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Cool New Product! Whole Pieces of Raw Green Tripe
We have an exciting new product we're thrilled to offer from our friends at Prather Ranch — unbleached/unscalded/unground raw green tripe packed into 5-7 lb bags for $3.75/lb.
We have a very limited supply available this weekend IN STOCK NOW – please come by to try it out while supplies last! If we have enough interest, we will plan to buy more and keep this product in stock ongoing.
This is USDA inspected and approved unbleached, unscaled (raw) green tripe from the first two chambers of the cattle's stomachs (there are four chambers total and this is from the first two – rumen & reticulum). This is considered "honeycomb" tripe. The tripe we get from GreenTripe.com is USDA inspected, grass-finished whole tripe that has been ground up – they include both the upper & lower chambers (which contain the "pre-poop" smellier sections/material called omasum & abomasum). The upper sections of their stomach are mostly pink/red in color and not as scary looking as you might think :) — the bags are reasonably sized and packaged nicely/clean.
This tripe product has been inspected for foreign objects (like metal or rocks, which can end up in a cow's stomachs from their grazing activity); tested for e. coli and other harmful bacteria; and inspected by the USDA for cysts and parasites.
This is a really cool new thing you can try feeding your dog — it is in large-ish pieces and would be an excellent selection for a high value, boneless chewable meal for puppies, adults or older dogs.
Tripe is a study/tough, ribbed textured muscle meat that requires quite a bit of effort for dogs to chew through. This will provide a great workout that will adequately meet your dog's chewing requirements safely, without the risk of breaking a tooth or any of the other risks associated with feeding raw bones, and will help promote both dental and gut health.
Tripe is a great choice for any dog needing a highly digestible, low-fat, well-tolerated, exceedingly palatable meal.
Tripe is also a good protein choice for any dog with renal issues/insufficiency. (more here)
Tripe has a naturally balanced ca:ph ratio and so it can be fed alone "as is" – you do not need to be concerned about balancing tripe meals.
Prather's beef program is exceptionally stringent with regards to their standards for quality, humane handling, and purity.
Prather cattle are:
* certified Humane by the Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC) program;
* never ever treated with hormones or antibiotics (from birth to harvest);
* cattle are given USA sourced supplemental trace minerals and beneficial probiotics to promote health (this makes for even better tripe!);
* single source traceability for each animal (unique ID within 24-hours of birth);
* DNA tested Angus/Herford;
* closed herd biosecurity program;
* Raised locally and exclusively on 40,000 acres across Macodel, Fall river and Northern Sacramento Valley;
* majority of feed grown on-site;
* raised on certified organic pasture & then finished for 120 days on a custom blend of barley, rice, alfalfa & timothy hay – NO corn, NO soy!);
* pastured have been certified by California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF);
* beef is carefully harvested and hand-cut by their own artisan meat processors in their own USDA inspected, hospital/medical product grade facility;
Kasie Maxwell
SFRAW / Rara Avis
250 Napoleon Street, Unit G
San Francisco, CA 94124
SFRAW Hosts NEW Royal Fishbox Subscription Program Every Thursday Night
We're pleased to announce a spectacular new seafood subscription program meticulously organized by Cynthia Yeh, Sustainability Coordinator at local sustainable seafood company, Royal Hawaiian Seafood called Royal Fishbox.
Royal Fishbox is a weekly subscription program that provides subscribers with a variety of INCREDIBLY DELICIOUS sustainable seafood every week in a nicely packaged box format that includes educational and suggested use/preparation information for the contents of each box.
Subscriptions cost $25/week and are delivered every Thursday afternoon to the SFRAW warehouse for you to pick-up. You do not need to be a SFRAW member to be a Royal Fishbox subscriber.
Ever wondered what other kinds of seafood are out there? Curious to learn more about the different sustainable seafood species available in the market and in your local restaurant? Interested in learning how to prepare unique cuts of fish or how to enjoy certain species of seafood?
Register now for Fishbox, a subscription program that offers a new variety of seafood every week! Once you sign up, you can pick up your Fishbox at the "Fishbowl" location you chose. Fishboxes will be in an ice chest awaiting retrieval at the designated time/date.
Each week, you'll get a smart and tidy package of sample-size portions of seafood, packaged individually and labelled with QM codes for smartphone scanning to gather even more information online. You'll also receive a weekly Themeletter that reviews the products contained in that week's subscription box. Access fresh, high-quality, sustainable seafood (products typically exclusive to Chefs) while educating yourself on the environmental issues posed in today's society.
Our goal is to provide culinary education, fish education and sustainability awareness to consumers. And of course to offer RHS's best seafood to individuals!
So far we've sampled some outstanding seafood with the Fishbox pilot program including last week's Chilean Seabass (aka Patagonian toothfish). The week before we had fun with Rhode Island Towndock Squid (with tentacles), Mediterranean tenderized Cuttlefish (2-3 pieces of whole Sepia), and cuttlefish ink. July 10th we had packs of local Santa Cruz Pacific Rock crab (Pacific Stone crab) and West Coast Dungeness crab. Over July 4th the boxes were double sized and contained generous portions of Fort Bragg wild king salmon steaks and delicious shell-on headless sustainable domestic farmed shrimp. Our Japanese neighbor was overjoyed with the Fishhox which contained Sake Kama (salmon collars) and two Kampachi Kama (kampachi collars) – this is all very high quality seafood for you to eat, not to feed with your dogs or cats (well, not until after you've cooked or frozen it first!)
Enjoy and spread the word!
$10 BONUS for REFERRALS -> Remember, you receive $10 of RHS webstore credit for every new member you refer, that's $10 you can spend on any product of your choosing (if available on the webstore)!
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The Return of Meat Madness?!
Before starting SFRAW in 2003, I was part of a group affectionately referred to as Meat Madness (since half of us involved were vegetarians/vegans!)
History of Meat Madness (skip this if you just want to get to the point/proposal…):
Back in 2000-2001, I was the founder of a local dog advocacy group called District 5 Dog Owners & Guardians that worked to promote off-leash recreation, responsible dog handling, the AKC CGC program, held monthly park clean-ups in Alamo Square and other D5 parks like Duboce & Buena Vista, and held a fun annual dog festival that promoted advocacy and access to open spaces for SF dogs. Alamo Square was the first park in SF to go through the grueling SF Dog Policy program to become an official DPA. D5DOG worked tirelessly for two years, amidst a lot of controversy and with a mountain of challenges, to successfully establish Alamo Square as the first official new Dog Play Area (it had been de facto off-leash forever, but was at risk of being closed entirely to off-leash dogs at the time).
