Chicken in a Biskit?

I cannot believe this cracker with this name has a Wikipedia page!  I also can’t believe this cracker with this name made it to market and people have been buying it, for years!  For all of us who pine away thinking of fabulous names for products, listen up.  IT DOESN’T MATTER!  If the product is good, and people like it, they will buy it.  The words don’t even have to be spelled correctly!  In my extensive research on this product (I am SO busy), I learned it was part of an entire product line of "In a Biskit" crackers invented in Australia in 1968.  We might consider ourselves lucky that Chicken in a Biskit was the only one to make it over here - - - Vegemite in a Biskit is also available for export.  I don't think that would fly here, but I do think Bacon in a Biskit would have a fighting chance.  More on cult foods in a later blog . . . . 

What is your favorite cracker?  And what other products can you think of that have crazy names?

Stupid Rehab

Thank you for sharing this expression with me, Leslie!  At lunch one day, we were talking celebrity gossip (it’s better than gossip about people we know, right??) and all the celebs heading to and heading back to their various rehabs:  drug, alcohol, sex, gambling, shopping, eating, etc . . .  By no means am I bashing rehab.  But, Leslie and her co-workers think there needs to be a new kind of rehab called "Stupid Rehab" for all those people that do obviously (to most of us anyway) stupid things.  You know them: sleeping around with 23 different woman while married to a former model with two cute kids?  Stupid Rehab!  Storm the stage at the VMA awards and dis the winner in front of millions of viewers?  Stupid Rehab!  Tell people you are hiking the Appalachian Trail and head to South America to visit your mistress - when you are married, have 4 kids, and are serving in a public office?  Stupid Rehab!


The ultimate candidates for Stupid Rehab are the winners of the Darwin Awards.  What are the Darwin Awards?  You must visit www.darwinawards.com or buy/download the books.  They make great gifts for people who like to laugh.  From the website:  "The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it...These individuals carry out disastrous plans that any average pre-teen knows are the result of a really bad idea. The single-minded purpose and self-sacrifice of the winners, and the spectacular means by which they snuff themselves, make them candidates for the honor of winning a Darwin Award."

The winners would make great candidates for Stupid Rehab, but because the main requisite of winning the Darwin Award is that the nominee died in the process, these Darwin Award winners are exempt from Stupid Rehab, by reason of . . .  stupidity.

Who do you think needs to go to Stupid Rehab?  I'd love to hear your stories.

Cheap Thrills

In this day and age, whether it be these money crunched days or this less than thrilling stage of middle age, we can all use a Cheap Thrill.  Here is a list of my current favs:

• new hangers
• new potholders
• new sponges (esp. magic erasers)
• unsubscribe to email box clogging messages
• clean your car - shopvac, rags, buckets, toothpics, qtips, go for it!
• organize your pencil drawer, or any drawer for that matter
• a good nap
• new running shoes - not so cheap, but really thrilling

What are your favorite Cheap Thrills?

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

There are non-Holiday times throughout the year when this ol time Christmas favorite sings true, and this is another one of those times.  What time is that?  Girl Scout Cookie time.   I must admit I was just settling in for a long winter's night sleep when Peter peeked his head into our bedroom and told me our adorable Girl Scout Neighbor, Addie, was at the door with our Girl Scout Cookies.  I haven't bounded out of bed this fast since forever.  I, miracle of all miracles, found my checkbook immediately, threw a figure on it, snatched the case away from adorable Addie in her badge covered Girl Scout smock, and went to work.  


Do you have a Girl Scout neighbor?  If not, I suggest you move until you find yourself living next door to one.  And by the way, are the thin mints smaller than they used to be???  Is that why I had to eat twice as many??  And yes, Mom, I have put a box of thin mints in our safety deposit box so it will be intact for me to bring to Florida in April.  You'll be proud that I didn't put them in the mail - saving money on postage.