Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 22, 2021
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cooke advisory a troop of rogue girl scouts is reportedly selling non-girl-scout-sanctioned cookes in your cooke-buying area. if you have recently purchased boxes of any of the cookies pictured below, you are advised to dispose of them immediately. tinfoils shortbread with bits of foil. note: ignore the micro-wave recipe on box. bandarlogs made with wood chips & not less that 10% monkeys. alkoids curiously bitter; produces a pucker of malocclusive proportion. dese' n' dose these fell off a truck. fugu fugus contains highly toxic japanese blowfish. other-wise quite tasty. peanut butter munchs they're edible but just way too creepy. man: omigod, girl scouts! woman: hide! scout: heh heh
My best friend and I used to make our own breakfast when we had sleepovers. Adding pecans worked, but it was way too predictable. We tried dried fruit— a bit too chewy, M&Ms—tasty but they melted in our hands. Crispy Critters were—umm—interesting, but those little round silver cake decorations? Tinfoil pancakes anybody?