Review: Jurassic Park Dinosaur shaped Chicken Nuggets

Friday afternoon, I am walking through our Super Walmart that is about 4 blocks from where we live, remembering that I need some chicken nuggets. I got two boxes for a dollar a piece on sale about 3 weeks ago and decided I want to get them on a regular basis because they are great late night snacking food. I know they are made out of the leftover innard filler from a chicken, but I feel life is too short to worry about what you are eating. If it tastes good, eat it. That is one of my very important mottos. Find a notepad and write it down. It’s ok I’ll wait.

So anyway, I am walking past the freezer aisles, looking at the various things and realize it’s my time to choose what brand of chicken nuggets (if any at all) I am getting. This is what I am looking at:

Yes I snuck pictures with my camera phone for you all. I don’t give a shit

So your looking at them, and see the blah adult chicken nuggets and the badass jurassic park ones. Which one would YOU choose?!?! I would think the people that read my blog would be cool enough not to choose these blah adult ones:

Which were about the same price as these:

And anyone that knows me knows I am a cheap bitch. They were 5.36 I believe for a little over 2 pounds which I think is pretty good. That will last for about 3 weeks or so.

Later that night, I was getting a little hungry and I remember I have some chicken nuggets that LOOK VAGUELY LIKE FUCKING DINOSAURS in my freezer. And a newly purchased bottle of ketchup. I like BBQ sauce better (hi DJ D!) but I am not going to buy a bottle of BBQ sauce just for chicken nugs. Because I can use ketchup for other things and BBQ sauce I would only get for the nugs.

Now, I have a feeling there are 4 dinosaur shapes in this package. I only could find three distinguished ones. Usually there are 4 shapes I think. They didn’t have a guide or a description on the package anywhere.

The T Rex (top right) Yep that’s a Rex all right. I can totally see a T Rex stomping all over a little boy’s peas and mashed potatoes. Take that, evil green balls of death!! ROOOAAARRRR!!!!

Now I am not a dinosaur expert. Far from one. So I am honestly googling the other names. Google: making people seem less of an idiot daily.

Brontosaurus (left) Like the little blonde girl said in the first movie, that there is a veggie eater. Made outta chicken filler and breading.

Pentaceratops (bottom right) or honestly any of them that kind of look like a rhino. I think you know what I mean.

And I ate some of these nuggets about an hour ago, I think one looked like a Pteranodon. IE the flyin’ dinosaur. But maybe it was the T Rex or another one that was just really stretched out, who knows.

Did you know that some people think Dinosaurs didn’t exist because they aren’t in the bible? Crazy fucking creationist psychos!!

The taste? Not bad. You can’t really fuck up a chicken nugget. Sometimes the breading tastes a little better, but most of them taste the same to me. I applaud the Jurassic Park people for stretching out their franchise for so long. They can sell these dinosaur chicken nuggets for a LONG time. I can’t imagine what kind of foodie shit they made during when the first movie was in theaters. Which I was in 6th grade when it came out and I remember that because my friends and I read it!! It had a lot of science mumbo jumbo in it which I honestly skipped a lot of the gobbly gook. It just was boring! A lot of the book was based on before they even created a park, they were tweaking with the Dino DNA a lot in the first 100 or so pages. I read the book after I watched the movie. I read the book Sphere too years before the movie came out. I liked it. I wanted to be part of the crew.

On the front of this package
it says there are Dino Facts on the back. There is a kickass T Rex cowering over a list of facts about him. I think this is one of my favorite parts of this packaging, the drawing of T Rex overlapping the package where everything has it’s place.

