More than once, I’ve commented on the inedibility of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and dismissed the claims of those who say they need to be eaten fresh…
I must humbly beg their forgiveness.
Yesterday evening, I was at my sister’s house and ended up going with her and the rugrats (Lizardboy and Banana) to the Krispy Kreme by their house. They were just making fresh doughnuts (the plain glazed and the strawberry-filled) and passed us each a free glazed doughnut when we walked in. I took a bite of mine and instead of the sickeningly-overly-sweet “off” taste (and nasty aftertaste) I’ve always gotten previously, I actually had a decent-tasting doughnut. Not the [sup][/sup] * [sub][/sub] PHENOMENAL [sup][/sup] [sub][/sub] * taste that some of the fanatics claim, but decent. Still not as good as DD or a good bakery, but enough to rate them over the boxed supermarket doughnuts.
However, my sister bought 2 dozen to take home, and I had one of the strawberry-filled ones (with powdered sugar instead of glaze) and those were damn good.
Never let it be said I don’t admit when I’m wrong.
I’m still not gonna touch the vile chocolate ones again, though.
When I heard about Gillette’s 3-blade razor, I immediately thought “that’s the stupidest waste of money I’ve ever seen.”
But you know, it’s actually quite good. Best razor I’ve used in a long, long time, in fact.
Then when I saw the Gillette Mach 3 Power razor (the one with the vibrating head) I said “now that is the stupidest waste of money I’ve ever seen.”
But then I tried it (I was stuck for a week with no razor and it was the only thing the convenience store had). To quote Bernadette Peters from The Jerk: “Holy cow, this shit really works!”
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. It’s a sponge. I thought. Woo-ey. A sponge. Big whoop.
It’s. Amazing.
It gets every bit of grime out of my old Chicago-style apartment that probably hasn’t been repainted or deep-cleaned in about 15 years. Stuff that I thought was just “part of the wall” at this point. Gone.
My wife alternates between buying two different brands of potato chip. One is the Utz Kettle Cooked brand and the other the store brand. The store brand are every so slightly more brown than the Utz. I claimed that I couldn’t eat them because they tasted burnt. My wife and her parents claimed I was making it up.
They set up a blind taste test. Yes indeedy I failed miserably. I must admit that I couldn’t tell the difference. Still I prefer the nice golden ones to the burnt ones.
So that vibrating thing works? Amazing. I liked the Mach 3 razor, but I laughed at the Schick Quattro. Now, though, I’m wondering if maybe I’m the one missing something here? Reminds me of that SNL skit with the Mach 8 or something.
On topic, I thought Swifters were just plain stupid. “Static electricity?” I scoffed. Then, in college when I moved out of the dorms, I discovered the wonder of cleaning technology they are.
I thought Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the stupidest thing I had ever heard of when the movie was being advertised a decade and a half ago and when I found out there was a series with the same title and premise, I shook my head.
Fast forward about ten years and I’m a fan, although not as rabid as some.
Same for Fight Club with the times adjusted and the reference to a TV show removed.
I hate, hate, hated the first series of Babylon 5. I think I commented at the time “everyone looks like out of work porn actors”. I now own all 5 series on DVD.
When *Scrubs * first came on TV, I watched one episode and decided the show was complete rubbish. It seemed to be very silly slapstick humour, which turned me off.
Then last year I happened to catch an episode from what must be at least 2nd or 3rd season (I have no idea how far in it is, but just recently Brendan Fraser turned up long enough to die, and Michael J Fox played an OCD surgeon, if that helps) and suddenly I’m hooked.
I was really pissed last night, in fact, when the tennis got in the way of my Tuesday Night Viewing; Arrested Development, Scrubs, Alias and Firefly. Alias is another one I didn’t like the look of when it started, and now suddenly I’m quite enjoying. Oh, well. /shrug.
I laugh at that one too, but mostly because of the dead seriousness of the guy on the ad.
jocular face “Four blades… gimme a break right?” dead serious death glare “WRONG!”
In more topic-related news… I hated the video game Xenogears at first due to my own prejudices. Now it is my favourite game ever and I don’t think I would be who I am today without having played it.
Yep, works really well. Scared the hell out of me at first, but it’s basically like using an electric razor, except smoother (in my experience, but then, I had a cheapo electric razor). You don’t even feel it cutting or pulling the hairs, it just slides right over and gets everything in only a couple of swipes.
Did they have you sample only one chip each or did they keep letting you taste another and then another. It makes a difference. If you tasted only one each, you had a shot at making a choice. More than that would take a professional taster to tell a difference. My source on this fact is a new book [Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316172324/qid=
1106120558/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-8177515-4549601)
Eat hearty, just don’t invest in their stock until they get the company turned around. Firing the CEO was a good first step, but they have a lot of ground to make up.
