# Pecan Sandies 100 Calorie Pack! Just a touch better than a kick in the taint. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950 "2008-02-02T03:12:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/61 "2008-02-02T18:24:25Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Once I open up a sleeve of Thin Mints, that sleeve becomes a portion. [/QUOTE] You had to go and remind me. The pushers are out in force at school, and so far I have been resisting their siren call. But no, you had to go and put that image into my head. Now I’ll be down for all to see as they guy who ordered the case of Thin Mints. Thanks. **fatgail** , once you realize that **neutron star** is as dense as his name, everything is cool. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/62 "2008-02-02T18:24:26Z")
My sympathy for your [roommate travails](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=443672) is rapidly dissipating, **neutron star**. **fatgail** , I just want to note that not all Pennsylvanian are as assholish as that one… ---
**Author:** ![Anomalous\_Reading](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Anomalous\_Reading](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anomalous_Reading)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/63 "2008-02-02T18:24:41Z")
I can’t tell… is that a forest or some trees? Rather than get mad at people with no sense of humor, isn’t it more fun to laugh at them? Otherwise you BECOME them… no? ---
**Author:** ![Sublata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sublata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublata)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/64 "2008-02-02T19:06:02Z")
Nice rant. Oreos aren’t bad if you pull them apart and scrape out that nauseating sludge between the wafers. Personally, I stick with the Thin Mints. It’s a well known fact that cookies bought to aid a good cause have no calories.\* \*I wish. God, I wish. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/65 "2008-02-02T19:34:34Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] My sympathy for your [roommate travails](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=443672) is rapidly dissipating, **neutron star**. **fatgail** , I just want to note that not all Pennsylvanian are as assholish as that one… [/QUOTE] Oh search back more. He has a much more mundane pit rant. Granted it was years ago but still he should know better by now to try and ride on the backs of other assholes. He was hoping for a pile on with him in the passenger seat. I suggest that **neutron star** fight his own battles and not ride on others opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/66 "2008-02-02T19:36:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sublata] Oreos aren’t bad if you pull them apart and scrape out that nauseating sludge between the wafers. [/QUOTE] **AMEN.** Carrying that point further… I just don’t understand Double-Stuf. Twice as much gack per cookie, translates into roughly 1/3 less chocolate in the whole package. More filling? I mean, come on - it’s lard and sugar! (LARD. Check the label!) What’s the appeal? Only marginally worse is the reduced calorie Oreo - the lard and sugar mixture is replaced by something that doesn’t taste wholly organic in nature, and the cookie parts become a weird flavorless graham-cracker-like material that doesn’t so much get soft in milk as disintegrates into greasy clumps of paper fiber. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/67 "2008-02-02T20:17:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sublata] \ Personally, I stick with the Thin Mints. It’s a well known fact that cookies bought to aid a good cause have no calories.\* \ [/QUOTE] I like the way you think. Free food is also calorie-less - that’s why I only eat donuts bought by someone else at work. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/68 "2008-02-02T20:18:54Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] Not only do I work in accounting, but I work in accounting with a man who likes to whistle little tunes all day. [/QUOTE] Have you ever threatened to use the big stapler to staple his lips together? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/69 "2008-02-02T22:36:46Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] …with a man who likes to whistle little tunes all day. [/QUOTE] Whistling all day is grounds for justifiable homicide, right? > [@PunditLisa](#): > > Once I open up a sleeve of Thin Mints, that sleeve becomes a portion. You mean it’s not? Like Ben & Jerry’s ice cream; a pint container is a single serving. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/70 "2008-02-02T23:09:06Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] **AMEN.** Carrying that point further… I just don’t understand Double-Stuf. Twice as much gack per cookie, translates into roughly 1/3 less chocolate in the whole package. More filling? I mean, come on - it’s lard and sugar! (LARD. Check the label!) What’s the appeal? Only marginally worse is the reduced calorie Oreo - the lard and sugar mixture is replaced by something that doesn’t taste wholly organic in nature, and the cookie parts become a weird flavorless graham-cracker-like material that doesn’t so much get soft in milk as disintegrates into greasy clumps of paper fiber. Bleah. [/QUOTE] That’s what’s great about the 100 calorie packs. They don’t have that nasty stuff at all. Just the chocolate bits. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/71 "2008-02-02T23:22:02Z")
