But there I was on Friday, March 11, standing in line at my local Target, waiting for an iPad 2. I used to laugh at people waiting for Apple products, dismissing them as fanboys (and girls) who will buy anything Apple releases, like flocks of mindless sheep.

And yet, I was not only standing in line, I was excited like a kid on Christmas morning because I was going to get one of only five iPads the store was shipped.

So, is the iPad 2 the best tablet ever? Do you need to rush out and get one (or try to, given the limited supply)? Read on for my take on the iPad 2…

Check out the whole iPad 2 Review at Man of the House.

Veggie Tales songs were one of the first things my son latched onto as an infant, asking us to play the CD in the car over and over and over and over and over until I was hearing Veggie Tales songs in my sleep!

Yet, now having seen countless Veggie Tales DVDs and listening to more CDs than I care to admit to, they’ve actually grown on me (despite my lack of religion). I’ve come to appreciate the art, storytelling, and voice acting. And even the music.

So, when a PR rep for Veggie Tales asked me if I’d like to review a Veggie Tales DVD and host a giveaway, I had to say yes.

My review process for Veggie Tales is simple:

Does my three year old son enjoy it?

Yes.

Does he ask to watch it over and over again?

Yes.

Did I like it?

Yes. I’m always impressed by the quality of Veggie Tales DVDs. The attention to detail, pop culture references, and in-jokes are things which reward adult viewers as well as kids. Even though this is a DVD about Easter, it doesn’t hit you over the head with religious messaging (aside from the obvious Easter stuff, of course). In short, anyone can enjoy this regardless of faith (or lack of).

Did we laugh?

Yes.

Did he like the CD?

Yes.

Does he ask to listen to it over and over in the car?

Yes.

Does the music drive daddy nuts?

Surprisingly, not. While I grew to like the fun toddler songs CD we have, I wasn’t sure about this CD, covers of modern religious songs. But the CD is very well done and my son loves the music.

So, if you’ve got a kid who loves Veggie Tales, check out the movie and CD.

Or enter to win your Veggie Tales Easter pack here.

Winners will also get a DVD of the remastered, Here Comes Peter Cottontail.

Leave a comment below and you’ll be entered for a random drawing. Winners will be chosen on Sunday, and announced Monday. The contest is only open to residents in the United States – sorry to my international friends.

Veggie Tales: ‘Twas The Night Before Easter.

It’s Easter time in Crisper County and cable news reporter Marlee Meade (Petunia Rhubarb) is hunting for a way to help others. On a tip that the old town theater will be shut down, Marlee cooks up a plan to save the stage and make a difference through the power of musical theater. With a cast of costume-clad townies, massive props and a 20-foot robot rabbit – “Up With Bunnies” is hatched! There’s only one thing missing – the star of the show!

When news spreads that singing sensation Cassie Cassava (Melinda Doolittle) is arriving to perform in her hometown church’s Easter service, Marlee gets worried. Concerned about the competition, she schemes to steal the starlet for her own pageant! But when things go haywire, will it be curtains for Marlee’s dreams – or will she discover the true meaning of Easter and what helping others is really all about?

Available March 8^th for $14.93 SRP

Veggie Tales: Hosanna!

The Hosanna! CD includes ten all new easy-to-sing worship favorites made popular by some of today’s top worship artists – sung by beloved VeggieTales characters and kids just for kids! Amy Grant sings the title track, “Hosanna,” and lead vocalist Mark Hall of Casting Crowns, named Billboard’s No. 1 Top-selling Christian Band of 2010, lends his voice on the group’s No. 1 radio hit, “Who Am I.”  Also included are Veggie arrangements of Israel Houghton’s upbeat “Just Wanna Say,” Chris Tomlin’s “Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone,”) Hillsong LIVE’s “Mighty To Save” and Brenton Brown’s “Everlasting God,” to name a few.

Available March 8^th for SRP $9.99

VeggieTales: Hosanna! Today’s Top Worship Songs for Kids! Track Listing

1. Mighty To Save
2. Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)
3. Hosanna
4. Everlasting God
5. Your Grace is Enough
6. Just Wanna Say
7. Your Name
8. Who Am I
9. Perfect Love
10. Lord You Are Good

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Peter Cottontail wants to be the #1 Chief Easter Bunny and everyone in April Valley agrees…except for his archrival, evil Irontail. Hop along with Peter and his friends as they race through time celebrating all of your favorite holidays to deliver the most eggs…and save Easter for children everywhere!

