Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Sugar-free hysteria by Amazon.com.

Holy mackerel … I discovered PILLSBURY SUGAR-FREE FROSTING AND CAKE MIXES tonight on Amazon.com! I’ve never seen these products in supermarkets and never even knew they were available until I found them by accident online. I was actually looking for sugar-free brownies, figuring I’d end up buying something ready-made. Glorioski, what a find! Amazon has sugar-free Pillsbury frosting in three flavors, all kinds of sugar-free Pillsbury cake mixes, sugar-free Pillsbury brownie mixes and even SUGAR-FREE SPRINKLES in case you want to decorate some silly cupcakes. Here’s what I ordered ...
There’s a minor drawback to all this sugar-free hysteria, however. You have to order everything in packages of six — six boxes of cake mix, six cans of frosting — and the grand total turns out to be a little higher than you’d expect. Therefore I’ll try not to mention any of this to Sam until absolutely necessary.

When was the last time you saw The Towering Inferno? I probably hadn’t seen this movie for at least 30 years, but I recorded it on one of the movie channels last week and watched it tonight. Although I’m not usually into disaster movies (especially anything from shlockmeister Irwin Allen) the Inferno has held up nicely over time as an amazing film with scary special effects and a genuine all-star cast that includes Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Fred Astaire, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Robert Wagner, Faye Dunaway and — no kidding — O.J. Simpson as a semi-sissy security guard who rescues a kitten.

Sam just got home from work so it’s time to sign off. Nice to see you again. Don’t forget to floss, okay?

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