Cream centered

[clevermanka]

Okay, this is disgusting (SFW, but disgusting). Don't get me wrong, I used to love Cadbury Cream Eggs (before they changed the recipe). But the idea of drinking two of them in a can of pop? Ew.

My first one-on-one drumming lesson is tonight. I'm hoping my friend can help me out with some basic technique stuff. The one thing I took away from last month's drum workshop in KC is that I am sorely lacking in actual playing technique and if I want to get good at this, I need to learn some technique before I start trying the fancy stuff.

I'm on something of a contaminant-purge, and so have stopped taking all supplements that contain suspicious ingredients (fructose and tapioca starch in Emergen-C, for example). This means I'm no longer taking ibuprofen, either, since all the brands I've found use corn starch as a base. Guess what time of the month it is now? This is my second cycle sans-analgesics, and folks, it is not getting easier. Ugh and ouch.

Liberty Hall had Singin' in the Rain in stock (although the copy has some damage). It was great to watch it with mckitterick for his first viewing of it. So charming to experience that with someone who hasn't ever seen it, or many old musicals at all. I'm frequently amazed at how very different were our childhoods. The only thing we shared in common is that we were both human children--and there are times (most times, really) when I question even that.

New due South icon, btw. <3

Comments

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Cadbury Deviled Eggs (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/03/cakespy-cadbury-creme-deviled-eggs-easter.html) yet?

Can you take the gel ibuprofens, or are you just off them altogether?

we were both human children--and there are times (most times, really) when I question even that.

Hilarious!.. only because I think the same thing about Jbird and I.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

OMG those deviled eggs are a riot!

The capsules and gelcaps both have cornstarch and sodium lauryl sulfate. =(

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

They made a deviled Cadbury Cream Egg sammich too, with pound cake slices for "bread". Clever, but euww, da sweet.

Damn.. I've been looking up various meds and getting pretty depressed about the additives as well. King Pharmacy may be getting more of my business.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I hate the things, but the recipes are brilliant.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I use Cadbury's Caramel bars to make chocolate vodka in the dishwasher, but you have to have it for a party and use it all up pretty quickly.

[renniemom.livejournal.com]

You Do WHAT? 'splain, please.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Take a bottle of vodka, add caramel chocolate bars and cap it. Stick it in a full cycle of the dishwasher and voila! Chocolodka.

Here's (http://1heckofaguy.com/2006/04/18/chocolodka/) where I got the general idea/recipe.

I use Skyy vodka, (mainly because I have evil plans to make something with all those blue bottles) and I've had supremely good results with Newman's Own Caramel Dark Chocolate Cups (http://www.newmansownorganics.com/food_peanut.html#), broken up into bits that fit into the neck of the bottle.

If you chill it before serving, you'll need to shake it up quite a bit, so I just leave it out.

[anomali.livejournal.com]

This sounds like something I should totally do for my birthday this summer. I am copying this into my Booze recipe file: )

[stuology.livejournal.com]

Dishwasher?

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

^^ see above.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

But the idea of drinking two of them in a can of pop?

I think the comic was saying that drinking soda is the equivalent to drinking two Cadbury Eggs rather than drinking Cadbury Eggs *in* soda.

Either is disgusting, but I've always disliked Cadbury Eggs, so it is an effective discouragement tool.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I think the comic was saying that drinking soda is the equivalent to drinking two Cadbury Eggs rather than drinking Cadbury Eggs *in* soda.

Oh, I agree! And doing either makes my toes curl in a not-a-good way.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.
Can you take plain aspirin?
Probably run into the same problem, though; binder of cornstarch....

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as far as I can tell, most pills and such use starchy binders.

Wine, though? Wine has no binders. If only I could drink at work...

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

If only it didn't have all those pesky side-effects to the anesthetic!

(I need that icon from Two Lumps, where the cat is drunk)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

tama_grey has a version of it. You might ask her if she minds you yoinking it.

[renniemom.livejournal.com]

pastmagic and I are on different sides of those same topics. I've never seen Singin in the Rain, or any of the old classics. I don't like movies I have to read and he does. Sometimes I think I'd like to experience some of them but I never have made a point to do it.

