I feel like this would be a much easier buy if it was priced at fiddy and zero cents a packet. (but in all fairness, i probably am not their target audience to begin with)
@goldnectar@SolarGuy619 Yep when you consider the poo we have in Washington DC at this time. A national Sales Tax (tariffs) & the greed to be able to use more UnHealthy stuff in what we eat!
Here’s the problem. My wife works in this industry and reminds me of this when I see cheap chocolate. If the expiration is in April, that means these have been sitting for up to 18 to 24 months. Organic could have a shorter shelf life, but the bottom line is, this is old chocolate.
@axemurderer The standard issue stones, BUT during the pandemic I was eating alot of peanut butter crackers and cup o’ noodles. If I had hydrated correctly during that time, then it would have been a non-issue. I can totally eat peanut-butter, but I am NOT going to pay for it, especially a 24 pack.
@cfg83@somf69
How on earth did they figure out which vector gave you kidney stones? I didn’t know they could tell.
I suppose if all someone ate was … say, spinach … they could say that caused oxalate-based stones, but it would have to be rather continual or high consumption.
Is there a test to tell what caused kidney stones?
@Christo196@somf69 I’m a programmer, so I just use the word vector. It’s not the peanut butter per se, it’s the low-hydration diet I settled on during the pandemic. I can probably have all the PB I want, but PB crackers + cup o’ noodles were the staples I was living on.
The two times I got kidney stones, there were habits I settled into that included low hydration. That’s the main culprit. I literally wrote my el-crappo looking water logger program during my recovery from my second kidney stone procedure …
It looks like my procedure was more than 1633 days ago.
@cfg83@sflesch@therealjrn I skip the 20 because I’m not sorting the now-distant past and the future won’t become a problem during my lifetime. I did not learn anything from Y2K.
@Christo196@sflesch@somf69@therealjrn Yes, I think(?) it is also the European way to write dates. As a programmer, it makes everything sort out nicely. I hace skipped 20 in some of my folder hierarchies on my computers, but today it’s mostly the full YYYYMMDD and even YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS if needed.
@axemurderer@JohnQ118 I try to drink up to 2 liters a day + up to 4 ounces of concentrated lemon juice (what the urologist suggested a long time ago in a doctor’s office far far away). I am 130 lbs, so 3.5 liters would require me to almost double my bathroom breaks. I guess if the bathroom were a nice place to go …
/showme luxurious bathroom with a 55 inch flat screen tv and a small fridge and a one-way window looking out into a wooded glen with giant sequoias in the distance.
I learned that it is comically easy to panic the genpop with a big ol’ nothing burger.
BTW, as a wet-behind-the-ears intern in 1979, I was tasked with writing the SW to convert a running count of seconds to a date and time. My code survived Y2K.
@cfg83@Christo196@somf69@therealjrn METOO! (On the admiration element and the personal usage element)! I tell people, “if you can remember the month something happened but not the year, then fine, start with month. But if you know the year something happened but not necessarily the month, you go YYYYMMDD. Plus that’s the format all the”file organization” wizzes on the u-toob say should be used, so if they say it on u-toob…… and it just makes sense. I don’t want June 2024 stuff to appear before July 2023 stuff. Ridiculous! Lol. Passionate about few things……I better drink some water!
@JT954 Given the history of meltable things sold by Meh, I would imagine there is little chance they aren’t melted. Maybe they can include a knife to help cut chunks off…
I’m guessing this is futile, probably because Disney has put fear in anyone who would dare to make any reference to any aspect of Star Wars in any way.
/showme an AI bot that is afraid to reference Star Wars in any way
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/showme a battle between half-man half-biscuit jedi luke sky-walker’s shortbread and half-chocolate half-spiderman toblerone mcguire. half-steak half-thor ruths chris hemsworth looks on.
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Theo’s flagship factory store was my FAVORITE place to take friends visiting Seattle- the tour was interesting, the samples were abundant, and it was a source of pride to have such an ethical, thoughtful company selling my favorite food right here in my city. When it was sold to the American Licorice Company a few years ago, it was a blow- production moved out of state, everyone was laid off. It’s still sometimes touted as a local company. I can’t speak to whether the quality of the chocolate has changed since the company that produces Red Vines took over, since I’ve moved on to other local chocolate brands for my hoity toity chocolate consumption, but I did love the dark chocolate PB cups for a long time especially because the PB they used was local CB’s Nuts peanut butter.
All of this to say: this is probably still an excellent peanut butter cup, but the nostalgia of what they once were will keep me from buying 24 of them to find out.
I am NOT willing to do it, but we need a grid of 6x4 of the above anigif or youtube video in order to represent 24 pb cups. Maybe make them play out of sequence so that it looks like a mob.
