Sugar Highs
At this very moment, I have three boxes of Frosted Mini-Wheats sitting on top of my refrigerator. All of them are half empty (or half full, if you prefer). I’m not sure why I open a new box of cereal before I finish the old one, but the result is an impressive shrine to the holy trinity of The Cereal Gods: Kellog’s, Post, and General Mills. Today’s selection: Frosted Mini-Wheats (3 boxes), Fruity Pebbles (2 boxes), Lucky Charms (2 boxes), Golden Grahams (1 box), and Cocoa Puffs (1 box).
How many days beyond the “sell by” date would you still drink the milk in your fridge? The “sell by” date is a bit inaccurate, don’t you think? Instead, there should be a “drink by” date. Usually, I purchase my milk at least week before the “sell by” date and it is rare for me to finish off milk that is a day or two past that date.
But tonight I was desperate. The cupboard is bare, so the only thing I could cook** for dinner was cereal. Unfortunately, the “sell by” date on my milk is November 21. Today, of course, is the 25th. Four days. That’s pushing it, especially since I opened the milk over a week and a half ago. Admittedly, the milk smelled a little weird, but there was no discoloration or unidentified floating objects.
Thankfully, the unusual smell was masked by the cereal’s frosty goodness.
** I define “cooking” as the mixing of two or more ingredients.
Resolve This Dispute!
A couple of weeks ago, I got into a heated debate with Cooter, a co-worker of mine. We agreed to submit the issue to you, dear Xangans, because everyone knows that the best way to settle an argument is to have a blog-poll.
The source of the dispute: the candy known as Spree.
The question: What is the plural form of Spree? Spree or Sprees?
I say Spree. My arguments:
On Nestle’s website (the company that manufactures Spree) will you NOT find the word “Sprees”.
A roll or box of Spree contains more than one Spree, yet the package still says Spree, not Sprees.
It just sounds better.
When it comes to arguments with Cooter, I’m usually right.
Cooter’s sole, pitiful argument:
If you go on more than one shopping spree, you’ve gone on shopping sprees. A shopping “spree” is spelled the same as the candy “spree” so the same rules apply.
My rebuttal:
Rules of pluralization don’t apply to all homonyms. For example, pantyhose and garden hose. More than one garden hose means you have garden hoses, but you have a pair of (panty) hose, not hoses.
His name is Cooter.
Do you really want to side with this guy?
[IMAGE REMOVED AT COOTER'S REQUEST]
Random Quotation:
Bath & Body salesgirl: Would you like to try our new cranberry hand cream?
My dad: No thanks, I just ate.
Weird Picture:
It isn’t often you see a picture of me massaging someone’s blue balls.
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