Well known fact about me: I have a tendency to overindulge. I like instant gratification, and a lot of it. Hence the reason I am still staggering around searching for more booze having a conversation that I won’t remember with someone whose number will end up in my phone and I will never call because I won’t remember them either, hours after I should have been passed out because my conscious brain and most motor functions have shut themselves down. But the overindulgence doesn’t only pertain to booze, it just gets the most attention…it has come close to killing me a couple of times and apparently some people are concerned about that. But let’s not let cheese fall too far into the shadows…because that shit is dangerous.
Little known fact about me: I buy foods that I sometimes don’t like that much as a defense against my overindulgent ways. It’s like those southwestern whatever baked lays they have now…they are really good, but REALLY overzealous, making it hard to eat more than a serving size.
Something completely random about me: I like to stop on the QVC channel and read aloud the name of whatever they happen to be selling during that run through of the channels. The names are always ridiculously long. Seriously. It’s like people who are hired at QVC to decide what items they stock and sell are given one guideline: “Item must be titled with at least 7-12 words to appear more important than it actually is”. I think it’s obnoxious, but to pull the obnoxiousness from the actual tv and make it a real part of my living environment, I announce it to whoever happens to be in my company. It’s like a QVC pit stop.
What does any of this shit have to do with anything other than the fact that I am insane? Where the fuck am I going with this? Just keep reading.
Yesterday I was grocery shopping at Target, and I needed almonds, specifically Blue Diamond Roasted Almonds. They are good, and good for you (I don’t work for them). I noticed the smokehouse variety and was like, ‘what do the smokehouse ones taste like?’. This was asked rhetorically, as I did not expect that there was a blue diamond rep hidden behind the stocked cans of fruit pits, waiting until a customer with the decision making skills of a down syndrome aardvark inquired about how their smokehouse variety would tickle the palette. But then Jarrett answers, ‘I didn’t like them, they are like bbq flavored…you would probably like them’. Well of course I would like them if they are bbq flavored. SOLD!
Now it’s today, and I open the can at work, and the smell of them punches me in the face harder than if an actual dead pig had been tossed at me like a pillow in a teenager's slumber party soft porn. I taste one, and I wonder how they can take something as delightful as an almond and make it taste like a hard wooden ball of bacon. It’s like a dog treat. Did I mention that I hate bacon?
Would you think this would be worthy of an email string? And if so, would that email string end up uncovering my distaste for people's infatuation with religious characters? If you said no, then you are fucking retarded.
From: Brooke (CLT) [mailto:Brooke
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:50 AM
To: Jarrett
Subject: Smokehouse almonds taste like
NOT
Not a fan.
From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:52 AM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
Yes that is a better description. I apologize for the misinformation.
From: Brooke (CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:02 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
it's all good. i will still eat them...and at least that way it will keep me from eating more than 5 at a time. that's what i call flavor control eating
From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:03 PM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
Haha…you have just coined a new phrase
From: Brooke CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:14 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
i think i should come up with some product...or write a book about it and sell it for like 12.95 on QVC
Brooke's Flavor Control Eating: The Unknown Answer to Your Diet Disasters- First Edition Paperback with Special Wallet-sized Grocery List Companion and Flavor Identifier
From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:15 PM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
LOL…that is perfect
From: Brooke (CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:34 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
it's all coming together so perfectly. i wrote the book in like 10 minutes, it's being printed as we speak, and QVC has already given me the date that the book will debut on their wonderful channel of yard sale worthy goods. check out the item window blast:

From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
LOL…you must have a lot of time on your hands right now
From: Brooke CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:37 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
not at all...just got the email from QVC and thought i would send you a snippet.
From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:39 PM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
Oh ok
From: Brooke (CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:47 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
And this is from the publisher. I don't really like it, but i guess it's QVC worthy

From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:50 PM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
Hmmm…they didn’t spend much on production and design
From: Brooke (CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:51 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
Not at all...but if you think about the people who will be buying this madness then does it really matter? they probably have porcelain lily pad candle holders that say jesus loves frogs on their bedside tables.
From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:56 PM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
From: Brooke (CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:57 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
oh. my. god. i bet you cuddled with that when you were little.
From: Jarrett [mailto:Jarrett_]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:00 PM
To: Brooke (CLT)
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
No, but my mom probably has one now.
From: Brooke (CLT) [mailto:Brooke.]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:01 PM
To: Jarrett
Subject: RE: Smokehouse almonds taste like
order her a tshirt that says "jesus loves southern women who think he exists"
and there you have it. wasted brain space, bacon almonds and fake american dreams. these are the things that consume my day. thanks