Currently available for $9.98 SRP

I’ve always liked the horror genre. I write horror stories, I read horror books and love horror movies (the good ones with character development, not the mindless slasher ones). So you’d think I’d love a horror game, right?

This will likely remove any horror cred I have, but Dead Space 2 is almost too scary for me. Or at least too intense.

You know a game is intense when you die – many times … during the tutorial. And trust me, you will die within minutes of starting this third-person horror/survival/sci-fi shooter.

Read the whole post here.

So when people began talking about electronic books, or e-books, I demonstrated the appropriate amount of outrage. E-books will NEVER displace real books.

However, as a writer who makes a living online, I’ve come to appreciate the beauty of digital delivery. The idea that I can click a button and have instant access to a book is revolutionary for publishing and for readers.

Check out the whole review at my Man of The House guest post, Is Amazon Kindle A Book Killer Or Savior.

Got any questions or comments about the Kindle? Leave them below or at the Man of the House guest post and I’ll respond.

Well, that’s not exactly what they said, but you get the idea – awesome chef daddy blogger reviewing a game.

Problem is, that while I am a Master Chef, I rarely cook anything which involves a whole lot of preparation, beyond ‘open box and insert into microwave.’ In other words, if I reviewed the game, I’d actually have to cook. A real meal. With like steps and stuff.

Oh crap.

The game, though I’m not sure it’s really a game so much as an interactive cookbook on steroids, offers 300 recipes tested by the cooks at the TV Show America’s Test Kitchen.

• So, was the game all it was hyped up to be in the press release?
• Or is Nintendo going to wish they never sent me the game?
• Would I cut off a body part?

Keep reading, friend.

Tonight’s meal : Pasta Caprese and Grilled Lemon Chicken

America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking walks you through the preparation of the meal, via the voice of a man, presumably a chef, who instructs you while pleasant mall-type music plays in the background. My wife danced, jokingly, which caused my three year old son, E, to crack up. As I fumbled through the cutting of tomatoes, the game waited. As you complete each step, you can either tap the screen or verbally tell the game to move on.

The only downside to the verbal cues is that if your game is too close to you or the kitchen is too loud, it picks up on noises, which will cause the chef to ask, “hmm?”

For instance, my cat came into the kitchen in attempt to trip me as I was navigating a minefield of bowls, pans, and utensils. I told the cat to get out of the kitchen using words you probably shouldn’t use in front of kids, or cats, for that matter. To which the chef asked, “hmm?”

Cooking Together

Some people like to cook with their families. I call these people crazy. I’m the type of person who prefers an empty kitchen, or preferably an empty house, when I cook. The kitchen is My Space and I guard it jealously when I’m in there.

However, I can see the appeal of using the game to cook with your family. America’s Test Kitchen allows you to assign tasks to each family member. When setting up chef profiles, you can let the game know whether or not the chef is able to use knives or hot surfaces, so children will get only safe duties.

Cool Stuff

America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking has a ton of recipes which you can browse or search for by keyword. It even offers meal suggestions for holidays, via its calendar.

But one of the coolest features for a picky eater like me is that you can tell the game which ingredients you don’t eat, and it will narrow your search results and menu options to only foods which don’t contain those items.

Another cool feature is the series of videos which show you various kitchen basics like how to clean a cutting board, the correct way to use a knife, and other informative things which I found very useful. Prior to watching the video on knife use, I held my knife like a ninja, or sometimes, Jason from the Friday the 13th movies. Which, as it turns out, is not the correct way to use a blade.

Does the idea of cooking scare you a bit? Don’t worry. The game is packed with information! My wife has tons of kitchen utensils that I don’t even recognize, let alone know how to use. Fortunately, America’s Test Kitchen has helped me figure out what most of these things do.

Find a standard cookbook that can do that!

Drawbacks

I only have two complaints regarding the game, and they are minor ones.

Firstly, it seems like the chef can only coach you through one meal at a time. If you’re trying to make two or more dishes at once, which is not unheard of, you’ll have to exit out of the menu and go back and forth. Fortunately, the game does save your progress, making this an easy enough thing to do. However, I’d love it if you could combine meals and cook them all at once.

