OT. Eating Ho-Ho's

I was handicapped by living in Australia, where all these tasty treats are only available on television. Since this isn't Willy Wonka television, licking the screen won't get you far - trust me.

The closest I came was to buy "Twinkles" (Twinkies, but not a licensed product; a clone!) and bite off each end, then poke the cream out with my tongue and lay it on a convenient surface (coffee meniscus, for instance ;) before consumption.

In Australia, the equivalent behavior to what you describe is to consume Tim Tams- two rectangular chocolate cookies with chocolate icing in between, the whole coated in milk chocolate - by biting off each end and using the remainder as a straw to drink coffee. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!

(Yes, I'm under the influence tonight. Hell, I deserve to be!)

Cool. I thought the only food tricks you guys knew involved Vegimite.

I froze them. Seemed like you could make them last a bit longer because you had a bit of trouble getting through the shell. Easier to take smaller slivers and actually try to take a smaller bite all the way through than the last time.

I'm eating one now.

In message , Lewin A.R.W. Edwards writes

Ah, the infamous Tim-Tam Explosion as demonstrated by one of the Minogue sisters on British television. Works only if you are sufficiently speedy but is well worth the risk of ending up covered in hot, molten/dissolved chocolate biscuit. You should find some of the toffee ones, they're excellent

Hmm, I never did this with HoHos, but I did do it with Twinkies. It's great in the summer!

Indeed. I can hit a trash can with a jar of Vegemite at 100 meters' range. I haven't yet found another use for the product, although some of the jars, when washed out, make good containers for screws.

Well, it's pretty good in a toasted cheese and Vegemite sandwich, together with some tomato soup. If you make an open sandwich, make sure that the hot cheese doesn't stick to the roof of your mouth. :(

It's also good for keeping the rug-rats quiet for a short time...Happy Little Vegemites....

Who would have thought that an extract of beer yeast would be a part of the Australian diet for the past 70 years...

Yep, there's even a website

I had some mini-pizzas a few days ago and I burned the top of my mouth on hot sticky cheese. Had a nice blister there too. :-P

To have fun with a Hostess 'Sno-Ball,' carefully remove the marshmallow/coconut covering and set it upside-down on the dashboard of your car, making a colorful ashtray! Be sure that's what you want, though, because a chisel is required for removal.

Wade 'so I've heard, anyway' Hassler

I've done that. The really weird thing is that I was into Snoballs for a while and I don't like coconut! Temporary insanity. You also reminded me how I used to eat Hostess cupcakes. I wouldn't just remove the chocolate icing from the cake, but I'd also carefully remove the white piping from the chocolate! Extra points if I could get the piping off in one piece.

I hope that wasn't when you were working at JK :)

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Since we're telling the world our semi-embarassing junk food eating habits...

I tend to sort candies by color before I eat them: M&Ms, skittles, starburst, etc.

At one point I was keeping an excel spreadsheet of color distribution of peanut M&Ms. That was when I knew I needed to find a different job.

Kelly

M&Ms, Skittles and grapes are foodstuffs I eat hamsterwise; I stuff my cheeks with them, try to keep saliva out of the storage cheeks as much as possible, and convey them into the center of my mouth one by one for chewing, taste-savoring, and swallowing. I tend to take a whole pack of M&Ms in a mouthful and eat them via this hands-free method over the course of 25-35 minutes. It stems from wanting to be able to eat while soldering...

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Heh, I did that for regular M&Ms. Pretty sad really.

Nope - much more recent. Impossible to do at JK - your dog would have begged too many of them from me :)

Kelly

I used to do that for M&Ms in my youth just for fun. There's no difference in taste (as far as I can tell) so I stopped. Now, Skittles, Starburst, and Pez are quite another thing altogether. Do you really want to eat the same flavor 2 or 3 times in a row? Flavors MUST be eaten in round robin fashion to savor each one.

And when the board is powered up and the smell of burnt candy fills the room, everyone knows who soldered the board. And you know who handled the board as they immediately run to the bathroom to wash their hands.

Just odd. Sad would be doing a fourier transform on a year's worth of data.

I wasn't concerned with getting candy on the board so much as getting extra lead in my mouth. If I suffer much more brain damage, people may start to notice.

So, I would rip the top off a bag of M&Ms (I love the plasticized-paper bags used for modern American M&Ms. In Australia, the bags are - or were

- an extremely tough, stretchy plastic), and - without handling them - pour the lot in my mouth.

Grapes, I eat this way at all times. See, when I eat grapes, I'm usually reading a book - and almost always in the bath. Pulling a small bunch of grapes, denuding it all at once and munching slowly from the cheek pouches, distracts less from the process of reading than the individual pluck-n-eat method. Especially in the bath.

Of course, if I had an oiled, veiled slave girl feeding me grapes, I would go for pluck-n-eat ;)