Has anyone ever noticed that I talk about food a LOT?
I think it’s because I love food. And also because being cooped up in an apartment with one’s computer 24/7 leaves little to get excited about beyond Lunch! Dinner! Dessert!
Anyway, I am one of those people who cannot have delicious foods around the house because I will eat them. And eat them all. In one sitting, most likely.
So it is a Major Accomplishment for me that I still have one Reese’s egg leftover from Easter. Well, it is actually leftover from a particularly bad week when my husband was feeling so sorry for me, he brought me flowers and a package of clearance-aisle Reese’s eggs to help soothe me. (It worked.)
I ate the first four Reese’s eggs in short order. And I donated the fifth to my husband, who put it in the freezer where it taunted me every time I went to get ice. (He ate it eventually, after torturing me for several days.)
But I love them so much, I didn’t want to waste the last egg. They are so delicious, after all.
So the sixth and final (probably until next YEAR) Reese’s egg has been sitting in my cupboard for weeks now. And I keep seeing it and thinking, “Mmmm. A Reese’s egg would be delicious right now!” Quickly followed by, “But I don’t NEED it. I can wait.”
Now it’s getting to the point that I don’t know what to do. If I eat it, it will be gone. If I don’t eat it, I worry that it will go bad. If I put it in the freezer, it would keep longer – but then it would taunt me when I went to get the ice. Where it is now – in a cupboard I only sometimes look in – it is perfectly half-hidden. I don’t see it very often, so I sometimes forget about it. When I do see it, I have a pleasant sense of anticipation.
Perhaps you are thinking that I am putting an undue – possibly even CRAZY – level of thought into this. And perhaps you are right. But perhaps it is simply a normal level of thought that is amplified by being the main focus of this blog entry.
And I am trying to write more often and also on shorter subjects. So let’s not all draw too many conclusions about how much importance I place on food… Or how much time I think about food (which admittedly is probably too much)… Or how much time I’ve spent thinking about – and even imagining myself eating – this lone Reese’s egg.
Let’s also ignore the fact that I could easily go to the store and buy a pack of Reese’s peanut butter cups if I eat the Reese’s egg and suddenly find myself needing a peanut-buttery-substance-covered-in-chocolate fix.
Maybe let’s just ignore this post altogether, and instead, tell me whether you like candy or not. And, if so, what kind of candy you like best.
Aside from Reese’s eggs, I have a weakness for Sour Patch Kids, Butterfingers, and Snickers bars. I also enjoy Laffy Taffy, Twizzlers/Nibs, and candy corn now and again.
[Update: Shortly after writing this post, I opened the Reese's egg and cut it into thirds. I ate the largest third and put the other two into a zip-loc bag and threw the bag into the freezer.]
[Update to the update: I think you can safely assume, at the time of this reading, that the two additional pieces have been moved to a safer storage facility (i.e., my stomach). I think you can also safely assume that I have since purchased a bag of Reese's miniature peanut butter cups to tide me over until next Easter.]
[Update to update's update: HA.]
This pot will not be calling the kettle crazy, because I get into anxiety fits when I have only one left, because I don’t usually eat one at a sitting. So if there’s ONE, and I EAT it, then what if I MUST HAVE another? And then there are NO MORE until EASTER?? So then I can’t eat it until conditions are EXACTLY RIGHT: I must want it badly enough because it’s special/last, but be kind of FULL so I won’t necessarily want more than one, and ALSO ideally have some back-up sweets available in case I’m wrong and there’s a crisis.
I like candy. And one year, there were things called Dove Truffle Eggs which were so good. The next year, they weren’t as good. (Either they changed the recipe or perhaps I had built them up all year and they didn’t live up to the hype.) And I haven’t seen them since.
I have three chocolate covered strawberries in the fridge. I think I am going to go eat them right now.
I like half a bag of candy corn at Halloween. By the second half of the bag, I am tired of it and throw it out. But the first half if delicious.
oh, at Easter Milky way puts out Milky Way Easter bunnies, six to a pack, and its just caramel and chocolate, and I look forward to them all year, and this year I couldn’t find ANY. I was so disappointed. Did they stop making them???
My current obsession is Godiva mint chocolate truffles. My husband brought home 12 of them on Friday night, and they are all gone. (Sad face.)
Last week, my mother-in-law and I were discussing how we both eat Milky Ways by eating the nougat part first and then the caramel part, and we were in a 7-11, and we saw a new Milky Way that is JUST CARAMEL! Go see if you can find one!
I applaud you for even still having it after seeing it! If I would have known it was there, I would have created any excuse THAT moment to eat it. I’m 100% sure it would have been an awful, pathetic and non-useful excuse. Are excuses even useful?
