silly – Page 2 – Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0

A Horsea-back ride around the park!

(Or something like that. The way it spawned looked a little wrong, regardless 😅)

Things Mirrors is evidently willing to accept as treats, in a pinch 😹

He was just bugging me when I was trying to get something to eat, and also decided the pouch food I gave him was inedible. Good thing I remembered this weird little sample pack of dry food in with the pouches.

To make it better, I think that’s even the same flavor as what’s in their dry food dish right now. But, everything is so much better when it comes out of a little treat bag!

Well, for £70 you apparently get 3 sets of shoelaces.

(ETA: Which I did eventually figure out how to tie 😅)

From earlier: Hitmon ambush! 😅

Reminded again glancing at this jar on the counter, here’s another terminology difference I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to.

If someone had offered me a chocolate milkshake when I was little, and then handed me a glass of Nestlé Quik (as it was still branded)? I probably would have had a meltdown and not been given either thing for a while afterward. Just because it was far enough from what I was expecting.

And I still like chocolate milk well enough to have decided to try that store brand Nesquik knockoff, when I spotted some sweetened with Splenda. They’re both pretty good, but such different things to my mind that I can still find it startling to see flavored milk labeled as a milkshake after about 15 years of exposure 😅

(Even more of a surprise, if you’re expecting something else: the original sense, of an eggnog type concoction involving plenty of whiskey. Possibly not as freely handed out to kids, but you never know considering the time period. Call it a tonic…)

Again, not trying to go all prescriptivist. Other people are totally welcome to call it whatever they like, and likely get their own surprises eventually.

Actually, the pricing in pounds is sorta handy there, so I can try to convince myself that £70 sounds like significantly less than $100 🙄

(Probably good it wasn’t in Euros, then…)

Looks like time for another episode of “I’m Getting Really Hungry But I Need To Move This Cat Before I Can Cook” 😼

When Mr. C brought this in, I suspected that the “super hot” description might mean by British standards. Considering it was made here.

NOPE.

This does have a really good flavor. In small doses. Tonight, I thought that attempt at black bean chicken could use a bit of heat, so I added less than a teaspoon to the whole pan–trying to use some caution starting out. That ended up borderline overly capsaicin-tastic to my taste, and I do like me some peppers 🙄

Delicious, though. Just glad there was plenty of rice.

Not at all sure what variety/varieties they’re using, and I can’t quite place the flavor. Shame it just says “chilli” on the label.

Though, things apparently weren’t looking carby enough, so I couldn’t resist getting some of these too 🙄

Guessing they’re trying to invoke the whole “gastropub” experience, but that name still sounds…unfortunate.

They are good enough thick cut oven chips that I’m willing to overlook that, though. Still get amused every time.