Close to two years later, we've resigned ourselves to the inevitable fisting jokes and are getting honest to goodness insider information, which suddenly sounds related by juxtaposition, but we're sure its not.

But some things never change, as our first and most favorite Chronicle insider sent us a picture of a new candy in the Chronicle vending maching, Garfield ChocoBites by Argentinean company Arcor. According to this article excerpt (hey, we're bloggers, do we really need to read the whole thing?) from Professional Candy Buyer Magazine (on second thought, screw this blogging thing -- we wanna become a professional candy buyer!) Arcor entered into a licence agreement involving mind-bogglingly cutting-edge cartoon character Garfield in September 2004, which makes us wonder if these "Garfield appoved: limited edition" peanut M&M rip-offs have been sitting in an Argentinean warehouse since shortly thereafter.