Secondly, while the game includes calorie information, it doesn’t include other nutritional values of the meals, such as sodium, fat content, and other things people may want to know.

Overall Impressions

America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking is a surprisingly fun and useful interactive cookbook. Packed with lots of great recipes and even more relevant information, this is a must-have game for anyone who wants to learn to cook or simply wants to make dinner time more fun for the family.

The Good

• easy-to-use interface
• allows you to create a shopping list based on your chosen recipes
• great video tutorials
• selection of 300 recipes
• calendar and suggested menus
• ability to add notes
• can delegate cooking instructions to others
• can share recipes while cooking if someone else has a Nintendo DS

The Bad

• can’t cook more than one recipe at a time without pausing
• no nutrition information other than calories

Item: America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking for the Nintendo DS (all sizes)
Cost: approximately $19.99
Overall Score: 90 out of 100
More information: America’s Test Kitchen page at Nintendo.com

Final impressions: The meal

As for the meal, it was great. While I don’t normally eat vegetables, there’s something about cooking a meal myself which makes me a bit more inclined to try new things. The whole family loved the meal (though E did ask me to put marinara on his pasta). The only downside to the meal was that it was so good that my wife now wants me to cook. Every night.

All in all, a great experience. Of course, after I looked around at the pile of dirty pots, pans, and dishes, I was looking for a different game, America’s Test Kitchen: Cleaning Up the Mess.

(Note: I was compensated for this review. However, Nintendo placed zero restrictions on my review. Well, they did ask me not to cook naked, but I think that was just a safety precaution. I’ve been thoroughly honest about my experience and opinions of the product, because that’s how Blogger Dad rolls. Got any questions or comments about America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking? Leave them below.)

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Okay, I said I’d start doing reviews again, and here we go. This review is not in any way sponsored by anyone and is purely my thoughts on the item. Longtime readers will know how I am about marketing. I won’t review junk, only review things I think you all might be interested in, and if someone sponsors the review via payment or with a free product, I’ll let you know up front, though it won’t sway my review.

Sony’s New HD Videocam

Is Sony’s new Bloggie MHS-PM5 the next best thing in pocket-sized digital videocams or does it suck as much as its name?

Like any parent, I want to capture memories of my child growing up for posterity, and to someday embarrass him. While I have a camera that shoots video, the quality isn’t too hot – especially when viewing the videos on a computer.

I didn’t want to spend a lot on a full-sized HD cam, but I’d heard some bad things about the first gen Flip Cams, so when I heard that Sony had a next gen 1080 Full HD pocket video recorder, I figured I had found the perfect item.

In addition to shooting 1080p Full HD MP4 video at 30 frames per second or 720p video at 60 frames per second. The unique feature of the Bloggie, however, is its swivel lens, which you can rotate it 270 degrees, allowing you to watch yourself on the screen, while you chow down on a bowl of corn flakes while ranting out a video blog post.

Here’s the good and the bad of the Sony Bloggie MHS-PM5

• Good: Pocket-sized and quickly ready to shoot. Takes great shots outdoors (during daylight) and has rich, vibrant colors and no “jaggy” warped images like some cams have. Software has face recognition which focuses where it should rather than on the clock in the background.
• Bad: Unless you have lots of windows or happen to live on a movie set flush with stage lighting, the video is dark and grainy.

• Good: Small and light enough to fit in your pocket or purse, with a nice 2.4 inch LCD screen.
• Bad: The screen is nearly impossible to see unless you’re at exactly the correct angle (which I‘ve yet to find). Don’t even try to see the screen in daylight, which, of course, is the one place you can reasonably use the camera

• Good: No need for a USB cable to upload from your SD memory card (though the cam comes with a small one) as there is a retractable USB plug at the base of the camera which you can insert into your pc or mac’s USB port. The camera recharges its lithium battery via the USB port (so long as the camera is not on) and can shoot for an hour or more off one charge.
• Bad: While the camera takes 5MP pictures, its not a great camera, and I found it hard to focus for a decent shot. Most indoor shots were blurred, which is good if you’re a surreal artist.

Overall: This is a great camera — if you shoot all you happen to shoot all your video outdoors or have a brightly lit house. The ideal use for most people would be to shoot videos for YouTube or their blogs, hence the not-so-clever name. Unfortunately, if you’re like me, and shoot most of your video indoors, you might try a different camera. At $149 retail, you might be better off buying a full-sized camera.

