(or a Happy Holidays card if you want to be pedantic. I’m not sure who they’re trying to fool when frickin’ Santa Claus is on the card. If you’re going to call it Happy Holidays, at least give the snowman a Buddhist monk’s robe or something, if just to be snazzy)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThis was a total gem to receive. Wes<\/strong> had informed me he was sending me a little surprise gift during Christmas (though it’s hard to make it a surprise when he had to ask me for my postal address and rather bluntly implied what the action figure was!)<\/span>, so I know whose package it was as soon as I saw the figure, but the rest of the stuff came as a total surprise! I was most certainly not expecting today of all days to be my first foray into the realm of American candy!<\/p>\nEveryone says that British chocolate is much richer and stronger than American candy, which is apparently ‘weaker’ in comparison. My good buddy Aodh\u00c3\u00a1n<\/strong> (of AC Studios, which appears to have disappeared off the face of the internet… again. I’ll have to pester him about this because such matters are totally important)<\/span> was part of not one but two<\/strong> school trips to America years and years ago, and he confirmed firsthand that their Mars bars were crap in comparison (to go on a tangent, he also said that most people he talked to seemed really confused that there was a Northern<\/strong> Ireland as well as just plain vanilla Ireland. I should probably reveal that it was only a while back that I realised North America and South America are actually a bit different – that way we’re even!)<\/span>. My brother was on hand to sample of the two bars, and he too expressed concerned. He consumed his first. I followed suit about five minutes later because I am a cowardly custard.<\/p>\nAnd OH MY GOD<\/strong><\/p>\n WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI HAVE LOST MY CHOCOLATE-AND-PEANUT-BUTTER VIRGINITY AND I HAVE NO REGRETS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nSeriously, goddamn<\/em>. I can’t personally vouch for how good American chocolate is, but I can certainly say they know how to cram a bunch of ingredients into one hell of a concoction. I mean, chocolate and caramel are a natural combination, as well as peanuts, but pretzels and peanut butter? I would not have thought such combinations were tasty, or even holy, but I am very rightly corrected. Goddamn.<\/p>\nWes<\/strong>, I want a box of this stuff. I am willing to pay with cash money. You have unlocked my lust for chocolate and peanut butter and I am now… I don’t think I can take this sexual chocolate analogy further without getting awkward. Point is, it was surprisingly awesome. I want more. In my belly.<\/p>\nOn a tangentially related note, I picked up a bag of micro pretzels in Marks & Spencers today. They were pretty atrocious. I still hold hope that the real non-micro deal will be delicious.<\/span><\/p>\nDespite the fact I was reasonably excited to be getting the Eclipse action figure, I guess everything else has kind of overshadowed it! Dude’s still in his box, untouched. Probably for the best.<\/p>\n
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