April 28, 2005

Chocolate Sniping

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As a kid, I learned how to extract a Hershey's Mini from its wrapper without damaging the wrapper. Mr. Goodbar and Krackel bars were always the most popular flavors and my family members were excellent chocolate snipers... always keeping one eye on the chocolate dish... ready to strike when the supply was running low. For example, if the bowl got down to two Krackel bars, I could expect my mom (or anyone else) to immediately eat them regardless of how hungry they were. The sad reality was that we understood we had to eat them or they simply wouldn't be there next time we checked.

As a defense mechanism in this harsh environment, my mom checked the bowl frequently, my sister ate huge handfuls at a time and I learned how to create decoy chocolate bar.... my mother wouldn't eat the last two if she still thought there were four left. These decoys gave me a better chance of eating the final two bars because I was the only one who understood how direly low the candy supply actually was while casually glancing at the bowl. This knowledge gave me an edge on the final chocolate snipe.

Today, I share this tradition of decoy chocolate with the my co-workers. The final two Hershey's Minis in the bowl have been replaced with decoys.

Posted by hans1995 at April 28, 2005 09:02 AM | TrackBack
Comments

you really are hopeless, GB.

Posted by: Sherman at April 28, 2005 12:23 PM

I mean clever.

Posted by: sherman at April 28, 2005 12:23 PM

First response from someone wanting a Mr. Goodbar -- "that is really sick behavior."

Posted by: The Office Candydish at April 28, 2005 02:50 PM

I used to do that too!! When I was 6 and living in FL, we had to evacuate because of a hurricane. When we were staying with friends of my parents, they would bribe me with minis if I reported to them what the news stations were saying about the weather. Eventually I got bored and began to slide them out of the wrappers.
You should put an entire bowl full of decoys in the comp lab!

Posted by: Natalie at April 28, 2005 07:29 PM

I love that Natalie wrote "I did that too... WHEN I WAS SIX..." Grow up GB, but make sure to leave a whole bowl of decoys first... maybe as a May Day basket??? :)

Posted by: Jerry at April 28, 2005 08:00 PM

Ahh, don't feel bad, I am still pretty much 6 years old (like watching cartoons, jumping on the bed, riding my bike, and I always have scraped knees). 6 is a pretty good age to be sometimes..

Posted by: Natalie at April 29, 2005 12:00 PM
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