Anyway — one of the things I did with D5DOG was organized health and nutrition seminars (of course! LOL). For the first seminar, we invited Cathy & Tiffani from Feed This! (they had just launched their business) to speak about raw feeding. Those that attended wanted to switch to raw after the seminar, but were a little uncertain of doing it themselves. In response to this, I organized monthly food making get-togethers in my apartment that put people to work in an assembly line with different food prep stations so that at the end of the day we all had a month's worth of food packaged into individual meal packs for our dogs and divvied up the costs to pay for everything combined, by the pound. I organized the menus/recipes, ordered/picked up the ingredients, and we all worked together to provide the labor for set-up, making the food & clean-up, and we all had a really good time together/lots of laughs – those were some pretty fun days. We did this for about two years; had one person move and one dog pass away, and three new people added during this time — when I started SFRAW, almost everyone from Meat Madness joined the new group and many are still members to this day. Good times – fond memories!
Bringing Back The Madness to SFRAW (the proposal):
I was thinking this am that it would be pretty cool if we started doing Meat Madness styled "food prep parties" here at SFRAW. With the warehouse location, and having access to such an abundant and amazing variety of better food and better equipment, etc. — a lot more space than my tiny apartment kitchen and rear garden (where John and Matt wildly chopped up meaty bones using a big cleaver – haha!). I think it would be pretty fun and collectively, with a fair division of labor, we could get a lot done here in just a few hours. I am considering putting together Meat Madness food making parties specific to dog sizes (tiny/small, medium & large/giant) and having a separate event for cat food making parties. I will organize the menus, etc. and then end of day, we'll all pay for what we made by the pound. You can bring your own containers, or we can add this into the cost.
One of the many things that distinguishes SFRAW from other groups or companies is the incredible community and unique support we have within our membership. Building community through mentoring/support and the sharing of how/why we feed fresh foods with fellow members – sharing stories about our dogs and cats with members that understand our loving commitment and care, as well as the special magic that happens between humans when we spend time together preparing food, and sharing our love and commitment to our beloved animals – these values and experiences are at the very core of SFRAW's mission and founding/guiding principles.
How many of you are interested in this sort of thing? From past experience with Meat Madness get-togethers, I am confident this will be a fun way to turn a chore into a party! Being involved will allow for you to not have to think much about making the food/menu planning and the social and fun aspect is really one of the best parts about it, IMO.
SFRAW is really about community and the Meat Madness program would foster this community while making a regular chore less work/drudgery by dividing the labor with your fellow SFRAW members; preparing your pet's meals in the warehouse will leave your home free of dog/cat food making mess, too!
If you're interested, please let me know by commenting below or sending an email (email@example.com) and we'll consider organizing our first event ASAP. I hope we can make it a regular thing. Let me know what size/age/number of dogs or cats you have and what days and times work best for you. I'm thinking we just need 3-4 people for each session and we'll be able to knock out quite a bit of awesome "home-made" raw food pretty quickly.
Hope to hear from you!
Warmest Regards,
Kasie Maxwell
Founder/Owner SFRAW
OT: Running Out of Time – Please Sign New GGNRA Petition
Some of you may not know about my involvement with organizing and working hard to maintain access to open spaces and parks to dogs in SF and the GGNRA (SF/Marin). This is an issue very near and dear to my heart as the past/long-time webmaster for SFDOG, founder of (now defunct) District 5 Dog Owners & Guardians, and countless volunteer hours devoted to a variety of efforts/campaigns related to the issue of preserving access to open spaces and promoting responsible dog walking/handling. I feel very strongly that preserving access to these areas is absolutely vital to the quality of life and health of many SF Bay Area residents (dogs & humans of all ages) and that recreational activity such as hiking and dog walking is not at all incompatible with the protection of wildlife and the local ecosystem.
Currently and urgently, we're trying to get as many people as possible to sign an online petition to protect recreation in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Fort Funston, Ocean Beach, Crissy Field, Marin Headlands, Muir Beach, Rodeo Beach, and properties in San Mateo County).
With the stroke of a pen, a few GGNRA and National Park Service officials could change the mission of the GGNRA from one focused on *recreation* to that of a *nature preserve*. This change could force out tens of thousands of us who recreate in the GGNRA — both with and without dogs. If you surf, fish, bike, ride a horse, walk a dog, hike, picnic, kayak, windsurf, and any of the other ways people recreate in the GGNRA, you may be forced out. Even if you don't walk with your dog in the GGNRA, the proposed changes in its mission will mean all forms of recreation are at risk there. Our petition, at http://tinyurl.com/protect-recreation-in-GGNRA, will show the GGNRA and elected officials that there is widespread opposition to their plans. We need to stop this while we still can.
We need as many people people as possible to sign on. Please take a moment to sign and then pass this on to other lists or people you think may be willing to sign their name to this petition.
A few staff members at the National Park Service could take away recreation for millions of Bay Area residents unless we act now. The staff has already indicated that they might very well take away most recreation in the GGNRA – that's why we need to act together to make our voices heard right now before it is too late.
Please make sure your voice is heard by signing our petition to make sure the GGNRA preserves recreation and hears all concerns before taking unilateral action to keep Bay Area residents out of our own backyard.
Nearly 40 years ago, the City and County of San Francisco and other local governments transferred management of the GGNRA lands with the express promise that these lands would be managed to preserve recreation. Now that promise and pledge could be broken. The staff has clearly indicated they are moving to severely limit, even ban, local residents from tens of thousands of acres of what is a designated recreation area. This includes restrictions in popular areas where people surf, hike, bike and walk their dogs.
Our request is simple – keep the promise and preserve recreation in this recreation area.
The Bay Area is one of the most crowded urban areas in the nation. And the last thing we need is to lose tens of thousands of acres of recreation area because a few staff members want to designate it a nature preserve. There is room for both protecting nature and preserving recreational areas.
We are fortunate that prominent local leaders like Congresswoman Jackie Speier, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco Board President David Chiu and the entire San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Marin County Board President Kathrin Sears and the entire Marin Board of Supervisors, San Mateo County Board President Dave Pine, as well as Supervisors Adrienne Tissier, Don Horsley and Warren Slocum, and so many others have joined our cause to preserve recreation.
But your voice matters the most.
Please sign our petition today!
Kasie Maxwell
Founder, SFRAW
Register for Our Spring & Summer 2014 Classes & Workshops Now
Please go here to register for our 2014 classes and workshops in advance: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/235427
We request all attendees to pre-register for every class they'd like to attend, even the free classes, so we can prepare for how many people will be there and make the most of our time spent with our participants. You can pre-register up to 12-hours before the class time. Thank you!
Below are photos from last year's classes.
Hope to see you at one (or more) of our educational events this year!
In preparation for the FREE Introduction to Feeding Raw to Cats event this Sunday, please enjoy this tidbit about taurine in the feline diet:
You may have heard just how vitally important the amino acid TAURINE is in the feline diet. While animal protein generally contains adequate taurine levels for cats when served fresh and raw, you may not know that cooking, grinding, freezing and long-term storage all diminish the viability of taurine in fresh foods and absorption of this vital nutrient may be inhibited when fed along with many common non-animal derived foods/fiber.
