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Todd, have you considered that your wife may have been hinting at something by gifting you a tongue cleaner?
I’m rarely disappointed in any chocolates/candies at Aldi/Trader Joe’s (same company). All their store brands are pretty decent but they seem to take their chocolate very seriously. They are a German company after all.
No See’s are vastly superior to anything at Trader Joe’s. I would probably weigh 25/50 pounds more if I lived where there was an actual See’s around. I have to make do with boxes which are sold by our parish at Christmas/Easter to support an orphanage in Africa. I, of course, only buy the See’s for
methe children. A story which I always heard when growing up was that See’s would not make faux candy during WWII. They would get their sugar ration and make their regular candy as long as the sugar lasted. Like Elizabeth Warren I believe this story but will engage inDNAchocolate-eating testing if required.That true? Didn’t know. I used to think that the west coast people who loved Trader Joe’s were just snobs. Now that there’s one less than a mile from my house I am sold. (not *in love* quite…but definitely a fan).
My view is that the See’s toffee-ettes are imported straight from heaven, but the rest of the See’s offerings, while good, do not rise to the Frango Mint level. And I’d also put Trader Joe’s peanut butter cups on the level with those (lesser) See’s candies.
No, but I did with the Obama bobblehead.
They are reliable, unlike the produce at Traitor Joe’s.
Never had any See”s chocolates, but because he has shared some of those wonderful mint chocolates with me this is one realm where I actually respect Stopa’s opinion.
This episode is a bit disorganized. At one point, one of the guys is looking up voter turnout numbers on Google: he should have done that before the show.
The idea that, because prosperous people vote more than the poor, therefore increasing prosperity made the poor vote more in this election, is probably a reversal of cause and effect.*
Instead, the traits that make people prosperous — intelligence and education and a sense of duty or citizenship — will also tend to lead them to vote.
Indeed, it’s prosperity that was one of the factors that was going to keep a lot of contented Republican voters home (until the Kavanagh debacle).
*It resembles the affirmative action fallacy; i.e., that if we shoehorn people into top universities, or into the middle class, then they will magically develop the traits needed to stay there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
We do suffer from an organization challenge sometimes in that we don’t necessarily stick to the topic we prepare for. I felt that this episode never got off the ground, was hoping nobody else noticed.