It says:

TYRANNOSAURUS

(tie-ran-o-sore-us)

North America

Approximately 40-feet long

Weighed up to 8 tons

Had 60 teeth that could grow up to 8-inches long

Made up of over 250 (is that all that impressive?) bones

T-Rex could eat up to 500 lbs of meat and bones in one bite! (that’s 250 bags of your Jurassic Park Nuggets)

T-Rex had jaws powerful enough to crush meat or bone with 6,000lbs of pressure

T-Rex lived nearly 65 million years ago

Now, that’s all cool and impressive and everything, and I bet a little boy or a tomboy type of girl would think that would be totally cool. But these are FROZEN nuggets we are talking about. The company shouldn’t put stuff on the back for them to read like a cereal box! And it’s not like the packages are different (I looked in the store) once you have read a T-Rex had jaws powerful enough to crush meat or bone with 6,000lbs of pressure that’s it. No more killing time by reading about dinosaurs off of a chicken nugget bag. After that your done.

In conclusion, pretty good product. They taste great with Ovaltine. Yes I drink that now. I found myself wanting a chocolate drink mix that if you don’t mix it throughly you get something to eat at the bottom but the stuff dissolves so quickly it practically stirs itself.  I grew up drinking Nestle Quik.  Sigh I guess I’ll try to find some Carnation Instant Breakfast.

And a mini rant I almost forgot about. Why the FUCK do people have TWO seals on things? Isn’t one enough?? Like when you take off the seal around the cap of ketchup or mustard or another bottle and then you have to take the cap OFF in order to take the seal off underneath? If the seal around the edge is broken I am not going to buy it assholes so why put the one underneath?!? It aint to keep it fresh I think the one around the edge is enough for freshness. PPpppppssssssffffffttttt.

RAWR. If I knew what show I was watching when I took this picture I would tell you. Pop up video perhaps? Who knows.

Creep…y

This would definitely keep peter rabbit from getting into your garden.  These were being sold at our Super Wal mart for $19.88.

On another random note yesterday I found out there is a band out of Seattle Washington called Jodi Hates The world.  They are actually a kickass band.  I might just eventually buy their cd.  Which I will have to online so it’ll be at least 15 bucks plus shipping augh.  I can at least get a tshirt.  How emo would that be LMAO if I had a shirt that I wore out in public that said “Jodi hates the world” on it??

And I know your curious, I did a survey on Myspace that you type in your name and then what it tells you to type into after that to Google.  I should copy and paste my answers here they were quite humorous.  If you think finding a rock band that is called Jodi hates the world (and my name being Jodi) is funny oh no you have seen nothin’ yet.  Anyway I was supposed to type in “my name” hates.

MyHeritage what Celebrities I look like gobbly gook

I love that there is a chance that John Belushi could of been my Dad. I do look a lot like that magazine cover. Someone recently told me I look like John Travolta could be my Dad. Which is great because I love as my cousin would say, Travolta baby. He could teach me all about planes and how it’s like to be a hollywood icon. I think and always will think Cybil Shepard is stunning. And I have a crush on Kristie Alley. I love her sassy femme attitude. Most of the crushes I have on women are ones that the peak of their career was around the time I was born or in elementary school. Oh well who cares

In other news, I am obsessed with the new 4 minutes Madonna Justin Timberlake video. I usually enjoy listening to Alternative Rock on Yahoo Radio (the link is on the left) but I dig this tune. I can totally see myself singing “I’m outta time all I got is 4 minutes.  4 minutes AYE”  I have an unbelievably huge crush on Madonna but that isn’t it really. I don’t like the obvious CGI special effects though. I never like it when it’s obvious it came from a computer. They could of done it with claymation and I would of liked that. People don’t use claymation as much as they used to and that is a shame. I love clay animation. Anybody that has completed a claymation film deserves an A for effort.

