There is now a “Giant Pixie Stik” on my monitor. Its plastic tube is well over a centimetre in diameter and contains 45 cm of sugary goodness. However, impressive-sounding as this is, it is still only 17.5 inches, and is nowhere near three feet. Are you saying there are bigger ones?
Blame the Suckers Candy Co. on the north side of Danforth Avenue just east of Arundel Ave. They sell all sorts of imported American candies, and somehow they get past the labeling laws too.
Mmmm…pixie stix…
Speaking of Mountain Dew and caffiene and whatnot, I’ve realized that I truly have redeveloped a severe caffiene problem. To the point where I, throughout the day, consumed two bottles of Dew, a cup of coffee, a cup of tea, and several chocolate-coated coffee beans*, and still was exhausted before I finished my homework.**
*I recently met a guy who, up until now, his freshman year in college, had never expereinced the pure bliss of chocolate coated coffee beans.
**This also could be a statement on the amount of homework I have.
These are NinjaChick’s adrenals [dozen eggs]
These are NinjaChick’s adrenals on the Caffeine Diet[sup]TM[/sup] [dozen smashed, yolk-bleeding eggs oozing all over the counter]
Any ginseng?
Translation: that much caffeine will make you tired. Caffeine doesn’t give you calories, so that energy has to come from within your body. It comes from your adrenal glands triggering the release of sugars into the bloodstream, through the release of adrenaline and similar hormones. When those hormones are present in the blood stream for long periods of time and at such high quantities, your parasympathetic nervous system revs into high gear to prevent heart attacks and other fun stuff. When the caffeine wears off or your adrenals just stop responding, you crash big time because you have extra sedatives from the parasympathetic system present.
Translation of the translation: excessive caffeine trashes your body and makes you more tired.
Much better to eat well and rest well and save the caffeine binges for cramming for finals twice a year. Your adrenals will recover by then.
I just wanted to say two things:
Almond Crush Pocky is the best Pocky.
Angua: Chocolate-covered espresso bean cookies? I think I love you.
Eat well, rest well…college cafeteria, dorm living. Something (rather regretfully), does not compute. But I don’t usually consume that much, that’s an example on the very high end of the spectrum. Usually, just a cup of coffee in the morning, Dew in the afternoon (1-2 cans).
i am too i just went and got 5 bags but when i told my mom she said at least you are not on cocain and i think you should limit it but dont take them away she may go to cocain in the futer if she doesnt have that feelings and if you let her get a tat dont have none in you i figured that out i am 15 with 1 tat now in nov getting another and i will not have any in me lol but just be glad she isnt on a high drug
Were you on Pixy Stix when you typed that? 
The girl in question is older than you are.
sniff So many old Doper names I haven’t seen in far too long. 
Memories…
Thanks to this thread, a friend of mine still brings me a wide selection of Pocky whenever she visits family in Chicago’s Chinatown.
I don’t care for Pixy Stix but I do have 1/3 pound of dark chocolate covered espresso beans in my freezer.
OHH!! I forgot I had some in my work bag that I stole from my kids! Thanks for reminding me!
oh wow… .wait… .zombie thread. lol
Still eating the pixie sticks though
Ah, The Man Who Killed Halloween…
In 1974, Timothy O’Bryan died after ingesting the contents of a cyanide-laced Pixy Stick. It was soon discovered that his father had poisoned him for insurance money. O’Bryan senior was tried, convicted & executed. (Hey, this is Texas.)
But most of the hysteria about “checking” Halloween candy came from this event. Which proved that Taking Candy From Strangers was really not all that dangerous…
You bastards, I had managed to force the existence of Pocky entirely out of my memory. It took enormous personal strength and determination.
Now, thanks to you lot, it’s all I can think of!
And I’m looking at those healthy gummies I just bought (literally, I am just in the door from shopping!), with loathing as they are not Pocky!
Pocky, Pocky, Pocky
…must have…must have…must have…
My daughter got a huge handful of pixie stixs while trick-or-treating this year. She decided she had no interest in them and GAVE THEM ALL TO ME! MINE! MINE! ALL MINE! <demented laugh> <demented laugh>
None of the children in my family got Pixy Sticks this year. Just as well, my daughter doesn’t like them anymore. She does love Pocky, however, as do most of her cosplayer friends. I’ve actually seen teenagers at conventions playing “the Pocky game,” which involves two kids eating opposite ends of a stick of Pocky and racing to see who eats fastest, quite possibly ending up kissing. I’m not sure who invented this, but it seems to be yet another variation on the time-honored kissing games.
Eight years later and the OP’s daughter has finally jumping around her bedroom and fallen sleep.