Six Things and Some Other Stuff

Libby wants to know six things about me. There are rules, but I can't deal with rules. Tag yourself if you want to.

For some reason, I was thinking about english muffins the other day. I was thinking that Thomas' English Muffins are really the only ones to buy, to eat, to savor. One thing led to another, and I was making a list in my head of commercial food products that are without equal, things I love to eat, stuff that's just perfect. Mind you, we don't subsist on a lot of prepared food. For the most part, we buy milk and eggs and meat and fruit and vegetables and we cook. But there are some great things that aren't reproducible.

Herewith and without further ado, six wonderful things from the grocery store, for which no substitutes exist:

1. Trader Joe's peanut butter filled pretzels - I had some of these in a little bowl on the counter and W. came along and grabbed one, tossed it in his mouth, and spit it out. I was hysterical. He didn't know there was peanut butter inside, and thought he'd got a pretzel with a worm or something inside, not expecting that soft center.
2. Coca-cola - with caffeine and sugar, in a can - nectar of the gods, oft just called "nectar" in these parts. I don't like it in a glass, I don't like it in a bottle, I don't like it from a dispenser. Just straight from the can, ice-cold, thanks.
   
3. Walker's shortbread - yeah, you can make your own shortbread, but this stuff is just perfect.
4. Crown Pilots - Nabisco keeps trying to put these in the dustbin, and in fact maybe they've done it again because they don't appear on the Nabisco website and they're out of stock at the Vermont Country Store. As it happens, I bought a box a few weeks ago, and they were just as I remembered.
5. Plochman's Mustard - This is the perfect mustard - so perfect that you can practically eat it out of the jar.
6. Thomas' English Muffins
   - perfection.

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The inimitable Nutmeg gave me an E for Excellent a couple of weeks back. I'd like to pass it along to Queen Mediocretia, someone I found when I googled blogs looking for someone dealing with a hospice situation. I hit pay dirt with her. She's funny, and she just buried her mother.

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Which Alltop badge should I choose?

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And last but not least - does anyone need a paperback copy of Charlotte's Web? Somehow we ended up with two. Leave a comment and I'll make a random pick on Friday.