Of course, I’d be willing to change my stars if Sony were to sway me with a free PlayStation 3.

Rating: 2 Blogger Dad Stars Out of 5 (for my needs)

Tip: To get a look at the video quality, go to YouTube and search for Sony Bloggie MHS-PM5; there’s lots of test videos posted. I’ll update this post in the future with some video and photo examples of my own.

(note: This review is not a sponsored review and is based solely on my impressions of the product. Your experience may vary.)

What video camera are you using? What’s your experience been?

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I love pizza.

Hell, I even love bad pizza – Totino’s, anyone?

But for some reason, Domino’s has never quite done anything for me. I can’t pinpoint exactly WHAT I don’t like about it. It’s just not that good. The cheese always tastes … well, different from most every other pizza cheese I’ve ever had. And their crust tastes like a cracker more than a true pizza dough crust.

So, I decided to give their “new” pizza a try and ordered a pie online last night.

Whatever you have to say about the pizza, they did get one thing right – their website!

Not only is ordering easy, but they have a cool feature they call the Domino’s Tracker. This is a brilliant concept, updating you on the progress of your pizza. Now you no longer have to wonder, “when is that pizza going to get here?!”

Pretty cool, eh?

The first update told me that Mary (name changed to protect the innocent) had taken my order. Then another indicated that my pizza was baking.

Then I got this update.

What the WHAT?

And while I love the new feature, I think they might be giving us a bit too much information. See the screenshots below for an example of what I mean.

FUN WITH DOMINO’S TRACKER

Well, now I know why the cheese tastes a bit funny.

For those who want to know if the “new and improved” pizza was good, I’m not sure. For all its advances in technology, it still arrived at my door lukewarm. But I’ve gotta say, I LOVE their website.

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As long-time readers may recall, I’ve pretty much rejected marketing on this blog. My problem wasn’t so much an aversion to all marketing, but rather, the types of things people were pitching to me to review. It was either stuff I’m not into, stuff which wasn’t a good fit for the blog or stuff that seemed out and out shady. In short, if a product isn’t something I would buy myself, or, in some cases, something I really think readers would like, then I’m not interested. Until now, all the products I’ve reviewed have been things I’ve bought on my own.

So I was thrilled recently when a public relations company recently contacted me and asked if I would review the holiday special, Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas. Not only is the Curious George movie one of my son, E’s, favorite movies (and the first movie he laughed at as a toddler) but we also love watching the show together on PBS whenever he’s home during the day. It’s one of a handful of children’s shows I don’t mind sitting through.

I was sent a screener copy of the movie (which has an annoying “Property of Universal Pictures” across the top), a CD for a screening party and a DVD to give away. As in, to one of you.

Review:

If you, or your child, enjoys the PBS series, Curious George, this is essentially a Christmas-themed one hour version of the daily episode. The animation, among the best in children’s TV, is superior to the art in the original books, more playful and far more rich and colorful. In short, the artists paint a beautiful and comforting world which is pleasant enough for even the smallest of children to enjoy.

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas features the same characters and setting (in the city, rather than the rural episodes) and takes place in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

Both George and the Man in the Yellow Hat find themselves attempting to find the perfect gifts for one another. While George has “told” the man what he wants, in the form of a drawing, The Man can’t figure the drawing out. However, he doesn’t want to let George down by admitting his ignorance, so he sets out to try and secretly figure out what George wants. Meanwhile, George is also trying to figure out what to get The Man.

As is typically the case in a Curious George story or episode, silliness ensues as George makes a few wrong turns along the way, creating the obligatory messes that only this monkey can make.

One of the funnier scenes was when the two were out searching for a Christmas tree. Without spoiling what happens, George created a huge mess, which had my son laughing out loud and turning to look at me with a big “uh-oh” look on his face.

Of course, this charming special isn’t just about laughs. There is also a heart-warming message.

E enjoyed the movie. While he typically strays away from the TV to play or color, he actually sat through the entire screening, most of the time with his hands folded and a big smile on his face. He loved Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas so much that when it was over, he said, “Again?”

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas is available in stores now but you will also be able to catch it for free on TV as it is set to air today (and a few more times between now and Christmas) on PBS; check your local listings.

