Wicked Satisfying

Hey there, it’s me, Captain Randomly-Abandons-Her-Blog. : ) Ok…well, I changed jobs and may have ah, gotten engaged, but ya know, excuses excuses right? haha But I’m back, beeyatch! And I have a new satisfying thing for you Summer satisfytes to ponder - the frappe.

If you’re not from New England, you’re probably like “um, what?” I think other folks refer to this as a milkshake…it’s ice cream, syrup and milk all mixed together so it’s nice and cold and creamy, often requiring some serious sucking power to get it up a straw. Beyond the satisfaction in the creamy consistency of a chilly frappe, it’s more in the actual container you drink it out of. I don’t know what makes it different when a frappe is in it, but a paper cup with a frappe inside makes a delightful sound when you put it on a table or countertop. You could fill the very same cup with soda and ice, and it wouldn’t have the same effect. They’re usually in those cups that have that retro 80s crayon scribble on them (see the killer image I wrangled up on Google Images.)

There’s this solid sound when you put a frappe down after taking a nice long sip (if you’re able to wrench it out of your mitt long enough to put it down because it’s so good you don’t want to let go of it), and it’s like “yes. I have a substantial drink right here. Oh, you’re drinking a diet Sprite?…man, I’m sorry about that. Too bad you’re not having a nice big gulp of semi-frozen creamy awesomeness.”

Free swim season at your local pool = satisfying. Frappe Season = wicked satisfying.

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My best friend and I have this theory about how the deliciousness level of food goes up significantly when it’s not yours. This manifests itself in two ways:

1. You’re over someone’s house and they have/their family has cooked you a meal. This could be something as simple (yet monumental) as a grilled cheese sandwich, and is especially prominent when in a cookout environment. It never tastes as good when you make it, even if you have the recipe. This is known as other people’s food (OPF).

2. You’re eating something. Your friend/relative/complete stranger is eating something different. They offer you a bite. You have one, and it’s indescribably delicious, even if it’s a food that you’re not usually that excited about. Somehow having a limited supply of that food makes you want it all the more. French fries, nachos, or cookies are particularly dangerous in this situation because you can ask for them one at a time, but you don’t want to push your luck and have too many and make the person hate you, but you also have an unstoppable need to satiate your craving for just “one more bite”.

This entry focuses primarily on the sandwich. Someone else’s sandwich always looks better than yours. You both go out for subs. You get your usual turkey with lettuce, and your friend gets ham. You’d never get ham. But suddenly you start thinking back to that delicious Easter dinner and you have to have a bite of that sandwich. “Want a bite of my sandwich?” they say to you. “Oh are you sure?” you feign slight disinterest. You could take it or leave it, honestly. Right?….. but then you’re like “well if you insist.”

Then comes the sandwich trade. If you’re lucky, they will have eaten off of a couple of the corners and left you with a slightly squashed, protruding bite that beckons you to its chewy bread and perfectly assembled contents. You leave a lovely scallop-edged arc where your teeth have pulled away, revealing more sandwich peninsulas for the following bites you won’t be having (unless you ask nicely, right?).

Little do you know your friend is feeling the same way about your sandwich. Your sandwich is alright, but you have so much left, there’s no sense of urgency. Maybe you both tune into each other’s sandwich satisfaction and decide to trade half for half. But be forewarned — this could either be fantastic, or make the whole experience rather ordinary. After all, what’s the fun in other people’s food if it’s not theirs anymore?

A delicious sandwich = satisfying. Covert annihilation of someone else’s food = wicked satisfying.

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Ice cream season is upon us! (okay, for me every season is ice cream season…but whatever) It’s finally hot out, and the tourists have begun to flood my hometown. One advantage to growing up in a tourist trap is that even though it’s boring and dead in the winter, in the Summer you’re surrounded by delicious seafood and ice cream. In a one mile radius, there are 4 ice cream stores, and there’s another on the other side of town. Mmmm.

Today’s wicked satisfying tribute goes to the act of dipping a freshly assembled cone into a bowl of sprinkles. Now if you’re from Massachusetts, you probably call them jimmies. As it turns out, technically jimmies only refer to the chocolate sprinkles, so if you say rainbow jimmies, it’s wrong, and if you say chocolate jimmies, it’s redundant. I disregard both of these rules because a) if you say jimmies, the counter staff will ask you rainbow or chocolate, and b) the redundancy comes into play with my staple ice cream order: chocolate chip with chocolate jimmies. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?

