hey just found out the MOTU Happy Meal uses boxes, thats right boxes. Plus the toys are about the same size as the little GI JOES, pretty cool.
Chestnuts roasted by Patrick N @ 05/08/2003 12:37 PM
Changes into green apple is a bunch of bullshit, they should have stuck with plain old blue raspberry. And why do they only include two sticks for three pouches of sand? Have they scientifically proven that after one and a half pouches a stick wears out?
Chestnuts roasted by Rein @ 05/08/2003 2:42 AM
Ah Fun dip. The candy that the taste and consistency of laundry detergent. Hell it probably was flavored detergent. And the reason matt couldn’t play little league… Well when you have that many flamboyant homosexual characterstics at that age…
Chestnuts roasted by Supicously familiar @ 05/08/2003 3:28 AM
I like those baby bottle things.
Its a yummy ring pop like baby bottle sucker you use to get at that sweet sweet colored and flavored sugar.
The sucker bit is too small to go all the way to the bottom of the thing, but you can make it work if you form a seal.
(Or enact a form of candy cunningulus on the bottle. Hmm.. can I even say that?)
Chestnuts roasted by Bloodcat @ 05/08/2003 4:32 AM
wow i think i’ve been visiting x-e way too much man. earlier i was tryin to get some weed out this little ass baggie the dealer has switched and i actually started laughin thinkin bout how much the lil bag of weed looked like a fun pouch and how nice it’d b if they had little ‘weed sticks’ u could use to scrape out the weed with and afterwords maybe eat the weed stick for it’s magical goodness.
screw u x-e ur makin me look like a fool (or at least somebody who randomly starts laughin for no reason)
Pixi Stix were a childhood staple, but was I the only one who had a problem with dampness by the middle of the stix? The paper straw would get wet and the candy stuck to it, creating sticky sugar-plugs that effectively stopped the flow of sugar into my gaping maw. So then you’d have to tear off the wet section of the stix, spilling half the pixi in the process? Or maybe that’s just me. I do it with cigarettes and other smokables now (we all know the slang term for that so I won’t use it here); my friends refuse to smoke after me. The upside of that is that I never have to share
This neighbor kid who used to live next door to me when I was little used to try and get me to snort that fun-dip. I love the stuff, but I remember trying it once and my eyes wouldn’t stop watering for an hour. It’s like shoving a lump of wasabi right up there. Kid’s probably pushing crack on the street by now.
Freak
Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 05/08/2003 9:09 AM
Rod/Todd: "Thank you, but were not allowed."
Bart: "Awww, it’s ok there’s no sugar in pixie sticks. Trust me."
(Rod & Todd eat it)
Rod: "Don’t hog it all smelly head!"
Todd: "Go to hell zit face!"
Heh.
Fun Dip used to be one of the staples if any candy store raid, along with Nerds and Popeye Cigarettes. And Mad or Cracked magazines.
Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 05/08/2003 10:02 AM
My Fun-Dip memories are of the ballpark also. For a long time I thought it was some ballpark-only treat. Like when I got older and had a hankering for some sand I’d have to go in search of some Little-League concession stand that happened to be open at 8am on a Wednesday.
I also remember having a debate with another kid as to whether the Lik-a-Stix were edible or not. I think that debate is still open. Technically, many things are edible . . . Play-Dough anyone?
Chestnuts roasted by Dane E. Coffey @ 05/08/2003 12:10 PM
Nissin? Maruchin? Have we not heard of Smack? I think Smack Ramen ties the comments together rather nicely now. and who doesn’t have a friend that tried snorting Pixie Sticks? I myself found quite a rush through powdered sugar up the nose.
Chestnuts roasted by Grasshopper @ 05/08/2003 12:32 PM
I think me, because I don’t have a friend who tried to snort Pixi Stix. Though I bet I could trick Ross into doing it…
Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 05/08/2003 1:48 PM
You’re not alone QoIR. I think everybody had that problem with pixi-stix. You’re not alone. About the smoking thing, i understand that it’s close to the same thing, but that’s just kinda rude if you’re tryin to pass it around. The end gets all slimy and moist and nobody else wants to smoke.
/rant, sorry
Chestnuts roasted by NutfuZ @ 05/08/2003 4:23 PM
Pixi Stix-snorted them all the time. Hell, I still do. Okay, not really, but whatever I DO usually put up my nose, I just pretend that it’s Pixi Stix dust. Works for me.
