This Just In

I’m singing as I dance wildly around the house with Little Man.? What brought on this cacophony?? This:

In the immortal words of Veruca Salt…”Don’t care how, I want it now!”.? I saw this little puppy at Walgreen’s yesterday and had to have it.?
It took me back to being 9 years old and watching this: (I had embedded the video, but it does wierd things to my blog.? Very wierd things.? So just click on the link.)

Take a peek…take a trip back in time!
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And of course this:

Oompa, Loompa…
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Opening this Scrumdillyumptious Chocolate?Bar every bit?as eagerly as Charlie did in the movie, we discovered that we did not infact, have a golden ticket (are you really sure about this, Mr. Wonka? I could have sworn I saw a flash of gold in there).?

??But what we did have was a chocolate bar big enough for three people.? My brother Mike, Little Man and I all had a third of it each.

?Little Man sucked it down so fast I wonder if he even tasted it and proclaimed it delicious.? He’s seven.? Of course it was.

Mike and I on the other hand, actually took smaller bites and tasted the candy.

?We both agreed that the chocolate itself was fabulous–but there was too much going on in the way of additives.
Cookie pieces, peanuts and toffee bits all competed with one another for flavor prominence.? They didn’t produce a cohesive flavor structure, so it was more like eating chocolate and tasting the individual components.? The mouth feel of the additives was too busy for the creaminess of the chocolate.
? At $2.79 retail for a bar of chocolate, this would be worth the money if you like a chocolate bar loaded with “stuff”.? The portion size is extremely generous.

The contest doesn’t hurt either…after all, what Willy Wonka junkie out there wouldn’t want a shot at a golden ticket? And that trip down memory lane??

Indeed,

“Invention, my dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration, six percent electricity, four percent evaporation, and two percent butterscotch ripple.”

S.