Anyway go to youtube and read some of the comments for 4 minutes on Madonna’s official youtube account. Which is youtube.com/madonna anyway some of them are hilarious because they are like “what does this have to do with saving the world? I don’t get this video or the song!!” and how dare people say that Madonna has lost her it factor. Madonna is stunning and can do whatever she damn well feels like. Then about an hour later I watch She wants Revenge tear you apart

And read those comments! Because those people don’t get that video either!! It’s really funny. I think most of them are like 13 but still. Ok people art isn’t meant to be understood by anybody except the person that made it. You take your own interpretation away from it. I think I get the video, “the Reds” are the outcasts and they go to a place where they feel like they aren’t alone. Like gays in the gay community. The land of misfit toys. There is a twist because we think there is this girl that goes to a dance with a boy. This girl tells the best to her ability that she wasn’t born a girl she was born a boy but she feels the best as a girl. She wants this boy to date her even after knowing this. Her plan backfires and this boy and his friends gang up on her. The Reds rescue her and are revealed as the two boys that the boy she went to the dance with mentioned before that he thought they mysteriously disappeared.

I’m glad I got that out of my system. The guy singing this song is creepy but in a sexy way. When he is singing “I’m going to tear you apart” I think that means he is going to make the girl he is about to have sex with feel like a dirty slut. He is going to rip her feminine daintyness away and fuck her like a raw animal. Also people didn’t get what that meant which also was amusing because I thought it was obvious. It’s hard to be smart because when people ask questions like that and you easily know it it pisses you off because they seem like stupid questions and stupid people seem like they are blindly wandering around on this planet assuming everyone is there just to explain things to them. Or that is what I at least think.

I hate it I mean I absolutely LOATHE it when someone asks a question they could of easily found the answer to themselves by doing a 5 minute google search about. I read Ask Ro everytime Rosie O’ Donnell updates and I LOATHE it when people bother her by asking her questions they could of found themselves. What movie were you in with Madonna? OMG you people!! Don’t you know what IMDB.com is or wikipedia.com is?!?!! WHY DO YOU ASK QUESTIONS LIKE THAT!!?!?!? IT PISSES ME OFF!!! What is your oldest sons name again???? Does Kelli have your last name too?? List goes on and another thing is why do people ask when they can just wait a day or two and have the question be answered? Because some questions she answers every single day it seems! Even though if everyone took my advice she wouldn’t answer those questions all the time and they wouldn’t get their answer. But I always wait around a bit online and the real world (Natural light, get it off me! Get it off me!!) to get an answer rather then asking right away. When people immediately ask a question right off of the top of their heads without waiting until their question is answered for them I consider them stupid. I always wait around then I ask.

And I hate the questions that are half insult half question. Like, why don’t you wear makeup more often? You look so much better with it on! People ask questions like that to me and I am getting sick of it I am about to yell at them like a drill Sargent just to get them off my back and scare the crap outta them. I just want to act like every conversation people have with me is like an integration. But I usually keep those kinds of thoughts in my head and will probably not go postal anytime soon. We’ll see. The only person I can trust is myself ’shifty eyes’

Just a random Charlie Brown parody humorous picture

Happy Friday.  I am saying that to be polite and not for my sake because my weekend is actually Mon and Tues.  Gosh I’m rude.  lol!!

Can you imagine? lol

Thank you Robin in wonderland from the ANT Colony using this as her avatar because if she didn’t then I couldn’t of swiped it from her and well I wouldn’t be here spending time with you all.  Can you imagine Calvin and Hobbes with this same conversation?? lol!!! I bet Will can’t and I can imagine him with his arms crossed in a huff.  It’s alright Will, I was just using my imagination.  I am referring to Will from veggiemacabre.wordpress.com.  I say good day.

No Fate: the future is what we make of it (Terminator 2: Judgement day quick movie review)

Now, I am very tired but I know if I don’t do this now in the heat of passion I’ll never do it. I just watched Terminator 2: Judgement Day an old favorite of mine. I watched the special edition which has deleted scenes. I loved the deleted scenes, I understand how they changed parts of the movie but I loved the context with them in. One scene though, Reese coming to Sarah in a dream, made Sarah (played by Linda Hamilton of course) look like a mess. Really mental and all over the place. I heard about the scene years ago, and it was unfortunately better in my head. But the actor playing Reese really looked the same. Usually actors gain weight and look worse as time drags on (don’t we all?) so I am glad he didn’t become a little chubby, but he looked the same. I heard that part of that scene was in a version of a trailer that was shown in theaters that confused people after they saw T2 in theaters.  Eh, it happens.

