Spent most of this morn­ing watch­ing The Black Adder.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s great. The tal­ent of Monty Python and Mr. Bean (and House, later on) com­bine to do an alter­nate his­tory of Eng­land, start­ing with the “real” cir­cum­stances of the death of King Richard III at the Bat­tle of Bosworth.

It was a very inter­est­ing period of his­tory, smack in the mid­dle of the War of the Roses, which is the inspri­a­tion for George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series as well as for one of Shakespeare’s best-​known lines, “A horse, a horse, my king­dom for a horse.”

Oh, and I was also hav­ing LU Petit Ecol­ier cook­ies while I was watch­ing it.

I haven’t had them in ages, but picked them up on a whim the last time I was at the gro­cery store. (Damn their end­cap mar­ket­ing genius!) When I was a lit­tle kid, we used to eat tons of LU cook­ies when I was stay­ing up in Min­nesota with the fam­ily. I don’t know if the name had any­thing to do with it (Lu is my mother’s fam­ily name, and we have a lot of Lu pride on the mater­nal side), but either way, they are ridicu­lously good. Petit Ecol­iers were always my favorite, and I remem­ber that I would always try to eat the cookie part first so that I would have a whole slab of choco­late at the end. Nowa­days, I get extra dark choco­late ones instead of the milk choco­late I pre­ferred before, but the game remains. It doesn’t work out too often, but try­ing is half the fun.

Any­way, I bring it up because knowl­edge and cyn­i­cism has made me ques­tion the name of these cook­ies. Why is their flag­ship prod­uct called “The Lit­tle School­boy” ? All of their other prod­ucts are have straight­for­ward names, like but­ter cookie or break­fast cookie. I feel vaguely Pedobear. Cou­pled with the com­pany name, that feeling’s also vaguely inces­tu­ous. But it’s not enough to stop me from enjoy­ing these.

Maybe I’ll pick up some more for board games later today at Tim C’s.