Fun Dip stix-hell, that was the best part. It was like getting dessert after eating all your candy.
Maruchan Ramen all the way. Chicken flavour only.
Chestnuts roasted by Travis @ 05/08/2003 6:34 PM
I had a friend in college who had a blood sugar problem. Despite this, she pounded a packet of this stuff and went into a mini coma. Unconcious for two or three days. Yeeesh.
When I was in 7th grade, I used to buy Bubble Tape and when the gum was all gone, I’d fill it up with Kool Aid powder. It caught on with my friends and we always mixed the sweetened stuff with the unsweetened stuff…you had to be a bad motherfucker to eat that sour shit.
Someone said this earlier:
"Ah, to be served drinkable sugar from a roadside attendant–is there anything sweeter?"
And then the next post said this:
"Much like Paula Abdul says in American Idol, you took a risk Matt and i think it paid off. Brilliant article! Good for you!"
The gears in my brain started churning and I have decided that yes, there IS something sweeter…pouring Pixy Stix on Paula Adbul’s wet, naked body and then proceeding to lick it off…I’m going to take a cold shower now.
Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 05/08/2003 7:06 PM
Recently, I had something like Fun Dip where it was a lollypop FOOT and the powder was like Pop Rocks. It was good, because I like both Pop Rocks and lollypops, so hey, two in one!
i cant help but feel somewhat responsible for this article. i know its not impossible for matt to have decided to do an article on fundip by himself, but i did present the idea a few months ago. i dont know why i wrote this. i must be an egomaniac.
Chestnuts roasted by jeremiah @ 05/09/2003 12:08 PM
Fun dip kicked ass…
I loved the fake ciggerette candy things most of all I would act like the one germlin in the bar with 20 ciggerettes in its mouth…
Then the bastards changed the packs so they no longer looked like ciggerette packs and they got rid of the red end… Bastards…
Chestnuts roasted by Geek @ 05/10/2003 5:11 AM
Fun Dip was the ruliest of all the ruling junk food. I find the hideous new packaging to be an abomination, and shall lobby to get this terrible injustice corrected.
"Then the bastards changed the packs so they no longer looked like ciggerette packs and they got rid of the red end… Bastards… "
I’m still angry about that crap to this day.
Chestnuts roasted by EightOh @ 05/11/2003 11:20 AM
Fret no more! Unless you want to, that is… cheap nasty candy cigarettes with the chalky mint taste and dyed-red tip are still around. I buy boxes by the dozen at Economy Candy whenever I’m in NYC and use them to gross out my friends. MMmmmmm…
Chestnuts roasted by speedlime @ 05/11/2003 4:21 PM
omg, your article made me wanna try those things again. It’s true what you wrote once, this site really does spark one’s nostalgia! We have a similar type of candy in sweden, but we don’t get no fancy colored powder.
I used to live on these things during my sisters’ softball games. Lik-M-Aids, Big League Chews, and Airheads. It’s amazing I’m not still coming down from the sugar rush.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 08/16/2003 9:47 PM
I started my lik-a-maid addition in the 3rd grade in 1960, when they came in cellophane packets for a penny a piece. I especially loved the grape, and could eat only 25, one after the other, because my tongue gave out from the acid. 25 cents was a lot of money then, and 25 lik-a-maids was HEAVEN…then came Pixi Stiks…I loved grape and orange…for a while, I couldn’t get lik a maids, so I stuck with Pixi Stik…I used to write the manufacturer and got an entire box of Pixi Stiks. Today, I still love to get the large sticks, now 75 cents to a dollar. Today’s lik a maids are not at all like the old kind…today, they are very smooth, powder-like…they were much more granular then…can anyone relate???? I often wondered if I could become diabetic from all the sugar I have eaten in my life…I am currently hooked on Hersey Kisses (thanks to my daughter)…the new lik a maid are redundant with that stupid hard stick which one has to purchase…bad marketing idea, I think.
Chestnuts roasted by salgal @ 09/24/2004 11:08 PM
I just ate a Snickers bar. Funny that Snickers was mentioned at the end of the Fun Dip article. I was thinking that Matt should’ve mixed all 3 flavors at the end of the review and shared his thoughts on that. I know I did that plenty of times during my childhood. It’s kind of like mixing all of the sodas in a fast food place or gas station(aka-suicide).
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hey just found out the MOTU Happy Meal uses boxes, thats right boxes. Plus the toys are about the same size as the little GI JOES, pretty cool.