{"product_id":"2940013460553","title":"Weirder Than Marshmallows","description":"Ignorance, lack of common sense, and downright inhuman stupidity run rampant in this country and around the world. I watch people, and I hear stories, and they beg, beg, beg to be mocked and ridiculed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeirder Than Marshmallows showcases tales of stupidity and ignorance in the hopes of making people laugh. Stories are divided into five categories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo Not Stop on Tracks showcases warnings that should never have to be warned. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEn Masse contains stories of mass ignorance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTechnology Sucks explores the hazards of the technological age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat’s Just Freaky features Twilight Zone like tales of paranormality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeird Stuff is stuff that is… well, weird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the stories on the site are true. That’s what makes the concept attention grabbing. Anybody can make up strange stories, writers do it all the time. That’s why people love Stephen King, his stories are downright weird. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut these are real, they actually happened, to relatively normal human beings. There’s no fiction here. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty milligrams sodium, twenty-three grams carbohydrates, less than one gram protein. The marshmallow. Don’t look for it at your local health club. Don’t include it as part of a diet. And don’t eat more than a few at once, you’ll just end up with a stomachache.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ingredients of a marshmallow are fairly simple. Corn syrup, sugar, dextrose, corn starch, water, gelatin, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, artificial and natural flavor, and blue 1. Most of those are self-explanatory. Corn syrup for flavor, sugar because that’s what the marshmallow is, corn starch for shelf-life, water to puff the thing out, gelatin to hold it together. Nobody knows what the compounds are for, and nobody really cares. Because, come on, why would you care what you’re putting in your mouth?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ingredient I have a question about is the blue 1. Food coloring. Blue food coloring. Now maybe I’m wrong about this, but marshmallows are white, aren’t they? And white is achieved by a lack of color. So what color did those little puffs of sugar have to start out to require the addition of blue to neutralize it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnyway, I could rant about marshmallows forever. You may not agree, and you don’t have to; I think the things are weird. But this book isn’t about marshmallows, despite the ramblings above. This book is about stories. Stories that are, like marshmallows, strange, mind boggling, but somehow appealing to the public at large. Hard to explain, impossible to ignore.","brand":"NightFire Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082803855600,"sku":"2940013460553","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013460553_p0.jpg?v=1763581188","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013460553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}