miscellaneous

They say you learn something new every day. What did I learn today? That digging into a mushy mass of cake crumbs and cream cheese frosting is strangely yet thoroughly enjoyable. You’ve all heard of a cake ball, yes?  In case you haven’t, it’s essentially cake crumbs glued together by frosting and compacted into a sphere.  [...]

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I like butts. Bread butts, that is. More formally put, these are the end-most pieces of a loaf. Most people probably don’t like them.  After all, who wants to eat bread butt sandwiches, bread butt toast, or bread butt pudding? Many bread consumers buy loaves and avoid the bread butts altogether.  By the time the loaves’ innards are eaten, [...]

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As many of you are aware, the recent mid-term elections marked a turn-over of power in the House of Representatives.  Republicans will soon yield a majority in a previously Democrat-controlled House. To reflect this development, as well as to celebrate the absence of mudslinging political advertisements for a whopping 4 days, it only seemed appropriate to make turnovers.  Tee [...]

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The skin on its body is wrinkled and cracked.  Giant air pockets occupy the space between its gnarled surface and footless base, like the final, desperate gasps issued before the kiss of patisserie death.  Where there should be feet gracefully skirting its extremities, there is a dark abyss of nothingness. Its very name strikes fear [...]

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If I had a dime for every time someone said, “I’m really craving [insert food here]“… …I’d be rich.  And baffled.  I’d be a baffled rich person with way too much change. Why would I be baffled?  Because I don’t understand so-called “cravings.”  In my entire life, I’ve never “craved” anything.  Unless I can see, [...]

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