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Was Paula Deen the caterer?

See, those of you who are not terrified are generally looking at *adding something else to this* that would break up the bacon and shredded cheese. Because as is, kinda ew. With mashed potatoes, OMGYUM!

Whoa, the elderflower jelly at EAT is new! (ok, newer than 2006 - I've been away too long)

Do the Macaroni and Cheese earrings remind anyone else of The Babysitters Club? (I'm showing my age, I know, but you know Claudia would have owned a pair.)

Ours always happen in the spring. And after all, Girl Scout cookies, unlike similar cookies you can buy year round at the grocery store, have no calories and are acceptable for binge-eating. It's pathetic to buy a box of cookies at the grocery store and down them all in one sitting, but Girl Scout cookies are meant to be snarfed.

Aren't they? You mean, it isn't like birthday cake has no calories?

Damn!

The deep fried cake is a joke, right? Someone tell me that's a joke. Please. I'm holding out hope that it's a joke like the deep fried butter.

(can they have fried cranberry sauce on a stick at the state fair, though? That sounds frighteningly awesome.)

Amy's Cream of Mushroom soup makes lovely tuna casserole. In my house growing up, that's the only use cream of mushroom soup ever had. Never ate green bean casserole until my roommate and I did thanksgiving dinner ourselves one year and she wanted it. And you know, it was pretty good. of course, we used fresh green beans, which probably made it pretty good, as opposed to the canned green beans my mother still insists are perfectly good (they aren't - they never were - I have to smother them in sweet potato to cover the taste). Also, marshmallows + sweet potatoes = ewww.

Now that I've admitted to eating organic canned soup, I feel I must stick up for cranberry sauce in a can. Sure, it's cranberry jelly, but it's yummy and not just for thanksgiving! I grew up eating it all year round, often as an accompaniment to barbeque. These days, it's a luxury, because I'm a poor non-profit worker with massive student loans and it doesn't provide much in the way of nutritional value, but I still get the Whole Foods version sometimes.

@rwhip923:

Dry cake with pasty oversweetened frosting? and you *like* Cakelove? Do you realise you just described every overpriced cupcake I ever had from them? (and yes, I did keep trying - chocolate cake is better than vanilla only because dry chocolate is still chocolate, while dry vanilla is sand.)