[QUOTE=SomeUserName] Oh search back more. He has a much more mundane pit rant. Granted it was years ago but still he should know better by now to try and ride on the backs of other assholes. He was hoping for a pile on with him in the passenger seat. I suggest that **neutron star** fight his own battles and not ride on others opinions. [/QUOTE] What kind of dumbass shit is this? I’ve bitched before about MPSIMS shit in the Pit. I think it was in one of VCO3’s recent threads. I guess it’s possible that I’ve been guilty of it too, but not anymore. But, you know, nice to see that you’re stalking me to look for several-year-old inconsistencies. > [@jayjay](#): > > My sympathy for your roommate travails is rapidly dissipating, neutron star. That’s fine. He’s still in jail. I don’t really think about it anymore. > [@bbs2k](#): > > neutron star, you are an annoying little shit aren’t you? No, I’m actually fairly tall. Didn’t you used to be a troll? > [@SomeUserName](#): > > Have you ever eaten these 100 calorie packs? Hell if I know. I’ve never needed to go on a diet. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/72 "2008-02-02T23:43:47Z")
I guess my main point, which I sort of forgot to make in that last post, is that when I’m in the mood for MPSIMS stuff, I’ll go to MPSIMS. When I’m in the mood for a Pitting, I come to the Pit. The twain don’t really meet all that often for me. The OP was MPSIMS with a couple bad words thrown in. Maybe the humor in the OP escapes me because I simply can’t relate. I mean, participating in this thread constitutes the single longest period of time I’ve spent thinking about cookies in my entire life. I obviously don’t get whatever it is that a lot of you guys bring away from eating, because all food does for me is make me full. Some of it tastes better than others, but it’s really just a means to an end. Hell, most days I only have one meal and a snack or two. I guess I’m just weird that way. Looking back, it doesn’t seem all _that_ normal to consistently turn down dessert when you’re ten years old. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/73 "2008-02-02T23:47:20Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **fatgail** , once you realize that **neutron star** is as dense as his name, everything is cool. [/QUOTE] Does that remark come solely from this thread or did I piss you off somehow in the past? I don’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/74 "2008-02-02T23:54:08Z")
Nah, just from this thread. It was a cheap shot. Now that you have explained where you were coming from, I can see that you weren’t just threadshitting on a thread I thought funny. Sorry about the crack. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/75 "2008-02-03T00:06:16Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] No, I’m actually fairly tall. Didn’t you used to be a troll? [/QUOTE] Used to? Hah! I’m still doing my best to be entertaining to the masses. Your definition vs. their definition vs. my definition just all vary by a large degree. Kisses, **bbs2k** PS, actually I’m rather short, only 5’6’’ ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/76 "2008-02-03T01:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=cricetus] Yes. [/QUOTE] I just made it back here. Ok. Fuck you, then! \ ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/77 "2008-02-03T01:55:15Z")
OMG some random person on the Internet cussed at me because I didn’t LMAO at some stupid bullshit. I’m so upset! ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/78 "2008-02-03T02:00:45Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] I obviously don’t get whatever it is that a lot of you guys bring away from eating, because all food does for me is make me full. Some of it tastes better than others, but it’s really just a means to an end. Hell, most days I only have one meal and a snack or two. I guess I’m just weird that way. Looking back, it doesn’t seem all _that_ normal to consistently turn down dessert when you’re ten years old. [/QUOTE] My first reaction was that I am truly sorry for you, but then I thought, “oh, there probably is something he enjoys as much as some of us enjoy eating.” Then I thought, “possibly shitting on other people’s threads.” ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/79 "2008-02-03T02:11:16Z")
The OP’s rant neglected to mention the most important thing about the shit-tacular Pecan Sandies 100 calorie pack. THERE ARE NO PECANS TO BE FOUND. Look at the name. Look closely. It’s not “Pecan Sandies.” It’s fucking SANDIES. And they’re not even that. The “sand” texture that comes from way too much fucking butter and sugar is completely lost in these. It’s basically a couple of vanilla-flavored saltines, which are about as gross as you’d imagine. I got a big box of 100-calorie packs from Costco a while back. The 100-calorie Grasshoppers and Cheez-its and Fudge Stripes were heaven. I ended up with five packets of Sandies left over. Eventually I gave them away. Not worth my 100 calories. Those things are complete ass. ---
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950/80 "2008-02-03T02:20:17Z")
[QUOTE=cricetus] OMG some random person on the Internet cussed at me because I didn’t LMAO at some stupid bullshit. I’m so upset! [/QUOTE] As I read your profile and your witty answers to the following; Biography: Solitary burrowing rodent. Fond of grapes. Location: Habitrail system Interests: Running on my little wheel. Occupation: Foraging for beans and seeds. It is very clear that you are an expert regarding stupid bullshit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pecan-sandies-100-calorie-pack-just-a-touch-better-than-a-kick-in-the-taint/435950.md?page=5)