I just had to share this funny little story from my long weekend away. We met my best friend from San Francisco, her husband and two children (who are just about the same ages as my kids). We stayed in this fabulous Ashland bed and breakfast and had a wonderful time (this was my first time to Ashland and I thought it was just an adorable little town)! We had rented little cottages at this B & B, and the second night there we barbecued in front of our little homes. Forgetting dessert, we decided to "text message" David, my girlfriend's husband who was off getting a massage, and have him bring home the makings for smores. We gave him specifics because David is French and still unfamiliar with some of our "native" customs like the infamous 'smore'. Well....David found his way into a co-op grocery store (he is the classic French food snob and hates the average grocery) and with the aid of some very healthy clerk, came back to us with a tub of "rice mellow", organic graham crackers and an expensive foreign imported chocolate. What notoriously amounts to about $2.50 worth of junk food probably cost David about $20. Regardless, we all thought to make the best of it and eagerly awaited his personal rendition of the smores (which of course had to be modified because we didn't have true marshmellows....we had the tub of rice mellow. By the conclusion, he had a plate of what appeared to be "smore-like" stacks of white gooey stuff, melting chocolate and graham crackers (albeit it, wholewheat grahams).
We all tried them, personally I ate two....and during our munching discussed the reality of the beef hooves in standard marshmellows, and the hydrogenated oils in the standard graham and bar of chocolate. But after munching, talking, and trying to munch down some more smores, we concluded this....there is something to be said for the unhealthy but tasty blend of beef hooves and hydrogenated oils. There is just no comparing an organic smore with the real thing. The kids? They skipped the smores altogther declaring "those weren't real marshmellows", and opted for the red vines I had hidden in the car--full of red dye #5 no doubt. Signed, ME {lv}
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