If life is like a box of chocolates hows come I get stuck with coconut???

[LynneSin]

So a coworker brings in a box of chocolate - mixed variety stuff. I graciously accept a piece but this isn't like Whitmans where they have the map on the box so you can pick something you might want.

But as always - I end up with the fricking coconut. YUCKYUCKYUCK!!!

[Wapsie B]

1. I love coconut.

I get stuck with those industrial strength caramels that dentists are starting to use to extract wisdom teeth.:sarcasm:

[tyedyeto]

2. That always happens to me, too.

Gawwwwd, I can't stand coconut. The smell, taste, texture...grosses me out.

Note to self: Need to find a sympathy smilie

[Squatch]

3. Are you kidding?!?!? The most perfect marriage of food is

dark chocolate and roasted coconut.

[eyesroll]

16. Dark chocolate and roasted coconut? Sure.

Dark "chocolatey coating" and coconut flakes, held together by what the label calls "nougat" but really defies identification? Ick.

[underpants]

4. God hates you

that is why she allowed you to rediscover Doc Martins in time for a California trip where everyone will point and laugh at you for wearing them.

Either that or pure chance.

[Mizmoon]

5. Don't pick the lumpy pieces!

There's coconut in them thar pieces!

[JVS]

6. Because of Philadelphians around you who snatch up the good ones

[usedtobesick]

22. when you were little

did your parents beat you with a bat that had Philadephia written on it? Do you have pretzel/hogie/cheese steak envy? Why can't we all just get along? We like you in spite of that silly accent you guys have up there. :evilgrin: I don't even live in Philly anymore and feel the need to defend it's tarnished honor.

[JVS]

24. Its tarnished honor? What honor?

And since when is Philadelphia know for pretzels? It's just so awful I can't even begin to explain what is wrong with it.

[usedtobesick]

26. every corner in downtown and most lights on the way in

at major intersections have big soft pretzels for sale. It's a combination of the pretzel, the exhaust of the cars, sweat from the vender's, that makes them special. You really never ate a philly soft pretzel? Wow that's like living in Boston and not trying Union Oyster House and the Black Rose or not trying fried clam strips out on Cape Anne or clam chowder in Maine. Seriously I grew up eating those before I had hoagies or cheese steaks

[JVS]

28. That sounds terrible. It must cause the city's omnipresent evil

I'll take a good Munich pretzel any day.

[usedtobesick]

29. I'll give you the Munich Pretzel and any beer made in Germany

over any beer made in or near Philly. I think the evil is caused by being forced to live so close to Jersey... evil place with their own devil and all.

[JVS]

30. Oh, blame it on Jersey, nice.

Blame the victim. It isn't Jersey's fault that NYC uses Jersey as a puke bucket.

[usedtobesick]

31. I love Jersey, spent my whole teen age years commuting with the rest

of PA to the Jersey shore every weekend during the summer. Since PA is short of ocean beaches of their own we invaded Jersey as does a lot of NYC. It's just easier to blame them then take responsibility for our own wicked ways. It's the American way. I was going to blame it on Saddam but that excuse is overused right now.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Life is like a box of chocolates.

A cheap, thoughtless perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you ever get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but they're gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. You end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Isn't it just a bit early for so much cynicism?

Wow...did you have a bad night?

Hope things get better for you, and quickly!

:scared:

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. You had to watch The X-Files to get it

It's a famous quote by a character in a memorable episode.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Ah...I should have known.....

I'm glad it's a fictional character...and not YOU!

Whew...:hi:

[WCGreen]

12. Camus is alive......

[MissMillie]

10. I like the coconut... it's the jelly I can't stand

:puke:

[LynneSin]

13. I love the jellies

I'll swap you my coconut for your jellies

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. There's a double entendre somewhere there (nt)

[MissMillie]

15. deal

:hug:

[u4ic]

17. The lemon creme always seems to find me

:puke:

Who the frig came up with chocolate and lemon? :wtf:

[GOPisEvil]

18. But chocolate and raspberry?

:9:9:9

[u4ic]

19. HEY YOU!!!

:bounce:

:hi:

Chocolate and raspberry rocks! And don't get me started on chocolate and orange...:loveya:

[GOPisEvil]

20. Hi there!

:hi::bounce:

Mmmmmmm...chocolate and orange...*drool*

Good thing I'm headed to my parents' for dinner tonight. Now I'm HUNGRY. :)

[u4ic]

23. Ooooooh....what's on the menu?

Greek food? :9

Tonight's my take out night. Oh, the possibilities, the possibilities...:D

[GOPisEvil]

32. Mom made chicken fried steak and baked potatoes.

Along with some other goodies. :9

[Cannikin]

21. Maple...blah

:puke:

[grace0418]

25. I'd take your coconut any day! YUM! Esp. with dark chocolate.

I need chocolate...

I always seem to get the fruit creams or something like that. Now THAT is YUCKY.

Give me dark chocolate, nuts, caramel, coconut, or any combination thereof, or just forget it.

[xmas74]

27. I always get stuck w/ maple (yuck!)

I now buy only Whitman's. It helps that there is an outlet very close to my house.