Iced Tea & Honey Buns

On Monday morning Trish and I decided it would be okay to get some donuts since donuts don't have bacon in them. So we walked in the pouring rain to the Mom's Donuts near her house. But it was closed. Apparently, since New Year's fell on a Sunday this year, business who are NORMALLY OPEN on Sunday got to take off TWO DAYS. I thought the idea of holiday on Monday, Jan. 2nd was to allow businesses to close if they would normally be closed on Sundays (like banks, schools, courthouses, etc.).

So. . . we walked to my car and drove 2 blocks to a convenience store. I knew exactly what section I wanted to find- the one with honey buns. They didn't have the Hostess-brand honey buns, but some more generic brand instead. Lucklily, I've eaten this particular generic brand and they're tasty. These generic honey buns are "iced" which means the icing is more solid-white colored than the usual translucent sugar coating on normal honey buns. So lucky me, I got an iced honey bun. I helped Trish navigate to the Pop-Tarts, where she found a fine box of the ubiquitous strawberry flavor.

More importantly, I discovered a new snack product. While I'm normally a Coca-Cola fanatic, I will, from time-to-time, drink a delicious bottle of Lipton's Iced Tea. I like my tea sweet with no lemon (the blue label). The downside to this cool & refreshing beverage is that it's sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (like Coca-Cola Classic), and is 140 calories per bottle, which is a rip-off since it's TEA and shouldn't be high in calories, in a perfect world. So imagine my surprise & delight when I discovered Lipton's brand-new "diet" version of sweet-no-lemon (the blue label).

The Lipton Original tea flavor remains close to the orginal. The diet sweet tea is sweetened with Splenda which everyone really loves but me. I'll promise to do a whole new blog about artificial sweetners soon, but let me just say that Splenda tends to make things taste kind of Snappley. Luckily, Lipton's original tea blend is so consistently delicious that the faint whiff of Snapple at front of the tongue is insignificant. This makes a lovely breakfast drink with honey buns, but probably isn't the best sweet tea for a weekend.