When I was 10 years old, I had a best friend that was about 8 years old a boy named Jimmy. He and I did boy stuff, we went around on our bikes, played ninja turtles, played with his boy toys (ninja turtles, gi joes, NES, etc.) that I didn’t get to own because my Grandma thought that I wanted them just because I thought I wanted them. She thought I just saw my boy cousins playing with them and so I wanted them and after I got them I wouldn’t play with them. Now quite frankly I am a butch lesbian. I have short hair, I wear strictly men’s clothing, I talk like a male most of the time, I act like a guy. Joke’s on you, Grandma! I truely wanted the boys toys! I will change the subject because even I admit it sounds like I keep on hinting around I’ve wanted a penis since I was 10.

Anyway, my friend Jimmy on the weekend would either rent an NES game or T2. Stupid I know, but we would watch it all the time on a rented VHS tape. He had an older sister, between him and I’s ages. She was always trying to prove she was smarter then I was sometimes it worked sometimes it didn’t. He also had a single mother that had a boyfriend. She would feed them processed kid friendly food I never got. Like mac n cheese and spaghetti O’s. I never got pasta outta a can, and rarely got mac n cheese. So knowing there was a family I could visit that this was the norm was like visiting royalty. To visit a NORMAL family. They ate biscuits out of a can and hamburger helper. I always ate from scratch. Not this stuff that on the box there is a cartoon character on it and a contest to win a shopping spree at Toys R Us. He always begged me to stay over for dinner, my Grandma assumed they were poor (she always assumes everyone is poor) so she thought it was a horrible burden if I stayed for dinner. I don’t think Jimmy really stayed over for dinner at our house. He was annoying and had a crush on me (he asked me to be his girlfriend once, I said I wasn’t ready for that sort of thing, I’ll tell that story some other time) I started to tell him that I had a lot of homework, in the 5th grade they just pile it on you, it’s a lot different then the 3rd, so he had to leave me alone to do it. After the coast was clear, I turned on the tv and flipped it onto tiny toon adventures or whatever was on. He moved away, and a week or so before he did he borrowed my cartridge of duckhunt/mario bros and our spare light gun. Never did get it back and I got a copy of duckhunt/mario bros later. I guess that was my punishment for lending something to someone right before they move.

I am totally not talking about the movie. I remember still the comments that Jimmy would say everytime we watched this movie. He kind of looked like evil T (the name we would call the T-1000) he was thin, and his ears stuck out a little. When I was 10 I got a copy of Terminator 2 for Christmas and when I was 11 I got a VHS copy of the Terminator. They are both great movies, and I am so glad I have an Nostalgic attachment to them. The two movies (no comment on the 3rd one ‘ahem’) have everything a great action movie has. It has emotional investment in the characters, scenes where they tear everything to shit and set things on fire blow shit up, anger, bad vs. evil, a lot of innocent people not knowing that the future is in the palm of the main characters hands, and so on. I want to mention, my favorite plots in sci fi is what I would call realistic sci fi. When the world is similar to ours. Like, what if Armageddon happened, what would the world be like. That kind of thing.

I know alot about this series. The new series the Sarah Connor Chronicles? I hate it when they want you to pretend that new actors are the same characters you knew before. Like they think we are fuckin idiots. I’m trying to watch it though. It’s awesome to get a weekly dose of Terminator talk. I bet if that series came out when I was a kid I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I have been known to randomly look through ebay auctions for merchandise. Just window shoppin’, the more expensive it is the cooler it is you know how it goes. I will buy some of it someday. Set up my own Terminator shrine. Autographed posters, functional props that sort of thing. There is one that is a wooden plaque that has the Terminator’s skull on it and you plug it in and his eyes glow red. Kickass. More then it’s worth too.

