Here it comes. Expansion. Now we have some ice cream instead of candy (on the day I find out about this. That thing is enormous.) Three flavors of Ben & Jerry's I gave the samplin' this weekend. At the time I was using my computer as a television and watching UFC 104, so I made actual tasting notes. On paper. Made me feel like a big shot.
American Apple Pie - Described as "Apple Pie Ice Cream with Apples, Pie Crust Pieces, & a Cinnamon Streusel Swirl" and I think my major issue with this flavor is right there. Apple Pie flavored ice cream, and then inserting all the ingredients of apple pie. A little redundant? Too much going on. The ice cream flavor didn't exactly scream Apple Pie, just kind of went unnoticed. I think it might have been better if they approached it as Apple Pie a la mode with vanilla ice cream and all those ingredients. The best part of it is the apples. They are for real. Little moist cinnamony pieces of baked-like apples, and there's lots of them. They're definitely the big part of the scoop. The pie crust pieces were hard to find, and I think it's because pie crust is light and flaky, easily lost in the ice cream. I actually wasn't convinced they were in there, so I took a scoop out and melted it in the microwave to see if I could spot them. They're there, but they're soft.
Pumpkin Cheesecake - "Pumpkin Cheesecake Ice Cream with a thick graham cracker swirl." There are several ways to make me buy something, primary among them being to feature pumpkin. Maybe my favorite flavor of stuff. So I was excited for this. This was kind of a weird meld of pumpkin and cheesecake. I think I've had pumpkin cheesecake once in my life, and it's hard to believe this flavor was very far from spot on. But it was a little strange, it messed with my head a little. I could never really taste pumpkin and cheesecake at once, it would go back and forth whichever one I thought I was trying to taste at the time. Kind of like in Hook where they believe in a food fight and there's a feast. Bangarang. Whatever you were looking to taste, you could taste. But it was definitely pumpkin cheesecake, maybe more on the cheesecake side. I guess I kind of wanted pumpkin pie, but that might have involved those pie crust pieces from above, which would have been a downgrade. Bringing me to the graham cracker swirl. At first I thought this aspect was a major disappointment. It was just a little grainy mix in with the ice cream, so there was a difference in texture but the taste wasn't a factor. I would hit a small chunk now and then. But I dug down a little deeper into the pint and THERE it was. A BIG swirl, and like a good swirl, it was thicker in some parts and thinner in others. When you hit those big chunks, it was delicious.
Ginger Snap! - Here we go. "Brown Sugar Cinnamon Ice Cream with Gingersnap Cookies and a Ginger Caramel Swirl." Wow. I was stoked. First of all, pumpkin aside, what's better than cinnamon? If I want a flavored ice cream, cinnamon is a go to. Whenever I go to Maggie Moo's, my favorite thing to get is a mix of Cinnamoo and Sweet Cream. I'm not even sure why I get the Sweet Cream, the Cinnamoo is so good. So, this was a great base to start with. (And by the way, I recently got some Oatmeal Cookie Chunk from a Scoop Shop, also a cinnamon ice cream base, and also a homerun. The cookie chunks weren't very good, but the ice cream was pretty much worth it.) The cookie pieces were pretty much enormous. I'm not really sure if a regular ginger snap is supposed to be crunchy or chewy, so I want to say this is somewhere between a moist ginger snap and dough. They're kind of like thick streaks rather than little chunks like your average chocolate chip cookie dough. I loved them. The caramel swirl was creamy, which was good. How often do you buy something with fudge or peanut butter swirl and the swirl is frozen and cracking. Bad! It should be like plasma. Anyway, the swirl, there was not an overbearing load of it, but that was okay, because really I think it's unnecessary. What does caramel really have to do with ginger snaps anyway? I was definitely impressed with this one. If I were going to take one of these three and stock my freezer with a lifetime's supply, it would be this one.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
These damn stores! There's just no logic.
This is just a stupid rant. I never did get a review of Embryonic written up did I? Too much pondering candy. Way too much.
I had to pick up a couple things at Wal-Mart today. I have to admit I always feel a little guilty shopping at Wal-Mart, having the same problems with it that everybody else has. They just have no problem rolling in and erecting a giant eyesore wherever they can. From Stafford to Spotsylvania, there is now basically one Wal-Mart per I-95 exit. It's kind of disgusting. But, they carry some stuff that other stores don't have. For instance, the three ltd. edition Ben & Jerry's I wanted to try. Which are now in my freezer. Hopefully I can avoid eating all 3 pints tonight. Hopefully I can keep myself to just a taste of each. Enough to review, that's what I'm going for. I really need to start a separate blog (Yes, separate blog. Why separate blog WHY separate blog!) that focuses only on limited edition foods, and then have it blow up in popularity so companies will start sending me samples and inviting me to their expos. Anyway, this is not about ice cream or morals. Well, it's definitely not about morals.