Some ice cream places attempt to spoon on the jimmies to their ice cream cones, but that’s just stupid. Unless the ice cream is soft serve or super melty, the ratio of stuck jimmies to jimmies that fall off into the bowl is incredibly low. The hardcore way to dress your cone with sprinkles is to jam it into a large bowl of the delicious little waxy morsels and have at it.

For this process, it’s very important to make sure you’ve packed your cone well so that you don’t go to invert it and lose the ice cream in the bowl of sprinkles. Coming at it from an angle and pushing the ice cream back into the cone as you rotate seems to be a pretty good method. What you’re left with is this delightful cone that’s evenly smothered. Chocolate sprinkles are super satisfying because they’re all the same color and the cone just looks like this amazing chocolate victory torch that you get to extinguish with your mouth.

Next time you go to the ice cream stand and get a cone, ask for sprinkles and try to watch them in action. Sometimes they even invert the cups, too, which is super hardcore. I’ll have a chocolate chip with chocolate jimmies, please.

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I’m not sure where I first encountered this, but Melamine dinnerware is definitely some of the most satisfying dinnerware out there. It’s funky, it’s colorful, and so smooth. If you’ve never heard of it before, basically it’s this dinnerware that’s made out of really hard plastic-type material, and it’s known for being really colorful, durable, and the patterns are often very satisfying if you decide to opt against the solid colors. It was really popular back in the 60s and 70s, so a lot of people apparently collect the vintage stuff. It’s all over eBay. But there are other stores that carry it, like Target, and this awesome site that features tons of different types of it. Mmmm mix and match, creamy plastic dinnerware.

Eating a meal on a melamine plate can be the difference between something that satiates your appetite, and something that truly satisfies. You won’t have that awful screeching sound of your knife slipping across a glass or porcelain plate because the thick, durable plastic of Melamine provides a scratch-resistant, utensil-friendly surface.

Beyond eating, though, I have a feeling that Melamine dinnerware is pretty amazing to stack in the cabinet. Can you imagine it? Instead of hearing the heavy clang of your heavy dishes slide on top of one another as you take them out of the dishwasher and put them in the cabinet, you’ll hear a softer, more pleasant sound of the plates and cups being put in their proper places.

Dinnerware is also one of those things that happens to be a lot more satisfying when there are several different pieces, than if it’s just one thing standing alone. To see what I mean, look at the pictures below (sorry the formatting is a little weird):

Clearly with Melamine, the more the merrier (yeah alliteration, w00t!)

What brings your dining experience to a new level?

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I’m not the only one that likes elevator buttons!

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Honestly, the reason I’ve been putting off writing an entry about elevator buttons is because every single time that I remember that I want to write it and I’m in my office building, I’ve forgotten my camera. I want to take pictures of the buttons on the elevators here because they’re … you guessed it, wicked satisfying! But alas, I suppose I’ll make due with whatever I can scrounge up on the ‘Net and hope I don’t get busted for infringing someone’s copyright. (OMG in my image searching, I found a page dedicated to different types of elevator buttons! LMAO) I don’t know what this is either but it’s pretty awesome.

There are all different kinds of elevator buttons to enjoy - metallic ones, plastic ones, some with numbers, some stick out really far, others are indented, and my personal fav — the ones that have little plastic rings around them that light up when you press them.

Satisfytes most likely seek out things that light up on command, because it’s sort of like magic, and magic is a special power that makes satisfying things happen whenever you want, and that’s satisfying. Think about it - touch lamps, the mini-moon tap light, pen lights, Simon…. yeah, I thought so. You’re like, hurrying off to find them online right now and abandoning this entry because you got so excited.

But if you’re still with me, hopefully you can share in the appreciation for elevator buttons, both inside and outside the elevator. There are those triangular shaped ones sometimes to indicate up or down, or, the really special smooth and creamy kind that you find on gold-emblazoned elevators in expensive hotel lobbies. I love the scene in Elf when Will Ferrell runs his hands down the whole stack of lights in the office elevator to make them look like a Christmas tree (I’ll post the video next if I can find it). I’ll admit it’s tempting to do that, but honestly, I don’t really like riding elevators at all (Thank you, inability to outgrow motion sickness!). But if you’re going to ride an elevator, I’ll happily push the button for you.

