# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2174
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43466 "2016-05-11T21:04:11Z")
Serious (We Can Do Comic Later) Contenders for Trump’s Running Mate 1. Newt Gingrich 2. Chris Christie 3. Florida Governor Rick Scott 4. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions 5. Sarah Palin 6. Rick Perry 7. Ben Carson 8. John Kasich (have’t heard of him taking himself out of consideration, but I might have missed it) 9. Paul Ryan Not that I think he would take it - or would he? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43467 "2016-05-11T21:10:46Z")
Serious (We Can Do Comic Later) Contenders for Trump’s Running Mate 1. Newt Gingrich 2. Chris Christie 3. Florida Governor Rick Scott 4. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions 5. Sarah Palin 6. Rick Perry 7. Ben Carson 8. John Kasich (have’t heard of him taking himself out of consideration, but I might have missed it) 9. Paul Ryan 10. Ted Cruz Not beyond the realm of the possible. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43468 "2016-05-12T00:45:59Z")
Serious (We Can Do Comic Later) Contenders for Trump’s Running Mate 1. Newt Gingrich 2. Chris Christie 3. Florida Governor Rick Scott 4. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions 5. Sarah Palin 6. Rick Perry 7. Ben Carson 8. John Kasich (have’t heard of him taking himself out of consideration, but I might have missed it) 9. Paul Ryan 10. Ted Cruz 11. Carly Fiorina Stranger things have happened. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43469 "2016-05-12T01:31:42Z")
Serious (We Can Do Comic Later) Contenders for Trump’s Running Mate 1. Newt Gingrich 2. Chris Christie 3. Florida Governor Rick Scott 4. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions 5. Sarah Palin 6. Rick Perry 7. Ben Carson 8. John Kasich (have’t heard of him taking himself out of consideration, but I might have missed it) 9. Paul Ryan 10. Ted Cruz 11. Carly Fiorina 12. Bernie Sanders Because why the F not? This might actually put Trump in the WH… ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43470 "2016-05-12T01:39:48Z")
Serious (We Can Do Comic Later) Contenders for Trump’s Running Mate 1. Newt Gingrich 2. Chris Christie 3. Florida Governor Rick Scott 4. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions 5. Sarah Palin 6. Rick Perry 7. Ben Carson 8. John Kasich (have’t heard of him taking himself out of consideration, but I might have missed it) 9. Paul Ryan 10. Ted Cruz 11. Carly Fiorina 12. Bernie Sanders 13. Marco Rubio Little Marco and short fingered Trump, a perfect match New category A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43471 "2016-05-12T01:57:45Z")
New category A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Butter Nut ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43472 "2016-05-12T02:03:05Z")
A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43473 "2016-05-12T02:03:08Z")
A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 3. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43474 "2016-05-12T04:09:51Z")
A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 3. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 4. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43475 "2016-05-12T04:11:07Z")
A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43476 "2016-05-12T04:12:32Z")
A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars 7. Tootsie Fruit Rolls Which I guess they still make but I don’t see them around. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43477 "2016-05-12T12:48:57Z")
A candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars 7. Tootsie Fruit Rolls 8. Those old chewy Entenman’s chocolate chip cookies ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43478 "2016-05-12T13:11:14Z")
candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkles 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars 7. Tootsie Fruit Rolls 8. Those old chewy Entenman’s chocolate chip cookies 9. Nestles Triple Decker Bar ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43479 "2016-05-12T13:15:04Z")
Candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkies 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars 7. Tootsie Fruit Rolls 8. Those old chewy Entenman’s chocolate chip cookies 9. Nestles Triple Decker Bar 10. Fizzies Remember those? > **[Fizzies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizzies)** > > Fizzies were tablets that created a "carbonated" soft drink when added to water. > Lem Billings, a close and long-time friend of President John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family, has also been given credit as inventor. "As Vice President at the Emerson Drug Company in Baltimore, he was responsible for inventing the 1950s fad drink Fizzies by adding a fruit flavor to disguise the sodium citrate taste." Once perfected, Emerson named the creation Fizzies. The tablet was dropped into a glass of water,... ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43480 "2016-05-12T14:36:03Z")
Candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkies 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars 7. Tootsie Fruit Rolls 8. Those old chewy Entenman’s chocolate chip cookies 9. Nestles Triple Decker Bar 10. Fizzies 11. Hot fudge cake from Shoneys Shoneys is one of the Big Boy chains. Generally speaking their food ranges from mediocre to dreadful (so much they were a punchline on _True Blood_ when a crazed vampire wants to take his captive human “someplace special” to have her last meal before he turns her into a vampire), but their hot fudge cakes were a special occasion treat. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43481 "2016-05-12T15:52:41Z")
Candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkies 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars 7. Tootsie Fruit Rolls 8. Those old chewy Entenman’s chocolate chip cookies 9. Nestles Triple Decker Bar 10. Fizzies 11. Hot fudge cake from Shoneys 12. Jahn’s Kitchen Sink a couple dozen scoops of different flavored ice cream, ladles of different toppings, 3 kinds of nuts, all the whipped cream, and cherries. Served anywhere from two to twenty, depending on how much you were willing to share ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43482 "2016-05-12T16:21:01Z")
Candy or treat you remember fondly from childhood 1. Twinkies 2. Butter Nut 3. Drake’s Ring Dings (LIKE Hostess Ding Dongs, but much better) 4. Cadbury’s chocolate, for my birthday, sent from my Gran in Scotland. The quality difference was ASTOUNDING! 5. Screaming Yellow Zonkers! 6. Marathon chocolate & caramel bars 7. Tootsie Fruit Rolls 8. Those old chewy Entenman’s chocolate chip cookies 9. Nestles Triple Decker Bar 10. Fizzies 11. Hot fudge cake from Shoneys 12. Jahn’s Kitchen Sink 13. Big Mac We got balanced meals every day, but we NEVER got a Big Mac hardly, and they were like manna. Next up: Movie titles that contain a verb and somebody’s name, preferably in that order 1. Being John Malkovich ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43483 "2016-05-12T16:23:08Z")
Movie titles that contain a verb and somebody’s name, preferably in that order 1. Being John Malkovich 2. Saving Private Ryan ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43484 "2016-05-12T16:29:06Z")
Movie titles that contain a verb and somebody’s name, preferably in that order 1. Being John Malkovich 2. Saving Private Ryan 3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43485 "2016-05-12T16:35:55Z")
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