Got a bag of mixed snax at the Petro-Can the other day. Gave it to Mrs Piper when she wanted some salty snax. She ate some, then gave me the bag and said, “Done for now, can you put in the cupboard?”
As I put it away, I noticed that it was still pretty full; just that there were no pretzels left anywhere in the bag. Remembered that Mrs P. always mentions it as the “mixed snax with pretzels.” Clearly, her preferred treat in the bag. All that was left was SunChips and cheese doodles.
Came down this morning and discovered that the Cub, who has erratic sleep habits, had been down in the middle of the night, and evidently found the bag. No SunChips left, only cheese doodles.
I snarfed down the cheese doodles.
“And so, between the three of them, they licked the platter clean.”
Reading h the he OP, I realized there must be something wrong with me. Given a bag of mixed snacks, I feel compelled to eat each type evenly. When the bag is nearly empty there will be equal numbers of each type.
This may be crazy talk, but why not just buy a bag of pretzels, a bag of sun chips, and a bag of cheese doodles then?
Maybe it’s a way to slow down and moderate consumption, similar to only buying unshelled pistachios-- the bags of shelled ones are calorically dangerous.
They understand who brings home the bacon. And the snax.
Do not steal the favored snax from the hand that keeps the heat on in winter.
Back to the OP:
It’s great when you can have a nice division of labor like that. Wife and I are more like “buy a bag of whatever-doodles and battle to the last one.” The difference in our tastes is so small as to make us clone-like. Then again, that means we don’t need 13 kinds of snax open to appease a bunch of disparate people and tastes.
Do you do the same thing with Neapolitan ice cream?