every now and again i get one of those beige cards in my mailbox, the ones from the post office, that say “we tried to deliver an item to you earlier, but you weren’t in, so now you have to come to us and stand in a queue for twenty minutes and lug it home yourself”. thing is, i don’t believe the post office actually tries to deliver anything other than letters and bills anymore. i am home all the time and no one ever rings the doorbell to say “parcel delivery for you”.
never.
the upside to this farce is that a couple weeks ago, when i got to the front of the line at the post office and handed my beige card over to the counter lady, she said, “oh i don’t need to see your i.d.. i know you,” which was dang near the nicest thing that’s been said to me at a post office.
today i queued again, with a card that appeared in my mailbox on friday, which meant that every time my eyes fell on it all weekend, it made me wonder “what is it? what is it?” what is it, in that fat, warm yellow envelope with my name writ large in fancy handwriting?
thank you, nellicent!
incidently, the fine folk at mcsweeneys who put out said comic book also run a page about “new food“. no, nary a diatribe on genetically modified brussels sprouts in sight. more a growing collection of tantalising new products like white chocolate peanut butter cups, a beverage called “pom” and microwave piroshki. those of youse who were intrigued by the melted butter twisties of two posts ago might like to investigate.
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Ooohh a new bookmarked page thank you very much!
And you know whats really funny… reading your post I am munching my way through a reeces peanut butter cup. Uh huh. And then I went to the new food link and whoa! Reeces Reviews Everywhere.
Deliveries in the mail of the fat yellow kind are the best! Lucky you!
i’m still not sure how i feel about the peanut butter cups, being somewhat ambivalent about peanut butter itself. having said that, the extra-clagginess and intense (possibly non-peanut) flavour in those american peanut butter products (see also goober grape) can be quite compelling. um. actually, what i quite enjoyed was reece’s pieces: sucking on the candy shell until it dissolved, and then sucking the intense pb innards until it too shrank away.
pom is disgusting. i haven’t read what they say about it on the mcsweeney’s website, but pom is disgusting. now that makes my throat go tight. it’s like cranberry juice, almost, but, with a crazier taste of something wrong. not something wrong like something just crawled inside and died, but something wrong like nyup-nyup, why am i drinking this?. apparently it is good for your health, maybe that’s what the iffy taste is. maybe the problem was my trying to drink it straight up. i keep hearing of people mixing it in with vodka or somefink, but doesn’t that take away from its supposed health benefits?
hey, but, cc, ‘member that sunny, sunny day you handed me a bottle to drink from, and i thought the clear liquid was water and i took a swig, and then surprise!!, it was some kind of sweet, sweet sugar tea or eomthing? mmm… glurgy surprise… yurgh.
Hey Bowb, nice to be back and thanks for the warning, I’m considering a job in Singapore – I’ll avoid $7 choc-cheesecake if I go.
Reece’s has all the essentials, the 3 main food groups – salt, sugar and fat. Have you tried B&B patisserie and cafe near Broadway shops? orange-blossom meringue, mango creme brulee. mmmmm, salt, sugar and fat.
Oh yah,.. when I was in NY I was hooked to try the pom drink because of the lovely purple colour and the shape of the bottle. Im such a sucka for marketing. The first time I tried it I was hungover and hungry! So sitting in a deli I had a toasty bagel with lashings of cream cheese and this pom drink. I bounced off that chair and walked some 35 blocks like I had not gone to bed at 4am and consumed enough alcohol for me to suffer from alcohol poinsoning. The second time I tried it… bleh bleh bleh… couldnt get to the second sip and it sat there for the rest of my meal. plus I remember it being pricey!
reeces PBC’s are great in small small bites and only one cup per sitting. all the variations dont appeal however!