Sweet Tooth
There are certain practices I’m anxious to curtail,
but I find my past attempts were to no avail.
Cookies placed before me vanish without a trace,
and if you’re toting donuts, you’d better bring your mace.
I should eschew both cake and pie, for I cannot afford it.
So just in case you plan to share, please change your mind and hoard it!!
The Ragtag prompt today is trace.
Fandango’s prompt FOWC is curtail.
And Daily Addiction’s is afford.
Mmmmmmm!!!!! 🙂
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Any trace and I’m in trouble. Of that there is no doubt.
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This is terrific, Judy.
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There oughta be a law against posting such appetite-inflaming pictures. Prompts are no excuse. 😉
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Ha. Guilty as charged. Someone posted three photos of iced donuts last night and I was giving him flack. Now it’s my turn to receive it. I deserve it. On the other hand, I went to the mall and didn’t have gelato today. Ahem.
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So there I was in the kitchens talking to myself. “NO COOKIES. SANDWICH!” It isn’t really that I want the cookies. What I want is to not MAKE a sandwich. I want to eat, but I don’t want to create food.
I made the sandwich. I may go back for the cookie.
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My bet is that you do. Do I win?
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I have a serious sweet tooth, too! If I didn’t just eat a large slice of peach cake, your photos would have definitely pushed me to do so.
I must confess that even when dieting, I must have something sweet. Unlike some people, I am willing to use sugar substitutes. Luckily, sugar alcohols don’t bother my stomach.
I do like fruit, but unlike my husband, fruit alone doesn’t always do it for me. Cakes, donuts, or any kind of pastries are my weak points. Though I like other sweets (chocolates and ice cream), they just don’t compare to pastries, in my book.
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Agree on all counts, except re/ ice cream and chocolate, which would always be my first choices, even though I didn’t mention them….Poetic license, don’t you know.
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You forgot the ice cream! I can pass on cakes and pies, but ice cream gets me every time! And of course the sugar in the ice cream makes me retain fluids as well as being just plain bad for me! I’ll need lots of water to get through the next few days of heat — hopefully to avoid the ice cream!
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Strange I didn’t mention it in the poem. Ice cream would always be my first choice..or, preferably, on the side.
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“if you’re toting donuts, you’d better bring your mace.” Are they caramel-covered or jelly-filled… I’ll race you for them!
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How dare you be specific about those donuts!!!
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(one of each)
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What a great post. I, too, have a sweet tooth out of this world. The sweeter the better. I always say when I am eating pie or cake that my mouth is very happy! Wonderful post.
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Thanks, Isaiah. I come by it legitimately from my mother who could not be trusted around a box of chocolates!
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Applause! Sweets are very tempting.
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All must be hidden from me. 🙂
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If you were closer, you’d be my favorite guest.
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I’m not a cake fan,
Take or leave it I can,
But fish in batter,
That’s another matter
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Ha.
I do not wish
to dine on fish.
Things that swim
are not my whim!
Burger and fries?
More of a prize!
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Agreed on burger and fries 🙂
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