pretty much creaminess, Vortex. But they also add sweetness without adding outside sugars

This, exactly. The banana to berry ratio is roughly 1:3. I'm not a huge banana flavor fan either, I just use them for the creaminess without extra sweetener. A friend eschews the banana for calorie reasons but adds Splenda instead. Ick!

So, my grandmother gave chocolates to her two daughters today -- my mother, and my aunt with the excuse that she's a mother to her cats. I feel like I should be insulted, on princple. But by the time I thought of it, I was so annoyed by the fact that we got so lost going to the restaurant (due to a combination of bad directions and bad following of those directions) that we were a half-hour late, that I just couldn't work up any steam about it.

In the end, the dinner was fine, if way overpriced and not worth all of the agita.

phew! meal was a success, and even better, now it's done.

And bananas add thickness if you don't want to add ice or protein powder

Which principle, Jesse?

The Jesse deserves chocolate principle?

I have a cat! Not that I would ever say I am his mother.

I'm just saying, if my aunt gets a mother's day present because she has cats, I should, too! Of course, if she had done that, my eyes would have rolled out of my head.

Then my mother was eyerolling that they gave all of us women a rose at the restaurant. I was like, do you know how much pain and suffering it would cause if they asked each woman if she was a mother???

I got lots of mother's day greetings for being Bartleby's person today. I don't use the term 'mom' either.

5 years, or so ago, before Western Union stopped doing it, a friend sent me a telegram 'from Bartleby.' It was really sweet.

I was like, do you know how much pain and suffering it would cause if they asked each woman if she was a mother???

My friends who run the children's consignment shop down the street gave every woman who came in a pink carnation. I thought that was sweet too.

I have to admit I find it more irking when people seem to think that every woman needs to be acknowledged as a mother for some reason. [I had a dog, and we were very close. I was not her or anyone's mother.]

But I'm sure for your grandma it was more about not giving a gift to one daughter and not the other, which is why you didn't get any.

ETA:

I was like, do you know how much pain and suffering it would cause if they asked each woman if she was a mother???

For serious. I find it irksome, but that's about it. I know a lot of women for whom it would be intensely painful.