A Great Way to Begin - Mired in Disappointment

So it appears I am unable to work the complicated web-based tool that is Blogger. After adding a title and reposting the first entry, I’ve found that I can’t get the text to be visible! Then I deleted the photos by accident and had to re-add the entire thing. This should not be so difficult. Text below.

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So – it begins!

I walked in this morning fresh from a brisk walk from the District Line, brimming over with excitement for my first candy bar. Imagine my disappointment, then, when the first bar is...a Snickers. Disappointment. (I should probably mention the ground rules at this point – if the candy bar is one that is available in the US – like Twix or KitKat – it’s not going to be tried out in the blog. However, special versions of said bars (orange, mint, dark chocolate) are admissible, since I don’t think we get that creative in America. :P

However, the next is a Mars bar, which I figure is particularly English, so I go for that. Result!

Except then I remember that a Mars bar in England is exactly the same as a Milky Way in the US. And unless I’ve misremembered the delicious taste of the Milky Ways of my youth, the Mars bar is actually just like a Milky Way, but gross. The nougat and caramel looked so familiarly tempting, but when I bit into it, it was so sickly sweet that I gave up after a few bites. And it probably says something that none of my chocolate-loving workmates would take me up on the offer of the other half of the bar.

Ick, the aftertaste is still with me now – this tastes like bad mush covered in worse chocolate. This is like the fast food equivalent of candy bars. My only hope is to take this home and freeze it, hopefully making it partly edible.

NO BARS.

Bar-o-Meter

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What an inauspicious beginning. Maybe I’ve grown out of a taste for candy bars. (Horrors!) Maybe this is like that time I THOUGHT I wanted a Wendy’s hamburger and immediately regretted that decision. Let’s hope the next outing is a little better.