Multiple choice:
Yesterday during a barbecue at my aunt and uncle’s home, I a) ate too many Doritos, b) actually understood what my genius cousins (mechanical engineer and some-other-kind of engineer) were saying, c) walked around their huge backyard, reminiscing about my childhood summers spent there and tried not to think about everything I have to do but never seem to find enough time for, or d) all of these.
D, of course, is the correct answer because I like Doritos too much, any day I understand what my cousins are saying is a day worth noting, and I’m trying my hardest not to get completely overwhelmed right now. I feel behind on everything, or at the very least like I’m half-assing a lot. It’s not intentional, but I guess that’s just an excuse and probably not a very good one. I don’t even get to read and comment on every blog I’d like to each day. That is how we know life is screwed up, when we cannot spend enough time on the Internet.
In fact, just last week after my desperate tractor post, another blogger really helped me out. Robb took it upon himself to film this tractor instruction video for me the very same day I wrote my plea. How nice is that? And after I’d just discovered I hadn’t even been propery linking to his blog for weeks because of my slackdom, he still helps me out.
I told my mom about the video and she did not believe me. She was all with the “why?” and “how” and “who would do that? how do you know these people?” And I said mom, it’s the Internet, it’s magic.
Speaking of magic, you are not going to believe this. Or, maybe you will but I certainly didn’t. A fellow blogger and runner over at What Can’t Be Looked For emailed me a few weeks ago about this “fabulous bacon product that you must own.” Then she sent it to me all the way from North Carolina.
Are you ready for this? I was not.
Mo’s Bacon Bar
Bacon and chocolate. Um, yeah. This is where I was all “what?” and “how?” and “oh my gosh, is that even possible?”
And it get’s better. On the package itself, it is noted that there are “guided tasting notes inside.” Oh, um, no I just don’t think I can handle this.
Luckily the person who sent this choclate bacon is very understanding and did not necessarily expect me to taste it, because I don’t think I could have done it and then I might have had to shut all this down and go into the blogger protection program. My mind is just a little too powerfully connected to my taste buds. But here’s a fun fact: It was stocked right near the meat counter. Strategic? I THINK SO.
Thanks to you two bloggers for shedding light on things that I would have otherwise never known. I am amazed, as is my mother.
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By the way, if I am not linking to your blog properly, or if I need to link to your blog, you should tell me. Chances are I meant to but then someone put Doritos in front of me and I forgot about everything else.
anne says:
mmmm doritos. what were you saying? doritos…
June 30th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Dingo says:
Have you tried the bacon bar with the Doritos? Sounds like heaven to me!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:32 am
barbara says:
We do have a sort of sick relationship with the internetz, don’t we? Spend too much time with it and we feel guilty and a little dirty, not enough time and we feel guilty and deprived. Is that addiction?
At least it doesn’t have bacon in it.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:50 am
JACC says:
You’re not linking to my blog properly. I expect a large link in bold letters on every post.
Thanks,
JACC
June 30th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Mel Heth says:
Hey now - after commenting on my bacon-chocolate bar post, you HAVE to eat some of it! It’s confusing to your mouth…but an experience you can’t miss. Life is too short to not partake in the bacony goodness.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Danielle says:
There is a reason I only have Doritos in the house when I’m taking them to a party!! I can’t control my eating of them…and I’ve been craving them (and we all know they taste best in the big bag, and when the big bag is fresh opened, so of course must have big bag AND eat them all right?).
Bacon and chocolate…I do like bacon, but man, not with my chocolate!! It just doesn’t equate to me! Oh, and that’s why i never buy bacon either. I only have it at my parents (a treat when I go there) or on a buffet…and when it’s a buffet I probably end up eating at least a package worth…yeah, that’s why it’s not allowed in my house!
June 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Smilf says:
I had to post because I had a friend once buy an entire box of these types of chocolates and I wanted to die when she showed them to me. Bacon in chocolate?? I just couldn’t go there. : )
June 30th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
backofpack says:
Bacon = bad. Chocolate = good. Turn to the chocolate, Luke, the chocolate.
I love Robb’s video - that is so cool, I’m ready to go drive a tractor right now!
June 30th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Nicole says:
Okay, is it real bacon? Because I’m curious now - I know you don’t love chocolate but you must find someone who loves both and report about it. I’m totally looking for the chocolate and going to check it out.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
sizzle says:
Doritos remind me of the 80s- good times! hee hee- CHEESY HANDS!
You mean you didn’t try the bacon chocolate bar because someone has to!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Girlgoyle says:
Doritos are like crack! So what’s this bacon fettish you seem to have? If I recall you had some pork mints or bacon mints you had found recently. Do tell…
July 1st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
jc says:
Yay the bacon bar made it to the internets!!!!!!!
And technially it was ON the meat counter….at a whole foods. I didn’t look but there’s a chance it’s even organic chocolate.. and free range bacon drippinggs….um, er.. or something.
If you ever find someone brave enough to try it , do report in about it. I’m dying to know….
jc
July 1st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
MN Runner says:
The bacon bar is the most disgusting thing ever! Ewwwww!
July 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Robb says:
Ha Ha! Thanks for the shouts and links and stuff. Lots of fun eh? I expect a goofy video in return.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 am
The Exception says:
Oh you have to find a guy who is willing to try that chocolate!! I am curious but not curious enough to offer to try it myself!
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
skinny says:
Lol….well, I am a believer that bacon makes everything better & I do love chocolate…so I can’t help but wonder.
Hmmm….If I find me some, I will try it & let you know.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Jen says:
The Internet never ceases to amaze me. You got some good people around you!
July 19th, 2008 at 4:06 am