NAMA

National Automatic Merchandising Association

“NAMA is the national trade association of the food and refreshment vending, coffee service and foodservice management industries including on-site, commissary, catering and mobile. Its membership is comprised of service companies, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of products and services to operating service companies. The basic mission of the association, to collectively advance and promote the automatic merchandising and coffee service industries, still guides NAMA today as it did in 1936, the year of the organization’s founding.”
- http://www.vending.org/

peanutopolis

defined by Snickers as (a noun meaning) “A state of mind making you feel very strong and powerful, almost mayor-like.”

Ode 2 Mountain Dew

Mountain Dew is the best pop I know
nothin’ else for me, none,
no, a day without it, I can’t go on
other pop can’t compare to this one.

It helps me to sleep,
It helps me to wake,
though I can’t
drink it with cake.

Its my life force
it flows through my veins
without it I’m nothing
I go insane.

From the green bottle or can
to the liquid it holds
from the bubbles it makes
to the sweet sizzling sounds.

I savor every bit
don’t waste a drop
so I keep drinking
and can’t stop.

- Cody Learned written while in Grade 10 at Lincoln Northeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

published in “A Celebration Of Young Poets: Midwest – Spring 2004″

nougatocity

defined by Snickers as (a noun meaning) “A heightened yet fleeting state of accomplishment that makes you realize how unbelievably unmotivated you normally are.”

haystacks recipe

also known as non-bake cookies

in a pot melt:

• a stick of butter
• 1/2 cup of milk

mix in:

• 1/4 cocoa powder
• 2 cups of sugar

stir, let sit on burner until it gets to a rolling boil

then remove from heat, & mix in:

• 1 large dash of vanilla
• 1/2 cup of peanut butter
• 3 cups of quick oats (dry oatmeal)

drop by spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet, let sit until it solidifies

Mountain Dew: 3 Dew Drinker Designed Flavors

Mountain Dew has been selling 3 “Dew Drinker Designed” flavors: Revolution, Super Nova, & Voltage, which all have added ginseng, & I’ve been drinking all three of them lately, they all seem fairly good, if you’re into soda pop with a shot of BVO in the first place, & apparently a person can go online & vote for what flavor he or she likes the best, but I doubt I’ll be taking part in that election, I’m just getting a kick out of mixing things up a bit.

cookie cakes recipe

a chocolate & vanilla combo, a sorta megaOreo
lots of sugar, & probably not very nutritional,
but they taste so good to me sometimes

the chocolate discs:

• 2 boxes (super moist) devils food cake mixes
• 1 1/2 cups shortening
• 4 eggs

cut in shortening, & mix the other ingredients

roll into balls

place on cookie sheet & flatten each slightly

bake for 9-12 min (standard temperature, 350° F or so)

cool on cooling rack

the frosting:

• 4 ounces cream cheese
• 1/4 cup margarine
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

mix together

place some frosting between 2 discs & you’re set

Candy Blog

http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/

a blog, about candy, run by Cybele May

a neat extensive collection of reviews of several candies from around the world

Green Label Art

so, I bought a bottle of Moutain Dew the other day… cuz’ I like Mountain Dew, & the bottle was cool

http://www.greenlabelart.com