Quick rundown.
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

• Running time: One hour.
• Cost: I’ve seen prices ranging from $9.99 on sale to $16.99
• Fun Factor: 9 (out of 10)
• The good: Great story, beautiful animation, a heart-warming storyline and lots of belly laughs.
• The not-so-good: I didn’t care much for the songs, though E seemed to enjoy most of them.
• Bottom line: You can’t go wrong with this DVD. Perfect for all ages.

Now for the part you’ve been waiting for – your chance to win a copy of Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas.

I have one retail copy, still in its wrapper, making it the perfect gift for your little ones. For your chance to win, all you need to do is comment here and share an entertaining holiday shopping story of your own. Stories can be funny, thrilling, scary or sweet. For instance, you can tell a story how you once fought off a pack of baseball-bat-wielding moms to get the last Tickle Me Elmo.

The contest is open to anyone in the Continental United States (sorry, but I’m paying the shipping costs) and will remain open until Sunday Nov. 28. I will post the name of the winner (chosen at random) on Monday, Nov. 29.

How a winner will be chosen:
Everyone who comments here will have their name written on a piece of paper which I will have E pick out of a bag at random. Consider this piece of paper a ticket and each commenter who shares a story here gets one ticket. However, if you’d like to get up to three tickets, you can get one more ticket for a blog post linking back here or a tweet on Twitter linking to this contest. Comment with a link to the tweet and blog post here before Sunday and I’ll add your extra tickets.

For more information about Curious George, check out the PBS page, where you (well, I hope not you, but your child) can also play the  A Very Monkey Christmas game.

(Update: Congratulations to Kool Aid, who won the Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas DVD!)

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Rather than type the letter out, I scanned it and you can click on the image below to read it. My response follows.

letter

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My response

Dear Laura,

Thank you for the box of cookies. It is most appreciated. I also appreciate your letter informing me of the thought that goes into your business and the importance of customer feedback. Your letter made lots of good points up until the last paragraph.

The line, “it would have been nice of you to come to me directly, instead of posting your unhappiness to the world.” Perhaps you’re unfamiliar with this blog, but that is kind of what I do around here, I sometimes post my unhappiness to the world. It’s cathartic and people relate.

Typically, when I have an issue with a company, I don’t complain. There was a time that I did, but usually complaints rarely seem to matter. Most people who are unsatisfied with a company don’t complain to the company directly, they simply tell their friends. It’s that whole word-of-mouth thing which you mentioned. I forget the statistic, but I used to hear it all the time at company meetings, but basically, most people who are happy with a business might tell two other people. Those who are unsatisfied will tell something in the neighborhood of 12 million people. (Okay, so maybe I wasn’t paying attention to the meetings, but you get the point.)

In most businesses, you get one shot at impressing a customer. If you fail to do so, most customers move on. They don’t take the time to track you down and tell you how you can do your business better. There is a school of thought in business which says to always over deliver on expectations and you will have a long term relationship with most customers. Sending one cookie, in my opinion anyway, leaves a bad taste in a customer’s mouth. It would be one thing if I sampled the cookie at a shop. However, this was something which I paid for, even if I only paid for shipping. There is a presumed value in my purchase which makes me feel I ought to get my money’s worth.

For $2.50, that had better be one GIANT cookie.

Most of your costs for the sample seem to be in the shipping and packaging of the cookies. I don’t know what the cookies cost to make but I would guess there can’t be too much of a difference between one and say, three cookies. I could be completely wrong on this and feel free to correct me if so. However, even if it is at a small loss, I think sending three cookies would send a better message and would be a true free sample. And it would likely whet the appetite for even more cookies.

Spreading my unhappiness one blog post at a time

Back to your closing paragraph. While I do enjoy taking shots at big, faceless corporations who can’t seem to ever have more than two lanes in a store open at a time(!), I do not single out individual people and small businesses that fail to live up to my expectations, which is why I didn’t mention your company by name.

While your company, the Vermont Chocolate Chip Cookie Company may use the term “World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie” in its copy, it doesn’t show up in the first several pages of any of the Google searches I did for the term, so I figured the odds of readers putting a name to the company were pretty close to nil.

The post was merely feedback for not just yours, but any business who might have a similar situation. It has good advice for those who care to listen to the message. I say that we can sometimes learn more from those who are disappointed with our product than those who are satisfied.

