{"id":2166,"date":"2007-09-27T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2012-04-20T16:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:16:35","slug":"i-didnt-get-to-be-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t get to be with you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out on a Slurpee\/junk food run a couple weeks ago, and I noticed a rather odd little treat in the impulse candy pile on the counter. It was a small basket full of tiny little&#8230; powdered donuts? Yep. Well, maybe not so much. They looked like tiny powdered donuts, but the fact of the matter is that they were marshmallows impersonating donuts.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/jeldon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center>For only a quarter a piece, I suppose it would have been impossible for me to resist buying at least one to sate my curiosity. The three available flavours included blueberry, strawberry, and lemon. I grabbed one randomly, and breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn&#8217;t lemon.<\/p>\n<p>You know, now that I&#8217;ve finished that last paragraph, I can&#8217;t help but feel that maybe I could have done a better job scaling the little thing. I mean, a DS card is a good comparison point (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsfanboy.com\/2007\/09\/26\/ds-hits-50-million-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\">everyone&#8217;s got a DS<\/a>), but only now does it become so obvious that a quarter would have been the best item to use for scale. Because they cost a quarter. It would have made me look clever. The only thing Ouendan 2 does is give me geek cred.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/jeldon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center>I could have eaten 7-11&#8217;s entire supply of these stupid things, and I don&#8217;t think I would have ever gotten over the fact that it&#8217;s a marshmallow. It&#8217;s not actually powdery or anything, but my brain would not switch off the idea that it wasn&#8217;t actually going to be a donut. Twice did I bite the thing, and twice was I completely thrown off by the marshmallow.<\/p>\n<p>Psychological trickery aside, it wasn&#8217;t bad. I mean, marshmallow is closer to the bottom of the list of my favourite substances to ingest, but the jelly contained within was a joyful treat that made up for the otherwise bland marshmallow exterior. If you absolutely love marshmallows and jelly, I suppose these would rock your world. Otherwise I&#8217;d say to spend your quarters on arcade machines, because they&#8217;re on the brink of extinction, and you&#8217;ve gotta savour playing Metal Slug in an arcade cabinet while you still can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out on a Slurpee\/junk food run a couple weeks ago, and I noticed a rather odd little treat in the impulse candy pile on the counter. It was a small basket full of tiny little&#8230; powdered donuts? Yep. Well, maybe not so much. They looked like tiny powdered donuts, but the fact of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I didn&#8217;t get to be with you<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodstuffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}