is that an ATM machine on the Adult Book Store? how convenient if it is!
Posted by Anonymous on September 17, 2007 | Reply
The rest of my yesterday was uhhh... interesting. I've put it in an extended entry for anybody who wants to read what happens when you go off a restrictive diet and eat loads of fried foods.
Today I managed to spend some time at Chicago's All-Candy Expo. It's not as huge as the ISM show in Cologne Germany I attended in January, but it's still a pretty spectacular event if you like candies as much as I do. The coolest thing about the show is seeing the new stuff companies are coming out with, and how candy technology keeps advancing.
Anyway... when you arrive at the show, you are greeted by M&M's!
I especially like the tail-end of the car...
Not to be outdone, Snickers also has a race car at the show. And so does JUICYFRUIT!...
The All-Candy Expo is so big that it can be hard to decide where to start. I took a panorama of the show floor and it ended up being so big I couldn't fit it in a computer graphic, so I took three chunks of it and put them here. It's all candy, baby...
Well, not ALL candy. There are other snack foods there too. I saw a lot of beef jerky. In fact... "you might be a redneck if you own your own beef jerky company"...
And then I saw that Steve Irwin was back from the dead to endorse Crocodile Hunter Chocolates (I've already said how I feel about the deceased endorsing products)...
Some of the stranger stuff I saw was CARROT GUM! Yes, seriously, carrot bubble gum...
And Jesus Candy Canes ("Blessed is he who licks unto Him")...
My most favorite new candy treat was GüdFüd's jelly or chocolate stuffed marshmallows. I can't eat them because I'm a vegetarian and they have gelatin in them, but they're probably the cutest candies ever...
And, of course, PEZ was there. Gotta love PEZ! This time I saw that they have FUZZY PEZ!!
There was also a kind of Pez imitator of some kind. I didn't quite understand how they worked, but I especially like the Human Torch dispenser because of his funky flame-hair...
And, lastly, I bring you the Hello Kitty's Beauty Kit... filled with candy jewelry, candy makeup, and candy perfume...
Hey, heaven only knows that I never look more beautiful than when I'm covered in candy!
And that's just a tiny slice of all the amazing stuff I saw while cruising the aisles of the All-Candy Expo this afternoon. What a delicious way to spend your day.
But back to yesterday evening...
I was nearly late to dinner because I noticed that there was a massive sale going on at one of my favorite stores...
But once I made it to the restaurant, I had a great evening with my friends. Except I ate entirely too much of entirely the wrong things.
Helpful hint: if you've been on a restrictive diet for two weeks, breaking that diet by eating massive quantities of (probably) hydrogenated fats for dinner is not advised. The stuff moves through you very, very, quickly when you are not accustomed to eating it! I'm guessing my intestines have a bad memory and went "what the bloody hell is this?" then just let it go. I barely made it back to my hotel room in time.
Probably because I stopped at The Apple Store on my way back to take a look at the new iPod nano. This thing is unbelievably cool... so much smaller in the hand than you can imagine from looking at a photo... and so freakin' THIN! The screen, despite being tiny, is just amazing. I want one quite badly, even though I would rarely use it now that I have iPhone. It's just too sweet not to own one!
Oh yeah, back to my after-dinner intestinal woes... you just know you're in trouble when a double-dose of Imodium doesn't work. This was pretty much the rest of my evening...
My digestive system finally returned to normal around midnight, which was a good thing because I had to get up at 4:30am to make an international call.
The End.
Because now I have to get some work done after goofing off at the candy show all day.
is that an ATM machine on the Adult Book Store? how convenient if it is!
Posted by Anonymous on September 17, 2007 | Reply
Those Jesus candy canes are kinda dirty, you know? "Would you like to lick a Jesus?" I'm pretty sure there's a passage in the Bible that frowns on that kind of thing.
And I wants me some of those chocolate stuffed marshmallows. Are they Japanese? They have cool stuff in Japan.
What?!? How did I miss the candy expo???
Here I was at work, having a shit-tacular day, when I could have been nuzzling fuzzy pez and giggling over adorable jelly-filled marshmallows.
Dammit dammit dammit.
Hope your guts heal up soon--I certainly know the woes of a messed up digestive tract!
Posted by diane on September 17, 2007 | Reply
But I wanna lick Jesus.....I WANNA LICK THE MASTER! Oh, and I'd like a side of carrot gum, please.
(How in the world do you stay away from all products even with gelatin in them.......I mean, even this dude doesn't each much meat (no comment, please) but I can't do without my gelatin-infused candy sometimes).
The same way I resisted eating the dead animals when I was having dinner at Fogo de Chao last night. When the endless parade of guys in gaucho pants bring their hot meat to the table, I simply say "no thanks!'
I think that the M&Ms characters is one of the most brilliant and successful examples of rebranding ever. They carry a sense of history with them that is entire fabricated. Don't we all feel like they've always been on the scene?
The Johnny Storm faux-pez makes me want to see a Snow Miser and Heat Miser pez set.
Please get the nano even though you already have the iPhone... That way I'll feel less guilty (consumerism, ARGH!) for doing the same.
Posted by Atomic Bombshell on September 18, 2007 | Reply
I was relieved to see that the M&M characters did not have hair. The commercials that feature the M&M's with hair totally creep me out. After those commercials, I can't bring myself to eat M&M's anymore.
Was the carrot gum marketed toward vegetarians at all?
Just curious.
(For the record - I'm a vegetarian, but you would have a hard time getting me to try that product!)
Posted by Jill on September 18, 2007 | Reply
Hello. Kitty. Beauty. Kit. Made. From. Candy?
OMFG, I'd have broken my fool neck trying to get to it. And I LOVE the Japanese candies! San Francisco has all these wonderful junky shops that sells goofy candy like that...I totally need to revisit my city soon.
Posted by Kentucky Girl on September 18, 2007 | Reply
Above the cash machine, in front of the adult "bookstore" (books, right...) was a sign that said Bridal Gifts. How quaint.
Posted by bogup on September 18, 2007 | Reply
Hey, you could have skipped the candy show and just solved two yens with one trip to the adult book store ... after all, they do have candy ... candy panties! ha ha ha!
Oh, and I can't think of a less vegetarian friendly place than Fogo de Chao. What in the heck DID you find to eat there?
Posted by blanetalk on September 19, 2007 | Reply
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