The special effects are quite good for 1991. I think this was at the beginning of the cutting edge special effects. Not the cheap “I can see the string” type but you can sincerely believe that what you are seeing is happening on some universe out there. Even though bone is stronger then metal and IRL the Terminator would be weak. The storyline I admire it being consistent. Well as consistent as a storyline in a movie can be. John has a picture of his mom that is taken at the end of the first movie. Me loves that.

The Terminator (or how I affectionately call him Ahnold) holds strong until the last 40 mins or so of the movie then he gets beat to shit. You have to admire his determination. He MUST complete his mission. He MUST protect John Connor.

I look up Edward Furlong’s current status sometimes. He got arrested for possession a while back, but he’s making indie films now. I caught him in Animal factory. It’s a prison movie. He was alright. I feel like I am a loyal fan of his and if one of his movies is easy for me to watch I feel I have to try to watch it. I’m pissed like the rest of the world he wasn’t in the 3rd movie. F.ckin Nick Stahl. I like Nick in the movie Bully sure but he didn’t have to cross into Terminator Territory. Wow I’m brilliant when I’m drowsy.

That is my last picture so I better wrap it up. The first couple times you see this movie at least you have to tear up a little at that scene. I think Linda Hamilton playing Sarah Connor is a hot mom MILF if you will in this movie. I love it when women kick ass like men do. It’s hot to me. She doesn’t need a guy to do her dirty work for her! Hand her the gun, because her motto is if you need it done right you have to do it yourself. Extremely hot. She said on Oprah a few years ago that during this movie she was addicted to working out. She’s bi polar and is taking meds now. She’s a little chubby. Good for her Also her closeness to John in this movie makes me a little uncomfortable.  I mean they are a little TOO close.  She can only rely on him and he can only rely on her through this hard time and for the rest of their lives.  So they are closer then a son and a mom are usually.  Little disturbing.  It reminds me of the Stephen King movie Sleepwalkers, that movie has a mother and son in it.  They are shapechanging vampires, the last two on earth and they have a sex scene in the movie.  Ew.

In conclusion, 5 out of 5. One of the best action movies ever made. I have sentimental attachment to it like I said before but on face value it has an extremely high replay value for me. I watch it from time to time for sure and I will for the rest of my life probably. The new scenes I just watched? Doable. I like there are little nuggets now to look forward to rewatching the next time I watch this movie. I have played the T2 pinball machine (which when I get rich and famous I am so buying) and the arcade machine. I felt that was worth mentioning because at the time I thought it was worthy of bragging rights. See you later, people.

A story about opening up Christmas presents

I posted this as a comment to someone’s blog. I thought I would share with you all.

Figuring out what something is before opening it is a skill I developed as a child. I would carefully figure out which one to open before it was time to open presents. We would open presents from my Grandparents on Christmas eve night after dinner and after the dishes were done. The next day I would open my relatives presents when they would show up to visit, after everyone came and were settled.

Anyway one Christmas when my Aunt was talking about presents and kids figuring out what they got, I told her I am good at figuring out what the presents are.

She said oh really smarty and she handed me one of my presents. I was about 19 or 20. Anyway my eyes lit up and said oh thank you this is something I’ve always wanted! She said what is it? And I told her it was a trivia game that I wanted for a couple of years. She said oh you figured it out? How did you figure it out?!? It came in a tin container and I felt it through the wrapping and also the shapes underneath it. She handed me a couple others, a couple harder ones and I think out of three I got 1 right.

The rest of the day she was telling people how good I was at figuring it out, it was like I was a prodigy at figuring out what presents are before they are opened. I mean who cares your going to open it soon anyway and then after you do it’s over with.

I can remember how I acted when I was a little kid though, it was like a once a year crack fix, I was obsessed until it was over with, and then I was obsessed with my presents until school started up again.

I also remember my cousin (the Aunt actually from before, her son) one time when he was living with us still gave presents a sneaky way to prevent us from figuring it out before hand. He took big boxes, filled them up with wrapping paper or some kind of other paper (like newspaper) and then in the middle put a cassette tape. I remember one particular Cassette tape but I am assuming he did it more then once. My Grandma thought hey why didn’t I think of that? And he said you HAVE to do that with Cassette tapes or they figure out what it is too easily!! Apparently his mom used to do that all the time.

