On Monday night I went my usual local produce market in the North End to pick up the basics; bananas, yogurt, and milk. Directly next door (actually, two doors down since there is an oyster\u00a0bar in between) there is a shop called Dairy Fresh Candies.<\/p>\n
It’s wonderful. The place is packed with every style of confection your heart could desire (chocolates, nuts, gummis, marzipam). Most of their packaged\u00a0stuff comes from Europe (German gummi bears, Belgian chocolates, Italian pizzelles). Then, along one wall is the glass display case where you buy your treats by the pound.<\/p>\n
After picking up the healthy foods at the produce shop next door, I entered here and purchased a pound of peanut butter cups. It was 6:00PM. By 7:30PM there was a half pound left.<\/p>\n
By noon yesterday the entire pound\u00a0of peanut butter cups was gone. I didn’t share\u00a0them with anybody. When you consider that I was asleep for 8 hours and prepping for bed\/bathing\/commuting for another 2 hours – that means I ate a pound of peanut butter cups in less than 5 hours.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, it all kind of hit me in the early evening last night. It was a most\u00a0unpleasant\u00a0feeling that was all too familiar. You see,\u00a0I’d done the exact same thing two weeks ago. In fact, both of these were not isolated incidents. Oh no, I’m afraid to say I have a bit of a history when it comes to my tasty confections.<\/p>\n
But in the immortal words of Depeche Mode: “I go out of my head. I just can’t get enough, I just can’t get enough.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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