@cfg83@ItalianScallion@mediocrebot There’s a guy on Instagram whose account is calle father_phi whose whole account is dedicated to demonstrating the current failings in AI. It’s pretty interesting. What especially bugs me though is hiw utterly & completely confident & assured to AI assistant always sounds while it’s delivering nonsense.
@ItalianScallion@Kyeh@mediocrebot At last years Scale (So Cal Linux) conference there was a lecturer that talked about AI accuracy when it talked. Essentially, each word in a sentence has a confidence level. The AI could have high confidence in what it is saying maybe half-way through the sentence, and then the next word has low confidence (because it’s training in that area was weak?). Every word after this low confidence word is now degraded and can send you off in the weeds.
When you and I talk, that “low confidence” word is communicated to the other person in real time. We aren’t sure, and we let the other person know that, either overtly or in how we talk. The AI doesn’t do that.
The lecturer suggested that words should be color coded to signal the confidence to the user. If you knew the AI wasn’t proficient in the middle of the sentence, then you wouldn’t be as easily misled by the rest of what it says.
I know I am not describing this very accurately but I think you get the point.
@cfg83@ItalianScallion That IS interesting. The voice could be tweaked to sound less self-assured, maybe. Right now it always sounds smugly authoritative.
@cfg83@Kyeh It would be quite an improvement if the AI voice could, as the reference cfg83 cited, do as humans do and alter its voice when it isn’t confident or indicate that explicitly (“I’m not sure, but…”).
@ItalianScallion@Kyeh Een-tay-ray-san-tee. I didn’t know it had a name. At work and in life I have made it a point to say “I think” when I am trying to make as distinction between a fact and my personal assessment of what is going on …
/showme An anthropomorphized goat yelling at the moon “I think I blame society, but maybe I am wrong! I will get back to you after I learn more!”.
I always look at the weird food items, on the off chance that someone has come up with a low carb tasty treat. As much as I love peanut butter cups, can’t do the sugar anymore. And I was a Reese addict as a child.
@kittykat9180@wplumleyz We were 86 today. (Central Texas). In February?!! Gonna be a sizzling summer.
Meh needs to feature some air conditioners (and take some Vornado heaters in trade…)
@phendrick It’s been a warm and dry winter here. We didn’t even get any snow at my house. Usually we get 1-2” twice each winter. We got some sprinkles a few times but not enough to get deep into the ground for my plants.
@kittykat9180 My son is now in upper New York. They got snow. LOTS of it. Repeatedly. Not sure he has yet figured out how to drive in it. He might have seen ten inches TOTAL all his previous life.
Allergic to peanut butter, might consider for the kids, but it seems these have a high likelihood to be approaching rancid by their best-by date. They really should send a few of these things out to VMPs or a ‘rat test’ like they do with wine.meh.com.
“notes of chocolate, peanut butter on the cusp of ruining your day”
@caffeineguy@ItalianScallion Yeah, OP might be new/young but these types of expiration dates…You can go a few months past. It doesn’t magically go bad on that date…
@caffeineguy@kg714x I’ve never had peanut butter go rancid even if I don’t store it in the fridge like it usually says to, and even it takes me forever to go through a jar of it. Of course with (preferably dark chocolate) peanut butter cups, they’ve never seen an expiration date.
This is good timing for me, because I saw an article last week about how Reese’s grandson is suing Hershey because they’ve been making their peanut butter cup recipe worse, and I’ve been craving some quality peanut butter cups since then.
@richrauch you got that right! Comes out to $12.30 a pound for unknown quality. I have noticed that the original Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups seem different and not as good as they used to be but maybe it is because I rarely have them except for October.
@richrauch I am waiting for these to go on sale after Easter …
There was a golden age maybe 12 years ago when I could get 4 for a dollar at the 99 cents store around Easter. When I went back to the store, I found someone had “stashed” them behind empty boxes. I took all but a few to say thank you. But that golden age was maybe 1 or 2 seasons and never returned. I long for those moments, lost in time, like chocolate, down the gullet.
/showme Old wise man telling a story about an ancient civilization where everyone lived on chocolate mixed with shredded coconut and were happy.
Hope they’re good, sure are a lot of comments today and I haven’t read any of them!
I’m in for one! Milk chocolate was the only option left and even though my guy would probably prefer dark chocolate I’m glad to have saved $25, I would’ve bought him both!
We got our chocolate covered peanut butter hearts and I’m kinda glad they’re not going to be on my favorite thing list since this diabetic is NOT supposed to be eating this junk! 🫣
They taste like dark chocolate and the peanut butter center is kinda hard. They’re not at all like a Reeces cup!
