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September 27th, 2010

Yes, The Snack Hound is on Twitter.

Actually, the Snack Hound is not. Neither are the two live ones. But I am. If you would like to listen to my occasional vents, conversations with Fudgie the Whale cakes and other logo items that have their own Twitter accounts, leading me to believe that they are real, musings on 19th century British literature featuring orphaned protagonists or the occasional backwards recipe, I would love to have you. http://twitter.com/TheSnackHound is where to find all of this critical and pertinent information.

I’ll even follow you back, unless you only created a Twitter account to solicit people to answer 1,000 surveys to get a chance at an iPad, and the 10,000 other people who don’t win are doomed to a life of proliferating junkmail. But I’m gullible and its hard for me to tell.  As always, I CAN be bribed with chocolate. Dark is best.

September 22nd, 2010

This post brought to you by PlayStation(R) Move. All opinions are 100% mine.

How about a chocolate mousse cake with real heavy whipping cream frosting? I'll take two, but the 6,643 calories have to go somewhere, either to my equator unless they can be quickly burned.

The inventive folks at Sony have an answer to 5,000+ calorie desserts, and you don't even need to leave your house or get sun on your face. Just try the new PlayStation(R)MOVE. The system features an interactive experience with the help of a wand controller. Sound like another popular gaming system? Sure. But this one features a wand controller with a large blinking blue bulb on the end—which makes it look less like a tv remote and more like a magical implement designed to wave over food to remove calories. Sorry to pop your bubble, but it doesn't work quite like that, although the power of the placebo effect is undeniable.

You probably don't take so kindly to scrapping your old gaming system. Sony offers a downloadable patch to convert newer games to the Move format, and even lets you keep your PS3. Simply purchase a $99 bundle, which includes everything you need to upgrade, including a controller, that blinky eyeball thing that recognizes your controller, and a game to get you started. Yup. No need to purchase a whole new system or re-buy every single game. That's mighty neighborly of them.

I am just waiting for Joust and BurgerTime to come out as interactive games, but I am sure that Joust would involve much living room destruction and BurgerTime, in this day and age would have to have a TurkeyBurger or SoyBurger option.

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September 21st, 2010

There are numerous American coffee companies, but not too many American coffee beans. Actually there are none, unless you count coffee flavored gourmet jelly beans. You can roast them in the USA or Canada, but the climate won’t yield beans. First, you have to be less than 10 degrees from the equator, and grow them at an altitude of at least 1800 feet above sea level. Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee (World Trader Coffee says that is the most coveted variety) is made from beans that don’t take too kindly to the cold. In fact, even in optimal conditions, if you are too close to a rain forest, you have to use artificial drying methods. I wonder if it would just be coffee soup if you didn’t.

My plan would be to crank up the heat in a small aircraft to travel to 2000 feet above sea level. Then, the beans would be attached to several weather balloons that would suspend them at a vantage point a bit closer to the sun. There would be a plastic cover to collect condensation. When winter came along, the pilot would just go back for them. Voila. 100% American origin coffee, but imagine the price! I should patent it.

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September 16th, 2010

This post brought to you by Aladdin. All opinions are 100% mine.

Grandma and Grandpa's bathroom had a build in glazed toothbrush and cup holder build right into the wall. Once all the grandkids around, Grandma either got sick of washing the cup that sat there or said "Eww…" A stack of disposable cups was put in its place, and of course we didn't save our cups. We threw them away, and then 5 seconds later needed another drink. Oh, do you remember the cups that had Star Wars characters on them? We had to paw through the whole stack to drink out of the cup we wanted, thus cancelling out any sanitary benefits, and then perceived to use it until the liquid rendered the cup a floppy shred of laminated paper.

Interesting how that sanitary disposalness is no longer PC, and someone would probably have given Grandma an award for environmental consciousness for making us all use that one plastic bathroom-decor-coordinated cup. Let's not get into the crusty display of minty toothbrushes hanging on the wall. That could be explained by running the brush across the choppers exactly one pass to be ready to watch The Muppet Show.

Aladdin is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging us all, including Grandma, to the Do the Reuse Challenge. Can you commit for 30 days to not using a disposable coffee cup or juice bottle? To help out, they are giving challenge-takers a coupon to purchase a stainless steel, plastic or porcelain bottle, cup or mug (and we ALL know that we dare not call a mug a cup!). Aladdin, of course, was responsible for some of those Smurf or unicorn lunch boxes from back in the day.

Consider this: It costs about $165 per year to pack coffee from home rather than the $636 to buy it on the way to work. 50 million disposable water bottles are also used in America per year. That's a lot of bottles. My Favorite Guy and I use our juice bottles several times by refilling them with water, but not all of them are the plastic we would want to use, and they are hard to clean sometimes so it doesn't always work and someone might throw them out by accident.

What? You say, "Why can't I just use my nephew's sippy cup?" Well, that would look a little weird, but most of all, if its an older plastic item, it may contain bisephonal-A or BPA. All Aladdin stainless steel and some of their plastic products are BPA-free, so you can slurp with the satisfaction of not adding any additional contaminants to your cocktail. It may be small for one drink, but for small children or more acidic drinks, like orange juice or wine, I wouldn't want to chance it. Wine? Well, I guess for some people that floats their boat.

I am figuring out how to strap it to my belt loop without bruising myself or looking overtly silly, but I am sure that no matter what, it will give me the enviable look of a safari explorer rather than like one of those folks who wear the drinks on their hats and are just out for the attention.

To join me in being smart while not looking like a dope, and saving a few dollars as well, join the challenge at Do The Reuse Challenge on the web. Also, check out Aladdin on Facebook to commisserate and even snag additional deals and specials on Aladdin products.


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