Taurine is essential for maintaining normal vital body functions in the feline including: vision, digestion, heart muscle function, to maintain normal pregnancy and fetal development, and to maintain a healthy immune system. The life-threatening damages of taurine deficiency can take up two years to develop – it is slow to progress. A lack of adequate taurine in the diet is very dangerous and taurine deficiency can lead to blindness and heart failure due to enlargement of the heart. Fortunately, feeding a diet of fresh, raw, meats will ensure and maintain adequate taurine levels. Thus, taurine deficiency related diseases are totally avoidable by feeding fresh, raw whole foods (particularly heart muscle meat). However, many people supplement with this essential nutrient, just to be safe (general recommendation is to supplement with 35 and 250 mg a day, or 500-1,000 mg 1-2 times a week). Taurine is easy to find, affordable and safely tolerated at even higher than recommended doses in the feline.
Interestingly, one of the foods highest in taurine is living insects! Did you know the wild feline diet consists of up to 15% live insects? Yes, nature takes care to provide abundant vital nutrients to our feline friends when they hunt & consume insects. My own cat, Briar, enjoys eating many bugs as part of his varied diet. Because I have turtles as part of our family, Briar enjoys many different types of insects during the spring and summer season (crickets, mealworms, wax worms, superworms, butterworms). He also enjoys catching moths and flies, and will eat spiders whenever he can. Here's a video of Briar gobbling up butterworms; a fruity smelling, soft bodied insect high in fat and calcium (although butterworms are not as high in taurine as crickets, flies or spiders): https://vimeo.com/88393935
The Rancho Beef Recall & You
By now you have probably heard the news about a voluntary recall of beef processed for human consumption at Rancho Feeding Corp. in Petaluma during the period January 2013 – January 2014. This recall is currently pending investigation by the USDA. Rancho is one of only two USDA certified slaughterhouses in Northern California that processes custom beef.
Rancho has a solid reputation among the leading beef ranchers in the region. This small, locally owned & operated slaughterhouse harvests beef for all of the top quality (pastured/grass-finished) independent beef producers in Northern California including BN Ranch, Marin Sun Farms, Pastoral Plate/Stemple Creek, Tara Firma Farms – all of which supply their custom processed beef to SFRAW.
Our vendors notified us this week that the recall has just been expanded to include "custom processed" beef. This includes all beef products custom produced for them during this period last year. Although we feel that there is no question as to the safety or integrity of our supplier's beef products, to cooperate with the USDA recall request, BN Ranch, Marin Sun Farms and Pastoral Plate took action immediately and have already picked up all beef inventory that we had in stock. This included SFRAW Beef Grind, Formula & treats that use BN Ranch beef ingredients.
We wanted to let you know more about this recall as soon as possible – even though there have been no reports of illness (people or animals) due to consumption of these products.
As small scale, local, fully pastured beef producers, our beef suppliers are meticulous in the care and handling of their cattle from birth to box. To ensure proper handling and high quality control, as part of the custom processing procedures, they have their own representatives handle and deliver the living animals off the pasture and over to Rancho. BN Ranch representatives even "walk the line" accompanying their animals & carcasses along side USDA inspectors and Rancho staff from harvest through final packaging of every pound of the product. The meat harvested from these farms during this period of time passed USDA inspection. We trust them when they tell us that the handling was done in accordance with USDA regulations, but more importantly, to their high standards.
As stated above there have been no reports of illness, nor reports of animal mistreatment, mishandling of the animals or food related to this beef recall.
Today we learned that the recall appears to have involved product manufactured from the processing of two dairy cows (processed on a different day from the custom beef products) that allegedly wasn't fully inspected (documented and/or labelled properly).
While there is a lot of speculation surrounding this recall, we'd appreciate your patience and ask you to reserve judgment until the matter is resolved. Every day we are learning more about what happened and is happening with Rancho. If Rancho closes for good, this will have a tremendous impact on your local beef supply.
At this time, if you have any beef products that you purchased at SFRAW and would like to return it, feel free to come in this weekend or contact us via email at email@example.com. Please be aware of the following processes for returns:
SFRAW Brand beef formulas, grinds and Beef-Pumpkin Patties and Beef Jerky: If you wish to return any items, these products will receive immediate store credit.
BN Ranch, Marin Sun Farms, Pastoral Plate/Stemple Creek beef products: We will accept and log all returns as they come in. We are currently working with our vendors to determine reimbursement or credit for these products.
Tara Firma will accept returns, if necessary, but is standing up to the recall. Please find Tara's position statements here:
Rancho Update #3 TFRecall2.12.14
Rancho Update #2 TFRecall2.11.14
Your Food is Safe: Rancho Veal Update TFRecall2.10.14
Please join us in supporting these outstanding producers that work so hard, and with such a thin margin, to produce the highest quality, wholesome, healthy, and safe food. This recall can have a devastating impact on their business, so it is important that we stand with them in support, just as they stand behind the very good food that they produce.
Although our freezers were emptied of beef inventory earlier this week, we have fresh beef deliveries expected to arrive on Friday. We will be using fresh beef from Marin Sun Farms to fill all beef orders and to fill the demand for walk-in sales. We currently have Prather Ranch and limited Pastoral Plate beef available for sale. Please be sure to buy this beef. We plan to produce more of our SFRAW beef products next week using fresh product from Marin Sun Farms. We do not know when we will have BN Ranch beef back in stock – please stay tuned.
Our 2014 Order & Pick-up Calendar PLUS Spring & Summer Workshops & Classes Schedule Now Available!
2014 Member Ordering & Pick-up Calendar
Finally! With apologies for taking so long to get this updated, the 2014 order & delivery/pick-up schedule for our members is now posted to the website here. Download this PDF version to post/keep as a reminder of when to order & when to pick-up.
2014 Spring & Summer Workshops & Classes
We have also organized our upcoming schedule for our Spring & Summer workshops & classes – registration will be available in the next few days for the first series of classes. Please be sure to register in advance as space does fill-up fast (well, at least this is true for the canine classes — based on engagement last year, we will need more support for the kitty classes & workshops, so please, let are your "cat people" know about our offerings to support these educational events we so enjoy doing!)


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Religious Humor: Jokes and Satire Dealing with Religion & Beliefs
Atheist Nabbed In Tennessee
It doesn't seem as though it's very safe for atheists in Tennessee. It looks like people in Tennessee have finally figured out what atheists look like and now if we show our faces we'll be in a lot of trouble. One atheist was recently chased into a mall, but now he's in jail and charges on pending.
Atheist Luncheonette Opens
Businesses are being forced to specialize more and more in today's world. Specialization means being able to take better care of your customers, but it also means narrowing your possible base of customers. Is the trade-off worth it? The answer to that will vary, but it doesn't seem likely that a luncheonette for atheists will attract much business.
