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Unfortunately this is a phenomenon I am all too familiar with... My worst "hangry" episodes all involve me passed out on the floor due to low blood sugar, mostly when I was a teenager because I hadn't yet learned to recognize the signs. Now I carry food with me pretty much everywhere to avoid that drama, but I still have to warn my boyfriend when I'm getting hangry so he knows how urgent it is that I eat - otherwise I turn into a raging *itch!

I hear Tina Fey's Bossypants is great in audiobook format - I plan to listen to it this weekend on a camping road trip!

I am with the others - I LOVE my garlic peeler.

I don't have a spoon rest, but it's something I've missed ever since I left home when I was a teenager and I will probably get one eventually.

I've never thought about buying an onion chopper until reading these comments - I can't make it through an onion without crying and hate the smell on my hands so much I sometimes wear rubber gloves. Seems like it might be the perfect solution for me...

I'm from Western Canada and I recall having a few cakes with coins baked into them as well - we called them "money cakes." Generally there was one loonie and the rest was smaller change. Loved them as a kid!

My family is mostly of Eastern European descent, so doubtful that there is an English connection there. But I'm fourth/fifth generation Canadian, so who knows what we picked up from where along the way...

It used to be fresh flowers...

...until I adopted my two kitties who have quite the taste for flowers. One of whom can jump to every surface in the house. Now it's the kitties.

Or my creative attempts to bring flower-like items into the house (most recently, for easter, I made some large fake flowers out of yellow paper napkins and hung them from the ceiling over the table for a chandelier effect).

Well said, pinky41! I'm a mason jar lover and use them for absolutely everything.

I once made homemade ice cream with avocado and lime from. It was very labour intensive, but reading this I can't help but think that some avocado and lime juice would be a delicious addition - and the avocado really helps keep things creamy.

I will have to try it soon! Let's see if my little inversion blender is up to the task...

On a family vacation to Las Vegas when I was twelve, we went to a restaurant prior to a Cirque de Soleil show, and there I had the most delicious chocolate souffle I have ever come across. I have no idea what restaurant we were at, but fifteen years later, I still remember that amazing souffle...

Hm, I usually make mine with butter on the outside and a pesto mayo on this inside... will have to try this! Leaves more usable bread surface on the inside to slather with pesto and apple onion chutney... Yum!

I second Taralyn, I work in the film industry and anything featured prominently has to be cleared - likely these were done by the art department, or belong to a catalogue of works cleared for use by the production company. I suggest contacting them if you are really committed - Nordisk Film.