It's about candy. Going to the cash register, I stumbled upon one giant display of Snickers Fudge bars, mixed with regular Snickers, and then another giant display of regular m&ms under strawberried m&ms under COCONUT M&Ms! Big bags! For those keeping track (have you kept track?) I have previously seen ONE bag of coconut m&ms larger than a small tucked under a bunch of regular m&ms in a Giant. And now, about four months after they originally came out, they're put out into full view. I can guarantee you that this Wal-Mart, nor any other Wal-Mart, has not been carrying any coconut m&ms before now. Late to the show! Why are they doing this to me?!? You know, hunting candy really is fun, but they could have saved me a lot of trouble having these two displays in place two months ago. But the bigger question is why? Why now? And where are they getting these now? Before I read that they were going to become a permanent addition to the line-up, I actually thought it might be worth my time to buy a couple small bags and hold on to them because, when it looked like they had been released and promptly eaten into oblivion, they were bags going on eBay for ludicrous prices. Look now, there's a big bag going for $15. And now you can buy them for $3 at Wal-Mart. Totally out of season! Coconut really is a summer flavor right? I'm sure people will eat them anytime, Almond Joy is obviously not hurting for fans. But how can these flavors get a fair chance if they're released, or promoted, at the wrong time. Absurd! It'd be like waiting until April to show me this fall's pumpkin ice cream. Okay, bad example, because I will jump on pumpkin anything at any time. Maybe it's like promoting chocolate pumpkins at Christmas. No it's not really that extreme. It's so ludicrous I can't come up with a good comparison! Am I really that upset? No. I just wasted a lot of time and a lot of gas for those things to be showing up en masse now. But AH, now I'm thinking about it a different way. Probably a good thing for ltd. edition reviewers isn't it? You find it in August and most other people aren't seeing it until October. A candy could live or die by that. The power! It's surging through my tongue.
One quick review that's kind of limited edition. Maybe not, this could be a regular player. Or it could go the way of the Bigfoot or the Big New Yorker. I tried the Stuffed Crust Pan Pizza from Pizza Hut tonight. I pretty much expected it to be half a foot deep and stuffed with cheese in every crevice. When I opened the box I was disappointed. It barely looked like pan pizza to me, and it definitely did not look stuffed. I pretty much thought I had gotten a regular hand-tossed crust pizza. I could kind of discern an extra ring of cheese on the inside of the crust, but I was so surprised by how much smaller it was than I expected that I drove it back to the Pizza Hut to make sure I had gotten what I had ordered. I was assured that was it. When I actually lifted a slice onto the plate, I did notice the extra heft. I was convinced now, it was larger than hand-tossed. When you eat the slice down to the crust, that's when you reach the stuffing. It's almost like having a ring of cheese between the crust handle and the rest of the slice from bottom to top rather than actually being stuffed inside the crust. So, that was my mistake, I was expecting something it wasn't. It's kind of neat, kind of tasty, but it didn't blow me away. Wouldn't get it twice. I'd much rather have the regular stuffed crust. I haven't had one of those in a really long time, but I think the ring of cheese in those is much thicker and a real feature. This cheese ring just kind of blends in. It's there, and you notice it, but it doesn't excite you as anything extra.
So I ate that. And I have a bunch of ice cream to try. And there's a big UFC pay per view tonight that I am completely stoked for and gave me a good excuse to pig out. So I'll sit and shove ice cream and pizza in my mouth while these guys in crazy condition pound it out for dominance. And I will feel like a zero. Until I write reviews for those ice creams, which will somehow make me feel special. Coming soon.
I had to pick up a couple things at Wal-Mart today. I have to admit I always feel a little guilty shopping at Wal-Mart, having the same problems with it that everybody else has. They just have no problem rolling in and erecting a giant eyesore wherever they can. From Stafford to Spotsylvania, there is now basically one Wal-Mart per I-95 exit. It's kind of disgusting. But, they carry some stuff that other stores don't have. For instance, the three ltd. edition Ben & Jerry's I wanted to try. Which are now in my freezer. Hopefully I can avoid eating all 3 pints tonight. Hopefully I can keep myself to just a taste of each. Enough to review, that's what I'm going for. I really need to start a separate blog (Yes, separate blog. Why separate blog WHY separate blog!) that focuses only on limited edition foods, and then have it blow up in popularity so companies will start sending me samples and inviting me to their expos. Anyway, this is not about ice cream or morals. Well, it's definitely not about morals.