My guy gets to have the entire box, he’s such the social butterfly and now he’s got plenty to share with everyone!
Got mine today, the box says April 2025; is that the expiration date? They are nasty; I can’t tell if it’s because they’re a year expired or that’s just what they’re like.
@mwoody450 write into customer service with a picture please – we ordered 4/2026 dating but a few 2025’s could have been mixed in. Sorry for the issue!
Make sure you check the date on these before you eat them. I just got mine in the mail on 03/07/2026 and my two packs were dated 20250422 & 20250429. That’s April 22nd & 29th of 2025. Almost a year past their date. Good thing I looked before I ate any of them. Be careful out there. So bummed out. I really wanted to enjoy these but I’m not going to risk it.
@BigBoyLineman what a bummer! I am so sorry – please send a pic into Customer Service and we will take care of this for you (and also be in touch with our vendor for resolution)
I got a double whammy. Both boxes are dated April 2025. And they smell funky. I haven’t even opened a box and there’s a weirdly acrid moldy smell. I was totally fine with an expiry of April this year but almost a year out of date is kind of takin the piss. I’m not even going to attempt to eat one.
The package has the production date listed “20250422” with “BB/MA: 26-AL-22” beneath it. This BB date translates to 2026-April-22. “AL” is a French/English abbreviation for Avril AKA April.
Just recvd today w/76 degrees in PA. Didnt melt. These are way better than Reeses that doesnt use real pb anymore. Real choc/ real pb and organic? Love them!! Best thing outta Wash to undirty the Gatespdfiles thing!
Just got mine yesterday and they’re delicious! I completely missed from the description that they’re heart shaped, so they’re not quite chocolate “discs” but I’ll take it. More importantly, the (milk) chocolate tastes like chocolate, not compound coatings. And the peanut butter tastes like peanut butter, not peanut-butter-style crèmes. So I’m very happy. Except for the part where I have to eat 48 of them in the next month…
Specs
Product: 24-Pack: Theo Organic Peanut Butter Cups
Model: 874492003227, 874492003210
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$66 (for 24) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Mar 5 - Monday, Mar 9
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I feel like this would be a much easier buy if it was priced at fiddy and zero cents a packet. (but in all fairness, i probably am not their target audience to begin with)
You’re bragging about a dollar per? When did Meh become lower middle class?
@goldnectar have you taken a LOOK at this sh*t show economy?
@goldnectar Yeah, but don’t forget it’s 40% more than that with shipping! So now you’re more like upper middle class.
@goldnectar tariffs, huh.
@goldnectar @SolarGuy619 Yep when you consider the poo we have in Washington DC at this time. A national Sales Tax (tariffs) & the greed to be able to use more UnHealthy stuff in what we eat!
@goldnectar @quattrose
I heard shipping went up to $10.
/showme organism peanut butter
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@mediocrebot @medz Those little peanut critters are creepy-good.
@medz
Let’s not talk about how I read that the first time
Here’s the problem. My wife works in this industry and reminds me of this when I see cheap chocolate. If the expiration is in April, that means these have been sitting for up to 18 to 24 months. Organic could have a shorter shelf life, but the bottom line is, this is old chocolate.
@somf69 Peanut butter was one of my kidney stone vectors, so peanut butter is verboten.
@somf69 “My wife works in this industry”
@somf69 “sitting for up to 18 to 24 months.”
THE HORROR
@cfg83
??? how? what kind of stones do you develop?
pb isn’t exactly high in oxalates (unlike chocolate)
@axemurderer The standard issue stones, BUT during the pandemic I was eating alot of peanut butter crackers and cup o’ noodles. If I had hydrated correctly during that time, then it would have been a non-issue. I can totally eat peanut-butter, but I am NOT going to pay for it, especially a 24 pack.
@cfg83 seriously? between pb, crackers, and cup o’noodles, you concluded that pb was the problem? come on, man.
@axemurderer You must be one of those secret pb boosters that big-pb is paying on the sly. How many cups are they paying you per post,
?
I’m literally not gonna bite.
@somf69 well said. There is always a reason something is so “cheap.”
@cfg83 nah, just someone else who had a kidney stone and actually knows something about the topic/causes.
@cfg83 @somf69
How on earth did they figure out which vector gave you kidney stones? I didn’t know they could tell.
I suppose if all someone ate was … say, spinach … they could say that caused oxalate-based stones, but it would have to be rather continual or high consumption.
Is there a test to tell what caused kidney stones?
@Christo196 @somf69 I’m a programmer, so I just use the word vector. It’s not the peanut butter per se, it’s the low-hydration diet I settled on during the pandemic. I can probably have all the PB I want, but PB crackers + cup o’ noodles were the staples I was living on.
