Good morning! I hope all is well with you this Thursday.
I suppose we have some catching up to do, huh?
I spent the day yesterday with my mom. She picked me up in Ocala a little after 9 a.m., we drove two hours for an appointment for her and I didn’t arrive home until close to 7 p.m.
Even though there was personal business to take care of, my mom and I made sure to allot about half an hour of fun time for a quick trip to World Market before heading back to Ocala.
Oh how I love World Market and wish there was one near our house. They have such fun things… like bacon flavoring syrup.
Not so sure about that one! I wonder when Starbucks will start offering bacon lattes?
Or perhaps you’d prefer some spotted dick?
Believe it or not, I’ve actually tried spotted dick one time before when my family and I were in London last year and thought it was pretty good! (TWSS?)
I ended up leaving with new coffee and a new kind of tea to try.
I brewed a cup with my breakfast this morning and am not sure what to think.
I think I may need to add some milk and maybe a pinch of sugar to make it more palatable. Any suggestions? I typically drink tea without adding anything, but this flavor seems like it would benefit from a little somethin’ somethin’.
Along with my tea, I had a batch of overnight oats topped with a sliced banana and chopped almonds.
It was a filling breakfast, that’s for sure!
Workout
Before breakfast, I headed to the gym to complete an upper body workout after 20 minutes on the elliptical. My workout included three sets of 15 – 20 repetitions of the following exercises:
- Chest press
- Low row
- Bicep curls
- Front shoulder raises
- Tricep dips
- Back extensions
- Side shoulder raises
- Cross body hammer curls
- Tricep pull downs
- Ryan’s awesome shoulder move
My arms feel like they’ve been through the ringer!
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Question of the Morning
- What is the strangest food you’ve ever tried?
I’ve tried alligator but cannot thing of anything else particularly unusual! I’m a pretty adventurous eater though and will try nearly anything once (except bugs!).
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That tea would be awesome brewed in overnight oats!
My mom’s family is French, and every holiday we have escargot (snails). People think it’s so weird that instead of typical foods like ham or turkey at Christmas, I get STOKED for some slimy snails 🙂
I love escargot (especially drenched in butter an garlic)!
I haven’t eaten anything that crazy. BUT, my husband will eat just about anything for a dollar. Live bugs, worms, etc.
By the way, I did you treadmill workout from yesterday this morning. Let me tell you that shaving my legs was a challenge. Whoa. 🙂
when I saw you tweet this picture yesterday I thought it was probably from World Market!!!!!!!
Bacon syrup??!! My husband would lovvveeee that! Strangest thing I’ve ever tried was fried frog legs. So strange.
You know what…bacon syrup seems strange, buuuuuut I’m pretty sure I’d try it 😉
i just bought that same tea brand in mint chocolate and agree – it needs a little something. I dont know what though! It’s just not quite strong or flavorful enough on it’s own.
My boyfriend works at Starbucks and he said he would love to create a Bacon Frappuccino or something.
Fun. They have bacon fro-yo at my favorite spot. I’m not really a fan. Lol. The strangest food I’ve ever had is a Dominican dish called sancocho. I hate it. It’s a stew with 7 kinds of meat. Gross.
I’m from a small town in VA and at our County Fair one year my mom and I tried a dish called “Turkey Delights.” Word of advice: don’t ever eat anything with ‘delight’ in the name without questioning it’s origin first. Turns out we sampled fried turkey testicles. Nice. Not sure what’s worse, the fact that I ate them or the fact that I didn’t hate them?
I live in London now and saw spotted dick on a chalkboard menu once, I was like umm is that a mistake?! LOL had to take a picture 😉
I actually bought the Red Velvet tea and I totally agree with you that something else needs to be added because I was super let down by it. So I put a smidgen (my word for tiny 🙂 splash of Monin Dark Chocolate syrup and it totally helps!
Spotted dick?! BAHAHA. Hilarious! Weird foods hmmm… I tried gator on a kabob once, it was pretty good. Can’t think of much else, guess I’m not too adventurous… I think I’d try anything once except bugs, like you said… creepy crawlers are where I draw the line!!!!
Forever ago Coldstone had chocolate covered crickets. Couldn’t be upstaged by my brothers so I tried one. Not as bad as you might think.
I’ve gotten some strawberry chocolate tea from that same company and I had the same response.. it needs to be made with something other than just water!
I would love to visit a world market! They sound awesome. Before I was a vegetarian I tried tongue and it was just as gross as you’d imagine. Yuck.
Chocolate covered cockroaches!
When i was younger these boys at science camp
dared me to eat them- and I can’t turn down a
good dare! 🙂 hah
Bacon syrup! hahaha I saw that on your twitter and was perplexed. I adore World Market! I didn’t even know it existed until about a year ago though. It is seriously the best place ever. Whenever I don’t know what to get someone as a gift, I always just go there.
OMG when i read the title bacon syrup, i thought it was like, syrup.. that would go on pancakes. THAT is something I could get behind. But I think I’ll pass on the Bacon Latte for now. ew!
I’ve seen Spotted Dick in the grocery store and I died laughing…wtf?! Such a weird name for a food! 🙂
Those teas look fantastic!! Btw – definitely laughed out loud when I read spotted dick. I am officially a teenage boy.
I LOVE WORLD MARKET!!
Gollie! I think we have a winner for the “strangest food” winner.
Even I haven’t dared that, yet! *smile* Way to go!