My experience finding the right camcorder for me

A little over a month ago maybe it was two months ago, I was walking into Office Max and they had a display of flip cameras. They said one model recorded up to 30 minutes and one recorded up to 60 minutes and I thought to myself (and said out loud) what a stupid thing you can only record 30 mins? That would be an awfully short home video!

And then a day or two later I was thinking to myself about the camera, and it was like a lightbulb over the head moment you can easily do youtube videos with it! I asked my best friend (mind you this was WAY before Rosie got one) about it and he said well I’ll get you a camera if that is what you want but research and make sure it’s a good product before you buy one. I don’t want to just get the first thing you want I want you to make sure it’s the one you want. Doesn’t that sound like a guy thing to say? lol.

Anyway I researched for about a month and I found out the flip camera (it didn’t take me two weeks to figure this out lol I was just seeing what cameras came at what prices and what they did etc.) you need to buy AA batteries for it to work!

Some people have problems remembering to charge things, you might have a problem with the rechargeable batteries but I don’t like the concept of continuing to buy batteries for something I am planning on using constantly. Also, I found videos people have made with the flip camera on youtube and they were not too good. They were like an old VHS tape you would find from the early 90’s of home videos your parents made. I wasn’t impressed. I noticed that instead of paying 100 dollars you can spend 150 dollars (or a little less if you find a sale of course) you can get a camera with a significant difference in picture, more features, and a rechargeable Lith-ion battery.

I got a DV Camcorder at the beginning of last year but it was difficult to take the video off of the tape onto the computer. I have tapes I still haven’t taken off footage and put on my computer (I sold it to a pawn shop the end of last year for some emergency money) and I didn’t like how the footage I took off of it I had to wait and let the software record the footage. And having to buy tapes when I want to record more stuff is annoying and expensive. I think I paid 12 bucks for about 6 tapes. Each tape was about 70 mins.

But I wanted a camcorder that recorded onto a memory card. That way you don’t have to spend money continuously afterwards, you just spend money upfront and that’s it.

I have a memory card reader for the memory card for my phone, so that wasn’t something I needed to buy extra.

What model did I settle with and ask my best friend to buy for me? An Aiptek A HD High Definition Camcorder. It was 149.99 dollars when I got it but it was on sale for 139.99 so I got the 10 dollars back later. It has a rechargeable battery, it can plug into the tv (to record off of tv and to play what I have recorded onto tv) it’s small and compact, and I got a 2GB memory card for it so that it will record for about 170 mins. I could always upgrade or just get an additional 2gb memory card. It can plug into the computer via usb for power or ac. The flash is decent for taking still pictures and the pictures come out pretty good for a camcorder. The video is in MOV format actually but I convert it to mp4 (mp4’s are small sized and I saw that when I convert it to another format I get these black bars on the sides of the screen) if I want to edit it. If I don’t , then I just upload to youtube untouched.

The main flaw I have found with the camera is when I am recording in the car when my best friend is driving the words are hard to make out and it’s really noisy which is a disappointment because I wanted to film a lot of him and I and our random banter back and forth when we are driving around town doing errans. I do the best I can fixing it though in my video editing software of choice (Cyberlink powerdirector 7.0, I stopped using windows movie maker the beginning of this year, it stopped working for me for some reason) it has an audio fixing tool in there.

Then a week or two after I get this camera Rosie goes out and gets a flip camera. WTH! But I think I would feel foolish if I bought the camera that is cool,hip, and popular and I am the one stuck asking for batteries money all the time. It’s just the principal of it I think, If I am going to use something constantly (I have put up 8 movies so far onto youtube I have made with this camera and I have lots of footage I haven’t done anything with yet) then I don’t want to have to buy batteries for it to use it. Like I said the initial investment is enough, with my points about buying tapes earlier in my post.

