Elaine brought something in to work today that surprised me. She has an aunt or something visiting from Indiana, and the aunt brought up some of those potato chips made with that fat substitute. She passed a bag around, and everyone but me and one of the engineers turned them down. I guess there was some controversy over whether they caused some sort of stomach upset, so people were wary. Elaine liked them, and I tried some, and I was very surprised! They're excellent. They have a good flavor, and you can't tell they're fat-free. Much better than those "baked" potato chips. Eating those is like eating a rice cake that someone flattened with a hammer. No flavor. These were much, much better.
Of course, I can't get them here. The next time I'm in Indiana, I'll look for them. I've mostly given up potato chips but always liked them.
I sound like an ad for the food industry. "Bananas, the other white fruit." "Yogurt. It's what's for dinner." "Mentos, real food for real flakes."
My ear is much better. Thanks to everyone who wrote and said they hoped I felt better. I do. Now that the pain is gone I have to remember to keep taking the antibiotics, so that I don't get some sort of resistant bacteria in there or something. A friend of my father's from where he worked lost part of his hearing once because of a bad inner-ear infection. I don't want that. I like hearing.
I still don't really know what "soy bomb" meant. Have they posted it anywhere? I can't find it but find myself trying to sort it out. One of the guys at worked was at his PC when it crashed, and he shouted out, "Ewwwwww, soy bomb!"