5. FROZEN RASPBERRIES.

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to accurately explain this one, as I've yet to meet anyone as passionate about these frozen delights as I seem to be.

I can't say when I started eating these, but it was as early as my short stint at my great uncle's grocery store in early high school. Now, they had the good sense to allow their employees to cash their paychecks at the registers. I'm not sure if this is still their practice (or legal??); but playing right into their hands, I would regularly spend chunks of my wages in potato wedges and frozen raspberries at the end of my shift. My mother would always exclaim when I walked in w/bounty in hand: "We HAVE food here! We live less than a block away from the grocery store...couldn't you wait that long?!"

Short answer? No.

I love fruit in almost every form, and could eat it at every meal if my body could subsist on that alone. And if canker sores didn't keep me in check as my body's way of telling me to chill out on the citrus, you psycho. The bearded boyfriend, henceforth known as TBB, wisely keeps some on hand at his apartment, so the mad-dashes to Walmart for my post-dinner fix are made somewhat less frequently.

I strongly urge those of you who haven't tried this delicacy to do so. Even if your fruit cravings come and go, think of the genius of having your fruit frozen, making it last much longer than its chemically preserved life in your fridge. Seriously, another reason I love frozen raspberries so much is that they are frozen as soon as they're picked-they don't need to have chemicals sprayed on them to survive the ride from their faraway home to your local market! And apparently, some people have enough self control to blend them into smoothies with other fruits and juices before consuming them. But that's just here-say.

5. FROZEN RASPBERRIES MAKE MY VERY SOUL HAPPY. I'M LUCKY TO ENJOY THIS HEALTHY TREAT SO MUCH MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. IT ALSO GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO SHARE THESE TREATS WITH OTHERS, AFTER THE WEIRD LOOKS STOP.