It's about candy. Going to the cash register, I stumbled upon one giant display of Snickers Fudge bars, mixed with regular Snickers, and then another giant display of regular m&ms under strawberried m&ms under COCONUT M&Ms! Big bags! For those keeping track (have you kept track?) I have previously seen ONE bag of coconut m&ms larger than a small tucked under a bunch of regular m&ms in a Giant. And now, about four months after they originally came out, they're put out into full view. I can guarantee you that this Wal-Mart, nor any other Wal-Mart, has not been carrying any coconut m&ms before now. Late to the show! Why are they doing this to me?!? You know, hunting candy really is fun, but they could have saved me a lot of trouble having these two displays in place two months ago. But the bigger question is why? Why now? And where are they getting these now? Before I read that they were going to become a permanent addition to the line-up, I actually thought it might be worth my time to buy a couple small bags and hold on to them because, when it looked like they had been released and promptly eaten into oblivion, they were bags going on eBay for ludicrous prices. Look now, there's a big bag going for $15. And now you can buy them for $3 at Wal-Mart. Totally out of season! Coconut really is a summer flavor right? I'm sure people will eat them anytime, Almond Joy is obviously not hurting for fans. But how can these flavors get a fair chance if they're released, or promoted, at the wrong time. Absurd! It'd be like waiting until April to show me this fall's pumpkin ice cream. Okay, bad example, because I will jump on pumpkin anything at any time. Maybe it's like promoting chocolate pumpkins at Christmas. No it's not really that extreme. It's so ludicrous I can't come up with a good comparison! Am I really that upset? No. I just wasted a lot of time and a lot of gas for those things to be showing up en masse now. But AH, now I'm thinking about it a different way. Probably a good thing for ltd. edition reviewers isn't it? You find it in August and most other people aren't seeing it until October. A candy could live or die by that. The power! It's surging through my tongue.
One quick review that's kind of limited edition. Maybe not, this could be a regular player. Or it could go the way of the Bigfoot or the Big New Yorker. I tried the Stuffed Crust Pan Pizza from Pizza Hut tonight. I pretty much expected it to be half a foot deep and stuffed with cheese in every crevice. When I opened the box I was disappointed. It barely looked like pan pizza to me, and it definitely did not look stuffed. I pretty much thought I had gotten a regular hand-tossed crust pizza. I could kind of discern an extra ring of cheese on the inside of the crust, but I was so surprised by how much smaller it was than I expected that I drove it back to the Pizza Hut to make sure I had gotten what I had ordered. I was assured that was it. When I actually lifted a slice onto the plate, I did notice the extra heft. I was convinced now, it was larger than hand-tossed. When you eat the slice down to the crust, that's when you reach the stuffing. It's almost like having a ring of cheese between the crust handle and the rest of the slice from bottom to top rather than actually being stuffed inside the crust. So, that was my mistake, I was expecting something it wasn't. It's kind of neat, kind of tasty, but it didn't blow me away. Wouldn't get it twice. I'd much rather have the regular stuffed crust. I haven't had one of those in a really long time, but I think the ring of cheese in those is much thicker and a real feature. This cheese ring just kind of blends in. It's there, and you notice it, but it doesn't excite you as anything extra.
So I ate that. And I have a bunch of ice cream to try. And there's a big UFC pay per view tonight that I am completely stoked for and gave me a good excuse to pig out. So I'll sit and shove ice cream and pizza in my mouth while these guys in crazy condition pound it out for dominance. And I will feel like a zero. Until I write reviews for those ice creams, which will somehow make me feel special. Coming soon.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
But before Embryonic...more about candy
When I wrote that a few days ago about guessing the coconut m&ms would become a permanent addition before the strawberried, I hadn't seen this even though it was put up a while ago. I'm so ashamed. So, my guess about what happened is that they did in fact fly off the shelves. I know I didn't see them for long. And then they said, "Well, if they want 'em..." Still, I'd rather see it done with the strawberrieds. I am excited to try the wild cherry flavor. Never did get to try that one. And also, I'd like to see a return of the mint crisp and the white chocolate, never got to try those. And I think I read about one with a cookie center. M&Ms are awesome. (I started writing this entry two days ago and had not yet posted it because I had thought of one more incredible thing I wanted to say about M&Ms but then I forgot. I had hoped it would come back to me but it hasn't. So I'm giving up on that.) One other thing M&M related: I haven't felt in a long time the kind of gratification I felt last Sunday when my buddies dug into some strawberried peanut butter m&ms and had nothing but good things to say about them.
