Name: Emily
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Comments: ok ok ok... I let you rip on Chicago Pizza did you really think I was going to let you get away with this one, especially at 3 in the morning while I'm avoiding doing homework? I don't think so. Here are my comments about your current blasphemous article, yes the tastykake one
(A.) funny
(B.) if you are going to compare 2 products and attempt to "make it fair" by using an expired package of one of them, then stop talking about them in their fresh form, you have no viable comparison if you say one thing about a product and then speak fondly of it's glory days, its like comparing Jordan playing for the Bulls and Jordan playing for the wizards, both are great, but one is clearly superior, and like it or not you can only have one or the other, so if your sticking with the older (in age not season's ago) and comparing it with LeBron James, then do it based on what you have in front of you, not on glory days. Obviously it is quite a stretch to compare Tastykake to Jordan, but I was giving it the benefit of the doubt (under no circumstances did I just say that LeBron is or ever will be greater than Jordan, 96 or now, it was just for the analogy's sake).
(C.) What's with the whole Kake thing? Peanut Butter Kandy Kake? What are their printers faulty? Did they run out of C's? I know it's just syntax but... c'mon... It's just silly. Bear in mind that I am saying this as a card carrying sorority member, and I roll my eyes just the same when we have Kappa Kampouts, or Kappa Karwashes or anyother C word that can be changed for whatever purpose suits us best, as I said before, just plain silly
(D.) I offer this b/c I have no car to get to a store let alone Philadelphia so that I can make my own scientific study... Upon my return from Philly almost 2 years ago I alerted my Aunt Nena as to your strange obsession with Tastykakes. My Aunt is the recieving manager for Jewel , the local grocery chain (Alberstons in other locales), and has been working there for more than 20 years, anyways, apparently Jewel, and the Chicago area in general used to carry the so called "tasty" Kake, but due to lack of demand, the orders decreased and eventually were cancelled.
You may say it is the midwestern prejudice and fear of change that has incited this response, but I could argue the same thing, substituting in new-england, fueled the offending article in the first place.
Keep it coming, you know I think I like you more and more every time you update this thing. gras baisers (fat kisses)
Emily
Emily does make some good points, like when she said "funny." And clearly Michael Jordan:Basketball::Tasktykakes:Commercial Baked Goods (although she missed the mark on that one a bit by calling it a "stretch"). It is obvious that both Michael Jordan and Tastykakes decline in quality with age. However, the fundamental problem with this Jordan business is that you can't go to the store and buy a new box of Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is only available in his current state. If you're lucky enough to live near a store that carries Tastykakes, fresh ones are available anytime. You're not limited to eating old, decrepit cupcakes for the rest of your life, constantly pleading for Tastykakes to retire for his own sake and the sake of the baked goods industry because Tastykakes is just going to wind up embarrasing himself if he keeps this up. Old Michael Jordan can still play a little. Obviously he's not as good as his former self. He is still better than, say, Mark Madsen (substituting here for LeBron because another problem with the argument is that LeBron is good - Hostess is not), but not nearly as good as fresh Jordan. Similarly, stale Tastykakes are still more palatable than fresh Hostess products, and clearly new Tastykakes are way better than stale ones that should just stay retired already. The article in question presented the analysis of the stale Tastykakes while at the same time reminding the reader of the fresh Tastykake goodness potentially available at their local grocer, just as in a comparison of Michael Jordan and LeBron James (for the sake of the analogy), the side arguing for Jordan would be sure to point out the greatness of young Jordan. You could argue that LeBron is on par with old, stale Jordan, but clearly prime Jordan would take rookie LeBron to school.
I don't know what to say about the K thing. It was the early 1900s. Perhaps it was the style of the time.
Also, you're right about the Midwest prejudice, but wrong about the New England prejudice. And Philadelphia is in the Mid-Atlantic anyway.
P.S. If you want me to stop ripping on Chicago pizza, you should tell it to stop sucking at being pizza.
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