after school snack

i love snacks.

one of my favorite artists also loves snacks. in fact, when he (andrew bird) sings about the end of the world (i think thats what that song is about) he says, "there will be snacks, there will!" and that makes the end of the world ok. through my failsafeandrewbirdlogic you can see that snacks = awesome.

but the older i get, the more i'm having some problems with snacks. i know that my taste buds have become significantly more sophisticated, and that i understand much more about food now than i have in the past but none of these things helps me make sense of this problem.

problem:
there are some treats and eats that as an adult are not nearly as satisfying as they were when i was a kid.

examples:
american cheese melted on ritz crackers
hot pockets
taquitos
potato chips
pizza rolls

there are more examples, but these were some of my staples. one of my staples i want to take a moment and ponder is pizza rolls. Matt and Mikey are a little crazy about these little nuggets. every time they hang out for a while, they pick up a bag (or three) of pizza rolls and drink beer and soda and play video games. its really super cute. however, i just can't seem to reach that awesome spot that they still seem to hold onto.


really, the only snack i can think of that has not lost its magic for me is the almighty bagel bite.

OHMYGODTHEYARESOAWESOME!

they are pizza and a bagel and cheesey and yummy. in fact, they are still so magical for me that i still eat them the same way as i always have.
procedure: scrape off all the toppings. eat the bagel. eat the toppings. repeat a million times.
my parents and i used to go to Sam's Club for some of our grocery shopping and i would beg my parents to buy me the superHUGE box of bagel bites. then, each day after school i would sneak as many bagel bites as i could before my mom noticed. a good word for this is obsessed.