Solo "Row-low"

Should I eat it?
Look how happy I could be!

But then again, the trash is nice too,
especially when it prevents food poisoning.

So, for my first and most urgent case, because let's be real it's taking all my willpower not to eat it before I tell the strange people who might wander here, I present...

FOUND FOOD

One single, individually-wrapped Rolo. Yum.

The Rolo in question.
It's still on my bathroom counter, waiting.

ABOUT THE FOOD

From wikipedia:

Rolo (pronounced "Row-low", referring to the roll-styled candy) is a brand of truncated-cone-shaped or frustum-shaped chocolates with a caramel centre, the shape resembling that of a shallow inverted bucket or tub or a traditional lampshade. They are made by Nestlé, except in the United States where production has been under licence by The Hershey Company since 1969. Of note, the caramel in the American and UK version is thick and chewy, rather than runny, as it is elsewhere.

So, now I know a new shape ("frustum", seriously, because the phrase "shallow inverted bucket" would be too much fun). Hoo-freaking-ray for thick and chew caramel! If this was one of those runny caramel Hershey's Kisses, in the trash it would go.

WHERE I FOUND IT

In the guest bathroom closet. In a cardboard box. Full of cleaning supplies. The kind that hurt you. In between some 409 with bleach and some Raid for the outdoors. You know that's the kind of Raid that if you spray inside, your pets will get sick (so don't do that). Yeah.

See, so shiny :)

Mmm, chocolate + cleaning chemicals
= a strange kind of high, probably.

PROBABLE AGE

June 2013? I found it in a moving box from July. Since I can't make a bag of candy last more than a month, I figure it's from June.

REASONS TO EAT IT

It's. A Rolo. 

Plus, it looked so cute among those cleaning supplies. All shiny and bright and round in a sea of plastic, and ugly shapes and sterile stench. And cardboard.

Also, eventually my bag of fun-sized Milky Ways is gonna be empty (it's two weeks old so...), but maybe I can rely on 50% off Halloween candy at CVS to replace the Rolo?

REASONS NOT TO EAT IT

Umm, because it was in a sea of plastic and ugly shapes and sterile stench. Does that aluminum wrapper block chemicals from getting in? Are all individually-wrapped Rolos sealed equally tight?

VERDICT

I'm totally gonna eat it.

Is it because I anticipate a lapse in chocolate between the bag of Milky Ways and 50% off Halloween candy? No, it's not. 

It's for the same reason that I've often eaten foods that have been left out for too long etc., and the main reason I'm having to ask myself, on kind of a regular basis, should I eat that, or throw it in the trash? It's because it's a strange, strange form of thrill-seeking. I can't resist just seeing if I'll get sick, if I eat that, instead of throwing it in the trash!

7-DAY OUTCOME

.... due Nov 6!