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So aside from the phone calls, the All Candy Expo was an awesome time so far. Got some neat photos of some of the stuff I couldn't take home, and now I have to clean out my bag so we can bring it back tomorrow (they're more on top of the one-bag-per-person thing this year) and I wanted to note some of the more-interesting items I got to bring home!
Awesome Samples:
- Beef jerky (or other Beef products) from: Mr Z's, Stubbs, PNR (Pioneer Brand)
- 2 test tubes full of garlic-flavored flax seeds
- a box of Jujyfruits
- a test tube full of "Moon Dust" that might be Blue Raspberry flavored
- a Cinnamon Cream Pecan Cluster from Cinnabon
- "Beer Salt", which is flavored salt you put on the rim of your beer bottle like with a margarita (flavors I got are: lime, chili-lime, lemon-lime, sweet-n-sour chili, and pickle)
- Croc Chocs chocolate milk mix (they were founded by Steve Irwin, I think)
- a 12-pack of Casali "Schoko-Bananen" chocolate bananas
- Guacachips (guacamole-flavored tortilla chips)
- Russell Stover's new flavors of chocolate: Toasted South Seas Coconut, Vanilla Bean Bruleé
- Cinnamon-flavored Apple Chips
- a product called "Cow Pie" that I think is a "pecan-caramel-chocolate" combination people call "Turtles" (though that's trademarked)
- "The Puzzle Pretzel" which are pretzels in puzzle shapes (their company donates portions of their profits to Autism charities)
- JARM "Magic Potion" Bracelet (it's just a thin tube filled with sugary powder you can wear as a bracelet until you crack it open for its sweet innards, but the guy was just talking up how easy it is to market it to tweens who are dumb enough to believe it's a magic potion and cool to wear)
- a box of Canadian "Sweethearts" knockoff candies (I haven't opened it up to see the knockoff messages printed on the hearts yet...)
- a new addition to the liquor-filled chocolates line: Danzka's currant vodka!
- a Chocolate-Covered Banana lollipop from Linda's Lollies
- "Promise Seeds" (basically flavored candy corn, but this company prints Bible verses on all the packages, hence the name)
- Crackheads^2 (caffeine-infused candies, where each one is like a cup of coffee or two Mountain Dew cans)
- "Blitz Energy" tablets (they're supposedly flavored like Red Bull and contain the energy-giving equivalent of two cans of Red Bull per tablet)
- a bag of sprinkles (yea, some company only makes sprinkles and they had sample bags of sprinkles - this place is THAT AWESOME)
Finally, there was one booth that had some of the most awesome products next to some of the most horrible. Here's one I took home from one booth (guess which is awesome and which is horrible):
- A lollipop flavored as "Margarita with Salt"
- A lollipop flavored as "Piña Colada with Coconut"
- A "Scorpion Sucker" that is banana flavored (the lollipop is flavored banana - the scorpion in the lollipop is probably scorpion-flavored)
- a box of Sour Cream & Onion flavored "Crick-Ettes" (the crickets are flavored with sour cream & onion powder)
Char took multiple scorpion lollipops, probably for the shock value. Her crickets were flavored "Bacon and Cheese". And she picked up a box of ants labeled "the other red meat".
Not Food:
- a screen-sweeper to clear dust from your monitor
- a carabiner clip
- a "Toxic Waste" logo keychain
- a "Sensible Portions" heart-shaped fridge magnet clip
- an XL-sized T-shirt with a snake on the back that says "Hissee Fits Gummi Snake Will Bite if Provoked" (looks kinda cool, but no idea why the front is plain boring white and the awesome gummi snake logo is on the back)
Lots more we saw and didn't get to take home, will update tomorrow.
