My oldest daughter is a freshman in college.  We speak with her almost daily, Lisa more than I.  It’s great to hear the stories and tales of her dorm and college life. 

What’s amazing is the food she’s eating.  She’s on the campus meal plan and they have the standard cafeteria set-up.  But they also have a whole different situation going on as well.  Different food trucks and other sit down and take out places that she can go to using her campus dining plan.  She has 2 evening classes and after one of them her and a few friends often go to a Mexican place that’s on her meal package.   YES – I am absolutely jealous.

She’s living her best life.

Brought back memories of being in college… but don’t you get tired of reading about my hi-jinks and situations I get myself into.  I know I get tired of reading about them.

So I’ll stick with a Lisa tale. 

Now look – Don’t tell her.  She usually doesn’t read my blog.

               *Side Note 1 – I KNOW – RIGHT !!!!!

So, if you don’t tell her, odds are she won’t see it.

Many years ago, Lisa saw something that she wanted to help with.  Through a church, she found a group that was organizing care packages to be sent to college students.  It was things college students might want to get to make their life easier, mostly food stuff.  They loaded boxes with packs of Ramon Noodles, Blue Box Mac&Cheese, packs of crackers and cookies and assorted snacks; really good idea.  All you had to do was submit someone you knew in college and the address and this church group would pack up a box and send it monthly. 

               *Side Note 2 – I wonder if they still do that?  What a cool idea.

Well, if you know Lisa, when she finds a cause she likes – she goes all in.  Not only did she help pack the boxes, but she wanted to assist in making something to go in the boxes.

Now, I am not a fan of Starbucks.  I think they are over priced, I think the coffee is bitter and they’re a bit to boujee for me.  And I don’t want to order the different size cups according to their new world order.  Venti?  NO NO NO – I just want a large cup of coffee, I don’t need a vocabulary lesson.  But my kids – BOTH OF THEM – they love them some Starbucks.  They get these Frappuccino Foo-Foo drinks and these pink drinks, and these really overpriced Cake Pops.  I mean $3.00 and up for a Dunkin’ Donut Munchkin with a stick shoved up.  You eat them in 1 bite – $3.00 for that?

               *Side Note 3 – I have to learn a whole new vocabulary to order a damn cup of coffee, but on their menu is an actual pink drink named…. “Pink Drink”

Anyway…. Lisa thought it would be a great idea to make Cake-Pops and include them into these care packages/boxes.  And I thought it was a great idea too.

So, Lisa and Kate (I think) got the sticks and ingredients to make Cake-Pops.  Chocolate.  The kitchen set up, they got going mixing up the batter and getting the pans ready and it was a regular baking festival.

I got home and they were in full swing.  I don’t remember how many they made, but they made a decent side batch.  Out come the sticks.  Cake Pops all sticked up, now the frosting.

I thought they looked great.  Just about the right size, you know, the size that Starbucks over charges you for.  Boy was I wrong……

What happened next was what I wouldn’t call a fight.  It wasn’t even an argument.  It was more of her being annoyed at me and me completely not understanding what in the world….

See, (and here is my point).  These are college kids.  College kids that just got done eating a blue box of Mac&Cheese and now have been looking forward to this delicious home made cake pop.

               *Side Note 4 – I’m giving them the benefit of doubt, you know darn well they opened the box and ate that darn thing first.

THEY ARE COLLEGE KIDS.  They are not going to unwrap it, take a step back, turn their heads sideways, roll their eyes and say, “Now hold on here – this Cake-Pop is not diametrically even.  It’s a bit off-center and not completely circular, I’m not eating this”.  NO NO NO – these kids are going to gobble that down and won’t even recognize if it’s circular, circular-ish, oval, square or triangular.  THEY WON’T CARE !!!

But nope.  Not good enough.  They did not meet the stringent standard of excellence that is the Sumstine Kitchen.  The entire batch of perfectly fine and delicious Cake-Pops had to be thrown away, and I had to go to the store to get more ingredients to make another round of Cake-Pops, these were to be perfectly symmetrical spherical Cake-Pops.

Now, I won’t ask you to respond to a survey about who is right.  You do remember the name of the blog is “Because Jim Says”, so we can all assume that I am right.  Right?

But in these care packages/boxes, each person did receive, with the Blue Box and Ramon Noodles and cookies and crackers, I perfectly spherical Cake-Pop.

What happened to the old ones?  They were deemed not even edible by the Sumstines – they were discarded in the trash.

OH THE HORROR !!!!!

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