Onto the Peanut Butter Lovers Peanut Butter Cup. There's really not much to say. Reeses Peanut Butter is one of the greatest tasting things on the planet. (I think I might say that Reeses Cups vs. m&ms would be a titanic war that could never conclude.) But it's best when paired with chocolate. In my opinion, it's missed here. There is a little layer of chocolate along the bottom, but you can barely notice it. Not that I couldn't suck down a million of them, but the entire time I would wish I could have them with chocolate. And then I would wonder why I didn't just get the ones with chocolate as they're more readily available and probably cheaper. One other note about these: definitely enjoy these frozen or at the very least refrigerated. I had one at room temperature and the entire chocolate bottom came off when I removed the paper cup. So it was all peanut butter. Frozen is quickly becoming my favorite way to have candy.
Onto the Peanut Butter Lovers Peanut Butter Cup. There's really not much to say. Reeses Peanut Butter is one of the greatest tasting things on the planet. (I think I might say that Reeses Cups vs. m&ms would be a titanic war that could never conclude.) But it's best when paired with chocolate. In my opinion, it's missed here. There is a little layer of chocolate along the bottom, but you can barely notice it. Not that I couldn't suck down a million of them, but the entire time I would wish I could have them with chocolate. And then I would wonder why I didn't just get the ones with chocolate as they're more readily available and probably cheaper. One other note about these: definitely enjoy these frozen or at the very least refrigerated. I had one at room temperature and the entire chocolate bottom came off when I removed the paper cup. So it was all peanut butter. Frozen is quickly becoming my favorite way to have candy.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Embryonic
I'm sure I'll be posting on this way more in the next few days, but I just have a quick question right now. Wasn't this supposed to be a double album? I'm not complaining. Really. I got to Best Buy this morning and it was 8 bucks. Can't beat that for what is definitely looking like a long album. I'm just curious if I've gotten some shortened version of the album. I haven't made any attempt to keep up with Lips news in the past couple years, but I was pretty sure I read in multiple places that this was supposed to be a double album. I noticed on the back cover there's a little split between the name of the number 9 track and the number 10. Did they just decide that that's the cutoff between album 1 and album 2? Does the double album refer to a vinyl version only? Minor quibbles. Despite the need to complain, I am actually pretty excited to listen to it. Crossing my fingers for at least some redemption.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Notes from the last week...because I have a moment's peace at work...and for no other reason
1. Candy continues - I thought limited edition candy season was over, but apparently not. I was at Walgreens the other day looking for things that could serve as ice cream toppings when I stumbled onto a 3 for $2 bin that contained the already-reviewed Snickers Fudge and a limited edition Reese's Peanut Butter Lovers Peanut Butter Cup, which looks to be chocolate on the bottom of the outer shell and then the rest is peanut butter. So I bought two of those and a Snickers Fudge. Why not? It's only around for a while, I'll give it another chance. The peanut butter cups will be fun, I put on in the fridge and one in the freezer, so we'll see how that goes. This brings up a couple points. The peanut butter cup is a rerun, they've put these out in limited edition before. That gives me hope for the future, that even if the strawberried peanut butter m&ms do go away soon, they could always come back. It's kind of weird though that the Snickers Fudge bar is just now showing up at Walgreens, and I went to the 7-11 the other day where I originally found it and they don't have them anymore. And why is it that I can still find packs of strawberried m&ms here and there but the coconut m&ms are nowhere to be found? The coconut came out AFTER the strawberried, and as far as I can tell it got a much better reception. (Not from me, but from most reviews I read.) I know of one gas station around that still has a few little bags left, but that's it. The strawberried bags are now showing up at Big Lots for close-out, but I've never seen the coconut there. I only ever saw one medium size bag of the coconut. Coconut was way less of a drastic change than the strawberried was, I would have expected it to be a lot more successful. If either of them was to become a regularly produced flavor, I would expect coconut, though I'd vote for strawberried. So why were they around such a short time and so hard to find? Is it a regional thing? An individual choice for stores as to whether or not they'll carry them? Or was coconut such a success that the entire limited run was bought in a fury and they're still having trouble unloading the strawberried? (Like the Snickers Nougabot bars. I still see those everywhere. Nobody wants them, and rightfully so.) I have no idea.
