Today at lunch I made a run to the specialty shop where I buy my coffee beans. I enjoy going into this store in which I can buy bulk spices (paprika by the pound, who’d thunk it), hard-to-find kitchen gadgets and top-of-the-line equipment like Wüsthof knives.
Then I noticed it on the shelf beside the teas. A jar filled with chocolate-covered somethings. I walked over to get a closer look to find CHOCOLATE COVERED ESPRESSO BEANS!
I let out a muffled squeal. He must have heard me. Like any good pusher knows, the first taste is free. He offered me a couple to taste.
Oh my God, are these things yummy! Forget the coffee flavored Oreos. Forget the Banana Pudding Blue Bell Ice Cream. Forget the Peanut Butter filled M&Ms and Reeses’ Peices. I have found my Achilles’ Heel.
You are a bad man for introducing these thing to me, Mr. Specialty Store Owner. But I sure do appreciate it!
Oh, dear. Homebrew, hie thee immediately to the Betty Ford Clinic for Chronic Caffeine abusers. One of my friends from work went through about half a pound of those evil little nuggets a week in college, and he’s still twitching 5 years later. (Of course, he did wash them down with 20 oz Jolt colas…)
Fortunately, I hate coffee, so I’m immune…to their…lure…
Mmmm…caffeine and chocolate…
Avoided the little chocolate covered tick things for years, I mean the people reccommending them liked yoghurt covered pretzels after all. I now keep my need for these tiny bits o’nirvana very quiet-- just between you and I so we won’t have to share, 'kay?
I hear there are flavored espresso beans, like amaretto and stuff, covered in chocolate. Gotta find somebody who can hook me up.
Pass the buzz-candy, BadBaby. I won’t tell anybody else you have it.
I don’t ever buy the things myself because I will eat whatever amount I buy one after the other until the bag is gone. Usually washed down with whatever coffee I got at the shop.
Has anybody tried the “nescafe iced coffee syrup”? You’re supposed to mix it with milk and crushed ice, meh, it’s ok. But OMG try pouring it on vanilla ice cream, YUM! It’s not coffee flavoured syrup, it’s like real, incredibly strong coffee in syrup form.
We call them “methamphetibeans” around here, for the obvious reason. But I always need something to drink right afterwards, because I get the little gritty bits stuck in the back of my mouth.
Which reminds me… time for another Trader Joe’s run!
Bad, wicked and naughty. I can do that! I loves me some of them little speed beans! A couple handfulls of those and I could be an especially bad, wicked and naughty man.
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Papa Tiger loves to tell the tale of the time when he had a friend visiting with his 3-year-old daughter, who sat there nibbling on the methamphetibeans (thanks, BraheSilver!) and giving them to his daughter, not realizing quite what they were, I guess, until it’s safe to say that Little Bean was bouncing so high that, as Papa Tiger puts it, she didn’t come down far enough to bounce off the walls. Hehehe!
we had some given to us at the office back in my “radio days”… Every time I went by the front desk I’d get a handful… I didn’t have anything to drink with them… as mentioned the aftertaste was a bit bitter… added to the aforementioned grittiness… I couldn’t STOP!!! ‘fore ya know I ate a pound and a half of that sh*t and commenced to havin’ hot flashes! I was tore up like a bicycle! I was so darn hyper I couldn’t MOVE! My brain was overrevved to the point that my body just gave up trying to keep up.
