Yes, fans, now you can follow my every move on the "Twitter"!! I am totally rad, etc. It is grate, even if I shall henceforth be known as "Nonworkingmonke".On the downside (there is a downside to the new technologies, I can assure you), I will not be very good at 'Tweeting' and all that because I do not have the equipments. Twitter is OK if you have an iPhone or are at home all day on the line, but if you are lumbered with a totally rubbish Treo thing that makes you look like a knobber* while all your cool (and/or European) friends are cracking their gum and snapping their fingers in time to the new sounds, it is not so easy!!
Anyroad up, tonight has mainly been spent buying cake boards and what-have-you, although I have decided on a taste test between the mighty Bendick's Bittermint and the York Peppermint Pattie.
Bendick's Bittermints: $10.31 online. Over four British pounds at the airport. Rarer than gazelles in Hackney, even at Waitrose in Richmond and places like that. One is enough; two are possible.
York's Peppermint Pattie: under $1 I think at the station. 3 "patties" in a pack. 1 is transient; 2 to check they are not better than they are, what with being freely available and cheap; 3 is possible, but after that is the feeling of dirty.
With a Bendick's Bittermint, however, with every mouthful you feel that you are living in the greatest hour of the British Empire, and it is not just because they are hard to find. They are 95% cocoa chocolate, a strong peppermint essence, and a robust texture that makes you feel like a champion, as does the knowledge that one of the co-founders of Bendick's was called Colonel 'Bertie' Dickinson .
The York's Peppermint Pattie, par contre, used to be hard and now is soft, and owned by Hershey. It is OK, but I am keen for all fans of the Peppermint Pattie to try the Bendick's Bittermint and understand what the whole dark chocolate/strong peppermint combo can really do.
Meanwhile, the pathologist gnaws on fistfuls of delicious Lindt 70%. "What's that?", he says, pointing at the Peppermint Pattie. "It is like a Bendick's Bittermint, but for American girls", I say. "Do you want some?".
There is a silence; the maws of the pathologist crunch with deadly efficiency through the soft receiving choklit in his hands. "No. And anyway, I like After Eights better."
I am silenced!!! After Eights!!! Sweet heavens!!!
* Believe me, however shallow, this is important if you work in the advertising and spend your time trying to convince people to do stuff, e.g. do 'social media' etc. If you pull out a bit of apparatus that looks like it needs an organ grinder and a set of bellows to get it going, you look like a knobber. (See above.)
13 comments:
So who is this 'Lucymonkey' who I've been following for, like, ever?
She never tweets or DMs though.
This is a joke - yes? If not, you are divorced as my daughter.
It is me! Also there is real me, me, but both of those are, like, so boring. Yeah!
MM - get with the programme, Mummy-O.
You know what's even knobbier? Giving lectures on social network marketing and extolling the virtues of Twitter as a Force for Social Change and so forth and then forgetting to bother to twitter for days and days and days. And not taking the time to follow anyone.
NB - Lindt makes a 90% which is marvelous.
The Lindt truffley gobstoppers (red for dark chocolate, black for super-dark) are heavenly, and I notice they are now doing a mint version. You may have to mortgage your house if you want to buy more than a few grammes though.
Yes Megan totally agree as it goes. I have heard people theorise on the role of the blogger, etc and then you say O have you ever done a blog have you? and they say No I have not and you say Well you don't know then, then you slap them. It is like being a restaurant reviewer and not knowing how to boil and egg.
Lola, get your filth away from me right now.
dark chocolate has of late been making me ill. the very smell of it results in feelings of nausea and weltschmertz. a year ago i used to extol the virtues of various single source organic ethically harvested fair trade yuppy chocolates and now if my husband even comes near me with dark chocolate on his breath, i cringe and wish for the breath of week-old garlic sausage and american beer. what is happening to me?
Up the duff, I'd say.
Pep your mint patties are the best candy on the planet..........I must go in search of these Bendick's Bittermints that you go on about. Can the possibly be better?
mmm. Bendick's. But then there are also Andes mints, which I grew up on. yum. so compact, too.
You could make them, in many different colours - this UK-based lady blogger has a good recipe that doesn't use raw egg white
Domestic Goddess in Training, entry for 27 May 2009.
Why is everybody suddenly blogging so very much? I can't keep up! Stop it!
On the while chocolate/mint thing, Terry's once made the most gorgeousest example of the genre ever. It was called Mintessa and I am the only person I know who even remembers it. It only lasted a few months. I suspect only we poor saps who live in York ever got to see it - I think they tried it out on us and then realised it was too good for public consumption. I bet there are millions of boxes hiding in some former Terry executive's cellar. Bastards.
Whole. Not while. Whole.
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