expensive, but it looked really good. I like a good cheese shop. Unlike the candy store (see previous post), the cheese shop did allow pictures. While I like taking pictures of people with cheese as much as the next guy, we all agreed that taking a picture at the cheese shop might get too confusing, what with the photographer having the photographees saying “Cheese” when it was time to take the picture. So I don’t have any pictures of the candy store OR the cheese shop.

It was still a good vacation.

Peeping Uncle Tom

We had a (very) brief vacation over the weekend. We visited a store that had chocolate peanut butter flavored milk. Has anybody tried this? It looked good. I bet it catches on…

Later we were in a candy store. There were no cameras allowed in the store. I thought that was odd – it made me think maybe they were conducting secret chocolate experiments there or something. So yeah, I kept cool. I didn’t try to take any pictures. But the “no picture” rule made me curious, so I asked a few questions. With Easter around the corner (actually it’s late this year so we’ll say it’s around a couple of corners) I asked if they had invented chocolate covered peeps or something. Well, sure enough, they had! What were the odds of that?

 

Well, now is the part where I’m supposed to say I bought the peeps and they were delicious. Well sorry. I’m not buying chocolate covered peeps. Huh-uh. They’re still peeps. But now that I think of it, I bet they’d be good dunked in that chocolate peanut butter milk…

Hot Dog

I read some reviews of a dog kennel recently. While most of the reviews were positive, one person noted that, “when we got to the facility, the dog was wheeled away to another building and was surrounded by cremation ovens”. This, to me, seemed odd. Multiple ovens? Really? Is business that good that they need more than one cremation oven? Is the writer sure she didn’t take the dog to Pizza Hut? (They have multiple ovens.) Of course all this happened and she still let the dog stay there overnight...

Speaking of pets, in the wintertime we dress our dogs in cute sweaters, often in pretty colors, don’t we? While initially attractive to the eye, these colors, like the ovens noted above, are disturbing. Why is that, you ask? Well, the dogs cannot see the colors! Shouldn’t we all be a little more considerate and dress our pets in grays and blacks? C’mon folks. A little sensitivity maybe?

Kiss Cam

So yeah, we were at the hockey game yesterday, February 17th when that Kiss Cam thing started going around. Sure enough it landed on this couple and the guy proposed to the woman and she apparently said yes. Well, exciting as that seemed, I wondered about the rest of the story. Hadn’t she likely expected to receive the proposal on Valentine’s Day and hadn't she possibly spent the worst three days of her life since then being all disappointed? Or, had he been carrying this ring around for months waiting for the kiss cam to find them so he could propose? Or, hadn’t she seen the ring when he had to put it in the bowl thing when they went through the metal detector coming through the turnstiles?

These Kiss Cam back stories could easily become a TV series. Candid Kiss Camera maybe?

Message from the Heart

We don’t have those little Valentine message hearts this year. Those things were so hard. If you didn’t bite it, one of those candies could last you pretty much all day. But those little messages could really lift your spirits…

The candy company missed a great opportunity with those little hearts. They could have sold advertising for dentists with their phone numbers on those little beauties so like when your tooth broke eating one you just pull the candy out of your mouth and call the dentist. Pretty sure we’ll see that happening next year when they bring those candies back…

I'd like to see a warning on the package saying that you should not try to read the hearts when you're driving. But then again, would people try to read the warning label when they were driving? I'll ask the sheriff what he thinks tomorrow at Rotary...

Pulp Non-Fiction

I love orange juice. Always have. I don’t use this forum to push products a lot. Most of you readers know by this point that I’m a member of Costco, but that’s more of a brag than an advertisement. Well, my orange juice of choice is Kroger. Yeah, I know. Usually the store brand is not as good as the national brand. But in this case the Kroger brand is consistently better tasting than the national brands. And cheaper. That’s a nice combination.

So when I told my wife about this she said, “Check the ingredients. If it tastes that good they may be putting sugar in it.” Well, the ingredients just said “Orange juice”. This got me thinking. How do I know that this is juice from oranges or just some orange colored juice? How do we know the manufacturers are not saying, “Hey, it’s orange isn’t it?” 

If anyone knows this answer let us know. We need to continue to peel away at this…