Mixed-Metaphor Tutti-frutti

 Retrieved from the NYTimes review of Michio Kaku's "Physics of the Future".  The sentence is the author's not the reviewers:

"Like a kid in a candy store, he delights in delving into uncharted territory, making breakthroughs in a wide range of hot-button topics."

This COULD happen in a physics breakthrough of the future: you enter an online VR candy store, pop a future yummy in your virtual mouth, find yourself transported to a far planet whose climate and topography have been studied by bots moving at near light speed, and where you can learn to help reduce disastrous climate change on earth by "pressing" the right virtual "button." I guess that's what he meant.

BTW I seem to be getting far more spam replies to older topics than ever before on this site. Is that general? Or am I doing something? I don't want to restrict access. I need the world to know .. whatever it is I need the world to know, you know.