Commuting - Coworkers think its a turd..

So anyway, I was at a 4:30pm meeting, having a powerbar to fuel up for the ride like most of you daily commuters do.. having a cookies and cream powerbar when the VP says, "jesus, what is that? a turd?" followed by the director of project management's, "oh man, where'd you pick that thing up from?"

from a dog with collitis!

Doesn't eating a regular Powerbar require a 1/8" stainless steel coating on all your teeth?

Yeah, those things look like solid crap blocks. I'll stick to coffe and bacon egg and cheese sandwiches.

Hey that gives me a great idea for a practical joke. Since the color of your snack is a bit light you could explain that you are "running it through again to darken it up a bit" , as you pop it in your mouth.

Hey that gives me a great idea for a practical joke. Since the color of your snack is a bit light you could explain that you are "running it through again to darken it up a bit" , as you pop it in your mouth.

Man, it's too bad that Powerbars pretty much make me yak, because that would be a wonderful, disgusting joke to enact.

So anyway, I was at a 4:30pm meeting, having a powerbar to fuel up for the ride like most of you daily commuters do.. having a cookies and cream powerbar when the VP says, "jesus, what is that? a turd?" followed by the director of project management's, "oh man, where'd you pick that thing up from?"

The VP says "turd" in a meeting? Interesting place.





Doesn't eating a regular Powerbar require a 1/8" stainless steel coating on all your teeth?

3/16" UCI minimum now... :)

what, the old dept VP of my company used to use the phrase "polishing a turd" all the time. Usually referring to someone trying to make something look better than it is, without actually improving it.

He also made all kinds of weird comments...We actually had a betting pool on how many screwed up things he would say in our one hour weekly meeting. I'm amazed he hasn't gotten wrote up by HR for some of the stuff he said.

As for powerbars...the chocolate one isn't bad...nor is the vanilla, but that's it for me...the rest just don't play well...plus they do a really good job of "powering up the cannon", if you know what I mean....it's about as bad as the Taco Bell Afterburner.

Powerbars are disgusting. But I eat them. When I have to.

So anyway, I was at a 4:30pm meeting, having a powerbar to fuel up for the ride...
You must be a "manly man". I'm a wimp and have a Power Gel or Carb Boom for the ride home. :o

luna bars are the only ones i buy anymore....

you think any woman would eat something looking like that? their bars actually look AND taste good.

Am I (and possibly slvoid) the only one who actually like the taste and texture of Powerbars?

You can count me as a Powerbar fan. Back in my running days I wolfed down lots of banana Powerbars. Great exercise for the jaws!

Now I like the Harvest Bars from Powerbar. The iced banana and cinnamon raisin.

MM

i like the flavor, not always the texture, though i had one the other day it was something special, it reminded me almost to the T of the candy bar whatchamacallit, it was quite good, and it certainly woke me up

Clif Bar convert and not going back. Powerbars are way too sticky and hard to eat, especially on the bike.

You must be a "manly man". I'm a wimp and have a Power Gel or Carb Boom for the ride home. :o

I stopped using gels cause they were simply too expensive for anything other than a quick emergency energy supply.

Otherwise, you can get these slimfast shakes for about a buck each at costco.

Comparing the nutritional values, for the same price, a powergel gives you:

Fat: 1.5g
Sodium: 50mg
Potassium: 40mg
Carbs: 28g
Sugars: 7g

While a slimfast meal replacement shake gives you:

Fat: 1g saturated, 3.5g unsaturated
Sodium: 200mg
Potassium: 600mg
Carbs: 24g
Fiber: 5g
Sugars: 17g
Protein: 10g

i'm happy you took the time to take a pic of your turd.

Not a turd. The peanuts in it are not off-white. Unless there's something wrong with you...

Very turdish.

I get Cliff bars.

When I was swimming in high school we would roll the chocolate power bars around (to get the shape right) and toss them in to pool and try and convince the coach they were turds, to get out of practice. One day when only a few of us knew the floater was a fake one of my buddies dove in and took a bite out of it :D

Even if it wasn't a turd then, I'm sure it is by now!

Am I (and possibly slvoid) the only one who actually like the taste and texture of Powerbars?

yeah probably. that sounds about right. :p

Am I (and possibly slvoid) the only one who actually like the taste and texture of Powerbars? Actually, there was one ride when they seemed delicious to me, thanks to the near-freezing temperature changing the texture of the thing completely.

