I just ran down to my local groceria (that's Spanish for grocery store, if you're a gringo), to pay too much for a chai at the newly-opened in-store Star-bucks. For whatever reason this particular Starbucks location is run by what must be absolute morons, as they have on more than one occasion had just one person there to do everything; take orders, get money, make change, make order, correct you when you say "large" ("oh, a venti!" (as if "large" is some sort of exotic word from a foreign language which has made it into the English lexicon, such as "hors d'oeuvres", or "sphincter")). But I digress. While my skim milk was steaming I headed over to the bakery section of the store itself, with nothing but a Boston Creme donut on my mind. At first I didn't see them. Then I saw what I could have sworn was a Boston, but it was a Danish cleverly hidden under a layer of chocolate frosting. Grrr. No Boston Cremes to be had. Ok, no problem. They have éclairs. I grabbed one, swung by to get my drink, paid my $.45 for my baked good and left.

Back at my desk, database update script chugging along, and time to take a bite out of my breakfast. First bite, no creme. Ok, fine. They must have injected it in the other end. Second bite. Hmm... something is wrong here. Perhaps I should have noticed then how decidedly light my éclair was. I get about halfway in and come to the sad realization that this morning, there will be no creme. Now, what sick bastard would go around making a donut-like pastry that looks like an elongated Boston Creme but is only a hollow shell of what a real donut should be?

Here's the conversation I immediately had with the Feral Marketing Department:

[08:03:08] FMD: who makes an éclair without cream? [08:03:12] FMD: commies, that's who. [08:03:22] Matt: filthy reds [08:03:29] FMD: ferreals [08:03:34] Matt: of course there were no boston creme donuts [08:03:39] Matt: those were the first choice [08:03:59] FMD: fucking donut nazis. [08:04:08] Matt: "no creme for you!" [08:04:21] Matt: i'm not gonna even eat the last third [08:04:25] Matt: that's my political protest [08:04:30] Matt: in fact, i just may blog about it. [08:04:38] FMD: you should [08:04:45] FMD: that's why you have a blog, after all.

Amen, brother. Amen.