# This just in. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192 "2002-12-03T10:46:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/1 "2002-12-03T10:46:25Z")
Almond joys have nuts. Mounds don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/2 "2002-12-03T10:52:10Z")
Um … [(Checks what almond joys are.)](http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=2181) Are you _sure_ about that, **BNB**?? ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/3 "2002-12-03T10:58:03Z")
that is a recipe for a smoothie that tastes like Almond Joy. An Almond Joy is a bed of coconut goodness with an (ready for this?) an almond atop it in an ever so saucey manner. Then it is bathed in a milk chocolate. It is about the size of your thumb…unless you have some godzilla thumb or a wee mini numb for a thumb. Mounds are the fore mentioned bed o’ coconut. without a nut. those crazy candy makers! Then it is bathed in a darker chocolate. cause sometimes you feel like a nut. sometimes you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/4 "2002-12-03T11:02:26Z")
Dang, now you’ve gone and made me drool over th’ keyboard, **BNB**! 🙂 We don’t get such delicacies down here – ta for th’ info. What brought all this on, any rate? ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/5 "2002-12-03T11:08:37Z")
re-looks at recipe. Lollies. What kinda candies does one have in New Zealand? I am picturing: Roasted kiwis with a delish tuna bit drenched in sardine oil. or Kiwis in a nutmeg vegemite coating or Kiwis with shrimp and chocolate ha. I kid. I kid. 🙂 I know really your candies are: Kiwis with kiwi sauce coated in Kiwis rolled in chopped candied Kiwis in a kiwi-based paper wrapper sold to you by a man who smells of kiwi wearing a kiwi based clothing product. New Zealand: eat our Kiwis or get the hell out! Y’all scare me with your militant Kiwi additudes. They say Texas is bad, ha. Try a New Zealander in the off kiwi season. No thanks! But then again I could be confusing New Zealand with Antartica. You know, all you kooky upsidedown places. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/6 "2002-12-03T11:14:26Z")
Hey, we confuse New Zealand with Antarctica part o’ the time, too. It’s called “Any other Season Not Summer”. 🙂 Nah, I probably don’t venture into adventurous, “Almond Joy” circles, is all. Sounds like you’ve got a sweet tooth there, **BNB**. Heh. Try roastin’ a Kiwi, you’re likely t’ lose a leg. Th’ real ones are feisty beggers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/7 "2002-12-03T11:18:41Z")
I hope you know that ever more, I shall picture you as “Lew Zealand”. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/8 "2002-12-03T11:20:50Z")
[www.muppetcentral.com/\_images/headers2/mcheader54.jpg](http://www.muppetcentral.com/_images/headers2/mcheader54.jpg)]this is him ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/9 "2002-12-03T11:23:35Z")
Why, thank you! Immortalised in Muppetry. T’is an honour, **BNB**. I’m chuffed. 😃 Wasn’t he th’ one who threw fish at targets? (I see from your link I’m right, on preview) Don’t think I have his sense of aim. And would he have known what to do with an Almond Joy? ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/10 "2002-12-03T13:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\* I’m chuffed. > \*\* hey now. \* I don’t need to be knowing about them kinky sex habits of yours. sicko. 😉 p.s. no, no he would not know what to do with an almond joy. He’s a kiwi, remember? He’d probably think it was a smoothie or something. I kid ya. really, you should have the pleasure of an almond joy sometime. perhaps we can play ambassader and send each other a box of candies…er, lollies. \*hey now hey now, don’t dream it’s over. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/11 "2002-12-03T13:58:41Z")
\*Sometimes you feel like a nut Sometimes you don’t Almond Joy’s got nuts Mounds don’t Almond Joy’s got real milk chocolate Munchy nuts and coconut too Mounds got deep dark chocolate And chewy coconut-- ooh! Because… Sometimes you feel like a nut Sometimes you don’t! \* [sub]Hey, _someone_ had to post it![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/12 "2002-12-03T15:49:03Z")
And now…we’re _all_ singing it. Mmmmm, Mounds… ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/13 "2002-12-03T17:53:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*hey now hey now, don’t dream it’s over. Well, gotta like a Doper who quotes one of th’ coolest tracks by Crowded House. Been a pleasure, **BNB**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/14 "2002-12-03T18:20:34Z")
Aren’t almonds really fruit? The song sure takes on a new meaning…😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/15 "2002-12-03T18:34:18Z")
You’re tellin me. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/16 "2002-12-03T18:35:55Z")
Sometimes you feel like a fruit… Sometimes you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/17 "2002-12-03T18:53:18Z")
No. Ennzedders have mutton. Boiled. And sponge. For a treat, with kiwi-berry sauce. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/18 "2002-12-03T18:56:36Z")
Mutton? You’re forgettin’ th’ oily muttonbirds. 🙂 Kiw-berry sauce sounds cool, tho’. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/19 "2002-12-03T19:17:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > **… Ennzedders have mutton. Boiled. And sponge…** Sometimes you feel like a sponge? Auntie Mame: Who’re you? Agnes: I’m yer sponge… ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/20 "2002-12-03T19:22:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\*Heh. Try roastin’ a Kiwi, you’re likely t’ lose a leg. Th’ real ones are feisty beggers. 🙂 \*\* You would be too, if you didn’t have upper extremities to balance yourself during the act of love, and your partner kicks you in the head after the third time you fall off. (Saw that on a nature documentary once.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192.md?page=2)