Um... if the berry joke is out of bounds, then I'm going to have to settle with just saying "You 'straw' are generous, Jodi."

Thank you, thank you. I'm here every Friday.

With your British accent, Pete, you can say whatever you want.

Carte blanche? I'm overwhelmed?

And putting in question marks where I mean exclamation marks?

I used an apostrophe incorrectly yesterday. I'm still beating myself up over it.

Aaah, for Pete's sake, dont' worry about it.

(And before anyone says something original like, "Jodi and Pete, get a room!", well, remember: this is my room!)

Strawberries? Delicious. But you should consider posting some dental floss too; There's nothing worse than some uncouth heathen picking at their dentifrice with their pinky's fingernail trying to dislodge some remnants of their last meal.

Toothpicks irk me to; I mean come on, Jethro! Practice your back-woods dental habits in a private forum...

Thanks VERY much Jodi. (respecting your request)

What do you call and albino strawberry?

Barry White of course! (*deep deep voice* It feels so good you lying next to me baby...)

Strawberries should *always* be naked.

Classic, Rick! Barry riffs are an art unto themselves.

I know you don't do dairy, Jodi, but fresh strawberries dipped into melted, pure milk chocolate.... mmmmm, mmmm.

Milk chocolate? Feh! (And not because of the dairy component.)

If I chose to adorn strawberries (and I don't -- I'm with Suzy here) I would enrobe them in only the finest of dark chocolate.

I am with the purists. Unadulterated, flawless strawberries. Period. End of story. As for chocolate, it is my opinion that it should only be consumed in the form of a freshly-flown-in-from-Zürich Teuscher Champagne Truffle.

Milk Chocolate? FEH!

Dark Chocolate? POO!

Freshly-flown-in-from-Zürich Teuscher Champagne Truffle? BLECCH!!

The best strawberries in the WORLD are that kind that is in the freezer section in that can, with the 90% High-Fructose corn syrup "sauce" on them. MMMMMMM!!!

Dip them in a little Thousand Island Dressing? (Kraft, of course! Nothing but the best!) MAGNIFIQUE!!!!

Aaron, please! Have you no sense of decency?

Aaron, you're such a fucking snob, with your hoity toity posh cuisine. Eat some real fucking food.

No offence.

Mad Genius: You must read this. Or have you already?

Aaron: May I suggest you wash down your strawberries with a cool Clamato, served at room temperature?

Jodi: I had not read it. I have now. I am not surprised. Your taste is, after all, above reproach.

We are both very lucky to be a mere cab's ride from the best chocolate in the universe: fabuluous Rockefeller Center for you and trendy Newbury Street for me.

TAXI!!!

Everyone knows that the best chocolate comes from Willy Wonka's chocolate river in his candy factory. I mean poor Augustus Gloop didn't stand a chance of resisting such a marvelous confectionary creation. Grandpa Joe and I knew what would happen.

By the way, the golden ticket does make the chocolate in a Wonka Bar taste awful!

Gotta go breakup this Oompa Loompa crowd. The little bastards are either organizing a union or they're having another sexual-frustration-at-the-breaking-point all male orgy. Either way, it's gonna be messy...

(By the way, Jodi. This should make the search engines draw a whole new breed of pervert to your bjorn.)

If you cant' stand a naked strawberry may I suggest it in a fine glass of champagne? On the other hand, naked people and strawberries have potential as well.

I just hate those things... thanks for the strawberries. They are berry good ... I appreciate your thinking of the healthy alternatives...and the toes of the world who can remain free thank you.

ooops... berry... please insert this in the above post!

Pete: No offence taken. I realize that not everyone shares my taste for the finer things in life.

Mad Genius: Yes, I have a sense of decency, but it is grossly overpowered by my sense of taste. So when I propose something like eating canned strawberries in thousand island dressing with some sardines (did I forget to mention the sardines?) my sense of decency may say "no!" but my sense of taste says >u>"YUM!!!" (and as you can plainly see through the use of bold, italicized, underlined letters and two extra exclamation points - not to mention all caps - that's a lot louder.)

Jodi: I'm really, really sorry. I used the last of your clamato on my cereal this morning.

Of course, my sense of not knowing how to use HTML overpowers them all.

Excuse me for the lameness of this post - it is just an experiment in use of destructive HTML.

Didn't work... probably for the best.

aaron...could you come over and clean out my fridge please! I have a jar of thousand island, strawberries, peaches, sardines, garlic, assorted veggies... no clamato juice...sorry. and some pudding. You are the ideal guest. I would never have to do any last minute shopping for special ingredients. Whatever was on hand would be perfect. You are a treasure.

I like the soft little moldy strawberries half-expressed through the holes in the carton. I also like the slimy part where two strawberries rub up against each other.

But the only real strawberries, of course, are the tiny wild ones you pick yourself (along with the huckleberries) as you watch for bears.

Mik - You are correct. I am a treasure. And that fruit salad sounds absolutely delicious.