Stephan texted me this photo yesterday:
My first reaction (and my return text) was: “Is that an Oreo cookie filled with tuna?”
Because, as I think you’ll agree, it does just look so, SO GROSS.
Since I couldn’t discern any kind of signage along with this food monstrosity, I was of course compelled to play amateur Google detective by trying to figure out what store offers something called “Trick OREO Treat” and working backwards from there.
So– it’s Dunkin’ Donuts, that’s ICE CREAM you’re looking at, and apparently it’s in between two chocolate cakes in a product called the “Whoopie Pie,” which in this case is filled with the flavor of the month ice cream, Trick OREO Treat (ice cream with candy mixed in).
I guess all of that sounds mildly appealing (if maybe a little too sweet), but I can’t get past the aesthetics of the whole thing. Someone had to have looked at this thing and said “Yes! That’s awesome! Go with that!”
Since it looks this way, I would have to say I don’t think I would waste the calories. I don’t know if you know this, but once you get old you have to by really picky about what you put in your face.
Speaking of putting things in your face, I would also like to malign a specific type of chocolate I tried last weekend. Because of the aforementioned calorie pickiness, I have been sampling different types of dark chocolate to see which one of them is least gross, because apparently dark chocolate is the best kind of sugar, blah blah blah.
Anyhow, this is the chocolate I tried last weekend, and I took a picture of it BECAUSE I AM STILL MAD AT IT. Let me warn you right now– if you have a sweet tooth and are trying to switch to dark chocolate, DO NOT GO TO 90% COCOA. I tried one very small square of this chocolate, made a horrible “EEWWWWW” face, and then spit it out because a) it tasted like plastic, and b) I didn’t want to waste calories on something so very, very awful.
Since we’re speaking of calories, I will also tell you that I have this nifty toolbar on my computer and I use it to look up the caloric value of things before I deem them worthy of eating. Call me crazy, but I like it, and it works, and it’s free. Get it!
Oh, and also– feel free to send me pictures of gross-looking food. I find it very entertaining.
