Snacker Mailbag
More mail! Thanks for continuing to send us emails. Including our first letter from a complete nut. As always, feel free to drop us a line.
Every month or so, we post your messages right here, along with our response. We'll even correct your typos. Hell, it's a virtual snacker lovefest. Without all the hugging - and the immediate awkwardness that follows.
SUBJECT: (White Chocolate) Pina Colada Almond Joy: I agree with you 100%*
Paddy,
Empiricism aside, I think the concept is doomed before the wrapper's opened. I mean, who's ever had a reason to eat chocolate while drinking a Pina Colada, anyway? Ugh!
Thank you.
- Harrison H
*especially about the Wayans in "White Girls."Harrison - thanks for the kind words, and for raising the vocabulary bar for Snacker Emails. What do you think the chances are that the guy who wrote this next email has ever used "empiricism" in a sentence?
SUBJECT: You are NUts!
I just wanted to say - I am a choholic and a candy conisseur and you are nuts! Maybe your taste buds are not as evolved as some of us! That Peter Paul Pina Colada Almond Joy is FANTASTIC!!!!! Of course you cannot eat it with the mindset that it is going to replace "THE STANDARD," you eat it for what it is - I DELICACY! I have ordered CASES online! Everyone I know Loves it! I just thought you'd appreciate another OPINION!
I also read a few of your other *opinions* and like I said you are NUTS!- R.W.
Subject: Please help
Does anyone remember Googles? It was a Dolly Madison product, I think, that I haven't seen since the mid-1990s. They were mounded cakes, like Snoballs, but heavy, very heavy and the sugar was thick as sand. Thanks, I guess.
- Jeff W.
More from Jeff:
...I found them in Arkansas. I'm almost positive they were a Dolly Madison product, although my creme-filled brain could be wrong. There's no doubt, though, they were the heaviest, sweetest, gut-blowingest cakes ever produced.9/2 UPDATE - Jeff asked, and we delivered:
Dear (Paddy),
Thank you for your thoughtfulness in contacting Interstate Brands Corporation.
We did, in fact, make a product called Googles in the 1990's. They were only on the market a short time and we stopped selling them due to low sales volume. A google cake was a yellow cake filled with cream and covered in the crunch topping we still use for our donuts. It sounds really good and I wish they would bring it back.
Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,
Michelle A.
Consumer Affairs Representative
Some of the reviews are hilarious. Just what the doctor ordered for work related boredom.
Why don't you do a side by side comparison of products from competitors? That would be awesome! Say, Plantation Brownie against Little Debbie Brownie, so on and so forth. You could do your own review and then have a little bubble-click survey for the public which will display the results. Hot digity!
Review these:
Animal Snackers | Basil's Bavarian Bakery | Low Fat and actually tasty
Circus Animal Cookies | Mother's | delish and makes you feel like a kid
again
Cheers,
Rachel
Rachel - some of our reviews are hilarious? Some? Oh wait - you must have mistakenly stumbled across one or two of Figaroo's reviews. We apologize for that. Human Resources misunderstood us when we said we wanted to hire "Fig Newton Lou" to join WASAW. Instead they hired Figaroo. Those involved were promptly shown the door, and then the backside of our loafers. Figaroo is still around somewhere. We think he's holed up in the janitor closet or hiding under the bidet.If we can figure out how to add a poll to some of our editorials or taste tests, we'll do so - but you're talking to a bunch of guys who were still using frames on their home page until August 2004. Thanks for the great suggestions, though. We'll see what we can do. Snack on!