Further biscuit supplies

[davidn]

Having been in sore need of some familiar comforts recently, I was amazed when this parcel arrived from my parents in addition to the Christmas presents that we knew they were sending over. It felt a lot heavier than it looked, because it was crammed to the brim with these:


These were added to the Fox range (terrible news channel - great biscuits, though) at some point in the last couple of years, and they're made of some sort of honeycomb-like substance with chocolate spread on one side. They, like most of their biscuits, are absolutely wonderful - and unlike the Creams, these ones have the added bonus that my weird friends can't make any dirty jokes about their name.

Comments

[davidn]

I don't like crawling insects either, though oddly I am more all right with flying ones - there's something especially... wrong about the crawling thing being an unnatural bag of pulsing flesh. I tend to back off and become flustered whenever I see worms or snails as well (though at least snails have some semblance of... substance on their backs).

If I can relive my trauma for a moment, I think the fear might have come from one of these nature documentaries which I saw when I was very young, in which they showed a colony of ants surrounding a pale beige slug and just... tearing it to pieces.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

See, that's why it's a fool's errand for me to try and make assumptions about what someone will like; when you get that far into "things that people respond to subconsciously", there's absolutely no proportion between the scope and the intensity of how the various rules are applied...

[davidn]

It's much easier to... have phobias and philias from the inside, rather than examining them in someone else, because then you don't have to understand them to experience what seems to line up :)

[kjorteo]

You'd think that would have made you more afraid of the ants than the slug....

[davidn]

That, indeed, is a very good point, and one that occurred to me as I was writing that comment. I think I remember reacting with more revulsion to the slug even when I first saw it there, but I don't know where my instinct to be afraid of it came from. Like a lot of things at that stage, I had just assumed that it was something everyone had.

[kjorteo]

I think they're cute, personally. :) That mating video I just threw at you is creepy, but only because it uses fast-motion time-lapse shots that make everything creepy due to the wholly unnatural (uncanny?) speed and jerkiness of movement. The plants are creepy in that video, even.