In general, I do prefer their Harvest bars. At least they don't stick to your teeth. :)

The VP says "turd" in a meeting? Interesting place.

Not only that. He thinks slvoid is Jesus! I'd be asking for a raise.

It is not so bad tha PowerBars look like turds. The problem is that they TASTE like turds.

Powerbars are good on long rides, especially if you have a carbon bike. Just cut them up into strips and stick them to your frame around the top tube and you can peel off pieces as you need. If you warm em around horizontally on the TT, you can store like, 4-5 powerbars on your bike.
Otherwise, I think one of the most edible bars are balance bars. They chew and break up extremely easily compared to most bars out there. Cliffbars require a lot of chewing too.

Powerbars are good on long rides, especially if you have a carbon bike. Just cut them up into strips and stick them to your frame around the top tube and you can peel off pieces as you need. If you warm em around horizontally on the TT, you can store like, 4-5 powerbars on your bike.
Otherwise, I think one of the most edible bars are balance bars. They chew and break up extremely easily compared to most bars out there. Cliffbars require a lot of chewing too.

Just be careful if it gets too hot. Don't peel off a big piece of your top tube and pop it in your mouth.
You know how those cabon bikes get in the heat! I guess the good thing is that you can patch your bike with a warm power bar. :D


I've had so many power bars I can't eat them any more. I've been trying all the different types. Sometimes I just have to have junk food pastries. They are full of fat, but they do work on long rides.

Ugh. A Powerbar is like a set of downtube shifters and quill pedals. I'm sure there are some old school fogeys who still swear by them, but advances have been made since they came out.

Personally, I eat Luna Bars. I tell the clerk they're for my wife.

Personally, I eat Luna Bars. I tell the clerk they're for my wife.

I found a fully-wrapped one of these on a trail recently and ate it immediately (like most things I find on the ground). It was peanutbutter-crunch-something and it was damn good. I was pissed that women have been keeping them for themselves.

bk

Didn't they use those when they shot a certain scene in Pink Flamingos?

I found a fully-wrapped one of these on a trail recently and ate it immediately (like most things I find on the ground). It was peanutbutter-crunch-something and it was damn good. I was pissed that women have been keeping them for themselves.

bk

I had a buddy of mine who liked to mountain bike and anyway, one of his hobbies on weekends was taking really small syringes and injecting minute amounts of botulism and powerful laxatives into energy bars through the crevices in the wrapper and leaving them on popular bike trails...

I found a fully-wrapped one of these on a trail recently and ate it immediately (like most things I find on the ground).

You're a snail's worst nightmare.

I wonder about Ensure, sometimes it's on sale, and once I was so sick I didn't eat for a week. I could not get anything solid to stay down, and frankly I was a little worried. So I decided to be clever, and got a bunch of juice, and Ensure. Ensure's good! It's creamy and smooth, and I think has a bunch of vitamins etc in it. (At the end of a week I decided to be daring and have some beef jerky, I figured I might not "keep" it for long but what the hell, but it stayed down and I got better.)

I had a buddy of mine who liked to mountain bike and anyway, one of his hobbies on weekends was taking really small syringes and injecting minute amounts of botulism and powerful laxatives into energy bars through the crevices in the wrapper and leaving them on popular bike trails...

that explains SO much

{QUOTE]Just cut them up into strips and stick them to your frame around the top tube and you can peel off pieces as you need. [/QUOTE]

wrong thread, slvoid. you need 'saw it but didn't believe it'.

other than that, this thread is making me ill. if it was between a powerbar and one of those whey-protein-shake things, i'd probably just quietly starve to death. between something that tastes like it's been excreted and something that tastes like it's been regurgitated, death looks pretty good.

Sorry man, but that really looks gross. I'm a Luna Bar eater.

Oh man, I rolled it up and then made a little "S" out of it at work and left it there on the floor, it REALLY looks like a turd..

Oh man, I rolled it up and then made a little "S" out of it at work and left it there on the floor, it REALLY looks like a turd..

You *do* know how to make one of those kitty-litter cakes, don't you? Somehow, I suspect you'd be someone who would vastly enjoy bringing one of those to an office party.

I just ate a Cool Mint Chocolate Clif Bar today b4 work and I was thinking to myself that it looks sans frosting like my turds that comes out after I finish a few pints of guiness.

Powerbars are tasty. Oatmeal raisin is the tastiest.