The two times I got kidney stones, there were habits I settled into that included low hydration. That’s the main culprit. I literally wrote my el-crappo looking water logger program during my recovery from my second kidney stone procedure …
It looks like my procedure was more than 1633 days ago.
YM(etabolism)MV.
@Christo196 @somf69
I admire your proper date format @cfg83 to naturally sort the entries by date. I do the same thing on my spreadsheets
@somf69 good-old chocolate.
@axemurderer @cfg83 Drink plenty of water (3.5 liters) every day.
@cfg83 @Christo196 @somf69 @therealjrn that’s the only way to write dates.
@cfg83 @somf69 So sad!
@cfg83 @sflesch @therealjrn I skip the 20 because I’m not sorting the now-distant past and the future won’t become a problem during my lifetime. I did not learn anything from Y2K.
@Christo196 @sflesch @somf69 @therealjrn Yes, I think(?) it is also the European way to write dates. As a programmer, it makes everything sort out nicely. I hace skipped 20 in some of my folder hierarchies on my computers, but today it’s mostly the full YYYYMMDD and even YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS if needed.
@axemurderer @JohnQ118 I try to drink up to 2 liters a day + up to 4 ounces of concentrated lemon juice (what the urologist suggested a long time ago in a doctor’s office far far away). I am 130 lbs, so 3.5 liters would require me to almost double my bathroom breaks. I guess if the bathroom were a nice place to go …
/showme luxurious bathroom with a 55 inch flat screen tv and a small fridge and a one-way window looking out into a wooded glen with giant sequoias in the distance.
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@cfg83 @djslack @sflesch @therealjrn
I learned that it is comically easy to panic the genpop with a big ol’ nothing burger.
BTW, as a wet-behind-the-ears intern in 1979, I was tasked with writing the SW to convert a running count of seconds to a date and time. My code survived Y2K.
@cfg83 @Christo196 @somf69 @therealjrn METOO! (On the admiration element and the personal usage element)! I tell people, “if you can remember the month something happened but not the year, then fine, start with month. But if you know the year something happened but not necessarily the month, you go YYYYMMDD. Plus that’s the format all the”file organization” wizzes on the u-toob say should be used, so if they say it on u-toob…… and it just makes sense. I don’t want June 2024 stuff to appear before July 2023 stuff. Ridiculous! Lol. Passionate about few things……I better drink some water!
@djslack @macromeh @sflesch @therealjrn Then I am probably using it every day. Thank you for your diligence to the MARCH OF TIME!
/giphy march of time
@cfg83 @djslack @sflesch @therealjrn
Not likely - that particular SW was for the (then Bleeding-Edge) 16-bit Intel 8086 chip.
@djslack @macromeh @sflesch @therealjrn Maybe it’s running here :
I saw it the other day at the Vintage Computer Festival …
https://www.vcfsocal.com/
PS - Checkout that roller mouse in the picture. I wish I had taken a close-up of that too!
Hard pass.
I would buy these if I knew they would not be melted from the Florida heat on arrival.
@JT954 Given the history of meltable things sold by Meh, I would imagine there is little chance they aren’t melted. Maybe they can include a knife to help cut chunks off…
@JT954 @shahnm
Would have been fine if they had arrived in the early part of this week… It’s been “chilly”
Best by they won’t last that long on this house….
/giphy vindictive-ritzy-band
/showme the half human half confection princess leia organic peanut butter cup from star wars, a new hope.
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/showme the half man half baked good luke skywalker’s shortbread, style of star wars: empire strikes back
@mediocrebot @zippyus I just said no peanut butter! Not fair!
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/giphy porkins
/showme the half man half baked good luke skywalker’s shortbread, style of star wars: empire strikes back
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/giphy alderaan
@zippyus Wait, it was the Hutt’s barge earlier. Confusion abounds. Did you reload the giphy?
@cfg83 choosy people choose Gif
@zippyus Is that X-wing pilot from a film or is he fan-fic?
@mediocrebot @zippyus Why can’t Princess Leia be a malted milk ball?!?!?!?!?
Come on, lucky seven!
/showme the half man half baked good luke skywalker’s shortbread, style of star wars: empire strikes back
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/giphy mild disappointment
@cfg83 no idea, but please enjoy the blu-ray extras
@zippyus I’ll give it a try for you since a showme just worked for me…
/showme the half man half baked good luke skywalker’s shortbread, style of star wars: empire strikes back
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@zippyus Oh well. I tried.
@zippyus Porkins a Y-Wing pilot? Now he’s my hero, second only to Gold Five!
@ItalianScallion one. more. time!