Fading Pop Bands Finding New Life in Churches
Fame can be a fleeting experience, especially in America's modern pop culture. The popularity of bands can come and go very quickly, but many work hard to hold on to whatever they can salvage. Sometimes, that means drastic changes in venues and even in lyrics.
Christians Face Horrible Persecution
Many Christians in America complain about the awful treatment they have to endure in the modern secular society. According to them, they simply don't get any respect and are unable to properly exercise their religious beliefs because of rampant discrimination and prejudice.
Christian Wants Kidney Back from Hell-Bound Pagan
Most people who donate organs never get to know those who are the eventual recipients. Sometimes, though, they do meet - but what if the donor is disappointed with the lifestyle, politics, or religion of the recipient? What happens? In one case, a Christian donor wants her kidney back from the now-pagan recipient.
Beware the Buddha Snot
Yamamoto Bussan, a Japanese candy company, has been marketing a new product: 'Snot from the nose of the Great Buddha.'? Buddhist priests are mightily annoyed and have prevented the company from registering it as a trademark, but that's about all they've managed to accomplish.
Destiny Church: Happy Clapping for Jesus
Sometimes religious groups are so extreme that they can't really be parodied - in effect, they only parody themselves. With some skill, though, it is possible to take what extremists say and take it just a bit further and create some very amusing and entertaining material.

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Hey all! Hope that we can pull together a nice size community in Beijing. I've seen some posts a few months old but I don't know if anything materialized from that. Let's see if we can start something going with meet-ups to go sarging, share material, or just swap war stories.
Beijing Seduction Community
A bit about me... you all can call me Roadracer as I race motorcycles frequently back in Chicago. I'm a 27 yr old laid-off computer programmer who is applying to Tsinghua University to go to grad school here in 2010. I'll be in Beijing until April and will return on a more full time basis in Fall. I do speak Mandarin completely fluently (as in no accent, no hesitation, it is my native language), but since I moved to America when I was 4 years old, I never learned formally so my vocabulary is extremely limited. Still, good enough to pick up plenty of girls especially if they are college students or grads who know at least a little English.
I've just learned about the whole pick up artist community and the seduction art a couple of days ago when trying to figure out how to up my game. I've been getting lots of results lately just meeting girls online but really prefer to try cold approaches in public too. I figure I'm doing OK and am on and off with about 5 girls right now (couple of MLTR's and one long distance girl in Qinhuangdao), but after reading some of the stories here I know I can do more and better! I wanna date more HB8's and 9's and fewer 6's and 7's I tried a couple of cold approaches a few days ago and even though they were complete failures (one girl turned beet red and wouldn't even look at me after I asked her name) I got a rush and a big boost of self-confidence just making the effort.
Problem is I'm always solo or with a date, I don't have any male friends in Beijing. I would love to meet any of my fellow PUA in Beijing and go sarging, or even just to meet some new people on a non-PUA basis
Guys, PM me or get in touch another way. I use QQ (1247151232) or MSN (email@example.com). I know there have to be plenty of AFC's around in Beijing who would like to poke their heads out of the shadows!


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By Charles Krauthammer, Investor's Business Daily
Let's understand President Obama's strategy in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. It has nothing to do with economics or real fiscal reform. This is entirely about politics. It's Phase 2 of the 2012 campaign.
The election returned to him to office. The fiscal cliff negotiations are designed to break the Republican opposition and grant him political supremacy, something he thinks he earned with his landslide 2.8-point victory margin on Election Day.
This is why he sent Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to the Republicans to convey not a negotiating offer but a demand for unconditional surrender.
House Speaker John Boehner had made a peace offering of $800 billion in new revenues.
Geithner pocketed Boehner's $800 billion, doubled it to $1.6 trillion, offered risible cuts that in 2013 would actually be exceeded by new stimulus spending, and then demanded that Congress turn over to the president all power over the debt ceiling.
Boehner was stunned. Mitch McConnell laughed out loud. In nobler days, they'd have offered Geithner a pistol and an early-morning appointment at Weehawken.
Alas, Boehner gave again, coming back a week later with spending-cut suggestions — as demanded by Geithner — only to have them dismissed with a wave of the hand.
What's going on here? Having taken Boehner's sword, and then his shirt, Obama sent Geithner to demand Boehner's trousers.
Perhaps this is what Obama means by a balanced approach. He pretends that Boehner's offer to raise revenues by eliminating deductions rather than by raising rates is fiscally impossible.
But on July 22, 2011, Obama had said that "$1.2 trillion in additional revenues ... could be accomplished without hiking tax rates, but could simply be accomplished by eliminating loopholes, eliminating some deductions and engaging in a tax reform process."
Which is exactly what the Republicans are offering today.
As for the alleged curative effect on debt of Obama's tax-rate demand — the full rate hike on the "rich" would have reduced the 2012 deficit from $1.10 trillion to $1.02 trillion.
That's a joke, a rounding error. Such nonsense abounds because Obama's objective in these negotiations is not economic but political: not to solve the debt crisis but to fracture the Republican majority in the House.
Get Boehner to cave, pass the tax hike with Democratic votes provided by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and let the Republican civil war begin.
It doesn't even matter whether Boehner gets deposed as speaker. Either way, the Republican House would be neutered, giving Obama a free hand to dominate Washington and fashion the entitlement state of his liking.
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The Obama administration is highly exercised about "inversion," the practice by which an American corporation acquires a foreign company and moves its headquarters out of the U.S. to benefit from lower tax rates abroad. Not fair, says Barack Obama. It's taking advantage of an "unpatriotic tax ...
Russia's ongoing dismemberment of Ukraine and the Islamic State's erasing of Middle Eastern borders have distracted attention from the harassment of U.S. Navy aircraft by Chinese fighter jets over the South China Sea. Beijing calls this sea, and the Yellow and East China seas, the "near seas," ...
Having once served a president, I don't begrudge any president a vacation. There is, in fact, no escape from this relentless job. A change of scenery does not involve a change in responsibilities, or even a release from the essence of the president's routine. The intelligence briefings stalk him. ...
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The borough's official Shake Shack count is growing, and more are likely on the way.
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The borough's official Shake Shack count is growing, and more are likely on the way.
Why do so many chefs refuse to sell burgers during prime-time hours?
Plus cod fritters, oysters, and grilled cheese.
At the NoMad Bar, Cherche Midi, Narcissa, and Wilma Jean.
Shakes do come with those fries.
His Superiority Burger pop-up opens this Sunday.
The burger chain is just way too awesome for its own good.
On the other hand, fiber is fiber.
That's a lot of burgers.
It's got a bit of a nautical theme.
A cheeseburger inside in another burger ... and that's inside two buns.
Because the world doesn't have enough fried-Twinkie burgers as it is.
It's probably not coming to a Shake Shack near you anytime soon.
No unseemly chewing to see here!
People are still freaking out over Bobby Flay.
Get ready for October 18.
A fleet of carhops on roller skates awaits your orders.
