Stretching The Belt
There is such a thing as the Eating Season. The time of year when people eat a lot, eat unhealthy, and pay for it for the next few months. Most would agree that this season ends on New Year's Day, but the start of the season is in dispute.
Some would argue Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Season, stuffing your face with turkey, mashed potatoes, and the always-delicious Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich. This is followed in the next few weeks by various office parties, family gatherings, and drunken eggnog carol kareoke.
Some say Halloween, or the weeks before Halloween when Phase 1 candy becomes available to a sugar-starved nation.
If you don't know of the Candy Phases, I will explain. Thanks to Sheldon for introducing me to the Phases last Halloween, of which I did a little more tweaking to develop four Phases:
Phase 1 Candy: The candy that is introduced around the beginning of September. You buy this candy with the thought of handing it out to the little children on October 31st.
Phase 2 Candy: The candy that you purchase around October 29th or October 30th, because you ate all the Phase 1 candy.
Phase 3 Candy: The candy that goes on sale on November 1st at 25-50% off. The average afficianado will try to load up on as much Phase 3 candy as you can.
Phase 4 Candy: The candy that is reduced to 90% off about a week before Thanksgiving. This usually consists of candy corn, SweetTarts, and ghost-shaped lollipops. Basically the candy that Target is trying desperately to get off their shelves.
But, anyway, back to the original point. Many consider Halloween to be the beginning of eating season.
I have to throw out a new idea about the beginning of Eating Season. It is a commercially contrived start, true, but no more commercially contrived than Halloween candy hitting the shelves the last week of August.
I speak, of course, of the Monopoly game. Cursed McDonald's gives us the extra addiction of collecting game pieces, getting free food, and Best Buy Bucks.
So, of course, I'll be eating more McD's in the next month than I probably will in the next 3 or 4.
The start of the Monopoly Game is, to me, the beginning of Eating Season.
I was planning on putting up a review of Leobreaker right now, but I think I'll get to that tonight, eventually. Or maybe tomorrow.
Eventually.
Some would argue Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Season, stuffing your face with turkey, mashed potatoes, and the always-delicious Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich. This is followed in the next few weeks by various office parties, family gatherings, and drunken eggnog carol kareoke.
Some say Halloween, or the weeks before Halloween when Phase 1 candy becomes available to a sugar-starved nation.
If you don't know of the Candy Phases, I will explain. Thanks to Sheldon for introducing me to the Phases last Halloween, of which I did a little more tweaking to develop four Phases:
Phase 1 Candy: The candy that is introduced around the beginning of September. You buy this candy with the thought of handing it out to the little children on October 31st.
Phase 2 Candy: The candy that you purchase around October 29th or October 30th, because you ate all the Phase 1 candy.
Phase 3 Candy: The candy that goes on sale on November 1st at 25-50% off. The average afficianado will try to load up on as much Phase 3 candy as you can.
Phase 4 Candy: The candy that is reduced to 90% off about a week before Thanksgiving. This usually consists of candy corn, SweetTarts, and ghost-shaped lollipops. Basically the candy that Target is trying desperately to get off their shelves.
But, anyway, back to the original point. Many consider Halloween to be the beginning of eating season.
I have to throw out a new idea about the beginning of Eating Season. It is a commercially contrived start, true, but no more commercially contrived than Halloween candy hitting the shelves the last week of August.
I speak, of course, of the Monopoly game. Cursed McDonald's gives us the extra addiction of collecting game pieces, getting free food, and Best Buy Bucks.
So, of course, I'll be eating more McD's in the next month than I probably will in the next 3 or 4.
The start of the Monopoly Game is, to me, the beginning of Eating Season.
I was planning on putting up a review of Leobreaker right now, but I think I'll get to that tonight, eventually. Or maybe tomorrow.
Eventually.
posted by Bill at 3:19 PM
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