By the way, sometimes looking at the candy aisles of Big Lots is a lot of fun. The cheap, ratty candy isn't so much fun, but then there's also the things that just failed to sell. A lot of different kinds of Hershey Kisses, Hershey bars with various things shoved in them that nobody asked for. You can find some out-there stuff.
Anyway, I'll try to get myself motivated to do some kind of post to review the peanut butter cups. It could go either way. Could just be overkill on the peanut butter and lose something without the mixing of chocolate. Then again, one of my favorite things in the world is seasonal king-size Reeses (for instance the pumpkins, eggs) because it's a little bit different texture and they just cram peanut butter in those. So maybe it's a good thing. We'll see. Pins and needles.
2. Music - I've taken a little break from my jazz buying. I started eighth grade dancing like crazy and it made me curious about the last few Pearl Jam albums that I had so far avoided. Surprised how much I liked them, especially Pearl Jam and Binaural. Thought the latest one was good, though front-loaded, but I'm going to give it another shot. Riot Act, I wasn't that crazy about.
And the new Built To Spill came out, so I checked that out and was surprised how much I liked that. Made me wonder what I disliked so much about some of their previous albums. I loved Perfect From Now On, but all of their other records had so far failed to stir up anything in me. So I went back to listen to those too. I'm not sure exactly what my problem with them was before, but most of these albums are very good. Keep It Like A Secret is very good, You In Reverse is very good. But There's Nothing Wrong With Love is dreadful except for a couple short spots. Maybe I always started with that one before and that's why I told all their albums to shove it. So, anyway, better band than I thought.
3. TV - I finished Lost last week. It was incredible. I have to say I think people who thought any of those seasons were lacking are crazy. Maybe I can understand them thinking some of the episodes were not worth the agonizing week between airings, and I had the benefit of watching as many as I wanted when I wanted, but still, that show has been consistently intriguing start to finish. And so then Adam sent me a bunch of links to reactions, recaps, postulations, and explanations. I haven't even put a dent in it, but I followed a little line yesterday that took me in a circle where I learned some stuff but mostly learned I had a lot to learn. And fall TV season is pretty much roaring. Except for Fridays and Saturdays every night has something I'm hooked on. I was doing really well studying for the GREs too. I have about 300 flash cards sitting on my coffee table. I haven't looked at them or the book in about a month. TV.
4. MMA - Attended my first ever MMA event last weekend. I won tickets from a Fairfax radio station. Pretty good seats too. Not on the floor, but that was probably better because I was at a vantage point where I could see when it went to the ground. I really enjoyed it. The promotion, UWC, is not huge, I guess it's regional to the Mid-Atlantic, or claims to be even though all of its shows are at the Patriot Center. But they still manage to book fights that have real ramifications for the fighters' divisions. And this card pretty much had everything. Knockouts, two championship fights that went to decision, one of which was an incredible brawl and the other of which caused a major controversy, a female fight, lots of local fighters, one fight that ended with a knockout 35 seconds into the fight, and one right before that was stopped at literally the last second of the first round. Of course, as with most things I attend, the audience could have easily ruined it for me. You had the guys that were just sitting there talking to each other through the whole match, which is distracting because I just sat there thinking, "Did you really come here to talk? Do you know there's people fighting in front of you? Maybe you want to watch?" Then there was the majority of people who shouted directions to the fighters no matter where they were in the stands. Newsflash shitheads! They can't hear you, and if they could, they don't need to hear, "Hit him! HIT! HIM! Elbows! ELBOWS!" I swear one guy only attended the event so he could yell "ELBOWS!" all night no matter what the situation was. And then worst of all is the booing of fighters. I can't believe people boo fighters. The Flyweight championship fight was amazing, a TON of action. But there were times when things slowed down, which is NORMAL, when the fighters are looking for an opportunity, especially when it goes to the ground. Well, apparently this crowd was spoiled by the two guys coming out and immediately getting to work, because if things slowed down for three seconds they immediately started booing. It's not like these guys aren't doing anything. They're in combat! Two inevitabilities: they are trying to fight smart, and they are going to get tired. Ideally, any fighter wants to find a way to take the other one out with minimal damage to himself. And this was a 25 minute fight! Things are going to slow down! As far as I'm concerned, people should be forbidden to boo. If they boo, I should get to put a bullet between their lips. Just let me in the shows for free. I'll provide my own bullets, I'll do the dirty work.
