I love Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother and Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog). He’s hilarious. Seriously. If you have not seen Dr. Horrible, get yourself over to Netflix and add it to your cue immediately.
So I was pretty psyched to learn recently that, like me, NPH loves peanut butter and chocolate. A co-worker put a ripped out page from a magazine highlighting the favorite candies of five “Hollywood Hunks” on my chair. There’s no indication what the magazine actually is (so I apologize in advance for not giving credit where credit is due) and I don’t even know what co-worker to ask.
NPH loves Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. He told the magazine, “The more you eat them, the more you have to eat them – until you burst.”
Wayne Brady (Don’t Forget the Lyrics) goes for Peanut M&Msbecause he likes to bite off the candy shell and eat the nut on its own. “If you see a dish with all the nuts missing, you know I was there. I’m a nut bandit.” I take that to mean he puts the candy shell back in the dish. Euw.
Jerry Seinfeld (Bee Movie) says he likes Bit-O-Honey and claims that it has nothing to do with his movie either. There’s a picture of him with the treats at Dylan’s Candy Bar in New York.
James Denton (Desperate Housewives) loves the “little mini Snickers.”
Rainn Wilson (The Office) digs candy corn because “you can bite out the colors one at a time.” I wonder what end he starts with?
I was thinking about celebs and snacking over the the weekend because it seemed like every time the Academy Awards Show cut to commercial break I heard about True North nuts (which I’m guessing Wayne Brady would be a big fan of).
So, two questions, dear readers:
1. Have you heard of other celebrities with a particularly favorite brand of candy or snacks?
and 2. Do you think the list above can rightfully call itself a list of ”Hollywood Hunks”? I’m not so sure … but do I wonder what candy Hugh Jackman calls his favorite …
10:19 pm on February 24th, 2009
Wait – Neil Patrick Harris and Rainn Wilson are hunks? I thought they were big geeky nerd types. Jerry Seinfeld a hunk? come on. At least I don’t even know who James Denton is, on account I have never seen that show.
I love Reese’s cups as well. They are like magic little self-contained goodness snacks or nature’s perfect fruit. You know – right after circus peanuts.
8:12 am on February 25th, 2009
Mmmm, this is not a list of Hollywood Hunks in my book. I don’t watch a lot of TV and I don’t get out to movies too often but even I could have come up with five or six hotties to quiz about candy preferences.
Could someone tell me what Clive Owen’s favorite indulgence is?
1:33 pm on February 25th, 2009
Carl; Are you trying to get yourself entered into the “Hunk” list by telling us your favorite candy? Daniel Craig, I want to know what candy Daniel Craig buys when he goes into 7-11.
1:41 pm on February 25th, 2009
Kristie – I’m glad you agree. None of these guys would be on my laminated list of five, if you know what I mean.
Susan S – Maybe we should ask Tori to mock up a fake magazine page for us highlighing the Hunks of NCA and their favorite candies. It would be pretty easy as there are only four guys who work in office.
1:56 pm on February 25th, 2009
I hope I would be somewhere in the top five, then. Here’s my blurb:
“Carl enjoys anything with chocolate and peanut butter but is best known for apparently being the only one to stand up for the much-maligned circus peanut, even during their time of extreme endangerment from poachers like Susan and Denise, who hunt them for sport.”
And here’s the photo of me you can link to.
2:12 pm on February 25th, 2009
Carl – In the picture are you definding the circus peanuts from the army assembled by Denise and me?
2:15 pm on February 25th, 2009
Ha, ha, ha!! Are you thinking – “They will have to pry my Circus Peanuts from my cold, dead hands?” Or are you saying that Susan and I are apes?
2:51 pm on February 25th, 2009
“You blew it up!”
Somebody has to defend them from people who are anti-circus peanutist. More than anything, I am bringing circus peanuts to the fallen Statue of Liberty. She weeps without them.
George Taylor did pose an interesting philosophical question:
“Would an ape make a human doll that talks?”