Sounds delicious, right?
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The Gaultier Ladies Gallery. Contains 4 mini Jean Paul Gaultier fragrances. 2 Classique 3.5ml EDP, and 2 Classique 3.5ml EDT. Each bottle with it's own design. Perfect to pop in your bag.
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Can't decide which fragrance to buy for him? Get all 3 with this set of Versace Dreamer 5ml EDT, Juicy Couture Dirty English 5ml EDT and Laura Biagotti Tempore Uomo 5ml EDT.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
UK Smarties (no artificial colors)
I reviewed Smarties a couple of years ago, but they were the Canadian version and I thought they merited a revisit with the originals ... especially since they're so wildly popular around the world with sales topping $140,000,000 a year!
Smarties were introduced by Rowntree in the UK back in 1937. Legend has it that Forrest Mars and a Rowntree family member were traveling through Spain in the mid-1930s and saw the soldiers there would eat chocolate that was covered in sugar to keep it from melting. Both men saw the merits of this novel way of serving candies, especially when combined with the French and Italian panning processes that provides an attractive colored shell. Rowntree first named their new chocolate lentils "Chocolate Niblet Beans" but changed next year to Smarties.
They're not sold in the United States owing mostly to the fact that the name Smarties is already taken here (and perhaps some sort of gentleman's agreement between Rowntree & Mars ... I can't find any record of it though).
Smarties offer a wide variety of colors in their flat chocolate candies and recently change from artificial colors to all natural ones in hopes that it will reduce reticence among moms because of concerns about artificial colors being linked to hyperactivity.
The hexagonal tubes that hold the Smarties are certainly cute. They're easy to dispense from and they don't roll around. The candies themselves are attractive, if now a little mottled in color.
Smarties shells are a little thicker than M&Ms and have a light flavor to them that I can only call cookie flavored (maybe 'Nilla Wafers or Graham Crackers). The chocolate inside is rather unremarkable - not terribly rich or creamy.
What's most surprising and pleasant about the Smarties is the flavor of the orange ones. They're actually orange. Kind of a middle-of-the-road orange, not terribly deep or zesty, more like the Terry's Chocolate Orange.
The colors are remarkably different than they used to be. I tossed out a little array with some M&Ms ColorWorks as a comparison. The difference is pretty easy to see - the Smarties lack a depth to the color. However, it gives them a little artisan, homespun quality that certainly doesn't turn me off.
Brits are fierce about their Smarties, and even the little changes in the packaging and colors seem to get people all fired up. Here's a commercial from last year when the Hex tube replaced the round one with the collectible caps.
Here's another earlier one that might lead one to believe that there's something really psychedelic about these candies!
While parents may be happy that the artificial colors are gone, vegetarians aren't. They now use carminic acid to make the reds, which is made from cochineal insects. (It also means that they're not Kosher.)
Further, it's not what Americans would consider "pure chocolate" as it contains whey and vegetable fat fillers. Ingredients are: Sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, dried skimmed milk, butterfat, whey powder, vegetable fat, lactose and soy lecithin. The coating is: sugar, wheat flour, modified starch, colors (titanium dioxide, mixed carotenes, carminic acid, vegetable carbon, riboflavin, copper, complexes of chlorophyllins), glazing agents, beetroot juice and flavourings.
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Skittles from the UK
I was interested in what the UK version of Skittles were like compared to the American Skittles for two reasons. The first is that they don't use gelatin in them. This means that vegetarians are free to enjoy, but I wasn't sure what difference it would make in the texture. The second is that UK Skittles aren't fortified with vitamin C. Did you know that a pack of American Skittles has half our daily RDA?
My friends Bronwen & Jay just returned from Europe and brought this super-sized tub of Skittles for me.
So, how different are Euro-Skittles? First, remember that Skittles were first introduced in Europe, so if anything, we've corrupted them with our gelatin.
I got some American Skittles and did a side by side.
It was pretty obvious that the colors aren't quite the same. The Euro-Skittles are bit dull in comparison, in color and shine. The American Skittles are on the left and the UK sourced ones on the right.
The flavors are the same until you get to purple, which is Black Currant in the UK, grape in the US.
The textures are different. American Skittles are firm, have a pretty crispy shell and long chew that's a little grainy and then descends back into a grainy sugary mess before dissolving.
UK Skittles are soft and have what feels like a thinner shell. The flavor seems a bit brighter on the citrus ones, especially the lemon that tastes rather like fresh lemon juice.
I've never been overly fond of the American Grape Skittle, I eat it, but it's way down there at the bottom, right after Lime. So I was intrigued by the Black Currant at first. If anything, the whole tub smells like Black Currant (whereas I find American Skittles smell like Strawberry). What I found out is this ... I don't like Black Currant Skittles. In fact, I might not like Black Currant as a flavor much at all.
I did a little reading on Black Currant, because it seems like a rather traditional British flavor and found that it's one of the few fruits grown in the UK with high levels of Vitamin C, during WWII it was the only reliable local source. On this side of the pond, Currant cultivation was banned because the plants were encouraging the spread of a disease of pine trees needed for the lumber industry. So as they fell out of the American diet, they were practically forced down the throats of the UK kiddies. (See Wikipedia.)
American Skittles…..................UK Skittles
My dislike of Black Currant Skittles certainly wouldn't dissuade me from eating Skittles in England or anything. The differences between the two, besides that flavor, are marginal at best. The good thing is that I have a huge tub of them.
Even though they have no gelatin, they're not Kosher or Hallal.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
American Value Chocolate Bars
Come on, admit it! Sometimes you go into the store and see something at an unbelievably low price and you turn up your nose because it could not possibly be any good at that price.
I'll save you from skimming to the end of the review. Yeah, that holds true in the case of American Value bars.
This is a long thin Milk Chocolate bar that clocks in at a respectable 1.4 ounce portion and mentions the price of "4 for a Dollar every day" in a ghastly yellow logo in the corner. The label couldn't possibly be less compelling if you gave me a version of Microsoft Word 95 to make it in. The package says nothing to recommend it, it doesn't get our hopes up, it doesn't lend any expectation to the experience.
Inside the package things get a bit better. It looks like a chocolate bar (and the ingredients reveal it's real chocolate as well). It smells a little nutty and a little like chocolate. Sweet and less that ultra smooth, it's a passable chocolate bar to give a child that isn't very finicky, has a short attention span or perhaps you don't like that much.
Since the bars are rather attractive (probably more so if you don't leave it at the bottom of your bag when traveling) I would be comfortable recommending this bar for craft projects like Gingerbread Houses in the style of mid-eighties cubicle farms.
Though the Milk Chocolate bar was plain, it wasn't pretending to be anything it wasn't. The Four Finger Wafer Bar is a KitKat clone. Instead of the simple declaration of the contents that the Milk Chocolate bar has, this one says that it's "Crisp Wafer Fingers Covered in Smooth Milk Chocolate."
