The X-Entertainment Blog

01/09/2005: Honey Roasted.

Hey, remember me? Guy with the site and stuff? Sorry I’ve been so scarce — like I’ve said too many times before, things have changed a lot on this end over the past year, but I’ll do what I can to keep things going here. Just know that at no point do I “forget” about X-E — it’s just a matter of…oh blah blah blah. You know the drill by now.

I am working on a new article, though. It’s one of those special-to-me-but-maybe-not-to-you thingies. We’ll see. I’m setting it all up tonight, and hopefully, the gods will smile upon me with fast commutes this week, leaving time to put it together during the evenings. Jesus Christ I’m boring.

In lieu of something new, here’s a bunch of something old. If you’re somewhat new to the site and haven’t figured out how to waddle through the fifty years worth of articles buried deep within the site, here’s a few articles that I kinda like:

Supergirl Movie Review: It’s odd that this flick hasn’t achieved more of a cult status. Though not a critical or box office smash or even a very good movie, it’s super/pun harmless and loads of fun. I’m a sucker for Helen Slater.

Within the Woods Movie Review: This isn’t a particularly enthralling article or anything, but I’m figuring there’s plenty of Evil Dead fans in the house who haven’t heard the scoop on the so-called “prequel” — the messy prototype film Raimi and Campbell put together to sell the suits on the idea. Check it out.

Hulk Smash Something: You’ve probably noticed that I like to archive all of the weird food and toy promotions that come out. The reason is simple: when I want to do an article on something like, let’s say, Ninja Turtle Pies, I’m faced with the unfortunate fact that there’s just nothing out there on the stuff. Bad sentence, but you get the drift. I live for trivial things, but trivial things rarely last long. I hate that. So, in this article, a Hulk pinata goes apeshit over all of the many Hulk-related movie promo tie-ins that were then littering the grocery stores. It’s goofy, but I’m proud to have done my part to make sure the handful of people who’ll think of that stuff years from now will have a place to see it again.

Return of the Jedi Toys: I don’t talk much about Star Wars stuff on the site these days, I guess partly because I know I’ve been “outfanned” in that department — there are people more into the lore running their own sites, or at least, people who’ve kept up with it a heck of a lot better than me. That said, there wouldn’t be an X-E if I didn’t love Star Wars so much. I can’t limit the “why” in that to a paragraph, so I’ll just let you read about a bunch of vintage toys from the ROTJ era and hope you get the same feelings from it. It’s not about the Speeder Bike toy being cool. It’s about the Speeder Bike toy reminding me about how I used to spend the afternoons on the side of our house, by a pile of tan rocks, ramming it over and over again into that big cylindrical air conditioner thingamajig while collecting ladybugs and neat red leaves.

That’s all for now. Damn, I really gotta get rid of the Christmas design, eh?

Okay, survey: tell us what you won’t eat, under any circumstances. I’ll start with my arch nemesis — mayonnaise. I can’t even eat across from someone with mayo on their plate.

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It is a little depressing with the lack of updates, but I understand that sometimes reality calls. I miss being a kid and having no responsibilities. I think it gets worse the closer you get to 30. Thank God for good jobs, though. Now I can afford all those Transformers I didn’t get when I was a wee little one.

I detest weet-bix.. I hated it when I was a 5, and I’ve hated it for the 20 odd years since..

i agree…mayonnaise is the most vile of earth’s creations. i also think ground beef and cheesecake are nasty too. it’s the "mystery" aspect of these foods that gross me out hardcore. i’m not quite sure of what’s in any of them, and that’s just too weird. like, exactly WHAT part of a cow is in ground beef? i’ve read many places that even the really high quality stuff is chock full of brains…eww.

Sour kraut. Ugh. Just… ugh. It’s pretty sad considering I’ve got 2 packs of like 10-15 year old He Man bubble gum that have been tempting me for a while now. With a name like "Eternia Rocks" I’d think they’d stay pretty fresh.

But as far as updates go, I’ve got some fun new 80’s video clips over at my site.

Anything masquerading as meat that isn’t made from a dead animal. This includes Boca Burgers, Tofu Pups, and any of the myriad other things that make me think "why’d you go vegan if you’re just going to spend your days pining for what you gave up?"

anyone looking for a good read just google up X-E and Maine. One of the best articles, that and Wildwood too.

