beard papa cream puffs are very dangerous...

...and I don't just mean in the I-could-eat-four-in-one-sitting-and-clog-my-arteries way. Each comes dusted with a very fine powdered sugar that when you open your mouth in preparation to take one oozy creamy bite, you inadvertently end up inhaling this very fine sugar, which instead of melting on your tongue, tickles the back of your throat and makes you choke, much to the amusement of passers-by. Last night as I was doing some last minute birthday-shopping (tomorrow the boyfriend enters his late 20s) in the new SF shopping center I took one bite and nearly hacked up a lung. The way to get around this is to flip the cream puff over and eat it upside-down. Eating foods upside-down is mildly uncomfortable to me, having been raised with the notion that things are better when you follow the rules (it's not the right way to eat it!) but if it means I can eat my cream puff and not die, so be it.