How many jokes or puns can you make out of the word "Peeled"?  That's a question that I ask myself frighteningly often.  Mass a-peel, court a-peel the doctor gave me a "peel" to make me feel better...  I'm convinced that there are hundreds of groan inducing puns out there waiting to be exploited for the benefit of a quick Peeled Snacks joke, but somehow most of those jokes elude me CONSTANTLY.  Very frustrating, that.  If you can think of a good Peeled Snacks joke or pun, email me at ian@peeledsnacks.com and if it busts my gut, I'll send you something good to eat.

Here's a funny thing about crafting a new product- you think you know everything going into it and you're just executing a perfectly designed plan, but then all this STUFF starts happening that you never expected.  Just last week (here's a great example), Peeled Snacks found their way into the lovely, recently slimmed fingers of none other than Mariah Carey.  Life & Style Magazine (a periodical hitherto fore unknown to me) displays on its cover this week a photo of a 40-pounds-lighter-then-she-was Ms. Carey, and gives Peeled Snacks partial credit for the weight loss.

Recently Ms. Carey (can I call you Mariah? No? Ms. Carey then...) and I came within six degrees of separation when the she recently rented a posh Caribbean bungalow from a client of my prosthedontist father-in-law. She received high marks for good tenanthood from her hosts, and thus I forgave her for all those extra notes that she sang in "Always be my Baby." Now suddenly there's a second tangential run-in with Ms. Carey (or, rather, Ms. Carey's celebrity), and I find myself singing her praises, digging up her old CDs, and pondering naming my first daughter "Mariah."

What is it about celebrity that makes things seem more important?  Thank heavens for that importance, frankly, but how weird is it that when my mother, who, you know, gave birth to me and all, tells me to eat spinach I ignore her, but when some photo-heavy rag infers that Liv Tyler eats Popeye food, I’m suddenly ready to buy organic Mongolian spinach at 8 times the price?

A brief note about Ms. Carey’s weight loss- she does look great (as opposed to, say, that day back in 1995.  You know, that day?  That day she looked BAD?  Yeah, that was scary), but frankly, she looked lovely before the weight loss.  If Peeled Snacks helps her stay trim and healthy, well GRAND!  But honey, you couldn’t TRY to look bad!  Well, except for that one day in 1995…

Yours,

 EN "Peel-en" K