Good luck to everybody in or near the path of Monster Hurricane Rita! Praying for you guys.
Today while I was out, I needed to grab lunch but only had some small change to spend on it. So I bought myself a chili dog and a large "medium" root beer. This may be the first carbonated beverage I've drunk this year. Heck, this may have been the first carbonated beverage I've had more than a few sips of in the last several years.
Yet again I composed several brilliant and/or funny posts in my head while I was out, but here at the keyboard I'm having trouble remembering most words of more than two syllables. Except "syllables," which is a word that's always on the tip of my brain.
Oh, but I remember one thing I wondered about: Chocolate-covered espresso beans are obviously tasty, but how would butterscotch-covered coffee beans taste? I seriously considered buying ingredients to make candied coffee beans, but stopped myself when it occurred to me that a day when I voluntarily chow down on a chili dog and cola is not a day when I should be making important food stamp decisions which will affect me for the rest of the month.
Anyway, the thing I really got to wondering about as I walked out of the store and started hiking down a major road was this: Trail mixes are supposedly intended to give you energy for a long hike, and you can find them with every kind of dried fruits, nuts, often with chocolate chips or M&Ms. So how come you don't see trail mixes made with candy-covered coffee beans? If you're including candy to give you that short-term burst of energy while you wait for the nuts & dried fruit to kick in, wouldn't a handful of "shock beans" be the logical ingredient for your mix? Sure, sure, caffeine is a diurectic; but you never hear about people on the trail complaining about the digestive effects from the fiber in that fruit, do you? Oh, you do? Well, maybe those people would be happier if they weren't caffeine-deprived.
Today while I was out, I needed to grab lunch but only had some small change to spend on it. So I bought myself a chili dog and a large "medium" root beer. This may be the first carbonated beverage I've drunk this year. Heck, this may have been the first carbonated beverage I've had more than a few sips of in the last several years.
Yet again I composed several brilliant and/or funny posts in my head while I was out, but here at the keyboard I'm having trouble remembering most words of more than two syllables. Except "syllables," which is a word that's always on the tip of my brain.
Oh, but I remember one thing I wondered about: Chocolate-covered espresso beans are obviously tasty, but how would butterscotch-covered coffee beans taste? I seriously considered buying ingredients to make candied coffee beans, but stopped myself when it occurred to me that a day when I voluntarily chow down on a chili dog and cola is not a day when I should be making important food stamp decisions which will affect me for the rest of the month.
Anyway, the thing I really got to wondering about as I walked out of the store and started hiking down a major road was this: Trail mixes are supposedly intended to give you energy for a long hike, and you can find them with every kind of dried fruits, nuts, often with chocolate chips or M&Ms. So how come you don't see trail mixes made with candy-covered coffee beans? If you're including candy to give you that short-term burst of energy while you wait for the nuts & dried fruit to kick in, wouldn't a handful of "shock beans" be the logical ingredient for your mix? Sure, sure, caffeine is a diurectic; but you never hear about people on the trail complaining about the digestive effects from the fiber in that fruit, do you? Oh, you do? Well, maybe those people would be happier if they weren't caffeine-deprived.
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