"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
22 December 2006Kindness when you least expect itTrini just burst in and offered me a Cookie of Death. I am beginning to think I am the only person left who isn't allergic to peanuts. [Pause for Snickers.] Of course, this may be due to the fact that I used to go through Peter Pan Crunchy the way NASCAR drivers go through tires. (Never did like Skippy all that much — kinda soapy mouthfeel — and Jif was always too proprietary.) Good cookie, by the way, and hey, it helps keep Trini alive. Posted at 10:17 AM to Worth a ForkA childhood (or adulthood for that matter) where peanut butter must be replaced with sunflower seed butter (nasty, btw...or some other substitute) is one not worth living in my opinion. Where did this allergy come from? I thank my lucky stars I have not a single food allergy (that I know of). Posted by: Dwight at 1:03 PM on 22 December 2006I have no idea where these things come from; there seems to have been a massive rise in allergies in recent years. Having been exposed to everything this side of an active volcano in my younger days, I figure I've built up an immunity or something. As to whether any individual life is/was worth living, I defer to a, um, Higher Authority. Never thought I'd say this, but I swear by natural peanut butter nowadays. Take out all the sugar, and you can actually taste the peanuts. Radical notion, that. Posted by: John Salmon at 5:36 PM on 22 December 2006I've never been a big Reese's Cup fan, but the new ones with REAL WHOLE peanuts are the berries! Posted by: Winston at 8:14 PM on 22 December 2006I love the Jif reference, but I've always pronounced them with a hard G. I used to eat Skippy, but it eventually just tasted like salt to me. Posted by: Jay at 8:31 AM on 23 December 2006 |