Cooked cabbage. Heck, raw cabbage. And certain ethnic food. Japanese, Chinese, and Mexican tops that list. But then again I’m a VERY picky eater. Also I’m only 19 so maybe my tastes will change. I’m surprised I’m starting to dislike my favorite- PB&J sandwiches. Man I don’t ever want to hate that. Well peace.

Hotdogs, definitely. Also, bologna, which in my mind is only the pancake form of a hotdog.

Any sort of seafood. Sadly it’s my SISTER who’s violently allergic to seafood and she LOVES it. Poor girl.

Hey, all, look up the article from when Matt found the worst video game hall of all time. That one was awesome. I can still picture that nasty ice cream machine. It wasn’t that long ago, though, so maybe quite a few of us have read it already. also, my favorite article was the one about the hermit crabs. I don’t know why; it just holds a special place in my heart.

Gross foods, uh… bananas. Bananas are pretty yucky. Also, walnuts. Hack! They looks like dried up, tiny brains.

A lot of theings sardines, pepperoni, anything spicy like salsa, mushrooms, and a lot of different stuff. I’m a pretty picky eater too.

Cottage cheese is the grossest thing ever! It is probably the only thing I won’t eat.

I’m a picky eater, so there are lots of things I don’t like. However, Kim Chee comes to mind as something that is utterly revolting…

And Mayo is good in a few contexts, like Devilled eggs. Otherwise, it’s nasty.

We should all take this time to re-live the many pokemon "quests" that Matt went on. They’re awesomely entertaining!

What else wont I eat? I hate ham. I mean, yes, i’ve been tricked into eating it, but my hatred of ham streaches back to when I was 5, being forced to eat a ham sandwitch at the park. That thing ruined my day. Love bacon, though.

First poster, lobster is AWESOME. You just leave all the ones you dont want at my house.

As for my favorite article? The Tim Curry colection ranks pretty high up there, but the articles I ALWAYS re-read are the trips to Atlantic City, especialy the parts about the 99 cent stores. Also, the surplus science store trip is a good article! I forget the name of the store, though.

The food i dont eat would be pistachios. I ate one pistachio in my life and the second one and rest of bowl was full of maggots, so til this day i dont go near pistachios.

My favorite article would have to be the breakfast from hell, Hungry man. I just loved that article. Funny though, that shrotly after that article the breakfasts mysteriously vashished from the store, never to return…

I’m not a fan of ketchup on macaroni and cheese. I like ketchup, but putting something bitter and tangy with something cheesy and creamy is not my idea of good eating.

To me, it’s like putting honey on lettuce…or fish in chocolate (Be free to try those suggestions on a special episode of "7 Cents and Half a Button" Fear Factor. Yes, you can win 7 cents and 50% of a button…if fear is not a factor for you.)

Also, I find coloured ketchups interesting to look at, but all kinds of wrong to digest.

I always forget about this site for a little while, and then I come back. I take sick pleasure in reading about old snack foods I might have eaten and cartoons that have made me the man I am today. Holy shit I love this site.

I don’t like vienna sausage. I recently read Matt’s article on the Super Mario Bros. Movie and it inspired me to buy the DVD. Not bad, if you’re willing to take it as it comes. Also, I like the cartoons starring Donatello(my favorite TMNT!) and Tunnel Rat.

Happy New Year Matt! Why are you apologizing? You’re not our bitch! We understand that you have a life outside of tickling our fancies 24/7. Be afraid. Embrace the fear! Dance with me Matt! Dance the dance of life!!!

Matt should do a review of Napoleon Dynamite. Or an article where he tries to make his own action figures.

I don’t like onions. On anything. Picking them out of hoagies is a pain in the ass.

I agree with Matt- mayo sucks- I can’t eat anything that has even come near it. Also, I agree with Cameron T- kimchi (which you get for free with every single meal you order here in Korea) sucks….what is it? Well, it’s hot, spicy fermented cabbage. Not my idea of a good side dish.

One of my fave XE articles was the review of "The Worst Witch," starring Tim Curry - made me laugh out loud in public more than any other.

Liver from any animal. Anything pickled from a pig. Fried porkskins. And chicken gizzards.

I’ve got a bit of a hate on for vanilla icing. I had a bad experience with it when I was a kid and now even the smell of it makes me nauseous.

Don’t worry Matt, we still love you. We don’t care if the updates are sporadic, as long as there’s updates!

