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Tom “Coach” Kusleika, information specialist at the Frisco/Copper Information Center on Main Street Frisco, walks through a construction zone of sorts while putting out brochures Friday. The center is undergoing a remodel and should be completed the first part of December.
Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's fueled by stale junk food and expired soda. That's right: We have an “in” with a local vending machine company, and they occasionally take pity on us here in the Summit Up Central Corporate Suites and give us some bags of expired Cheetos, Bugles, honey buns and Doritos. Sometimes, if we're good, we even get some expired soda pop!
This situation has given us some insight into whether things that are expired for different lengths of time are still palatable (this assuming you believe even fresh Doritos or Cheetos are edible in the first place, so little resemblance do they bear to actual food). For example, we tried some Bugles “only” about three weeks expired the other day (opting for these over the six-weeks-expired Doritos) and thought they tasted only slightly off from their “best by” brethren. Little bags of Chex Mix hold up pretty well, too, long past their published “nasty after ...” date. We still can't be tempted to try the “Little Gems” donuts, expired or fresh out of the factory, nor will a “Big Texas Cinnamon Roll” of any vintage every pass our lips.
Not that we're not grateful to the vending folks, but even we have standards. This isn't “The Road,” after all. At least not yet.
But speaking again of Bugles: What happened to the full-sized Bugle you could put on your fingertips to look like a witch, or Saruman? Today's Bugles are all smooshed at the open end, and not even a little kid could get his digits in there to maximize his junk-food experience.
On another junk food note, we were whining the other day about over-salty fries, and John Palsedge of Silverthorne wrote in with some fast-food tippage:
“Ask that they give you some unsalted when they make the next batch. They are salted after fried. This works best at places such as ski area and fast food restaurants where they make then frequently. You will get yours unsalted and hot too! They will then salt the rest for the salt junkies.”
Sound advice! We're just always afraid we'll get some bureaucratic response, like Michael Douglas did in the movie Falling Down (remember he flipped out when he couldn't get breakfast at 11:01 at the fast-food joint?).
We've gotta run: Think we hear some Cheetos expiring in the vending machine ...
This situation has given us some insight into whether things that are expired for different lengths of time are still palatable (this assuming you believe even fresh Doritos or Cheetos are edible in the first place, so little resemblance do they bear to actual food). For example, we tried some Bugles “only” about three weeks expired the other day (opting for these over the six-weeks-expired Doritos) and thought they tasted only slightly off from their “best by” brethren. Little bags of Chex Mix hold up pretty well, too, long past their published “nasty after ...” date. We still can't be tempted to try the “Little Gems” donuts, expired or fresh out of the factory, nor will a “Big Texas Cinnamon Roll” of any vintage every pass our lips.
Not that we're not grateful to the vending folks, but even we have standards. This isn't “The Road,” after all. At least not yet.
But speaking again of Bugles: What happened to the full-sized Bugle you could put on your fingertips to look like a witch, or Saruman? Today's Bugles are all smooshed at the open end, and not even a little kid could get his digits in there to maximize his junk-food experience.
On another junk food note, we were whining the other day about over-salty fries, and John Palsedge of Silverthorne wrote in with some fast-food tippage:
“Ask that they give you some unsalted when they make the next batch. They are salted after fried. This works best at places such as ski area and fast food restaurants where they make then frequently. You will get yours unsalted and hot too! They will then salt the rest for the salt junkies.”
Sound advice! We're just always afraid we'll get some bureaucratic response, like Michael Douglas did in the movie Falling Down (remember he flipped out when he couldn't get breakfast at 11:01 at the fast-food joint?).
We've gotta run: Think we hear some Cheetos expiring in the vending machine ...
