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Glocrisp Toffee

Price: $35.99, 1lb box

Our famous, buttery toffee with our signature glowing finish, beautifully packaged for gifting. Available with or without nuts. Glow options: Classic Green, Deep Sea Blue, Vintage Pink. See our economical Scrap Packs and get some for yourself as well.

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Today's Keyboard Smash

They lifted the mask requirement at work today. It happened midday, and the first I knew about it was because one of my coworkers was doing a weird dance next to their workstation, twirling their mask overhead. As they've been having a bad week and a bad morning in particular, I was legit concerned they had just had some kind of breakdown and we were about to have An Incident on the production floor.

But no. Just the first of many people who reacted like it was fucking V.E. Day all over again. Absurd.

I'm personally...hesitant to join in this collective thumbing of our noses at covid--I'm not convinced we're not going to bumble our way straight into another surge. But fine, I accept that this is the current consensus.

That level of elation over getting rid of the masks? I find it baffling. Off-putting, even, but mostly just utterly alien. I truly cannot relate at all to that level of hate for them.

But then, I'm quite happy to have half my face covered so I don't have to worry about making appropriately human facial expressions in front of others. Also, I've gone without getting a seasonal cold for two years now, and that is a minor miracle. So until they stop providing the masks to wear in production, until they tell me I am expressly forbidden from wearing them, yeah, hi, I will still be wearing a mask at work.