The (Wo)man, The Myth, The Letdown

Late last week I was paroozing my latest edition of "All You", a magazine I get every month filled with great recipes, coupons and how to enjoy life for less, (I just made myself seem 40 years old instead of 23).  Anyway, I was scanning through when I came across an advertisement that I knew was just too good to be true...

White Chocolate Carrot Cake M&M's? "This had to be a dream, no way are these real", I said to myself, no no Elanna, they are real, and soon enough you will be tasting the delicious morsels come hell or high water.

So, I scanned the QR code and saw that they only had them in Springfield, Windham or Old Saybrook.  Tracy, my fellow desk groupie, realized that one of our co-workers lives in Windham so we asked him to swing by Wal-Mart and grab a bag for us, but he had no luck.

That was until Sir Francis Glowski came along.  Franny, as I like to call him, lives in Old Saybrook so we sent him on a second mission to attempt to retrieve the bag of gold.

Friday morning Franny was successful and came into work so we could try them.

Don't be fooled by her sheepish look, these are deceiving

Everyone gathered around like a kid on Christmas to try these new M&M's, no one could believe it, is Willy Wonka going to steal the recipe for these amazing nuggets of happines?

The answer...NO

These things were horrible, absouetly horrible, if you would like to a quick and easy way to throw up your lunch, pop a couple of these bad boys and call the doctor.

I have compiled a list of some of the expressions I heard to describe these horrible Cretans of earth.

• Tasting like pesticides
• Gross
• Fake
• Nasty

Now, I don't know who you think I am to not want to torture everyone else in the newsroom by making them try one, so obviously that is what I did.

I knew right away who victim #1 was going to be, Rob.  I informed him he must try one and even his reaction made me feel slightly bad for the pain I caused him (not really).

Looking extra ugly there Robby

Victim #2 & #3...the interns...

I don't think the interns like me anymore

Victim #4...Shannon....she really wasn't a victim, she wanted to try them herself...(Yes there is a video)

 

The overall feeling from the newsroom, we all would much rather drink Windex filled, dishwasher tablets than ever eat another white chocolate cheesecake M&M ever again.

So, as usually customary with how the Hunger Games works here at Channel 3, we placed the M&M's on the community food table to see who we could torture....it worked in most cases, people wonder what the heck they put into their mouths....expect for one person....Jill Konopka.