This is the Amazon.com link for this camcorder.

http://www.amazon.com/Aiptek-720P-CMOS-Definition-Camcorder/dp/B000UO796Y/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197003377&sr=8-3

This is a video I made about the camcorder the day I got it. Every movie that I made outside of my bedroom assume it was made with this camcorder.

This is my life. In my own words I guess continued

This was in unpublished mode I thought I put it up!  Oh well

This is parts 3,4,5 and 6 of my series of videos of me talking about my past and growing up. I am DONE doing them (you and me together can breathe a sigh of relief LOL!) And I will start posting regular posts now. I promise.

Part 3 (I talk about my childhood, what Elementary school was like)

Part 4 (This is me talking about one particular bully)

Part 5 (This is an upbeat positive video of me talking about how much fun my cousin that I lived with was and my cousins that stayed over were)

My last little bit of Halloween, in foot length sections

You have to get at least one holiday related product at post holiday clearance prices. It seems like a waste if you don’t because a few days or weeks earlier then that they were full priced and you had to pay good money for them. Now they are discounted and begging for someone to buy them. You are doing a favor for them actually because you have to realize, I am assuming it’s a bit awkward at least because it’s like being clothing that is out of fashion. Everyone is worshiping you and acting like your the cat’s meow one day, and the next day you have these mysterious red labels on you with sloppy writing with people sticking their nose up at you. If it’s not a food product it’s not too embarrassing to buy it at post-holiday clearance prices and then wait until the next holiday season. My Grandma used to do it for my cousins for school, she used to buy cheesy Valentines for dirt cheap, and then she would put them away for a year. She’s the cheapest woman I know, but it pays off because her and my Granddad have a lot of money and they have gone on several cruises and trips.

Moving on, the little Halloween clearance goody that I got today at Wal mart was two boxes of fruit by the foot. How is that Halloweenish you ask?

Well one box had a flavor based on the Boo Berry cereal. and Franken Berry cereal. I got them for 50 cents a piece. I had Chocula once a few years ago and it tasted like cocoa puffs but a little firmer w/ Marshmallows. I don’t know if I would ever have them again. Sorry dudes.

This might make me sound stupid, but I rerealized tonight how long fruit by the foot is. It’s been a while since I’ve had the stuff. My Grandma got it once or twice to put in my lunch when I was a little kid but it wasn’t a regular thing. I always thought that this and fruit roll ups were a treat. I still think they are like a treat. Remember those that had a little imprint that if you carefully tore you would have legs, feet, arms etc. and you could make a little fruit roll up person? OH OH and do you remember the round fruit roll ups and the ones that were strawberry and they had SEEDS in them? Seeds in fruit roll ups are good LONG LIVE THE SEEDS!!

The flash on the cell phone works for some things The artwork on the boxes match the newer style of the cereal box which is pretty neat. Good solid clear lines that are great for little kids to put a piece of cheap paper over and trace. But I bet kids nowadays don’t like tracing because they are empty shells.

I have to admit, the different flavors of fruit by the foot and fruit roll ups taste very vaguely similar to me. I am not the best person to do a review on them lol but this is the internet and I can type away on a blog America is great isn’t it. This one tastes like any “red” fruit by the foot. Perhaps a mix between strawberry and raspberry. That’s the best you get guys

There is a wavy imprint in the middle so you can easily peel the strip apart to make two fancy equal pieces. I think it’s to share with a friend but the best thing to do is to carefully tear it apart, look with a smile on your face like you are going to share it, and then eat both pieces. Hehehehehehe

Isn’t that a great blue box? The stuffz you eat inside is blue as well. The artwork again is clean lined, cartoonish and nice. It’s definitely different then the other fruit by the foot box art. People that make box art are under appreciated. And the flavor? Well it tastes like what blue would taste like. Honestly these all taste the same to me. Would this make a kid’s lunch box more Halloweeny? The package definitely would be neat and a change of pace but I don’t think shadows would turn into ghosts, you would hear more noises in the nighttime, you look over your shoulder when you are walking by yourself more often etc. if you regularly ate the stuff. It would be just another fruit by the foot thang.

