A spoonful of sugar makes the honey go down~ (RL, FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

I hate honey. That's boggled many people. I've heard people say that humans are genetically programed to like honey because it was our first intense sweet taste (helo thar fruit?), and other assorted reasons why I couldn't hate honey. To me, it has a really, really strong flavor that overrides any sweetness from it. I've tried all sorts of honey, made from this flower or that, but it's all the same. All except one kind... the packets from KFC.

Yesterday I had a craving for a biscuit, so I stopped in there and got one. Mmm, warm and rich and salty with fake butter and yummy honey on top. Wondering why KFC honey was the only honey on earth that I liked, I checked out the package. Maybe it would have ingredients listed (though what could be in it, other than honey?). Ha ha ha:

High fructose corn syrup, sugar, honey, corn syrup.

So basically sugar, sugar, honey, sugar. No wonder I liked it! No wonder the harsh taste was hardly there at all! Sheesh...

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In FFXI land, wow. The darned ZNM puk can take a flying leap, the other ZNMs are soooooo much easier. We did four runs of Chamrosh (Colibri) and two of Velionis (bones). Man, nothing at all like that puk! 4/4 wins on the bird, 2/2 on the bones. Only one death the whole time with way fewer people (not counting me being damned stupid before we started). Even though our THF had to drop out at the last moment (TH4 to no TH), we did okay on drops. The DRG earring went to our DRG/RNG/WHM (yay Aven!) and that scythe (white joker?) went to one of our mages to skill with (yay Northy), and not-a-BRD-me got that BRD cape (which has a very pretty icon). +4 to string skill, level 74 to use. I ran around town in it admiring the icon. :)

As I've mentioned, I hate sneaking/invisibling more than anything in the game. I have nightmares about sneak/invisible sending off the 'about to drop' messages when you're standing in the middle of a crowd of aggro with no where to recast and no where even to die well. So! I headed out to the bones pop (in the Reef) way early. I figured I could take my time getting there, slow and easy, and be at that fang gate once others gathered. Two jokes on me in that: 1) An imp ate me before I even got out of sight of the gate. >< And it's not even bad enough that I got killed, some idiot /laugh, /cheered, etc me while I was dead. And a bunch of other people got aggro but were able to zone it, I was the only one who had died. Bah! 2) I had just assumed we were doing the bones first, we were actually doing the bird first. *cough* So a totally worthless, stupid death, but niffy was kind enough to come and R3 me. Still, I was kicking myself all day.

The people of Midgar should thank me! I spent much of the weekend dressing the server's mithra in sexy pants! I don't know how you could call those pants, but I'm not complaining. Thanks for giving mithras so many hides, lottery!

...oh man, wait. It's Friday. c.c This doesn't even feel like Saturday anymore, it feels like Sunday. Bah. My head is all messed up time-wise. Oh well! Yay weekend!

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

WHY WEREN'T YOU ON RIGHT NOW! ; ; I is has Behemoth Hide and Tiger Gloves for teh Dusk Hands for my SAM! But you is not on right now so I am sad... Achi said I should yell at you on gear and the sexy mithra pants gave me a perfect segway! Hurray!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I did not tell you to yell at him on gear!

I said to yell at him on here!

Silly Canadian.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

See! He admits it! Thus, the trick worked!

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I had fun today and I'm glad to see some things drop. I want to keep rotating around NMs some (as it makes sense to with the overall goal of getting pop items we need) to find out what we like and what we don't. Colibri and Bones are high on my like list, though. Two I'd like to try in the near future if we can get the set up for it are Chigre and Ob. They both have a lot to offer our group and I think we can do it o.ob

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*blinks* KFC Honey doesn't even have the decency to be honey? Oh, that is effed up. Glad you found something you can eat, though, I guess!

[vorloxu.livejournal.com]

Honey is your friend. OBEY THE HONEY :O *brainwashes you*

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Ugh, high fructose corn syrup. Did you know that there are studies on that stuff that say it's one of the leading causes of obesity and diabetes in both children and adults? And it's in just about damn near everything, even bread.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's so awful for us, but it's in everything. :/ Very depressing.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

But it tastes icky! ; ;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I know, I boggled hard at that. I fully expected it to read "Ingredients: Honey" and nothing else...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay for doing new ones! I need to go get more photos soon so I have more points for pop items.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You're both silly. :P