As far as what I won’t eat…I was REALLY picky as a kid, and though I’ve broadened my tastes a little there’s still a lot of stuff I don’t like.

~ Baked beans, ugh gross.
~ Hot dogs and bologna (same thing, different shape).
~ Most seafood, especially clams and scallops.
~ Sushi…I tried it, and I just can’t get over the fact that it’s raw freakin’ fish.
~ Cottage cheese.
~ Peas, oh god ew.
~ Ham, though I love bacon.
~ Soy juice…people, that’s not milk. Hell, any of that vegan crap I just can’t stomach at all.
~ Not a fan of onions, or of peppers. Picking them out of stuff is definitely annoying. Especially since I love Taco Bell.
~Black licorice.

Okay, that’s all I can think of at the moment. Especially since I’m supposed to be working right now. I spent an entire day last week at work bouncing around the archives here.

This site is the best at keeping me awake when I’m bored out of my mind at work.

I also avoid nuts, especially pistachios, cashews, and walnuts. ugh. I will pick them out of brownies and icecream if I have to.

Pickles, peas, ginger, and anything fish-y are not my friends. Surprisingly, for being so picky I actually like broccoli and mushrooms. Mmmm…

I hate sauerkraut too, one time in highschool their was this teacher that everone hated that looked like regis philbin so we decided to hide an open can of sauerkraut in his desk

Sardines. Gots no use for them. Snake. As my Comanche grandmother said, it’d be like eating the Devil. I’ve got enought of him in my system as it is. I’ll try a lot of stuff at least once. As long as I can exercise my cultural right to be a carnivore, I’m happy. If any PETA person gets in my face, I might eat them too! And not in the good way.

Hmm, I actually don’t like a lot of things. I HATE cottage cheese, I do not know how anyone can eat it. I just think it looks and tastes disgusting. I agree with the hating of mayonnaise. I just think it is repulsive. Ranch dressing is another thing I don’t like. It seems like everyone I know loves ranch dressing, but I can’t stand it. I also don’t like sour cream. I guess I’m just not a fan of most condiments!

Actually, it’s the strength of 1,000 nuns. Which, of course, you know how strong nuns are.

I wanted to put a vote up for another article that I loved - the one where Matt ate the NADS hair removal stuff. Oh, and the 15 year old can on linguini w/ the rusty top.

Said it before, say it again: Matt really oughta get someone to write filler articles, as a sidebar, so people have something to check out.

Thanks for mentioning your best articles Matt. Maybe you should bring up the "Bulbsaur" series of articles, where you try to collect various bulbsaur toys in strange places.

I too see mushrooms as my ‘food kyrptonite.’ I just can’t bring myself to eat a fungus that grows on top of cow manure.

For those of you that missed out on the glory days of the archive before it was swallowed up by one of the redesigns, all the old articles have navigation links that let you step through them. I think this is the earliest article: http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/3.html

I wonder how different things would have been if this place was still called subvulture. It makes me picture an underwater carrion bird.

Pickles. Heaven help me, but I’d rather lick the floor after a taping of Fear Factor than eat a pickle. Nasty, vile, evil things.

Yeah, them nuns. Gotta watch out for them, they got powers! Haven’t tried shark yet, heard it’s pretty good. Fish swim around in their own wee. I’ve never seen Carnivale, but Little Brother recommends it. Maybe if Clancy sneaks in the Mr. Krabbs laugh in there.

I’m with you on the mayo. I gag if I see it, smell it, or hear it. It’s that freakin’ gross.

Any type of crustation (crabs/shrimp/lobster\ they look like bugs. Mushrooms suck unless they’re magical. I remember my old childhood friend’s dad used to love pickled pig tongue. He used to love grossing us out.
A long time ago I worked at a grocery store that had special ethnic delicasies such as cow penis and cow testicles.. yum.

Fucking olives! Even the smell makes my stomach churn. That and escargot because people shouldnt eat bugs.

I can’t eat squishy fruit–I literally can’t eat it; my mouth goes into a gag reflex if I put a piece of pineapple or pear in there. This posed a problem in quite a few lunches of my youth where I was forced to eat one.
There was that infamous incident where my second grade teacher wouldn’t let me leave the table until I ate a pear slice. 3 gags later she suggested I try eating it with milk.