Oh, now they've raised my expectations. I'm expecting some smoothiness and some crispiness.
The wrapper features more design than a lowly word processing program could handle. This does not make it any more attractive. It's not your monitor either, there's a strange green cast to the package as well.
There are, in fact, four fingers. They are, in fact, crisp. They do not taste like KitKat fingers, and there's nothing wrong with that. These are a bit less flaky and light. Looking at the ingredients I see that maize flour (corn) is used instead of wheat flour of a Hershey's or Nestle's KitKat. I actually rather enjoyed the malty corn flavor of the wafers. However, the chocolate here was funky. It had an odd flavor to it, kind of like a new car smell.
This bar was made in the UK (the Milk Chocolate bar was made in the USA). Taquitos.net has a few of the other Dollar General candies reviewed. I get the sense that Dollar General just subs out the manufacture of all of their candy - the Rocklets they sell under their own name are made by Arcor in Brazil, this four fingered bar in the UK and the milk chocolate bar in the US ... so you wouldn't expect them to be so consistent.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The Apothecary's Garden: Herbs (and some Bees)
They say that smell is one of the most powerful memory and emotional triggers of the five senses. I'm inclined to believe that, some scents I'm just drawn to because of pleasant associations. The Apothecary's Garden hard candies, I think, work well with the idea that you can get comfort in a simple reminder of something you have found pleasant in the past.
The cool part about them being encapsulated in candies is that you don't have to light any incense or candles. The scent is self contained and if it's not something everyone likes, well, they're probably less likely to even catch a whiff of it if it's in your mouth (well, unless you know them very well). I've been traveling around this month working on my novel and selecting these as I go along to match my prose.
Lavender (soothes, balances and harmonises) - these little oblong pieces match the blossoms best of all of the candies in this line. The flat lozenges look like a sprig of lavender, or perhaps an itty bitty light purple corn cob. The little ribs and bumps on the candy were kind of fun to run my tongue over (though they dissolved rather quickly). There was less of a floral taste to the candy and more of a balsam and pine taste with that oily menthol note that fresh lavender blossoms have. It was definitely soothing, and I'd probably reach for these when I have a tickle in the throat.
These would be great for novel scenes that involve morgues, streets with open sewers, and long bus trips where the characters are forced to sit in the back next to the toilet and around the chain smokers.
Rose (helps maintain balance and harmony) - I was expecting a soapy floral candy and was pleasantly surprised at how mellow this candy is. It has a hint of acidity to it that gives it a roundness, kind of a like a touch of honey or a barley sugar candy. The rose isn't very strong, but reminded me quite a bit of some of the better Turkish Delight I've had over the years.
I'm not quite sure what the prescription difference is between the Rose and Lavender, but it's nice to have the same effect but not the same flavor, I suppose.
This candy would go best with pastoral scenes of mother and baby bonding, main characters grappling with losing a parent, and after scenes of characters taking late-night public transportation after a rave or evening of clubbing.
Rosemary (helps maintain mental alertness) - I have to admit I wasn't sure if rosemary could make a good candy flavor. It's a rather strong herb, with a distinct and rather acrid flavor if you chew the fresh needles. (If you chew the dried ones, well, you may as well kiss a porcupine.)
This one reminded me of a woodsy cough drop, kind of a menthol and spearmint flavor mixed in with a pine wreath. They little candies are quite cute, the smallest of all that I tried, with two different designs in there, one a geometric pattern and the other a little flower medallion.
These would be great when writing scenes where there is a conceit of a ticking clock of some sort and the main character must diffuse a bomb. It's also good for courtroom dramas and jury deliberations and any novel that involves delicate surgery or analysis of lines of computer code.
Honey Bees - this may be good for nothing that ails you except a hankerin' for honey. It truly tastes like an ample drop of honey and feature a pleasant honey bee on either side of the piece.
They really do soothe the throat and were, along with the Licorice and Anise, my favorite of all the Apothecary's Garden candies.
These would be perfect for novels set in orchards or with fields of flowers as well as Gothic tales featuring mysterious tribes with ancient ways. Other novels that would be a good accompaniment include those with erotic passages involving food and adventurous quests across great expanses of land and sea.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The Apothecary's Garden: Spices
As National Novel Writing Month approaches my mind turns to writing-friendly candy. This is a tough category. Not only does the candy need to be neat (no sticky bits to get in the keyboard) but it also has to support the work at hand. In years past I've nibbled on licorice vines, Reese's miniatures (not really recommended as they are a two-handed candy), M&Ms and orange Tootsie Pops.
This year I think I've found my new writing candy. It's a little expensive at $6.50 for 150 grams (about 5.25 ounces), but writing a novel in a month is an indulgence anyway and if a few hard candies can keep me on task and perhaps ingest a little less caffeine, I'm all for it.
The Apothecary's Garden is a line of hard candies made by Sweet Botanicals of England. Infused with different herbs and spices, they're all drop-dead gorgeous little morsels. Not only that, they're all natural. No freaky sweeteners, they're just sugar, corn syrup and some spices with a little juice for color. The come in a clear plastic container, which of course gives you full view of their mouthwatertingness. (The only bad thing about this packaging is that I found them to be positively DIFFICULT to recap.) Today I'll tackle the spices:
Cinnamon & Clove - gorgeous red spheres with white stripes. They're the size of marbles and smell of Christmas. I'm not usually keen on clove, as it reminds me of dental procedures, but this was more on the mild side. The cinnamon was spicy and has a pleasant and mellow burn with the slight floral note of the clove that was more on the violet end than the medicine side.
The candy itself is dense and sweet with few, if any, voids that can make for sharp edges to cut your tongue.
This candy would be appropriate for novels taking place on damp moors, alien infested swamp planets and anything set during the Civil War.
Chili (a useful digestive aid) - delicate little candies, no larger than a dried garbanzo (the smallest of all I tried). They're lightly pink and have the disarming smell of cotton candy. On the tongue they start with a slight floral note of rose and are clean tasting. But after a moment the chili spice kicks in. It has a little burn, but something I feel on the tongue, nothing in the back of the throat.
This candy would be appropriate for writing time travel scenes, large spans of exposition in any style novel and of course anything set in the Southwestern US, Mexico or Central America.
Licorice & Anise (Helps Coughs and Catarrh) - beautiful large medallion-like pieces, they're the largest of all the Apothecary's Garden candies I tried. They're also not a solid hard candy but a filled candy. The hard shell is a mellow licorice flavor with a liberal note of both anise and molasses (the ingredients lists brown sugar treacle). Inside is a soft, moist and grainy center of a rich brown sugar that soothes the throat (and tastes good!).
This candy would be appropriate for steampunk novels with characters involved heavily in action scenes, anything set in the middle ages, circuses or in cold climates and of course action-adventures that involve going places without proper vaccinations.
