Chow Look What I Found at QFC: Wild Cherry M&Ms
posted by on March 6 at 16:55 PM
And no, they’re not very good.
They’re like eating a crunchy chocolate-covered cherry. Without the cherry inside. Christopher put one in his mouth and then spit out the pieces after one chomp. Paul Constant, intrigued by his reaction, grabbed a few and said “Wow, this is going to cause cancer! Not bad, though. Still, I’m not going to dip into that well again.”
They’re not bad, no. But they’re really wrong.
"but they really wrong."
How 'street.'
What's QFC? Not being a Seattle resident (just a visitor now and then), all I can think of is Qentucky Fried Chicken, and I know that isn't it.
Megan,
They might taste better (and/or be less carcinogenic) if you eat them while listening to this song.
Just sayin'.
KUOW had a discussion which touched on the chocolate industry yesterday. Someone from the Organic Consumers Association alleged that much of Mars' (makers of M&Ms) and at least some of Hershey's cacao sources employ abusive labor practices in African nations.
http://www.kuow.org/mp3high/m3u/WeekdayA/WeekdayA20080305.m3u
Grammar Nanny,
QFC stands for Queue Fuck. It's the latest kinky sex trend here on trendy Capitol Hill. Yes, I know, it's a three-letter acronym for a two-word phrase. We do things like that here in Seattle cause we're (ahem) "special."
just eat Chukar Cherries. Serious yum.
I'm becoming convinced that Megan is compensating for being straight edge through sugar.
@3,
Plus there's all the 11-year-old Indonesian girls whose cherries they stole to make all that artificial cherry flavoring. Fucking evil corporations! How I hate them!
Grammar Nanny, pay no attention to CWM, who is clearly an asshole transplant. QFC (Quality Food Center) used to be a relatively upscale local grocery chain. It used to compete on a slightly higher level with A&P and Safeway (same layout, but they had a lobster tank--endless source of amusement for kids when Seattle had less of it). Now it is a soul-less subsidiary of Kroger. If you're from the South, it's similar to Publix.
Meanwhile, Ralph Nader clearly needs an asshole transplant.
I bought those plus the Reeses malt balls at Walgreens yesterday. I couldn't get enough of the malt balls, the cherry chocolate is ok. Not the best cherry choco candy I've ever tasted.
candy is never bad.
Is that urban legend about green M&Ms still around?
@1 That actually wasn't street, that was just an accident. I forgot the "'re" on they're. I've fixed it.
I had rasberry M&Ms the other day from the Shell by Qwest Field.
Odd - I thought they tasted like chocolate covered cherries.
why don't caramel m&ms exist yet?
Ah, but Christopher should be used to spitting it out by now.
@3
yeah, I am trying to figure out why this free advertising for these bullshit companies keeps showing up in Megan Seling's posts. You can't really make conscious choices when you do your candy-shopping at Walgreens, but you don't have an excuse if you are at QFC.
@5
Not a bad idea. At least they're local, and they don't use artificial crap in the ingredients.
@6
I think you may have nailed it... Not to be too hard on her, but this might be worth reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_addiction A person very close to me has this problem and it isn't pretty. It can seriously effect functionality, and he already has some mental health issues.
"this is going to cause cancer" LOLOLOLOL
I love how the M&M on the package looks really worried about being there.
I got up in the middle of the night and ate half a bag of "Robin's Eggs Malted Milk Candy"...
Easter is the most dangerous candy season for me. I've already plowed through my first bag of Cadbury Mini-eggs.
Dear Friends of The Stranger,
I regret to inform you that, upon discovering a brown M&M in her Broadway QFC-purchased package of Wild Cherry M&Ms, Megan Seling promptly transmogrified into David Lee Roth--circa 1981, even!--and completely trashed the Stranger HQ. As a result, there will henceforth be no more new issues of The Stranger, ever, and, to rub the insult of the salt into the injury of the wound, there will henceforth be plenty of way sucky new Van Halen records, courtesy of their new lead singer Megan Lee Seling.
Now you know the sorts of evility that conspicuous consumption of cheap candy can lead to. You've been warned.
Personally I think they taste like Vicks44. However for some reason I keep eating them.
Megan @13,
Will you please meta-fix you're fixation of "they're"? I totally miss the street life, (sic) and wrong though it be...
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