What’s this?
Hmmm.
Maybe it will help to get some “perspective” on the sitch.
Nice.
I was really thrilled that my new carton of Baskin Robbins Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream did this little sampler-scoop-right-in-the-lid trick. The first few bites are conveniently right there for you, in a smaller container so you don’t feel like such a hoss. You can easily ignore the fact that there’s a gaping hole the exact shape of the lid portion in the main cargo space of the carton, because it’s fun to pretend you’re a really light eater if only for seven seconds.
Eating the bonus (except not) lid portion is like asking to try a flavor at the ice cream counter, except there is a larger quantity to taste, AND, either way, you’re not going home with less than a whole carton of ice cream. You already are home and have purchased a carton of ice cream you know you like. It’s so much more fun for everyone involved, which probably amounts to Just You.
P.S. Whenever I ask to sample an ice cream flavor in a store, I already know I like the flavor. I like it THAT MUCH. I’m thrifty and cool.
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:21 am
Can we get a little info on the background items? Is that a Hershey’s nugget I see near the lid?
Because one of the few ways to make ice cream better is adding candy.
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 am
Oh, of course. This is surprising — I would normally add seven paragraphs about the stuff in the background, for “background info.” That’s a Hershey’s special edition nugget with fine toffee shavings. You can’t really call it toffee “crunch” because the pieces are so delicate. They are amazing, but this particular one got mangled in my bag after ‘accidentally’ ending up there for two months, so now I just keep it on the table because it’s like a relic of my life. The other thing is this pack of Funny Bones my friend Thomas bought me on a trip to the deli from a bar because I said I thought as long as he was going on an errand, I could use a Hostess product. Neither was used in the eating of this ice cream.
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
let’s be thorough here - what’s that peeking over the top of the BR carton?
August 4th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Oh chesh, I believe you know as well as I do that those are scissors!
August 6th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Heh. And those scissors are positioned to look like little Muppet googly eyes. And the lid-sampler-scoop-hole is like a crazy Muppet mouth. I love it.
Oh, and that table cloth is wiggedy-wiggedy-wacked.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
i was going to guess refried beans. i am a terrible guesser.