I love World Market. Sadly, all the ones nearby have closed down. 🙁 Last time I was there, I also took a picture of the Heinz Spotted Dick.
I was in a “fear factor” eating competition in college and had to eat lining of cow’s stomach. I won. 🙂
And don’t worry… they sell Spotted Dick at the World Market here in Chicago, and I have most definitely stopped, taken a picture on my phone, and sent to to all of my friends. I am a child.
Your TWSS jokes crack me up!
The craziest thing I’ve ever eaten was probably frog legs. They actually weren’t bad and taste a lot like regular chicken wings. I also had a bowl of seafood chowder in a tiny pub in Dingle, Ireland that was mostly bones… that was interesting.
I love spotted dick. Im from Ireland and people have it all the time. I love spotted dick brown bread..brown bread with raisins. Heniz is the best pudding though!
World Market is the best! As for interesting food, I will try just about anything. I have certainly had some interesting food while travelling. While in Portugal over the summer, I had sardines that were very, very fishy smelling…those were pretty interesting, yet surprisingly not too bad!
I would totally make a maple bacon cupcake with your bacon syrup. Sweet & salty!
Oh, I would love to be the guinea pig for that one! Use it in the icing maybe?
Strangest thing I’ve tried….I love to try new and “weird” food…Maybe octopus. But I like it!
I LOVE World Market- they have the cutest & original stuff! I need to go there again soon!
Bacon anything sounds gross- but I have heard that bacon cupcakes are good- who’d a thought?
Glad you had a nice time with your mom! World market is so amazing- I love walking through the food section too and finding the most unusual stuff- I feel like it’s the perfect place to pick up unusual gifts. And I love Chai tea and always put a little truvia in it- I think it makes the sweeter type teas taste better!
Oh, my that bacon syrup sounds interesting! I’ve always wanted to go to a World Market!
By the way, I’ve also tried alligator 🙂
My husband had to try all different organ meats (including balls and brains) when he was little.
The strangest thing I ever had was a clam straight from the bay. It was a dare on a school trip. It wasn’t too bad but certainly not tasty.
It is taking me everything I have not to say the myriad of jokes that come to mind over spotted dick. Hope it had a hefty course of antibiotics before you tried it. Oops. I went there.
I had spotted dick once in college. Nevermind.
hahaha omgsh! I took that same spotted dick picture at the world market b/c I thought the name was sooo strange and unique! And I’m not even sure what it is…hehe.
The strangest food I’ve ever tried, and it’s an acquired taste for many people, is goat’s meat. I really miss it now! oH, AND a really strong spread/chutney? not sure what it is, but it was in India.
and I also grew up eating cow intestines on the grill. I forget what the proper name for that food is in English! 😛
I discovered that tea last year thanks to a blog reader and love it. They also make a very yummy green tea with plantain and coconut that I’ve been recommending.
My fiance would be all over bacon syrup ha ha. Happy National Peanut Butter Lovers Day, Julie!
Oooh I love alligator!
When I was in Japan, I ate raw horse (basically horse sashimi style). I should say, I didn’t actually eat it – just chewed it then spit it out. I couldn’t swallow it and feared I’d choke on it. It looked like raw chicken.
haha. You know Jack in the box has bacon shakes right now… no bacon in them, just bacon flavored syrup.
so i won’t put it past *$ (just learned that new text symbol for SBUX)… to come out with bacon flavored lattes… ewww…
now cupcakes I could see it being used. 😉
ha- a friend of mine posted a photo on Facebook of “spotted dick” just recently. He thought it was the funniest thing he’d ever seen.
I would try bacon syrup… if chocolate-covered bacon is good, syrup might be too. 🙂
I love World Market!! I like to add honey to tea when it needs a little somethin’.
I had alligator once years ago when we visited Florida, and I thought it tasted like chicken. A little tough though. Not very adventurous when it comes to food.
Oh World Market.. how I love thee! They have the cutest dishes and kitchen items!!
I’ve eaten kangaroo and it was very good & extremely lean! And, I am a HUGE bacon fan – had a bacon martini before! – and would love to try that syrup lol. Wish there was a World Market near me but…I’m willing to travel 🙂
Totally didn’t notice that the Nuts.com winner was picked so quickly. I still stand by my answer of roasted nuts 🙂
I am not adventurous with food whatsoever, so the weirdest thing I have ever eaten is a sweet pickles and peanut butter sandwich. Most people I know use dill, but I like sweet like PB&J but PB&P instead 🙂
i’ve been seeing lots of bacon flavored cupcakes around here, and i hear they are amazing. i have yet to try one.
the craziest things i’ve tried are escargot and cow tongue. yah, i’m not very adventurous. ;p
Not sure about that bacon syrup haha. Although my mom loves pouring syrup ON her bacon, so there must be something to the sweet/salty mix! Getting coffee from World Market is a great idea!
I recently got that Red Velvet tea! I was left somewhat disappointed as well. I was thinking it would be a nice, rich flavor that was almost like liquid dessert, but it was bland! Not much flavor or sweetness at all. I was thinking the same to add some cream and/or sugar next time though!
That’s probably what Jack n’ the Box uses for their Bacon Milkshake. Ew. And I love bacon.
This has nothing to do with bacon syrup. It has been brought to my attention that this is NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER DAY! ! How can you not have mentioned peanut butter on this special day?
Horrors!
Haha, I used to work at a coffee shop and we would come up with really interesting mixtures, but never anything as crazy as bacon!