My favorite candy – Butterfingers, Jolly Ranchers (Watermelon flavor), and my all-time favorite (probably due to the memories more than the flavor) are Kinder surprise! Eggs. It’s an Italian chocolate (but I’ve seen some other Kinder products here in the US) and inside the egg is a small toy – plastic, highly dangerous for small children, but they are my FAVORITE. So many memories eating the eggs and unwrapping the surprise inside each of our eggs with my Sister. And although I’m well into my 20s, I know when I’m in Italy next week I’ll STILL get one
There is a difference between the Reese’s PB eggs and a regular Reese’s PB cup. I think it is the ratio of chocolate to PB. I am a connoisseur of these delicious treats. As I began to read your post I thought perhaps we were married to the same man, especially because he bought them on clearance! You’ve trained him well. I’m glad you enjoyed your last egg, mine have long since been devoured and I am anxiously awaiting next years supply.
Yes, I completely agree with you. There’s some slight difference in the consistency of the peanut butter or something. And the chocolate to PB ratio IS different – in a PB cup, there’s a thick layer on top. But they work in a pinch!
Reese’s peanut butter cups are the best. The End.
I am that way if popcorn is around. I want to eat it. I don’t want anyone else to. My daughter has inherited this same passion for popcorn so we fight over it, but I let her win since she is only 2….
I don’t like chocolate (I KNOW) but I LOVE Reese’s PB cups. And I totally agree, there is something about the eggs that are different. Heavenly. Sent straight from Jesus. I think it is the PB to chocolate ratio (probably because I consider less chocolate a very good thing).
I am also a sucker for the little bunny and chick sweettarts (these seem different than regular sweettarts too). Oh! And Paydays. Yum!
I have a confession though. In spite of approximately 1,432 Reese’s eggs in my house this year (the g-parents went a LITTLE crazy with the kids’ baskets) I ate one. ONE. I feel like I should be shot. Or applauded. I don’t know. But what I do know is now that we’ve spent all this time talking about Reese’s eggs, I am sad.
I don’t really like chocolate either. But for some reason, when it encases a delicious PB egg I don’t mind it so much. (I don’t actually like peanut butter either.)
Also, you should be APPLAUDED. And possibly researched. Such willpower!
I am a crazy sucker for the coconut creme eggs. I bought one every time I was in the store during the Easter season. It was insane. And I cannot have good stuff sitting around EVER. It’s gone…and my husband is a save-for-later guy too. It drives me crazy! I want it gone!
Eat the egg or I’m coming over to get it! lol
Coconut creme eggs?!?! That sounds AMAZING! I love the Cadbury’s Creme Eggs that are only in stores around Easter, and I usually give up chocolate for Lent (hardest thing ever), so I start a stash and hoard my eggs until Easter. Then make myself sick because they taste so damn good!
Mmmmm, chocolate. . . I brought chocolate for lunch today and ate it at 10am. Oops!
Now I’m craving an Easter egg. Those Reese’s are better than any other peanut butter and chocolate combination, for some reason.
Ahhaha! This post was awesome. I do the same thing- particularly around Easter, particularly about Cadbury Creme Eggs. O.M.G. I love them.
Once, senior year of college, C- long before med school or residency, when he was a mere mechanical engineering undergrad- ran to the grocery store (no literally- RAN… a couple miles at least) and spent 50 cents buying his then brand new girlfriend a Cadbury Creme Egg.
No wonder she married him, right?
Beyond Cadbury’s deliciousness, I LOVE me some Twizzlers, Reese PB cups like you, Skittles!, Sour Patch Kids, Kit Kat bars… oh geez. I could just keep going. I freaking love candy. A lot. Must stop writing now before I want it all so badly I run to the store myself.
ALSO- I, too, get excited about individual meals and food. I thought this was normal until a co-worker pointed out to me that she’s never known anyone who go so excited about lunchtime.
How do people NOT get excited about lunchtime?!
I start thinking about lunch at, oh, 10:00 am.
OH! And Butterfingers! OMG BUTTERFINGERS! AHHHH!
I have so many favorite candies….but I try not to buy them at all. Butterfingers, Milky Way, 100,000 bars, Peanut Butter cups, the list could go on and on.
I even bought Necco wafers (the chocolate flavor) last year…I still have that roll in the cupboard. By now it is probably so old that I would break a tooth eating it.
LOL @ the updates. I can’t stop laughing.
Ok, so I feel compelled to tell you that I don’t really have much of a sweet tooth. However, every so often I do get a craving. I like to keep ice cream in my freezer for these moments. I rarely eat it, but it comforts me to know that it’s there and if I happen to want some sometime, I can have it! Well, the problem is that my husband LOVES sweets, so I can’t have a comfort stash of anything. He’ll claim that it was going bad and he just had to eat it. Sigh.
And. . . now I NEED a Reese’s. I think it’s a medicinal Reese’s.
Medicinal Reese’s – YES. That is the perfect term for it.
All Reese’s products are meant to be consumed upon purchase or receipt. However, if extras are also available, I try to hide them…doesn’t work as well as I hope.
I’m glad you ate it…. that egg didn’t deserve to be split up and sent to the freezer!
1. Reese’s peanut butter eggs are the best Reese’s ever.
2. Except for maybe the Christmas trees. Maybe.
3. I’m still working my way through a bag of Easter M&M’s.