i had meant to "tell" this 2 weeks ago when it happened, but i was way too busy, but now that i'm slightly less haggard, here goes...
as i've mentioned, once or twice, it's my daily ritual to get my cup of coffee at the Man in the Box outside my building. every so often, the young, hot, latin, coffee boy isn't there, and it's just the older larger Coffee Ogre. as odd as it seems, despite being his life's work, the Coffee Ogre makes terrible coffee. i dunno what he does, but it's usually weak and it's rarely prepared the way ilike it ask for it. so, anyway, on the days i can see that the Coffee Ogre is flying solo, but i don't want to get a latte` from Starbucks, i go to Au Bon Pain for a cup of "morning blend".
well, on this particular morning, in addition to my coffee, i felt a keen desire for a chocolate chip muffin (when i was a kid, that was my favorite kind of muffins from Dunkin Donuts). because it was terribly early, the big wall of muffins was not labled. rather than admit to the anyone there that i might need help, i stood there, for about five minutes, trying to figure out which muffin was just chocolate chip (as opposed to Double Chocolate, which is, in my opinion, an over-sized cupcake). Blueberry was easy, ditto oat bran and corn, but there were two that were kinda sketchy; both of the muffis were the color of "plain vanilla muffin", but i honestly couldn't tell if either of them contained chocolate chips, raisins or some other blackish specks. in the end i went for the one that (at least to my color blind eyes) closely resembled chocolate chip.
sadly, when i got to my desk and cracked open said muffin (like they do in tv commercials), and bit into it, it was clearly cranberry and walnut which is, at least to me, the anti-chocolate chip. later that week i asked someone at Au Bon Pain, and it turns out they don't even sell plain chocolate chip muffins.
as i've mentioned, once or twice, it's my daily ritual to get my cup of coffee at the Man in the Box outside my building. every so often, the young, hot, latin, coffee boy isn't there, and it's just the older larger Coffee Ogre. as odd as it seems, despite being his life's work, the Coffee Ogre makes terrible coffee. i dunno what he does, but it's usually weak and it's rarely prepared the way i
well, on this particular morning, in addition to my coffee, i felt a keen desire for a chocolate chip muffin (when i was a kid, that was my favorite kind of muffins from Dunkin Donuts). because it was terribly early, the big wall of muffins was not labled. rather than admit to the anyone there that i might need help, i stood there, for about five minutes, trying to figure out which muffin was just chocolate chip (as opposed to Double Chocolate, which is, in my opinion, an over-sized cupcake). Blueberry was easy, ditto oat bran and corn, but there were two that were kinda sketchy; both of the muffis were the color of "plain vanilla muffin", but i honestly couldn't tell if either of them contained chocolate chips, raisins or some other blackish specks. in the end i went for the one that (at least to my color blind eyes) closely resembled chocolate chip.
sadly, when i got to my desk and cracked open said muffin (like they do in tv commercials), and bit into it, it was clearly cranberry and walnut which is, at least to me, the anti-chocolate chip. later that week i asked someone at Au Bon Pain, and it turns out they don't even sell plain chocolate chip muffins.
5 comments:
Cranberry and Walnut? That's like a muffin from a bad, bad dream.
I had an Apple Cinnamon yesterday and it came with previously unadvertised (and work of the devil) sultanas. SO unhappy about that one.
what in the name of Rue Mclanahan is a "sultana"?
ha ha. it's the kind of thing that old Rue herself would end up going on a 'hot' date with - a dried up old grape.
Same family as the currant. And the raisin. That would be the family 'beelzebub', btw.
Not sure what makes them different slash special....
the BEELZEBUB family?
TBNIL...i now have to google this...i'm intrigued.
It's just a tired old raisin you know. It's the family beelzebub because it's the work of the devil.
Now, it worries me somewhat that wikipedia tell me it originated in Iran. That's not why I said it's the work of the devil.....
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