Ginger & Orange (Useful for Travel Sickness) - these are long hexagons that are squashed into rods. The smell slightly of orange and on the tongue they immediately get me tingly with a little tangy bite and the spice of the ginger. There's a definite rooty flavor to these that overpowers any orange essence other than the color and tangy quality.
I can't attest to their ability to stave off motion sickness, but I will in a few months when whale watch season opens and I hit the nearshore seas. I have, however, found that ginger is good for keeping the queasies at bay, so I'm looking forward to giving these a real test.
This candy would be appropriate for novels with sea voyages or taking place on spaceships with questionable inertial dampeners/artificial gravity. It is also good for consuming during scenes involving early pregnancy and dizzying passages describing architecture.
I have lots more flavors and I'll be posting about those soon. At $6.50 a package, they're a wee on the expensive side. But they're also not a candy you gobble down, so they last a while. The flavors are unique and it's obvious the attention that's paid to their creation, so I'd be willing to pay a little more. Right now the only place I know to get them in the States is ArtisanSweets.com (they sent me the samples) ... but they also sell the Montelimar Nougat that I love so much, so you know, you could get some of that at the same time.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Head to Head: Milky Way & Mars (Canada & UK)
I'm not quite sure what possessed me to do this array of bars, but here it is. Readers write in and ask what sorts of American candy they should take with them as hostess gifts or ship to friends overseas as quintessential American bars. The Milky Way is right up there, as one of the earliest bars that Mars developed (1923).
It's a bar that I should love, after all, it's supposed to be a malted milkshake in a bar.
There are several iterations of this bar both here and abroad. I got a hold of the American versions of both the milk chocolate and dark versions and the UK Mars (milk chocolate) and Canadian Mars Dark (dark chocolate).
The bar is called Milky Way in the United States but everywhere else on the planet it's known as the Mars. (There was once an American Mars bar, but that's since been renamed Snickers Almond ... there is a bar called Milky Way in the rest of the world too, but that's like the American 3 Musketeers bar.)
I haven't had a Milky Way bar in about 10 years. I've always thought they were too sweet, but after breaking one open the smell of malt was really compelling, making me doubt the wisdon of my embargo. The nougat here is the highlight, a medium color of fluffy, slightly grainy nougat covered with a stripe of caramel and covered in milk chocolate.
The flavors go nicely together and the caramel has a slight salty note to it that balances out the very sweet and only passably smooth chocolate. The malt is earthy and brings flavor to the bar.
The UK bar known as Mars has a similar cocoa colored and grainy, fluffed nougat covered with a stripe of glossy caramel and then milk chocolate. The caramel here was noticeably smoother, but the maltiness was much more subdued and replaced with a milky flavor.
The American bar is on the left and the British on the right. There was a difference in size, the British slightly larger at 62.5 grams over America's 58.1 grams. The UK bar as slightly longer and a little taller.
Recently the standard bars started to appear in darker coats. Back in 1936, based on the success of the Milky Way bar, Mars introduced the Forever Yours bar. It remained in the Mars product line until 1979 when it was discontinued. Customers complained and the Milky Way Dark bar was introduced in 1989 and then the name changed to Milky Way Midnight in 2000.
Milky Way Midnight - beautiful dark bar with little folds of chocolate on the top. The dark chocolate has a little reddish tone to it. Inside is a fluffy white (with a yellow tone) nougat and a stripe of caramel. Smells slightly smoky and very sweet. The caramel dominates in this bar and its sweet stickiness isn't completely offset by the smooth but otherwise flavorless dark chocolate.
Mars Dark - a stunning dark bar with glossy dark brown chocolate. Inside is a fluffy white nougat (with a slight yellow tone) and a stripe of caramel. The nougat on this one seemed slightly grainier but still sweet and only slightly less overwhelmed by the caramel. The chocolate, though pretty still doesn't add much of a flavor counterbalance for the whole bar just a smooth texture.
The wrapper on the Mars Dark bar is a bit of a blunder, if you ask me, as it seems to indicate milk chocolate by its lighter, creamy color over the black package of the Mars bar.
So, you're wondering what the difference is? The American one is on the left and the Canadian on the right. The Canadian bar is larger, by .1 grams. The ingredients list is virtually identical as well. The only difference on the labeling is that the Canadian one lists the true trans fat content at .1 grams (American food does not have to be labeled if it's less than .5 grams).
The important thing to note is that the milk chocolate and dark chocolate versions differ in more than their coats. The nougat is markedly different. The dark bars are missing the malt component, and instead have the vanilla nougat (that's found in the American Snickers Almond bar). The difference between the American and foreign bars isn't that marked and I think that fans should be happy with either when they're traveling. I give all bars a 6 out of 10.
Overall, I wish that the Milky Way Midnight or Mars Dark really was just a dark chocolate version of the Milky Way/Mars bar - I think the combo of dark chocolate and malted goodness would be great. But Mars must not believe that (I'm not sure if the Forever Yours had the malted nougat or not ... honestly I think it's wrong to muck with too many ingredient variations and try to stick the same name on it). I might pick one of these out of a bowl of miniatures, but I'll stick to the See's Awesome Nut & Chew Bar as my favorite nougat candy bar for now.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Happy Hippos
Look, they're little candy bars shaped like hippopotami! How can you not want one?
The first thing I thought of, of course, is the children's board game, Hungry Hungry Hippos! Except in this case, you eat the hippos instead of the hippos eating marbles.
Why are they Happy Hippos?The candy is basically a formed wafer shell filled with a hazelnut cream (think Nutella) and partially covered in a white coating. It comes in two varieties - Biscuit (unwrapped) which is all vanilla and milk and Cacao (wrapped and smashed) which is half hazenut/milk filling and half chocolate paste. Wouldn't you be happy if you were filled with hazelnut paste?
The Biscuit one reminded me a lot of the Kinder Bueno I tried last year, but not quite as chocolatey. The appeal is certainly the little look of the hippo as you bite off his head.
The Cacao has a much richer flavor set with the addition of the chocolate cream. It's a little sticky and not quite as tasty (at least in recollection) to the Kinder Bueno. The crunch of the wafer shell is pretty awesome though. If you like KitKat's little wafers and wish there were more in there, this might be a bar to seek out (or its cousins - Kinder Bueno, Duplo or Tronky).
Here's a place to get them online. Here are some other Hippo links too: a photo gallery of Happy Hippos and another review (scroll down a little on the page) from Pete Glover.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:55 am
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Kinder Egg
I've been looking for this kooky little novelty chocolate item for a while. Kinder is a widely distributed confection brand that also makes the intensely addictive Kinder Bueno (which is a must-try for any hazelnut lover).
I found a new candy source in Los Angeles (posting tomorrow about that) called Mel & Rose's on Melrose Avenue. They have EVERYTHING that you might want from Europe or Australia. It's not a big shop, but they had an excellent selection and decent prices. In fact, my little Kinder Eggs were less than a dollar each. I was led to believe that these were not permitted to be sold in the US because of the "choking hazard" of the toy surprise inside, but after opening one, I'd have to wonder what child could (or would want to) eat that toy-filled capsule.