/showme half man half biscuit luke skywalkers shortbread, style of star wars
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@zippyus If once you Try; TRY, Try, try again.
@JohnQ118 @zippyus Agreed!
/showme A jedi like Luke Skywalker as a man in the style of Star Wars that is half human and half shortbread cookie
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/showme A jedi that is half human and half shortbread cookie
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I’m guessing this is futile, probably because Disney has put fear in anyone who would dare to make any reference to any aspect of Star Wars in any way.
/showme an AI bot that is afraid to reference Star Wars in any way
The problem is clearly shortbread.
/showme an AI bot that is afraid to reference Star Wars in any way
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/showme a half human-like and half shortbread cookie AI bot that is afraid to reference Star Wars in any way
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/showme a half jedi-like and half shortbread cookie AI bot that is afraid to reference Star Wars in any way
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We’re getting close maybe? What do you think, @zippyus?
/showme a battle between half-man half-biscuit jedi luke sky-walker’s shortbread and half-chocolate half-spiderman toblerone mcguire. half-steak half-thor ruths chris hemsworth looks on.
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@mediocrebot
/giphy boimler borg do it again hit me
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@mediocrebot
/giphy boimler hit me
/showme half-man half-biscuit jedi luke sky-walker’s shortbread battling half-chocolate half-spiderman toblerone mcguire. visibly half-rare-steak half-thor ruths chris hemsworth watches.
@zippyus @ItalianScallion @mediocrebot My brain is imploding … in a good way.
/showme deflated brain on a skillet.
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@mediocrebot
/giphy morpheus again
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@mediocrebot
/giphy morpheus king fu again
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(i wonder if there’s a timeout that’s exacerbated by long or complex prompts)
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@mediocrebot Jeeze, mediocrebot, now I’m not hungry. I guess I had that coming.
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DO NOT PESTER @mediocrebot @cfg83!!
/showme half-man half-biscuit luke sky-walker’s shortbread battling half-chocolate half-spiderman toblerone mcguire. visibly half rare steak half thor ruths chris hemsworth watches.
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was it worth it?
/giphy larry david shrug
Tempting but I have so much chocolate in my house right now
@ironcheftoni Hrmmmm.
/showme Human named “ironcheftoni” in house full of chocolate where even the furniture is made of chocolate.
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@mediocrebot Needs more chocolate.
@cfg83 @mediocrebot I bet that fireplace doesn’t work real well.
@cfg83 @mediocrebot interesting. it’s usually around 4:20 when i reach for the chocolate, too…
@ironcheftoni
You’re welcome
@mediocrebot @sflesch Don’t worry, that’s yellow chocolate (we don’t talk about the yellow chocolate).
Theo’s flagship factory store was my FAVORITE place to take friends visiting Seattle- the tour was interesting, the samples were abundant, and it was a source of pride to have such an ethical, thoughtful company selling my favorite food right here in my city. When it was sold to the American Licorice Company a few years ago, it was a blow- production moved out of state, everyone was laid off. It’s still sometimes touted as a local company. I can’t speak to whether the quality of the chocolate has changed since the company that produces Red Vines took over, since I’ve moved on to other local chocolate brands for my hoity toity chocolate consumption, but I did love the dark chocolate PB cups for a long time especially because the PB they used was local CB’s Nuts peanut butter.
All of this to say: this is probably still an excellent peanut butter cup, but the nostalgia of what they once were will keep me from buying 24 of them to find out.
@jcpseattle wow, I wish I’d read that BEFORE I ordered.
I remember Theo chocolates as being really really good; well, I’ll find out in coming days…
@jcpseattle yes, my family went there when we visited Seattle and it was super interesting. That’s too bad they don’t work the same way anymore.
I ordered a pack just for the memories. Wish they had dark chocolate available but I was too slow.
Time for the obligatory
@robson that didn’t make any sense back-in-the-day either.
@JohnQ118 @robson That’s what made it so funny!
I am NOT willing to do it, but we need a grid of 6x4 of the above anigif or youtube video in order to represent 24 pb cups. Maybe make them play out of sequence so that it looks like a mob.
Peanuts are organic??? Who knew?
Like these?
At one time, Theo was my favorite brand.
Peanut butter and chocolate together is something I dislike.
Instant pass.
@werehatrack
@ItalianScallion @werehatrack Same.
@werehatrack It’s ok to be wrong, you can still be forgiven
@tightwad @werehatrack More for you!
Oh yeah! In for 48. Gotta make sure I don’t run out before the expiration date.
/showme muddled-nauseating-cellar
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Good job @mediocrebot. That is indeed nauseating.
@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot Eeuuwww. I wish you hadn’t requested that.
