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Good morning...Today is Tuesday, April 14, 2009 and I am going to prepare a recipe that was created by a twelve year old girl, named Haley.  I've opened a can of crescent rolls and placed them on a greased baking sheet. Now I am ready to spread an entire package of cream cheese on top the the rolls. I've prepared breakfast sausage that I will crumble on top of the cheese and I'll finish the dish off by placing another layer of rolls on top of the sausage.  The baking dish then goes into a 325 degree oven and I will let it brown for about 15 minutes.

I think it's fantastic that a twelve year old would have the interest and desire to create a dish that I can't wait to taste.  While Haley is spending her time productively, far too many other kids are finding idiotic and dangerous ways of eating, or should I say, inhaling candy.  Did I say candy?

When I was a kid I loved candy buttons, candy bars and tootsie roll pops.   I  enjoyed the candy of my youth just as it was presented to me.  It never entered my mind that it would be fun to grind it down and try to inhale it.   Strange as it sounds, that is exactly what is going on today. Kids are buying candy and pulverizing it into a powder.  They are inhaling the powder and blowing  it out their noses.   Doing this doesn't make them high, but it does make them seem incredibly stupid.

The practice is widespread, bizarre and dangerous.  Doctors have warned that inhaling this junk can trigger asthma attacks and infections.   This is insanity and... POP...I'll never look at candy in quite the same way again.

I doubt that someone as sharp as Haley will ever think it cool to inhale candy.  If she's anything like me, the worst thing she'll ever do is stick a green pea up her nose!

Halloween will never be the same...