Enter the Sun

Since the sun caused this problem, I figured, why not let the sun provide a solution? It takes two hours for the sun to warm water for sun tea from room temperature to the point where it is so hot that your fingers will literally be scalded squeezing the water out of the teabags before refrigerating the tea. So—into the sun went the two ‘buckets’ of solidified mixture of chocolate, peanut butter and wax paper. Two hours later, I was out there with a pair of pliers, carefully withdrawing every wrapper from the transmogrified (I could have used the word ‘transubstantiated,’ but as that has a specific religious connotation, refrained from doing so) substance, meticulously scraping ALL of the chocolate and peanut butter off both sides of each wrapper, and discarding it. Having accomplished this for all the wrappers in both ‘buckets,’ I then poured the contents of each ‘bucket’ (thoroughly scraping every last bit from the sides) into a Tupperware-type container (TTC). This process took some time, of course, and attracted some attention—it’s not every day one sees a Marine officer standing out in the 115 degree heat for forty five minutes mucking about with buckets of liquefied brown goo (LBG)—and within a very short time I had no shortage of companions willing to participate in the consumption of (but not that interested in the production of) the finished product.

Once the LBG was evenly distributed in the TTC, the lid was applied, the contents properly sealed, and the TTC was placed in a refrigerator (under twenty four hour guard, of course).

Semper Fi, Jon G.