@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot let’s hope that isn’t Theo’s new factory floor.
@Kyeh We could blame @mediocrebot for it, we could blame Meh for choosing that order name, or… hmmm… blame… the Goat! I’m on it!
@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot Yeah, that rat died of kidney stones from too many pb cups (ducking), ;P .
@ItalianScallion @JohnQ118 @mediocrebot
That’s the Boar’s Head lunchmeat plant…
@cfg83 @mediocrebot Oh, it’s a rat. It kinda looked like a platypus which wasn’t surprising to me because AI can’t be quite… stupid.
@cfg83 @ItalianScallion @mediocrebot
Didn’t you mean can be quite stupid?
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh @mediocrebot I think the AI wrote that.
@cfg83 @mediocrebot @Kyeh Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. Duh.
Yeah, AI changed it on me. Yeah, that’s it.
@cfg83 @ItalianScallion @mediocrebot There’s a guy on Instagram whose account is calle father_phi whose whole account is dedicated to demonstrating the current failings in AI. It’s pretty interesting. What especially bugs me though is hiw utterly & completely confident & assured to AI assistant always sounds while it’s delivering nonsense.
@cfg83 @ItalianScallion @mediocrebot Also I’m bugged about my typos in that comment.
Or maybe the bot did it? Revenge for what I said?
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh @mediocrebot At last years Scale (So Cal Linux) conference there was a lecturer that talked about AI accuracy when it talked. Essentially, each word in a sentence has a confidence level. The AI could have high confidence in what it is saying maybe half-way through the sentence, and then the next word has low confidence (because it’s training in that area was weak?). Every word after this low confidence word is now degraded and can send you off in the weeds.
When you and I talk, that “low confidence” word is communicated to the other person in real time. We aren’t sure, and we let the other person know that, either overtly or in how we talk. The AI doesn’t do that.
The lecturer suggested that words should be color coded to signal the confidence to the user. If you knew the AI wasn’t proficient in the middle of the sentence, then you wouldn’t be as easily misled by the rest of what it says.
I know I am not describing this very accurately but I think you get the point.
@Kyeh @mediocrebot
That’s fascinating, @cfg83. I didn’t realize AI worked that way. It’s a good bit of insight into why we can’t trust AI regarding its accuracy.
@cfg83 @ItalianScallion That IS interesting. The voice could be tweaked to sound less self-assured, maybe. Right now it always sounds smugly authoritative.
@cfg83 @Kyeh It would be quite an improvement if the AI voice could, as the reference cfg83 cited, do as humans do and alter its voice when it isn’t confident or indicate that explicitly (“I’m not sure, but…”).
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh Yup, it doesn’t know how dumb it is. In fact, it doesn’t “know” anything. A shyster would also sound as smug.
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh
/showme AI talking nervously about Plato’s Republic with lots of “ummm”, “I think”, and “maybe” words in the sentence.
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@Kyeh @cfg83 Ah yes, the Dunning-Kruger effect… And AI using “I think?” and “I guess?”
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh Een-tay-ray-san-tee. I didn’t know it had a name. At work and in life I have made it a point to say “I think” when I am trying to make as distinction between a fact and my personal assessment of what is going on …
/showme An anthropomorphized goat yelling at the moon “I think I blame society, but maybe I am wrong! I will get back to you after I learn more!”.
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@ItalianScallion @Kyeh I just listened to this :
I think it is very reassuring to us meat bags.
/showme homegrown-dynamic-alarm
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I considered buying these for my 4 college age kids, but $1 a piece is pretty steep when you have 4 college age kids.
@tightwad understandable. Only ramen seems reasonable. Cheers!
/giphy raunchy-unfriendly-start
@uvassassin it’s more the balls…
@JohnQ118 @uvassassin
I don’t think either site would be enjoyable.
@JohnQ118 @kittykat9180 @uvassassin I can confirm that either site sucks.
@JohnQ118 @kittykat9180 @uvassassin @yakkoTDI
Personal experience getting kicked?
/showme raunchy-unfriendly-start
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@mediocrebot @uvassassin
Wow. That one worked. And the language filter must be off…
The crucifix is a nice touch.
@Pufferfishy What crucifix?
Interestingly the specs don’t match the product images for the weight. 1.4 oz in the specs 1.3 in the pics. Not that much difference, but still…
/showme anxious undulating pear
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@mediocrebot @Pufferfishy Another victim of the long nose pear sucker.
/showme animal that looks like anteater is sucking on a pear; the pear is shriveling.
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Holy cow! Meh referencing Daring Fireball???
