Truth be told, I wasn't always a purveyor of healthy snacks.  There was a time, oh, a long time ago, when I was in fact a provider of UN-healthy snacks.  My very first job, besides mowing suburban lawns, was selling ice-cream in my hometown's local, homemade ice cream store.  The store was called "Temptations," and we mixed all of our own flavors, including some doozies like "Chocolate Chocolate Chip A'la Orange", "Black Raspberry", and the heaven sent "Chocolate Peanut Butter Coconut."

I mention this because earlier this week, the entire Peeled Snacks sales team took a junket to our packing facility in quiet upstate New York where we found that after 8:30, the only place in town that was open was the Great Escapes ice cream shop.  The whole bunch of us got in line at a cute, family run, walk-up homemade ice cream joint, and after tasting this and that (Grape ice cream?  No thanks.  Cookie Dough?  YES!), we all ordered scoops...

Scoops that were fit for King Kong!!!!

This lovely, perfect little ice cream store scooped out TITANIC portions of their delicious ice cream, scoops so big that upon the first person receiving their "single" scoop, everyone else asked for a kiddie-cone instead.  And still, with cones supposedly fit for the pre-pubescent, most of us STILL didn't finish our desserts.  You could perhaps make the case that all this posh, svelte New Yorkers simply haven't developed their ice cream eating skills, and you'd be right, I suppose.  That doesn't change the fact that this ice cream joint was dishing half pounds of goodness for about $2.00.

Now what, pray tell, might this have to do with Peeled Snacks?  Ice cream can certainly be seen as a snack, and if most Americans might perhaps assume that it's best eaten in the summertime, that's because they haven't had a chocolate chocolate chip a'la orange milkshake during the dead of February (and they should adroitly change that). 

This fantastic pricing per pound makes me feel like Peeled Snacks has one tough battle winning over customers from the junk-food purveyors of the world.  Not to call ice cream junk (I love it, I Love it, I LOVE it), but it certainly isn't the most nutritional of bites to nibble. And yet, you can get about 5 times more of it for your dollar.  Simply speaking, for a lot of the public at large, that just makes dollars and sense.

 There's no easy reconciliation of this disparagement.  If the public recognizes the health benefits of Peeled Snacks (and, in all likelihood, their long-term implications upon the wallet), then dried fruit and nuts is king.  But the wallet is a fickle fan, and one quickly swayed by the simplest of measures.  Sure enough, after eating my pile of ice cream, my stomach was a mess... but my soul was happy, and my greedy inner gnome felt like it had gotten a great deal.

Hmm... Sounds like there's a poem in there...

Single ply, not double.  It only goes to the dumpster, for sure...

Generic butter only, the organic stuff probably gives ya gas.

Movies only before 6 pm, and only in that theater with the sticky floor,

Sure, it'd be NICE to take an ambulance, but we'll have to walk, alas...

Storm windows in the Spring?  I'll just put in plastic wrap... 

I don't know about that Honda, better get the Yugo...

I only fly AirTram, anyone who pays more is a Sap!

Capitolism's a crock- I'm voting for Hugo! 

Yours, EN