5. Other sports - The Redskins. Jesus christ....
By the way, sometimes looking at the candy aisles of Big Lots is a lot of fun. The cheap, ratty candy isn't so much fun, but then there's also the things that just failed to sell. A lot of different kinds of Hershey Kisses, Hershey bars with various things shoved in them that nobody asked for. You can find some out-there stuff.
Anyway, I'll try to get myself motivated to do some kind of post to review the peanut butter cups. It could go either way. Could just be overkill on the peanut butter and lose something without the mixing of chocolate. Then again, one of my favorite things in the world is seasonal king-size Reeses (for instance the pumpkins, eggs) because it's a little bit different texture and they just cram peanut butter in those. So maybe it's a good thing. We'll see. Pins and needles.
2. Music - I've taken a little break from my jazz buying. I started eighth grade dancing like crazy and it made me curious about the last few Pearl Jam albums that I had so far avoided. Surprised how much I liked them, especially Pearl Jam and Binaural. Thought the latest one was good, though front-loaded, but I'm going to give it another shot. Riot Act, I wasn't that crazy about.
And the new Built To Spill came out, so I checked that out and was surprised how much I liked that. Made me wonder what I disliked so much about some of their previous albums. I loved Perfect From Now On, but all of their other records had so far failed to stir up anything in me. So I went back to listen to those too. I'm not sure exactly what my problem with them was before, but most of these albums are very good. Keep It Like A Secret is very good, You In Reverse is very good. But There's Nothing Wrong With Love is dreadful except for a couple short spots. Maybe I always started with that one before and that's why I told all their albums to shove it. So, anyway, better band than I thought.
3. TV - I finished Lost last week. It was incredible. I have to say I think people who thought any of those seasons were lacking are crazy. Maybe I can understand them thinking some of the episodes were not worth the agonizing week between airings, and I had the benefit of watching as many as I wanted when I wanted, but still, that show has been consistently intriguing start to finish. And so then Adam sent me a bunch of links to reactions, recaps, postulations, and explanations. I haven't even put a dent in it, but I followed a little line yesterday that took me in a circle where I learned some stuff but mostly learned I had a lot to learn. And fall TV season is pretty much roaring. Except for Fridays and Saturdays every night has something I'm hooked on. I was doing really well studying for the GREs too. I have about 300 flash cards sitting on my coffee table. I haven't looked at them or the book in about a month. TV.
4. MMA - Attended my first ever MMA event last weekend. I won tickets from a Fairfax radio station. Pretty good seats too. Not on the floor, but that was probably better because I was at a vantage point where I could see when it went to the ground. I really enjoyed it. The promotion, UWC, is not huge, I guess it's regional to the Mid-Atlantic, or claims to be even though all of its shows are at the Patriot Center. But they still manage to book fights that have real ramifications for the fighters' divisions. And this card pretty much had everything. Knockouts, two championship fights that went to decision, one of which was an incredible brawl and the other of which caused a major controversy, a female fight, lots of local fighters, one fight that ended with a knockout 35 seconds into the fight, and one right before that was stopped at literally the last second of the first round. Of course, as with most things I attend, the audience could have easily ruined it for me. You had the guys that were just sitting there talking to each other through the whole match, which is distracting because I just sat there thinking, "Did you really come here to talk? Do you know there's people fighting in front of you? Maybe you want to watch?" Then there was the majority of people who shouted directions to the fighters no matter where they were in the stands. Newsflash shitheads! They can't hear you, and if they could, they don't need to hear, "Hit him! HIT! HIM! Elbows! ELBOWS!" I swear one guy only attended the event so he could yell "ELBOWS!" all night no matter what the situation was. And then worst of all is the booing of fighters. I can't believe people boo fighters. The Flyweight championship fight was amazing, a TON of action. But there were times when things slowed down, which is NORMAL, when the fighters are looking for an opportunity, especially when it goes to the ground. Well, apparently this crowd was spoiled by the two guys coming out and immediately getting to work, because if things slowed down for three seconds they immediately started booing. It's not like these guys aren't doing anything. They're in combat! Two inevitabilities: they are trying to fight smart, and they are going to get tired. Ideally, any fighter wants to find a way to take the other one out with minimal damage to himself. And this was a 25 minute fight! Things are going to slow down! As far as I'm concerned, people should be forbidden to boo. If they boo, I should get to put a bullet between their lips. Just let me in the shows for free. I'll provide my own bullets, I'll do the dirty work.
5. Other sports - The Redskins. Jesus christ....
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