The Swamp

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:35 am I had a couple buddies miss the Jeff Kent walk off the '04 NLCS when some random couple was with us started fighting and the guy shoved her. They immediately grabbed him and led him outside before delivering a few blows, then coming back inside to celebrate the HR they missed.

When I was in college, I was hanging outside a friend's apartment with him smoking a J, and there was couple having an argument out in the parking lot. It was getting pretty heated, when the dude slapped the woman. My friend and I both went "Hey!" and started to move towards them, when the woman turned and DECKED the dude with a right hand right to the jaw, which dropped him like a ton of bricks.

My friend and I looked at each other and decided that she had things under control.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:41 pm Incredibly awkward moment with a mid-20s bartender this weekend. Went up to order w/ my oldest who got a coke with grenadine.

Bartender: "You know that has a name? Its like Roger something I think. The other place I work has it by name in the system."
Me: [googles] "Huh. Roy Rogers."
Bartender: "No, Hooters."
Me: "I meant the drink name."

Next round I went to the other side of the bar.

How hot was she?

I have a friend who like the opposite type I do and I think he'd be high on her?

And if it’s grenadine mixed with ginger ale or 7up, it’s called a Shirley Temple.

There goes that YouTube algorithm again...

That’s a song we can all relate to.

solo all weekend, seems a good time to break into this at some point today, probably complimenting some Scotch. Don't judge me.

Chocolate, caramel and whiskey. The bedrock of a nutritious, balanced meal!

I remember those Reggie bars. They were tasty! Yours has to be over 40 years old?

Houston Astros legend!

Best By date of 09/21/24 IT'S A NEW REGGIE ERA!!

(yeah someone must have bought the recipe - this is a fresh one)

Reggie! + Edradour is not a terrible way to spend a nice introverted evening.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:32 pm Chocolate, caramel and whiskey. The bedrock of a nutritious, balanced meal!

I remember those Reggie bars. They were tasty! Yours has to be over 40 years old?

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:13 pm

solo all weekend, seems a good time to break into this at some point today, probably complimenting some Scotch. Don't judge me.

No judgement, maybe a hint of jealousy.

well. the Edradour was outstanding.


(turns out I like the candy about as much as I liked Reggie back in the day.)

Isn't that just a Baby Ruth?

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:48 am Isn't that just a Baby Ruth?

Not all yankee rightfielders look alike, Jerloma.

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:48 am ...Baby Ruth?

/sloth

Jerloma is correct, fwiw.

Its like you all have never eaten a Baby Ruth

Oh yeah...I forgot the nougat. In that case, a Baby Ruth is just a Snickers but nuttier.

No peanut butter in Baby Ruth.

Yeah the Reggie! I remember had peanut butter, not nougat.

a. i have never had a Baby Ruth
b. there is/was definitely no peanut butter in this Reggie! bar
c. i don't know what i was expecting, other than a blast of nostalgia, but the candy sucked.
d. to salve my candy nostalgia, i'm going for a roll of Necco wafers next - will not disappoint.

Necco wafers some horrible stuff. Like eating dried Kaopectate

Yeah I noticed after my post that your pic didn't say peanut butter.

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:40 am a. i have never had a Baby Ruth
b. there is/was definitely no peanut butter in this Reggie! bar
c. i don't know what i was expecting, other than a blast of nostalgia, but the candy sucked.
d. to salve my candy nostalgia, i'm going for a roll of Necco wafers next - will not disappoint.

Chocolate covered caramel and peanuts?

So... it's a PayDay dipped in chocolate, right?

Yes!

I'm sad to see they changed the recipe. Here's a wrapper from the olden days that I found on the innerwebs, with peanut butter as a listed ingredient.

Baby ruth that is

Aside (based on SC's post) - I walked past the original D.L. Clark building in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday. Seems it's now primarily a residential or maybe mixed-use residential/business building, but the giant CLARK bar sign still towers over the parking lot.

Aside #2 (based on Max and Citgo's posts) - in double-checking all of this before posting, I learned that the Necco company bought most of the D.L. Clark company after the latter went through bankruptcy.

don't you fking kink-shame me

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:04 am Necco wafers some horrible stuff. Like eating dried Kaopectate

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:40 am
d. to salve my candy nostalgia, i'm going for a roll of Necco wafers next - will not disappoint.

Ron Howard voiceover wrote:They will disappoint.

A random town in Kansas was mentioned today that made me think of my ex's family. Went down a rabbit hole and found out my ex FIL passed away in 2022 which shook me a little. He was a really great guy and only 61 when he passed. She lost her Mom right after we split and it blew my mind that she was only 44 at the time. Both of them passed from cancer. I did send a message to his sister who lives in Kansas, but debating on sending a message to my ex.

No regerts.

New England Candy COmpany would be wrong. What is...

rass wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:03 pm Aside (based on SC's post) - I walked past the original D.L. Clark building in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday. Seems it's now primarily a residential or maybe mixed-use residential/business building, but the giant CLARK bar sign still towers over the parking lot.

Aside #2 (based on Max and Citgo's posts) - in double-checking all of this before posting, I learned that the Necco company bought most of the D.L. Clark company after the latter went through bankruptcy.

Aside #3 - Necco (or NECCO /ˈnɛkoʊ/ NEK-oh) was an American manufacturer of candy created in 1901 through the merger of several small candy companies located in the Greater Boston area, with ancestral companies dating back to the 1840s.

In 1927, Necco moved into a new factory on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, which was then the largest factory in the world devoted entirely to candy, as seen in a photograph of a 1928 Necco Wafers truck.

Since April 2004, the Necco building at 250 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge has been occupied by the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. The water tower was repainted with a double helix to represent the biomedical research being performed within.

In October 2019, it was announced that the Revere complex would be leased to Amazon for use as a distribution center.

ok i legitimately LOLd

(but/and i know i'm in the vast minority here - am somehow under the age of ~83 and like Necco wafers, it's a small club i think)

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:36 pm

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:40 am d. to salve my candy nostalgia, i'm going for a roll of Necco wafers next - will not disappoint.

Ron Howard voiceover wrote:They will disappoint.

Ah, the NECCO warehouse. I used to drive past it as a kid. As was mentioned, Amazon moved in because that land was prime being close to a major roadway and being a straight shot to the airport.

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:23 pm ok i legitimately LOLd

(but/and i know i'm in the vast minority here - am somehow under the age of ~83 and like Necco wafers, it's a small club i think)

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:36 pm

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:40 am d. to salve my candy nostalgia, i'm going for a roll of Necco wafers next - will not disappoint.

Ron Howard voiceover wrote:They will disappoint.

I actually liked them as a kid for some reason. Never would have bought them, but liked getting them on Halloween. The chocolate ones felt like a special treat, because my father took by half of them, and no other flavor. His chocolate tax was NECCO wafers and some Nestle Crunch bars.

Do they still make those caramel circles with the oreo cream in the middle?

Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:45 am Do they still make those caramel circles with the oreo cream in the middle?

Yes. And they’re still delightful.

Went on a tour of the largest handmade chocolate factory in the US a few weeks ago (it's here in Denver) it was ok, their best confections weren't made in-house (the red chile chocolate truffle had my vote.)

Is anyone else here a fan of the Zagnut? My favourite candy bar. Though I do like the Reeses Take 5 or a 100 Grand in a pinch (Zagnuts are hard to find in these parts.)