All for science

[brief_therapy]

I've been looking around (now and again) for a good icon for Diabetes. When I simply googled "Diabetes" I found the lovely treasure you now see as my official diabetes icon. I have no idea why a woman doing a wheelbarrel-walk with a man on a beach is diabetes-related, but the site was actually Swedish and that sealed the deal. I now have me a fine

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[lizardek]

I would pay good money to see that wheelbarrow!

[brief_therapy]

Now see there? You wrote wheelbarrow. That's what I wrote to begin with. Then I looked at it again and thought, nahhhh that can't be right. Must be barrel. A barrel on wheels. That's me to a T.

(Actually the very first time I wrote it I typed "Wheelerbarrow".)

Jennifer is now the boss of checking on membership payments by the way. WOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTT!!!!!!

[lizardek]

Wheelerbarrow! hahahahaha! Or Wheeler-BEAR-OW, since it would be Björn doing the hard part. HAR!

And yes, I saw! She sent me a whole pile of confirmations today :) I hope you guys can meet soon, though. I know she's getting anxious. :)

[nomaddervish]

Nope, no barrels involved:

barrow (1)
"vehicle for carrying a load," c.1300, barewe, probably from an unrecorded O.E. *bearwe "basket, barrow," from beran "to bear, to carry."

(Courtesy of the Online Etymology Dictionary.)

What does the second line of text in your new icon say? It came out a bit too small to read...

[suchanadorer]

You gotta let us know what it tastes like! Cocoa Pebbles look like cat food, but don't taste like it, ya know what I mean? You could maybe try them with yogurt; I eat that instead of filmjölk and find it works quite well.

I thought it was gonna be "wet" cat food. I don't know if I could eat that, even in the interest of science.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I hope it works! :)

[brief_therapy]

They don't taste like Cocoa Pebbles, that's for sure. Not Captain Crunch, not Life, not Cheerios. No wait, Cheerios maybe. Not Shredded Wheat. Defintely not Frosted Shredded Wheat which I love and as of this minute crave. Not Lucky Charms. Or maybe the ones that aren't little colored marshmallows. I wouldn't really know, having never taken a spoonful of plain cereal Lucky Charms bits without marshmallows. (Most often I left behing a whole bowlful of Lucky Charms bits when all of the marshmallow bits were gone. And I bet I'm not the only one.)

That was maybe more than you were after, hmmm? :-)

[suchanadorer]

But do they taste like cat food? Or like one might expect it to taste? I can get that it might taste like All-Bran (the pellety stuff, not the flakes) but I can't get the idea behind it tasting like fish or something.

[brief_therapy]

I think I expect cat food to taste like boring cereal. That's how it smells to me anyway. And the little pellets are unnaturally crunchy so that I sound like our cat Hanna when I eat them.

[e11en]

This qualifies as one of the most entertaining posts, ever. What, pray tell, is in the catfood? More importantly, is the cat eyeing you eating this substance thinking, "he likes it! Hey Mikey!"

[brief_therapy]

THAT explains why Hanna was all up in my stuff last night trying to butter me up...she wants my pellets!! Hey Mikey!!

[gale_storm]

Oh god, cat food with FIL???? Eeeeeeeeewwww!!!!

[zapac]

Is this a double study where one group gets to eat this special food and the other group simply gets cat food without knowing? Perhaps you ended up in the reference group so eight weeks from know you'll find out indeed it was regular cat food you ate! :-D

[brief_therapy]

It is indeed such a study. It's not the first time I've participated in a so-called double-blind study and I always assume that I am in the placebo group so that I'm not disappointed when I don't end up losing a million pounds or getting fabulously long hair or remembering every little detail of every little thing I read.

This particular foodstuff is actually good stuff from oats and I either have plain oatstuff or oatstuff with Betaglu in it. Either way it's pretty healthy and good for me.