It's December! And it's Cyber Monday! I may be in the minority, but I love the concept of Cyber Monday. If you aren't aware, "Cyber Monday" is intended to be the web-version of Black Friday, featuring the year's biggest online sales and assorted brouhahas.
There are some who claim that Cyber Monday is a myth -- a baseless term created by retailers to turn a non-event into a cash cow. Bah. The same could be said for Black Friday. Despite its reputation, Black Friday isn't the busiest shopping day of the year. It isn't even the second biggest. And while Black Friday sales can be noteworthy, it's mostly the aura of the thing that makes it so newsworthy. If a bunch of online retailers want to extend that aura to another day of the year, what's the big deal? Surely we the people have more important things to worry about. Killer birds with razor talons, for example.
It isn't easy to choose the "right day" to blow several hundred dollars on Christmas presents for eighty-four children who will each get at least ten other gifts that they'll like better than whatever I give them anyway. I'll take all the help I can get.
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Spumoni, once merely a misspelling of one of Dick Tracy's lesser-known adversaries' surnames, is now also an ice cream flavor from Edy's. More correctly, it's spumoni ice cream based on spumoni ice cream. True Italian spumoni is a little more rustic, so I guess this is more of a Neapolitan ice cream (also based on spumoni) with extra pizzazz.
As the previous paragraph proves, I seriously enjoy the word "spumoni." Say it aloud. Type it a few times. You'll see what I mean. Makes me want to run out and buy some kind of toy breed just so I can name it "Spumoni" and have an excuse to say "spumoni" all day everyday.
What is spumoni? In this incarnation, it's compartments of chocolate, pistachio and strawberry ice cream, fortified with nuts and little bits of cherries. The color combination is very on-brand for Christmas, and between that and my love for that special word, I can only repay Edy's with a blood sacrifice.
If SPUMONI isn't your thing, Edy's sells holiday-themed ice cream in many other flavors. I reviewed their peppermint and egg nog flavors last year, if those are more your style. If they aren't, there is no satisfying people like you.
Oh, and the Advent Calendar has begun. That too. 
Survey: What's the #1 thing on your wishlist this year? Note that "world peace" is so played.
Posted by Matt on 12/01/2008. E-mail me!
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