Think of these as those toy eggs that you get in the gumball machines at the mega-marts. Except instead of being a plastic egg, it's a chocolate egg.
The egg is pretty much the size of a regular chicken egg. Inside the white and red foil it's a rather lack-luster milk chocolate with a distinct seam. I wasn't quite sure if there was a way to open it, so I just pressed my finger into the top and sort of tore it open. On my second egg I found that if you sqeeze about halfway along the seam the whole thing pops apart rather neatly.
Inside the egg it's "white chocolate" (I say in quotes because it says on the label that it's actually a "milky white lining" which doesn't even sound edible). It smells sweet and rather like powdered milk. Inside the egg is a yellow plastic capsule that contains the Kinder Suprise (kinder means children in German and is pronounced with a short i). The chocolate is passably edible, nothing I'd want to buy by itself.
The yellow capsule holds a little plastic toy (usually one you have to put together). I'm not really sure what the one is in the picture. It's a little baby in a crow's nest with a crab crawling up the mast ... I think. There's a little wheel on the bottom of it and if you roll it around it wiggles the mast and crow's nest. The second prize (in the other egg) was a little metronome on a wheel with a funny little anthropomorphic musical note riding on it.
As a candy/toy, I find these much more compelling than Pez. I have poked around and have seen that some prizes can be rather sophisticated and you can collect theme prizes. (See other prizes in this flicker kinder pool.)
If you're traveling someplace where you can pick these up, they're usually pretty cheap (about 50 cents) and make great little stocking stuffers or gifts. It's too bad they can't sell them in the States.
Kinder is part of the Ferrero family of companies/brands. They also make the Ferrero Rocher, Bueno, Mon Cheri, Nutella & Pocket Coffee, among other things.
If you've had Kinder Eggs before, what sort of prizes did you get in yours?
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I'm getting my Lumia 520 tomorrow, I need help replacing some apps
So I decided to sell off my Android and get a Lumia for the time being. Try something different, and then get rid of it whenever I'm ready to go back to an iPhone. I was really getting tired of all the force closures I've been getting due to Google having issues with their Play Store, and then things weren't updating correctly. But most of all, I started having issues where it took a full minute to get past the lock screen, and then another to get to the dialer.
And clearing the cache, fixing permissions, and reboots weren't getting me anywhere.
So anyway, here I am, maybe for a little while, or maybe a few months if I like it enough.
I start school on Saturday, these are the education apps I use and would like some equivalents for:
Evernote - Already got that
Timetable - Equivalent student planner?
MathStep - Which is the best calculator? Would like one that lets me graph too
Draft - It's a Markdown editor
SuperCard Flashcards - Would really like a replacement that lets me include pictures too
And then I need some apps to replace these other ones
Expense Manager - I want a standalone financial app.
Deliveries - Something that tracks UPS/USPS/and FedEx
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I heard many girls say this's the most natural contour color for fair skin. So I gave it a try. it really is the color that shadow your face and make my cheek bone look much more prominent ( in a very dramatic way, think Maleficent). The pigmentation is great and also very long lasting like other NYX blush. Unfortunately Maleficent cheek isn't what I was looking for. It's just too harsh for me.
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I was seduced by the many great reviews on this forum and lusted after this, yes ladies even in my advanced years a make up junkie is only in recovery, never cured and this blush proves my point. On the one hand I love the color, in the pan, on me not so much I have high, possibly misguided hopes that when my 'permatan' fades this will look good on me. Yes I read the reviews that this is good for someone with pale to medium skin and on the cool side, I have a lot of yellow in my skin, so stubborn is as stubborn does and I am going to try and tie my hands behind my back and lay off of Sephora, Barney's and Ebay for a while..well okay maybe for an hour or two !
My tan has faded sufficiently for me to be in love with this color, if you have puffiness at the inside corner of the eye a little bit of this takes it away, this is also excellent for other subtle contouring. However as a true shading color you might need a truer brown.
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This color is amazing on my medium neutral skin tone. I did have trouble with streaks when I first started using it but since switching to a different foundation it has been a dream. I will be buying this in bulk.
Wonderful contour if you're fair-skinned. My only gripe is that the package is a bit small and I go through it quickly. The formula is perfectly matte and has just the right amount of pigmentation - you can be pretty slap-dash with this and it still looks good, it doesn't need a ton of blending to look natural. It makes a noticeable difference on me without looking overtly made-up. Long live NYX Taupe! May it never be discontinued!
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Everything they say is true! This blush is great for fair skinned people. I never would have purchased it - or even known about it - without MUA reviews. It looks muddy in the pan but when used right it gives great definition. (It took me a youtube video to figure out how to use it as a "contouring" blush - I wasn't particularly familiar with contouring). It's worth the $5 - just beware of the shoddy packaging as with all NYX blushes. I gave it an extra lippy because, miraculously, this one hasn't broken on me yet.
Great for contouring. Far better than using the bronzer I had been contouring with. Definitely will purchase again. Only 3 for the packaging because it is small.
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I have very fair skin with pink undertones, and this blush is the only product I've come across with the right color for contouring my cheekbones. It's easy to blend, but it can be difficult to get just the right amount of product on. It's not extremely pigmented, so you do have to build it up, but you also have to be careful not to build up too much, or else it can end up looking muddy and sallow. I've always had good results when applying it with a kabuki brush.
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I was really hoping that this blush could secure a place as a staple in my makeup collection, but it disappointingly fell short. I'm not sure if this has anything do with the age of the blush (I ordered it from an Amazon retailer), but it was just not pigmented enough (and I am VERY fair). I had to really put some muscle into getting sufficient product on my blush brush, and even then, it took several attempts to get some visible contouring on my face.
I've recently begun eliminating all parabens and other harmful chemicals from my health/beauty routine, so I would have ended up dumping this blush even if it had worked well for me. I am much happier with my Too Faced Full Bloom powder blush in "Cocoa Rose"--it's paraben-free, super-pigmented, long-lasting, and blends well. Sometimes it's worth it to dish out some extra bucks for quality.
I purchased this blush in Taupe. This blush was recommended as a great contour powder for very fair skin. The product was alright for the price, but made me break out like crazy. I applied it along my cheeks and my skin was not pleased. It clogged my pores like crazy. I'm now struggling with breakout and bumps on my cheek contour line.
It's a nice contour - I've been using it for about 2 months. I do notice that where I contour along my jaw, however, I'm a bit itchy and bumpy. Not very itchy but just bothersome at times. This started soon after I started using Nyx Taupe. It's weird because that area of my face never was reactive to anything before. I wanted to keep on trying it though because the price is great and I like the way it looks on me. I think at this point, I may switch to another contour though because something in this must be irritating me since I'm still itchy along my jaw! Does anyone else get a reaction?
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