Cream @ MindSay

"Oh my beloved ice cream bar, how I love to lick your creamy center. And you're oh so nutty chocolate covering. You're not like the others, you like the same things I do. Wax paper, en foiled football leather, dog breath, we're not hitchhiking anymore, we're riding."
"Stop it, you're talking crazy"
"Oh no, I know what you want, you coveted my ice cream bar."
"Come on now"
"No you don't. You can't take it from me now, I've had this ice cream bar since I was a child. People always trying to take it from me, why won't they leave me alone!"
"Easy now"
"BACK OFF MAN! Don't make me use this, I'm warning you. Now you've done it, you've forced me to use it. I'm hurting"

Dixie currently feels:

Pleased

 

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OMNER, BEST NEWS EVER.

 

Seeing as how MindSay is inhabited solely by Yanks, I'm sure you all know what Oreos are.

Yep, the greatest biscuit ever - slowly followed by the English Custard Cream and Rich Tea finger.

 

Well, up until now - I've never ever seen Oreos on sale in England.

 

I'd heard of them - for you see, having friends in America and Canada - obviously, I'd have been informed.

AND, I'd seen old 80's adverts for them on the episodes of YCDTOTV (You Can't Do That On Television) which I download, and I thought: "Hmm... I want some of those..."

 

I was in luck when I went to Rhodes last year.

Rhodes sell food products from all over the world in their little souvenier and essentials shops.

You see the English Heinz baked beans alongside tins of German frankfurters, and French bubblegum sat beside packs of Oreos.

 

When in Rhodes (har har, best pun ever...) I also tried the white chocolate and milk chocolate coated Oreos.

In the two weeks I was there, I must have eaten about...

 

Hmm...

Well let's say I ate a pack every day. So that's 4 biscuits every day on avarage.

 

So that's 14 multiplied by 4.

Gives you a total of 58.

 

58 in two weeks, I can't tell whether that sounds like a lot or not.

 

But anyway, sometimes when I was walking down streets of Rhodes, I looked and felt like a bit of a Yank.

Put it this way, I was wearing enormous shorts, Slipknot shirts usually, Converse all-star, either a Slipknot or New York Yankees baseball cap, and I sometimes had Oreos in my hands or pockets.

 

 

And looking like a Yank when you're an Englishman who hates 99% of everything American is not good.

 

 

Anyway, on the topic.

 

 

I've not ever seen Oreos on sale in England before.

 

I walked into my IT room the other day, and I saw an Oreo wrapper on the floor beside the wastepaper bin.

 

 

My first impression was: "...Oreos?! What the hell are they doing here?!"

 

My second impression was: "...Well maybe someone's been on holiday and brought them back?"

 

My third impression was: "FOR FUCK'S SAKE, I WANT OREOS NOW."

 

 

So today, about.. 15 minutes ago...

I'm at nana's, I've finished my Sunday lunch - and she calls me in the kitchen, goes in the cupboard and produces a packet of OREOS.

 

"OMG, OREOS." - I say.

 

She offers them to me.

I take two and stuff them in my mouth at once.

Oh, the heavenly taste returns to me.

 

"Where did you get these?" - I ask. "They don't sell them here."

 

But apparently - they DO now.

They must've just came over.

 

Honestly though, Oreos have been around since before the 80's, and we're only getting them in England in 2008?!

 

So, dad's said he's going to get me some when he goes to the ASDA supermarket.

I wrote "OREOS" on his list. Tee hee.

 

 

 

Yay, Dixie is reunited with the flavour she loves so much - ON HER HOME SOIL.

 

 

 

Oreos in England.

Now we are a better country than before.

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This morning heading out the door on my way to work, I noticed my black great dane laying in a huge heap in the front yard. I thought it a bit strange. She's a prissy, very cold natured thing who adores her couch set up in the garage. When I called her she didn't come. With a fleeting feeling I ran out to see if she was OK.

All I saw was a pile of blood.

My mom, Lee, and I loaded her up in the back of my Jeep. Yes, it took three people. The vet told us that whatever had attacked her was not a dog. When dogs attack they leave puncture wounds. Whatever this was left huge gashes down her side. He said the were definitely cat wounds.

For five years farmers in our area have reported sightings of cougars. We've all seen them. They've killed our cows. Even the state cop that lives down the road a piece freaks out when he come at our end of the township. But still, the DNR denies they're existence in Indiana.

I wonder what they'd say if they knew we actually got a picture of one and a bear on our trail camera? Yes, a bear. I'll have to post that picture. It's scary. Especially, since it was taken approximately 200 feet from the house.

But anyway... I just got a phone call and my great dane has died. Dang... And my uncle with Lou Gerrics disease is not doing well. His kidneys are beginning to fail.

To top it all off my boss is obsessing over watching Gerald Ford's funeral on TV. I'm sorry, I won't watch or go to a funeral unless I absolutely must. He's excited because his son, a high school friend of mine, is actually in the funeral. I don't what his role is... All I know is he's in the Honor Guard...

I'm fed up with (how can I say this?) military... business. Two more of my high school buddies are being deployed. Not to Iraq. Not to Afghanistan. But to KOREA!!!!!!!!! I really hope we don't get our nose in that mess. Poor guys...

I'm starving. I have 3 wisdom teeth coming in. The one on top isn't painful, but ones on the bottom... OUCH! They are pushing my perfectly straight teeth together. I swear they're getting crooked. Since Christmas I've been surviving out of my Nalgene bottle. The good news is I now have an excuse to live on ice cream. Yipee!! But I really don't feel like going to the dentist. Ugh.

So I found this recipe on the back of Hershy's cocoa's pack.. and it is really easy, so i thought.... man... it looked so bad when it was ready.. the top was burnt, and now I know that if eaten without fresh whipped cream, a bad looking cake can taste absolutely horrid! Going to try out the other egg seperating recipe instead of adding baking soda and baking powder for the rising agent.
wish me good luck! hey, Miss Lo, what delicious have u learnt from your grandma? And are u doing any cakes??? Miss your posts.