My worlds are colliding in unexpected ways. Next thing you know they’ll be quoting ATP.FM
@hugacrv meh has been the sponsor of daring fireball several times over the years. They’re buds, apparently.
@djslack @hugacrv Yup, Gruber was how I discovered Meh in the first place. (He praised their old 404 page. I was never part of the old Woot community.)
@djslack @Wormwood yeah, I realized after I posted that they had sponsored DF multiple times but I was too lazy to go back and edit.
I always look at the weird food items, on the off chance that someone has come up with a low carb tasty treat. As much as I love peanut butter cups, can’t do the sugar anymore. And I was a Reese addict as a child.
/showme nice minty ant
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@mediocrebot @tomierna And for those who insist on pronouncing the wife of an uncle that way…
/showme nice minty aunt
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@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot
She does look nice.
@mediocrebot @tomierna Russell Stover uses those ants in their funtime minty chocolates.
Just in time to melt in the heatwave we’re getting in the southwest
@wplumleyz
We’re supposed to be 79° on Sunday.
@kittykat9180 @wplumleyz We were 86 today. (Central Texas). In February?!! Gonna be a sizzling summer.
Meh needs to feature some air conditioners (and take some Vornado heaters in trade…)
@phendrick
It’s been a warm and dry winter here. We didn’t even get any snow at my house. Usually we get 1-2” twice each winter. We got some sprinkles a few times but not enough to get deep into the ground for my plants.
@kittykat9180 My son is now in upper New York. They got snow. LOTS of it. Repeatedly. Not sure he has yet figured out how to drive in it. He might have seen ten inches TOTAL all his previous life.
@phendrick
Tell him to send it down here. We’ll take it.
You had me at “suitable for vegans”
Plus it isn’t $1 per cup, it is $0.50 per cup and i have awesome will power truly I do I won’t eat both at once I promise totally…
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
@DarrenTF
I’ll have the whole 24 pack eaten in 2 weeks.
@kittykat9180 Did you mistype “2 days”? Oh wait, that’s me.
@ItalianScallion
@kittykat9180 What a remarkable resemblance to the real me!
@kittykat9180
We trust you will document your journey.
@cfg83
I didn’t buy them, luckily. I saved myself.
Allergic to peanut butter, might consider for the kids, but it seems these have a high likelihood to be approaching rancid by their best-by date. They really should send a few of these things out to VMPs or a ‘rat test’ like they do with wine.meh.com.
“notes of chocolate, peanut butter on the cusp of ruining your day”
@caffeineguy I’m putting mine in the fridge, and maybe some in the freezer, as soon as they arrive.
@caffeineguy @ItalianScallion Yeah, OP might be new/young but these types of expiration dates…You can go a few months past. It doesn’t magically go bad on that date…
@caffeineguy @ItalianScallion @kg714x Yeah, a few months for sure …
@caffeineguy @kg714x I’ve never had peanut butter go rancid even if I don’t store it in the fridge like it usually says to, and even it takes me forever to go through a jar of it. Of course with (preferably dark chocolate) peanut butter cups, they’ve never seen an expiration date.
@caffeineguy @ItalianScallion @kg714x I have a Pocahontas chocolate bar from 1995. It “debuttered” long ago. But I won’t eat it if I can sell it first.
This is good timing for me, because I saw an article last week about how Reese’s grandson is suing Hershey because they’ve been making their peanut butter cup recipe worse, and I’ve been craving some quality peanut butter cups since then.
@Doodpants No surprise there. Is the wax content in their chocolate bars getting high enough that they have to say chocolate-flavored yet?
@Doodpants @ItalianScallion Yeah, I use them for emergency candles …
/showme Man with pajamas in dark house holding lighted candle that looks like a bar of Hershey’s chocolate.
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I love peanut butter cups but, a dollar for 1.3oz? Hard meh.
@richrauch have you checked prices in stores of candy?
@richrauch you got that right! Comes out to $12.30 a pound for unknown quality. I have noticed that the original Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups seem different and not as good as they used to be but maybe it is because I rarely have them except for October.
@richrauch I am waiting for these to go on sale after Easter …
There was a golden age maybe 12 years ago when I could get 4 for a dollar at the 99 cents store around Easter. When I went back to the store, I found someone had “stashed” them behind empty boxes. I took all but a few to say thank you. But that golden age was maybe 1 or 2 seasons and never returned. I long for those moments, lost in time, like chocolate, down the gullet.
/showme Old wise man telling a story about an ancient civilization where everyone lived on chocolate mixed with shredded coconut and were happy.
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Wow, dark chocolate is sold out? I guess I should not have waited until after lunch!
@ArmchairGamer
@ArmchairGamer now they’re all sold out!
