I have a fondness for Little Debbie. She has helped me through many a night when I had a craving for something sweet and sugary. I once had a dinner that consisted of Little Debbie brownies and Diet Coke.
Every year around this time the company comes out with Christmas-shaped snacks (if snacks can be "shaped" like Christmas). I don't mean they're shaped like Christ, I mean they're shaped like Christmas trees (there are other snacks as well, including cookies). The white trees are yellow cake covered in a white frosting, and on a scale of 1 to 10 they get an 8.
The green trees are brownies that are covered with a green glaze (to give it that tree look) and colored sprinkles (for the lights and decorations). My roommate loves the white cakes, but he finds the brownies to taste too "fake" and "chemical-ey." Now, I don't know if chemical-ey is a word, but I think that's exactly what makes them so good! They're kinda addictive, and unlike a lot of brownies, they're always incredibly moist and chewy.
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12-12-2006 @ 5:39AM
bdw said...
You forgot cheap, as in inexpensive. Twenty years ago I moved from Colorado to Maine. I went from making $17.65 an hour as a union cement finisher to $7.50 for the same job. But my wife had a fat contract so I didn't mind too much. Then winter hit. No work for me. Then my wife hurt her back and couldn't work for a while. Oops. It was a LOT more expensive than Colorado, too; in Boulder we had the second floor of a house, three bedrooms, wall to wall, brand new kitchen, $275 a month. In Maine it was over $500, no carpet, cruddy old kitchen. Colorado is a beef producing state, I could often buy round steak for under a dollar; in Maine hamburger was almost always more than $2. I was shoveling snow for not enough money. We actually had to go on food stamps for three months. (I've paid taxes for over 35 years, so no, I don't feel especially bad about getting $400. worth of food stamps to keep me and my injured wife off the street; thats what my taxes are supposed to do.)
There was a little corner deli across the street that had 5 cent take out coffee and 25cent Little Debbie pastries. For two months those were our only luxuries, until I could get a contract with a more southerly corporation and GTF outta there.
So you"ll understand why I NEVER eat Little Debbie pastries, EVER, but I definitely appreciate that they are there, every time I see them in the supermarket. I only hope I never am at a point where they will seem like a luxury again.
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12-12-2006 @ 5:18PM
Haley said...
I love the gingerbread ones. They are moist and tasty, and substitute for the real thing when I'm living in the dorms. Plus they sell them at the dining hall market and I can stock up with all the left over dining money I have at the end of the semester.
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12-12-2006 @ 11:10PM
MJ said...
LOL.... My children love them one in their twentys and a teen they will buy the zebra cake,doughnut sticks,and the brownies. This time of year the gingerbread men. At least I dont have to make them, they are pretty good and moist and you cant beat the price!
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