Goodbye Halloween, I didn’t throughly enjoy you this year like I could of but hopefully you’ll forgive me and next year I can give it another go. Great thing about holidays is you have one more chance at least to make it right.

A PSA about Sour Cotton Candy

I went to Big Lots yesterday to stock up on dinner food and some snacks. If there isn’t a Big Lots near you (it might have a different name where you live) it is a store that sells a variety of things. It’s kind of like an outlet store because you don’t know what is going to be in there and some things are cheaper then other stores. The candy that you buy you don’t know how fresh it is, and you see products in there that it looks like a product that has flopped. They have cds, dvds, computer stuff, shampoo, clothes detergent, furniture, toys, and just a little bit of clothes, greeting cards, jewelery, dog toys, and non perishable foods. Some things they have are cheaper and a few things your better off goin’ to Wal mart. And it pisses me off when that happens for some reason. I think it’s just the principal of it.

I had 12 dollars to spend, and my total came up with 12.50. I told the woman working the register to take off one of the energy drinks (they were .60 cents a piece, the cheapie obscure branded energy drinks, don’t get excited for nothin’ people) and she said oh don’t worry I’ll find 50 cents someplace! I was relieved but also suspicious. This year so far at least a couple of times a month I get that. The ‘oh don’t worry I’ll just give you somethin’ for free’ at the register type of conversation. It made me gitty and happy before (especially when I was really really broke and needed some of the stuff I was buying) but now I am wondering what these people that do this for me think of me. Do I look like a homeless pathetic person? Do I look like I am a sad puppy dog and they felt like giving me a handout to make themselves feel like that is their good deed for the day? Now typing this, maybe they know in their gut this has been one of the hardest years of my life and giving me a cheap freebie is their way of telling me that there are times that human nature is good. Maybe they just don’t want to put the shit back on the shelf after I leave. Hmmmm several things to ponder.

This is one of the things I got last night in my grocery run.  For a measly dollar, I got a bag of Tear Jerkers brand cotton candy.  I only get cotton candy every so often.  It’s a little rich for me so just every couple of years does it for me.  I remember as a kid not being able to finish the whole amount of it on one of those paper sticks at the fair.  But I think I have only eaten that kind of cotton candy once.  Oh well.

There are two flavors: Sour watermelon and Sour grape.  They are very clever with the names.  The watermelon is very incredibly sour but the grape not so much.  And if I knew there was grape in the package I probably wouldn’t of got it and they were all the same so there were no choice.  But it’s alright I’ll eat the entire thing.

See the purple and green?  Yep.  But this isn’t a typical candy review oh no, I am warning you.  The first couple bites and yes they were big bites into the fluffy texture, were painful.  You know when you eat something really spicy and it clears up your sinuses?  This cotton candy does that and oh yes it makes you tear up, wince, and your nostrils flare and burn and snot comes out.  One buck at your local Big Lots.  Last night while watching horror movies (I FINALLY got in the mood to watch them!  YESS!!) I just took little nibbles throughout my other snacking.  That was the only way I could tolerate the candy while I very slowly make the fluffy mound shrink. 

 BUT today I figured out how you can eat it without being in excruciating pain!!  You take a reasonable amount of fluff, and here is the tricky part.  You take your tongue and plant the fluff on the roof of your mouth as quick as possible.  If it lingers then it will burn.  It is like a game of Russian roulette people because this method is not guaranteed.  What you want to do is get as much moisture on the fluff as possible, enjoy the taste, feel it get into those tiny hard candy clumps it always is afterwards and then swallow.  That is how to do it!!  I’m never buying this shit again I am just telling you all NEVER EVER again.  I’ve never had sour candy make me hurt like that before and I’ve had lemonheads and warheads.  Oh well I guess this is making me earn my 50 cents off discount.  Until next time all.