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

[xaq.livejournal.com]

" these ones have the added bonus that my weird friends can't make any dirty jokes about their name."

Give us a few minutes. :b Personally I find my mind going more along the "creepy" than "dirty" route...that's probably due an ex of mine named Amber.

Do yourself a favor...don't ask.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

"Oi, someone get that fox a longer towel, he was coming out of the shower and I totally saw his ambers.."

It sounds kinda like Crunchie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchie)! (Not that you can get THOSE in america EITHER, for some inconceivable reason..!)

[kjorteo]

Oh God, I remember her.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I rather wish I didn't. :[

[pami-zee.livejournal.com]

Have you got the present from me and Ally? It should be there now I hope!

[kjorteo]

Yeah, I got off rather light during that whole phase compared to you, didn't I? Sorry. :(

[kjorteo]

Because candy bars with horrifically creepy shapes are a European specialty! I'm safe in America wait we have a World Market here, crap

[kibet.livejournal.com]

Never heard of those, although I am mainly shopping at Lidls or Aldis.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Not your fault she's a psychotic raving lunatic.

...actually, that wasn't nice of me. That was uncalled for.


My apologies to the psychotic raving lunatics out there.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

What's creepy about a rectangle XD

[davidn]

I'm also baffled by 'creepy' - it's not as if it's moulded in the shape of a phallic tentacled monstrosity or Michael Howard or anything (now I'm ruining my own journal - thanks a lot!) Surely there must be something vaguely comparable here, if (as my five years of experience leads me to assume) slightly inferior.

[davidn]

Now I want to ask even more! It's unfortunate that we never seem to notice these things in potential relationships until we wake up in the middle of the night and they're standing over us with an ice pick.

[davidn]

I'm sure that whatever foreign varieties of Schokoladenkekse you can find in Lidl are at least as nice :)

[davidn]

We did! I just sent you an email when I got up this morning - thanks so much for that, it was an unexpected surprise.

[kjorteo]

"Crunchie is a brand of chocolate bar with a "honeycombed" sugar centre."

http://trypophobia.com/

[davidn]

http://tubedubber.com/#ZuwlXxff8SU:bcmkrMtnkt0:0:100:0:0:1 !

(Not for the faint of heart)

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. So you wouldn't like Aero, either, I suppose?

Does that extend to things like honey farms in Conway's Life?

[kjorteo]

http://tubedubber.com/#FhVi4Z6CjZk:bbS76N86lqc:0:100:0:0:1

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I'm never sure when you're kidding any more.

[kjorteo]

I'm a bit quiet about it because the "community" is obsessive and also apparently has it way worse than I do anyway (I don't have instant panic attacks/skin-on-fire sensation/nausea/whatever it is these people claim) but offending images and such are a bit unnerving.

[davidn]

I think that really is a perfectly appropriate background music for something that looks like an alien lifeform! Watching it unburrow at the start is absolutely skin-crawling (and makes me feel like I have to use one of the tools to stop it breaking free if at all possible), but when he's right next to it, the urge to scream "Run! There's one on the rock right in front of you!" is overwhelming.

And then, during the mating itself, I have the most uncanny feeling that I'm watching Deftera combining. Aaaaagh.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about the line between "having it" and "having it bad"; I have a bit of the phobia of mouth/chewing sounds, but I'm good at just forcing myself not to think about it so it's never really a problem (I think to some extent, "problematic" phobias are just ones where the sufferer has let it turn into a feedback loop where their anticipatory fear is even bigger than the fear itself, and it turns into a panic trigger.. so it's kinda two problems at once)..

I guess the really odd thing is, I've always adored all the things on that list of what sets trypophobes off; in fact, Crunchie bars (or at least the Canadian ones) tend to taste rather bitter, as though someone did a poor job adapting a good recipe to use inferior ingredients (which is often the case with canadian versions of european candies, alas), but I've always adored it just for that texture.

I feel like this is an interesting potential conversation, but I'm not sure if it's one you'd want to have, let alone whether David's poor journal is the place for it :P

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

As ever, the more I learn, the less I understand...!

[kjorteo]

I also had the idea to try http://tubedubber.com/#hCxv2ZPU3vg:UO7Fvd48By8:0:100:8:0:1 after I had already posted the other one.

[kjorteo]

David's poor journal is the best place for everything.