What’s your best elevator button experience? Do other buttons satisfy you even more?

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OMG, you guys. My brother just sent this to me and not only was I laughing hysterically at how awesome it was, I decided that it was also incredibly satisfying and needed to be shared.

Backflipping into a pair of jeans = wicked satisfying, and so awesome!

Guys backflip into jeans

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Hey there, everyone. Sorry the blog seemed to drop off the face of the Earth for like, a week. My bad!

Let’s move onto our next Wicked Satisfying thing - turning a gumball machine handle. I think the product designers are onto us Satisfytes - knowing full well that creating something that’s shiny, makes clicking sounds and results in a handful of candy will entice us, even if we’re not in the mood for whatever’s inside. Genius.

Those gumball machine/candy dispensers at a kiosk at the mall have their own gravitational force. You might be walking along, attempting to dodge the obnoxious hand cream and neck pillow vendors screaming “excuse me, ma’am, can I ask you a question?” You just did, buddy. You see the candy in the distance, and even if you’re not hungry, you’re like “ooh let’s see what we have here.” If you’re lucky, or if Fate steps in, you might find a shiny quarter or two in your pocket. Now you just have to get something, whether you initially wanted it or not. Gumballs, Spree, M&Ms, runts, cashews (wtf?), so much to choose from. But it doesn’t matter so much in the end product since a gumball will lose its flavor and softness in about 5 seconds. It’s all in the experience.

You place the quarter in its little caddy, cradled gently and ready for its voyage to meet the other quarters gone before. Then, the really satisfying part. You grab the little diamond-shaped handle, and give it a nice, sturdy crank. *click click click* And then you hear the satisfying plopping noise of whatever you just bought clanging against the teeny little metallic doggy-door. Success!

Potential downfall: inaccurate scooping when you open the flap, spilling your reese’s pieces everywhere; putting the wrong coin in by accident and not being able to get it out; or the worst- encountering a machine that’s STUCK. Disgusting.

What’s your favorite dispensed candy?

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Ok I just typed it into YouTube thinking I might find it and there it was!! The original commercial showing some quality close-ups of this insane satisfaction factory in action. It borders on obscene….obscene satisfaction, that is. Enjoy!

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Modeling clay is one of those craft items that it could almost go unmentioned because it’s so inherently awesome that you just take it for granted. This wonderful, malleable substance provides hours of satisfying fun, no matter what you’re making with it. If you’re a more hard-core art student, you might have the chance to use the real stuff. Slicing a slab of that is satisfying in its own right.

But let’s assume that you’re more of a traditional, occasional arts and craftser, or you saw a little pot of Play-Doh at Walgreen’s and couldn’t resist it. When you work with clay, there are many different things that contribute to its satisfaction level:

Aroma - clay is one of those smells that’s almost gross, but because of that, it’s really good. Play-Doh actually has its own awesome smell that’s very distinctive and salty. Other modeling clay tends to smell like a warm piece of electronics, an eraser, or a box of crayons.

Consistency - old, brittle, dried out clay is absolutely disgusting. It turns a potentially satisfying experience into a frustrating, uncomfortable one. It’s like cake. When it’s moist and downy, it’s amazing, and when its’ dry and crumbly, you kind of want to gag. Fresh clay is key. The warmer it gets, the softer it gets, so there’s a great consistency nirvana right where it’s in the middle between soft and pliable and too warm.

Shapes and Tools - Did you ever have one of those Play Doh Fun Factory things where you could shove a wad into this little compressor and it’d squeeze it out in different shapes like toothpaste? I did. And it was AMAZING. You can experience many different satisfying moments with clay in this way. You can squeeze it through a shape like frosting. You can roll it out into a smooth cylinder and marvel at its smoothness. You can then SLICE said cylinder with a knife or razor blade and get little gummy chunks. You can roll it into a perfect ball. You can squash it flat and roll that up like a rose or one of those flaky tubular cookies (also satisfying). You can poke it with toothpicks or make beads out of it, anything you could think of.

It never dries - Play Doh will dry out if you leave it sitting around, but other modeling clays will stay soft for a very very long time, guaranteeing you a smooth and creamy craft time whenever you want.

Claymation - enough said.

Makes you want to go buy some FIMO or Sculpey right now doesn’t it?

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