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There are a couple of things I didn't really want to do with my LiveJournal. I didn't want to be one of those meme-freaks - and of course there have been weeks of daily random meme-nonsense back there. I didn't want to be one of those people who posts lyrics to a song and considers it to be an update - and of course you can clearly go back and see that I've been guilty of that a few times as well. I didn't want to be one of those people who uses LJ as a fundraising/begging forum - Well, I raised money to buy a box of bees for Africa through Heifer International during a Blog-a-Thon a while back. And I think a very long time ago during the unemployment era I even had a "Donate through Paypal" icon as I approached the broke zone. But today I'm not doing it for me. I'm doing it for my mom. And mom is someone you don't say "no" to. It was a full decade ago that we got the news that my mom had breast cancer. And it was a long treatment process, and I'm happy that she is one of the women who can say they've survived the cancer. I'd get sappy and talk about those who haven't, but that's not for me to say. I'll let my mom's words do it... My name is Lori and I am an 10 year breast cancer survivor!Did you know that breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer in women and the second most common cause of cancer death in women in the U.S. While the majority of new breast cancers are diagnosed as a result of an abnormality seen on a mammogram, a lump or change in consistency of the breast tissue can also be a warning sign of the disease. Heightened awareness of breast cancer risk in the past decades has led to an increase in the number of women undergoing mammography for screening, leading to detection of cancers in earlier stages and a resultant improvement in survival rates. Still, breast cancer is the most common cause of death in women between the ages of 45 and 55. I was diagnosed at age 45.Although breast cancer in women is a common form of cancer, male breast cancer does occur and accounts for about 1% of all cancer deaths in men. With advances in screening, diagnosis, and treatment, the death rate for breast cancer has declined by about 20% over the past decade, and research is ongoing to develop even more effective screening and treatment programs. Help me make a difference and support me in the 2009 annual Revlon Run/Walk for Women. On Saturday, May 9th, I will be participating in the 16th Annual Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk For Women. You can join me in the fight against women's cancers by making a donation on my behalf. Your donation will help fund important research into the cause and cure of women's cancers, prevention, education and support service programs. Every donation will help bring us one step closer to a cure. Until a cure is found and we know that all women are safe, we must continue the fight. It’s easy to donate. You can do it online at www.revlonrunwalk.com and look for my name – Lori Samuels / Bib: 10038 – and make a pledge. The other thing you can do for yourself is to get a mammogram every year and do monthly breast exams. Tell your loved ones as well. Don’t become a statistic. Make that pledge, make that appointment, and help save a life. Thank you from the deepest part of my heart for your support in the fight against women’s cancers. P.S. I know that in this difficult economic time it’s hard to open your wallet for a donation. It’s even harder for those women who have no jobs, no health insurance, and have been diagnosed with breast cancer to pay for their treatment. Let’s end all of that and find a cure. So do it for my mommy. Or in memory/honor of someone else you know who has had breast cancer.Maybe soon I can go back to writing funny posts about funny things that aren't cancer-related.
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I don't really have writer's block - I just needed a reminder to write and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jjthefourth had his answer posted so it's convinced me to write something today. Also, I'm in Ronin mode on KoL and I need a distraction from NOT being able to participate in Anti-Raffles. So, "old-school" eh? Well, if we're going all the way back, I was totally smitten with both Arkanoid and Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh. Of course, I was also heavy into the Zork games, though I admit to liking Return to Zork (with pictures/animation) a lot better. Of course if we're talking about early computer games featuring video scenes, Phantasmagoria wins, hands-down in the old-school favorite department. My cousin and I played all 7 fucking CDs of that game, in a darkened living room, scared shitless. We were probably also too young for the Mature rating, but who gives a shit? (Though I still have brief nightmares about the shit that goes on in the Nursery) Continuing on the computer platform, I gotta give it up for the Lucasarts combo (before Lucasarts sucked major balls) of The Dig and Full Throttle. I still have the phrase "I can't use these two things together" embedded in my brain, along with the hilarious pronunciation of "Commander Lowe" as "CommAHndaloh!" And from Full Throttle, the Ride of the Valkyries playing as a box of bunnies is unleashed - priceless! On the console side, I'm all about the Duck Hunt for NES. When it comes to SNES, Earthbound is the only game I'd pick up in a heartbeat to play the entire way through. Super Mario RPG had its moments, but can't compare to Earthbound and its uniqueness. For fuck's sake, it let me enter my favorite food as "pussy" and nothing cracks up a lonely teenaged male like your mom's character telling you to "eat some pussy and scoot up to bed" - or her telling your enemy "you don't like pussy, do you?" Oh yea, and the inevitable PSI SEX OMEGA attack. N64 came out and I admit to spending weeks on end playing Super Mario 64, collecting all 100 fucking stars. And then we discovered Goldeneye and unlocking the multiplayer characters and just enjoying the hell outta that game. We were attuned to the point of throwing proximity mines in all the spawn points so the first death led to about 5 more in succession. We would turn on "one-hit kill" mode and "no weapons" mode just to run around slapping each other to death. The best part was that you could finish a slap as you were dying, leading to slap-happy multiple-murders. Oh yes, and International Superstar Soccer 64. Because we would play 1p vs 2p, set one of us to the worst team with poor health versus the Brazilians, then call a timeout just to waste all the bad team's substitutions and put a non-goalie in the goalie position, then switch to 1p+2p vs CPU mode and break their legs and watch them hobble around with no rest. That's the only way I would play sports video games - if I could physically injure the other team. I think that's about it for my list of old-school video game favorites. I'm trying to erase from my brain the fact that I watched The King of Kong and all of the nerdly 80s nerds out-nerding each other in some kind of nerdfest.Because it sucks being just a regular nerd and knowing you'll never be the kind of supernerd that can turn a profit from his nerdliness.Tags: games, video games, writer's block
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