Cosmic Brownies are my staple snack. Having eaten a brownie a day for quite some time now, I’ve become pretty well acquainted with these delicious treats. I find the concave ridge down the center of the brownie very important. As soon as I open one of these prepackaged delicacies, I gauge the amount of colorful chocolate chips and the evenness of their distribution (is that weird?), then break the brownie in half and eat a square.

So the other week, they only had the large boxes of Cosmic Brownies when I stopped by Wal-Mart. I wasn’t bitter about that, though. After all, it does just mean I have a greater personal supply of snacks. I was not pleasantly surprised when I opened the box and all of the brownies lacked the single most important structural asset to these snacks. I tried breaking the rectangle in half, but without the line, it was nearly impossible to be as satisfied with the results. For an entire two weeks, I was slightly disappointed by these brownies.

But the thing is, it was just that specific box. I couldn’t find another brownie in this entire planet that lacked the ridge. I mean, sure, I didn’t really look too in depth, but none of my friends had brownies that didn’t have the crease. I was not only internally conflicted on a strange level, but I found that my friends also had a certain amount of interest in my mutant snack. Once I ate all those brownies, absolutely 100% crease free, I picked up another box at Walmart. Guess what? The new box of Brownies had the beloved crease. My friend’s box of Cosmic Brownies had the crease. I am confused as to why my big box of beautiful cosmic brownies didn’t have a crease? It’s important to me. What went wrong? I’m just resting well knowing that my current box has the crease.