Left Behind

Got another picture via camera phone from Nick today. This one comes from the halls at work. Inexpicably, there was a single cracker left sitting in this planter near the cafeteria. What can it mean? Leave your interpretations via the comments link.

New URL

Same great taste, with 5 less keystrokes.

We've finally bitten the bullet here at Traveling Munchies and converted the blog to a new url. From now on, the former http://travelingmunchies.blogspot.com will now be http://www.travelingmunchies.com. Thanks for your continued readership.

Podcast for Munchie Lovers

Fellow munchie lovers. I just discovered a new podcast by the ever prolific Leo Laporte and his twit.tv network. It is called Munchast and it stars Cammy Blackwell as his co-host. Cammy and Leo discuss many luscious treats and amusing munchie facts. Check it out here.

Monkeys on Mt. Dorito?

OK, I'm really torn over this one. One the one hand I love snacks, monkeys, and video games. On the other hand, do I really want to combine them all together into a game about Monkey's scurrying to collect Doritos spewed from the volcanic Mt. Dorito before the time runs out?

Apparently Doritos held a game design contest to promote their products and this idea is actually one of the five finalists. I don't think I will play this when it is done though. It will never measure up to the snacking monkey chaos I have in my mind's eye right now. Ooh! Ooh!
Read more about it here.

Final Stop for Munchie #5

This just in from Nick via camera phone. The final stop for Munchie #5.

Thanks for the update Nick. I hope #5 was tasty.

Although I am sad to see the well-traveled munchie come to its inevitable fate, I am also heartened to see that someone has a desk drawer that is actually more crammed full of junk than mine is. It kind of reminds me of the Capital One "What's in your wallet?" commercials.

Send us a picture all you people out there. What's in your desk?

Here's your change, idiot!

Nick and I ran across a machine with a real bad attitude the other day. Now, before I tell you about it, I should just say that in some ways I can hardly blame it. The machine was in a group of machines labeled "Balanced Choice". Also, the machine was clearly labeled on the side as a bottled water vending machine. So, you can just imagine that here is this machine, thinking it is going to sell pure, fresh, bottled water in the "Balanced Choice" department, but then its true fate became obvious. This particular machine was not full of water, but instead was full of soda pop and "juice" (think flavored corn syrup). This obviously had it somewhat disillusioned with its job.

Back to the story. Nick decided he was going to purchase one of the drinks from this particular machine so he put a dollar bill into the slot and pushed the appropriate selection buttons. At this point, the machine slid his dollar bill back out and flashed "$1.40" on its display as if tapping its foot on the floor. I think it probably longed for eyes it could roll at that point.

Nick, realizing his mistake, then put 2 dollar bills into the slot and pushed the appropriate selection buttons once again. The machine threw the soda bottle down into the dispenser and literally spit 60 cents out onto the floor for Nick to gather up. "Here's your change, idiot!", the machine thought to itself. "Not only do you think that soda and corn syrup are balanced choices, but you can't even read or count."

We haven't gone back to that machine since then to see if it is in a better mood. Maybe we should. Maybe it needs a friend.

Maybe Cookie

What has this world come to? Remember when fortune cookies were like:

You will find new fortune in an old place.

Well apparently the lawyers down at Golden Bowl have gotten the best of the fortune telling department, leaving me to get this totally noncomittal, theoretical fortune:

You should be able to make money and hold on to it.

I think they should add:

But obviously not today, because you bought this useless fortune cookie.

Mr. Nature gets a job

Looks like Mr. Nature got tired of puttering around the house while Mother Nature does all the work. He is now riding on her coat tails by selling raisins in a bag.

However, Mr. Nature is kind of a cheap skate. I mean, how much can the production costs be, what with being married to Mother Nature and all. I got 57 raisins in this bag for 85 cents. That means 3 raisins is all my 2 cents are worth.

The best part of the bag is a little notice at the bottom that says:

Please Don't Litter. Dispose of bag properly.

You can just imagine the real meaning:

Please people. I'm in enough trouble with the Mrs. as it is. I don't need you all leaving your bags everywhere as a constant reminder to her about how I take her "nature's perfect snack" and wrap it up in plastic. Help me out here.

Caption This

Got this funny picture from Marisa. Not sure what it is all about so I leave it up to you, my capable readers to come up with an appropriate caption. Use the comments link below to leave a suggested caption for this photo.