I applaud you for taking the time to address my issues. It is a rare thing in today’s world for a company or individuals, for that matter, to do.

You mentioned a note in samples you sent out asking for feedback. I had no such note in my sample. And believe me, I looked, because I was sure there had to be something more in the first envelope you sent! But since you are looking for feedback, here is my feedback.

and now the part we’ve been waiting for… a review of the cookie.

• Packaging: I like the bubble envelope and the rubber band and ribbon and plastic wrap. I have no complaints. I’m not sure what a better alternative would be for making sure the cookies don’t crumble outside of a box or a tube of some sort. The presentation was good and the card attached to the package was of premium quality.
• Size: The three inch diameter seemed small when I was getting just one cookie. When I have several, the size is less of an issue.
• Taste: The first thing I tasted was the semi-sweet chocolate which was warm and melted in my mouth (perhaps because they’d been in my warm mailbox – but a GOOD melt in your mouth experience nonetheless). Next, I tasted a slight hint of butter, which I like in a cookie. I thought there was a bit of alcohol in the cookie. For a brief moment, I worried that I’d been sent a laced cookie because of my snarky letter. However, my wife corrected me and told me it was the taste of vanilla. Either way, very good. A bit on the sweet side, though most people prefer cookies like that. I tend to prefer slightly less sweet and less chocolaty, which I am sure is in direct opposition to many of my female readers who LOVE chocolate so much the only way you could make it better would be to cover the chocolate in yet another layer of chocolate. Chocolate covered chocolate. Somewhere, Tara Cain’s ears are twitching.
• Texture: Texture in a cookie is very subjective. I love crunchy cookies whereas my wife likes cookies that are so soft they practically drip off the plate. These cookies were soft with just the right amount of crunch, somehow satisfying both my wife and my own preferences.
• Overall: Is it truly The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie? Well, I don’t know if I can say that because my wife makes perhaps the best ones I’ve tasted, which are super crunchy (which she makes just for me). However, they ARE great cookies and I would recommend them to anyone who wants to find out for themselves if this is truly the World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie.

Thank you for the explanation and the cookies,

Blogger Dad

Wow, that was more than 1,200 words. I apologize for those who could care less about cookies or my grumbling. To those that do care, feel free to comment below or order some of the World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookies for yourself and see what all the fuss has been about.

As always, thank you for reading,

David

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Thank you for the “free sample” of the “World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie” which arrived in my mailbox today.

Ever since I placed the order last week, I have been salivating as I imagined what The World’s Greatest Chocolate Chip Cookie would taste like. As you might discern from my belly, I’m no stranger to cookies. You might even say I’m a cookie lover, if not a cookie monster, as no cookie is safe in my house longer than 24 hours.

I told family, friends and even random strangers that I would soon have in my hands not just any cookie, but The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie. You can imagine the excitement that built in my community as each day. Neighbors gathered around my mailbox waiting for the arrival of my free sample.

Sure, the sample wasn’t really free. I had to pay $2.50 for shipping and handling. But that is a small pittance to pay for The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie.

Since the website from which I ordered the cookie didn’t tell me how many come in a free sample, I found myself worrying that I might get too many cookies. I’d hate to over indulge on The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookies and have all other cookies ruined forever after.

Today, the excitement built to a crescendo as my wife slowly opened the mailbox. Inside, was the moment we’ve all been waiting for. As she lifted the white bubble wrap package skyward, the crowd erupted into wild cheers!

After the obligatory interviews with local media outlets, I shooed the crowd away and then gathered my family around the table, ready to share in the bountiful goodness.

I opened the package and was greeted with one cookie, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, rubber band and a nice white ribbon. These people spared no expense!

And the cookie was HUGE, a full 3 inches in diameter!

I wasn’t sure how I would cut such a massive cookie into pieces for my family to enjoy, not without a jackhammer or some other heavy construction equipment which I am not licensed to operate, anyway. Fortunately, when I picked the cookie up, it fell apart into easier-to-eat pieces.

My wife, my son and I each enjoyed a one inch fragment of The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie. Fortunately, we were unable to form an opinion based on one bite each. This is good because it means I wasn’t tempted to order more cookies.

So, thank you, Unnamed Cookie Company, for not over-delivering on your free sample and avoiding what could have been a long, expensive and fattening relationship.

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