@ArmchairGamer @sillyheathen It’s so sad. You could have bought that for a (24) dollar(s).
@ArmchairGamer @cfg83
I say THANK YOU! this T2 diabetic didn’t have no business buying no chocolate peanut butter cups!!!
(I was going to get one at 10:59 if they still had any)
@ArmchairGamer @kittykat9180 She looks familiar …
https://meh.com/forum/topics/spring-is-in-the-air#69a09c2829a151a6619051c3
@ArmchairGamer @kittykat9180 @Kyeh Hrmmm, I thought she might actually be real. Shrug.
@Kyeh
That would be because I upload my own photos into ChatGPT.
Although the spring/fall one was spot on. This one it changed my face a little bit.
@kittykat9180 Oh, cool! I kind of wondered if that was the case.
@Kyeh I go through phases where I’ll mess around on Atlas a lot. I’ve been on an image kick lately.
Hope they’re good, sure are a lot of comments today and I haven’t read any of them!
I’m in for one! Milk chocolate was the only option left and even though my guy would probably prefer dark chocolate I’m glad to have saved $25, I would’ve bought him both!
/giphy compromising-refreshing-earwig
Well, @Lynnerizer, they are sold out. There are no more! You did good!
@Lynnerizer Egg-zactly. Your patience saved you money and meh is happy too!
@therealjrn
Yup, I made it in by a hair on my chiny chin chin!
Lol… 
lol - hottest day of the year so far in Tampa - dropped off (full sun, front of garage) at 2:30, no notification until 4:40.
Really looking forward to my boxes of melted amorphous lumps.
@Pufferfishy
Hopefully they’re not too melted…
We got our chocolate covered peanut butter hearts and I’m kinda glad they’re not going to be on my favorite thing list since this diabetic is NOT supposed to be eating this junk! 🫣
They’re not at all like a Reeces cup!
They taste like dark chocolate and the peanut butter center is kinda hard.
My guy gets to have the entire box, he’s such the social butterfly and now he’s got plenty to share with everyone!
What did you guys think of them…
Got mine today, the box says April 2025; is that the expiration date? They are nasty; I can’t tell if it’s because they’re a year expired or that’s just what they’re like.
@mwoody450 methinks there may be a riot if they’re all a year past expiry.
@mwoody450 April 2026 is the date
@troy It is printed extremely clearly: 20250429, on the bottom of every single cup packet and the box they came in.
@mwoody450 write into customer service with a picture please – we ordered 4/2026 dating but a few 2025’s could have been mixed in. Sorry for the issue!
Make sure you check the date on these before you eat them. I just got mine in the mail on 03/07/2026 and my two packs were dated 20250422 & 20250429. That’s April 22nd & 29th of 2025. Almost a year past their date. Good thing I looked before I ate any of them. Be careful out there. So bummed out. I really wanted to enjoy these but I’m not going to risk it.
@BigBoyLineman what a bummer! I am so sorry – please send a pic into Customer Service and we will take care of this for you (and also be in touch with our vendor for resolution)
I got a double whammy. Both boxes are dated April 2025. And they smell funky. I haven’t even opened a box and there’s a weirdly acrid moldy smell. I was totally fine with an expiry of April this year but almost a year out of date is kind of takin the piss. I’m not even going to attempt to eat one.
Mine are dated April 2025 as well. I yolo’d it and ate one of each flavor, they looked and tasted fine but if I die I will haunt the Meh warehouse.
@yakkotdi @therealjrn @kyeh @molin123 @sillyheathen @bigboylineman @mwoody450 @pakopako @lynnerizer Good news! These PB cups have best-by dating of April 22-29, 2026, as advertised.
The package has the production date listed “20250422” with “BB/MA: 26-AL-22” beneath it. This BB date translates to 2026-April-22. “AL” is a French/English abbreviation for Avril AKA April.
@troy awesome news! and sheesh! manufacturers take note, this is the kind of confusing labeling that will get your product listed on meh.com
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
@troy
Thanks for the info Troy!
Check the expiration dates on these. Mine expired in April of last year
@PreSim They were produced last year and are best by April 2026. See above
Just recvd today w/76 degrees in PA. Didnt melt. These are way better than Reeses that doesnt use real pb anymore. Real choc/ real pb and organic? Love them!! Best thing outta Wash to undirty the Gatespdfiles thing!
Just got mine yesterday and they’re delicious! I completely missed from the description that they’re heart shaped, so they’re not quite chocolate “discs” but I’ll take it. More importantly, the (milk) chocolate tastes like chocolate, not compound coatings. And the peanut butter tastes like peanut butter, not peanut-butter-style crèmes. So I’m very happy. Except for the part where I have to eat 48 of them in the next month…