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Misty Water Colored Memories: Mary Jane & Friends Bakery Products

All that talk about Nancy's face on the soap got me thinking about my favorite "realistic face on product."  Me and Amy were in Myrtle Beach during the year of 2005 (May to be exact), and we found this bread, and the brand was called "Mary Jane and Friends."  I have never seen this product in Raleigh...only at M.B.  God knows why they are the only ones who get to feel its wonder.  I guess we'll never know. 

So anyways,  this bread was hilarious for a number of reasons.

• The obvious: the doobieliscious name.

• The fact that it is not just Mary Jane alone, but she has two side kicks (both of whom look much younger than her...perhaps she is their sitter?)
• Her male friend's choice of garb (the button-up denim shirt with a few claps left undone to reveal a stylish white cotton turtleneck --- hey, at least it's not a mock)
• Mary Jane's hairstyle.  We found her sideswept emo bangs highly entertaining at the time.
• The little blurb above the title that reads "enriched buns."

We were so pleased with our find that we decided to roll the shopping cart into the condo and photograph ourselves WITH Mary Jane and her two cohorts by means of the self timer function on the camera.  See below:

Every time we went to MB after the initial discovery of MJ and Friends, we made a point to pick up another of their products.  In time, I think we went through a bag of hot dog buns (and we didn't even have hot dogs), a loaf of bread and a pack of yeast rolls.  We could have kept collecting, but MJ & F is becoming increasingly harder to find.

Perhaps I will send them some fan mail in hopes of obtaining a few coupons, or even better, some free merchandise adorned with their logo.

Oh good!  I found the pictures of us with their other products.  PLEASE excuse the way I look in these shots.  With its lack of social pressures, I do not take great pride in my appearance when on holiday at Myrtle Beach (especially in 2005).   And in one of these photos, we were dressed up pretending to be an emo band, so that may offer a bit of comfort to the unsettled feeling you might get upon viewing:

I made the previous one smaller in hopes to keep our appearances as inoffensive as possible.  

My Best Friend is Funny: Nancy Soap

Two of my best friends (Amy and Heather) lived in Panama (Central America) for a while, and I have a bunch of pictures from their time there saved to my computer...I used to live with Amy, and she put her pics on my laptop.  Anyways, I stumbled upon a few pictures that make me laugh really hard, and I felt compelled to share them with you surfers of the web. 

When Amy first showed me these little gems, I was 10 shades of confused.  Now if I imagine correctly, I'm willing to bet that you're, upon seeing these for the first time, feeling a bit perplexed as well.  Well apparently, there is a brand of soap in Panama called "Nancy."  Not only is Nancy funny for simply being a realistic face on a pack of soap, but she could not look anymore non-Panamanian.  It's just really random.  So Amy, sharing my love for puss-clad products, was compelled to hold "Nancy" up to some traditional Panamanian posters in hopes of creating a superimposed Nancy head look.  What Amy did create was a brilliant photograph!  One in which, you can hardly tell what is real and what isn't.  I especially love the first one. Pure genius I tell you!  I LOVE AMY!!! By the way, it is her birthday tomorrow, so send her your wishes!

Here is an extra shot of the soap without a poster in the background.  It might clear up any additional puzzlement.