So what did mckitterick think?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I don't like movies I have to read

I don't understand what you mean, there. Do you mean...subtitles?

mckitterick loved it! Every time we watch one of the old classics he mourns the fact that he hasn't seen more of them.

[renniemom.livejournal.com]

Yes, subtitles. pastmagic is a fan of black and white and subtitles, or a combination. Me? Not so much.

Okay, okay--I'll go find Singin in the Rain and see what I've missed. I've also never seen It's a Wonderful Life...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

There are about a bazillion classic movies out there that aren't subtitled.

If you don't like musicals, though, maybe best not to start with one. Musicals require a certain something in your brain that doesn't go *record screech* every time people start singing and dancing for no reason.

For a non-musical classic, try something like Charade or The African Queen. Both of those are in color, too.

[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

Or Breakfast at Tiffany's & Roman Holiday.... sigh.

[cmt2779.livejournal.com]

Woo, Charade! Um, that's all. I just really love that movie. :-)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Me, too.

Charade and Indiscreet are my two favorite Cary Grant movies.

[cmt2779.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Indiscreet and I have no idea why I haven't seen it, because I love both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Adding it to my list of movies right now.

North by Northwest is one of my favorite Cary Grant movies, too.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yes, I LOVED it! I'm still singing the songs today ;-)

[anomali.livejournal.com]

My Mom was a major movie fan girl back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. She may have lost her amazing autograph collection to a fire, but she passed on her love of classic movies to me.

TCM is the default channel in our home: )

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

It pleases me to hear that TCM is still around!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

"Now I can eat Cadbury Cream Eggs all the time and feel no worse than drinking soda!" - win!

Re: our discussion beforehand, that you stayed with a family when your parents weren't home and I babsat my brother starting in my single-digit age: I hadn't ever thought of that as an unusual thing. Heck, I used to change his diaper, and I'm only six years older. The more I examine it, the more my childhood really was sorta freakish, I guess. At least I was raised by humans ;-)

LOVED the movie!

Also, your icon makes me LOL!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

At least I was raised by humans

That is debatable.

Your childhood was freakishly abnormal, and mine was freakishly normal. My childhood was a Mr. Rogers Textbook Childhood while yours was something more like A Very Special Episode of After-School Programming.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I should have said, "At least I was a human baby." ;-D

I think my childhood would make a GREAT after-school special.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

It certainly would be educational.

[poincaraux.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute. Through great tragedy, I missed Cadbury Creme Egg season last year. What do you mean they changed the recipe?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I don't remember exactly when it happened, but I'm pretty sure it's been more than five years. The insides used to be really runny, and now they're more like a thick paste. Bleh.

[poincaraux.livejournal.com]

You mean that was on purpose? I assumed I was just getting old, dried out eggs. That's terrible!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing at first. Yes, indeed, a tragedy. I have no idea why people buy them anymore. They're just wretched, IMO.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

But.. the Cadbury eggs I got this week were 'right' - the consistency was fine. I don't get it...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Maybe you got some of the ones that are produced for the non-US market?

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Partner says he bought them from Walgreens. o.O

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Erm. Hm. I don't know. So does this one, when you open it, actually run like an egg? Or is it sorta like frosting? Because the old ones were actually runny. Enough that they were tricky to eat.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

It did, just like the ones I'd have back home. I wonder if it's because it was warm outside though? Although the chocolate wasn't melted, it was room temp. IDK. I *have* come across ones where the fondant was like, almost solid, and that pissed me off.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Maybe you just got lucky.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Heehee... 'got lucky'.

ahem

ONE TRACK MIND

it's all Paul's fault

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased you picked up on the innuendo, despite jumping comment threads.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I'm ADD, this is how I function. :P

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* That outtakes video is DA BOMB.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I love hearing him say fucking dachshunds!

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Hearing him swear up a storm is the FUNNIEST THING EVER to me, I don't even know why.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

It's hearing the words come out of someone dressed in that uniform, I think. With that hair. And the face.

DAT FACE.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

God, those eyes.

*melts*