Oh yeah, and last Christmas somebody put on the buffet table….vinegar potato chips! THE HORROR….THE HORROR….and yes, I tried one too, they were just as bad as they smelled.

Boiled eggs (hard, soft, or otherwise)! First of all, I find it hard to eat anything that smells like the farts of some poor soul with a gastrointestinal disorder. Then there’s the texture… I truly hate it when people crumble them up in stuff when you’re not expecting it. Once I bite into a piece of egg it’s all I can do to suppress the gag reflex, much less continue eating. It’s also one of the few things that I can’t stomach being near if someone else is eating it.

When I was 16 I quit eating pork. For some reason I was (and still am!) convinced it is the most unhealthy thing in the world. Pork chops, ham, and especially bacon are the banes of my existence. I’ll eat pepperoni and sausage and even capicola, mainly because they are a mix of other stuff or the gross taste is covered up.
Also raw onions. Only sauteed or baked (like on pizza).
Yeah, mayo is pretty nasty too, unless it’s mixed in with something, like chicken salad. Miracle Whip kicks ass though.

A kind of luncheon meat even worse than spam or head cheese-
ASS PICK. Not sure if it’s spelled that way but that’s what it’s called. Ass pick- slices of meat with weird bits of orangy/pink gelly things in them. The new sub at subway.

Matt, thanks for the old articles! Please dig up a few about the Green Bamboo Peanut!

Olives are just about the only edible food on the planet I won’t even try to mix into one of my baked concoctions. I HATE olives. They taste weird and they look like they’re staring at you. How can you eat food that looks like it’s staring at you?

Links to some of my favorite X-E articles, in case anyone was interested in laughing their ass off.

there is one food that really gives me the heebie jeebies… mushrooms! they make me gag…

it’s strange because I’ve eaten many things more disgusting than mushrooms… I’ve eaten fish heads, insects, chicken necks, unidentifiable body parts of animals, innards of numerous animals, sea creatures I never knew existed, etc. due to live in China for several years. I even like kimchi thanks to working in Korea… there are foods I don’t like but will eat if they’re served to me… but mushrooms.. UGH!

now I’m feeling sick to my stomach… I need to go eat some kimchi to get over this feeling.. haha

I don’t really care for mayo (though I don’t despise it) but I love Miracle Whip. When I was little my mom used to catch me eating Miracle Whip straight out of the jar with a spoon. The one thing I absolutely can’t stomach is onions. It’s more of a texture thing, as I love onion dip, onion soup, etc. I thought I was weird until a fellow teacher said that she doesn’t like pudding because of the texture. How can you NOT like pudding???

One more thing, when I was in 4th grade we had a cultural arts fair at my school and our teacher made us try some steamed kelp (seaweed) from Japan. She wouldn’t let me pack up to leave until I tasted it.

For some reason, I have real trouble eating anything mashed. Mashed potatoes make me gag, and I can’t seem to eat anything else mashed AT ALL.

I cannot eat any type of seafood. Or mushrooms for that matter. It must be the texture of them.

I saw up in the middle of those comments somewhere that someone had mentioned ‘The Worst Witch’ as being the best article yet…well after reading the article, and scratching my head after page 3, I checked amazon.com and they have the DVD (because VHS just dont cut it) version for about 12 bucks. That’s some cheap Curry.

Hello X-E!!! Long time no post! Been busy this X-mas and didn’t return to school until today. While I was away, I was at the mercy of my brother letting me use his computer.

Anyway, one thing I will never eat under any circumstances is peas. Not only is the name gross, but they smell horrid, and have a gagging taste. I can’t even bare to eat anything that has come into contact with them, as it appears to me that the flavor rubs off on such things. Pllllleeeeeaaaaachhhh!!!

Matt its cool you cant post much with updates…I mean it sucks, but we understand. You are never too active after the holidays any who, but i did miss reviews of christmas stuff other then just blog updates. Although you gotta do whatca gotta do…

Thank you trajeal for making me miss Wendy’s even more now. God, I sure do miss those cheap burgers.

Speaking of food, my wife has pretty much destroyed everything I hated to eat. Mushrooms? Love them now. Vegetables? Got me eating those too.

That and oh oh….I love onion rings, hate onions. I love ketchup, hate tomatoes. Love pickled okra, hate okra or pickles separate.

BABY UPDATE: One week until the next ultrasound. The freaky thing is, my wife was on http://www.babycenter.com this morning and she said the baby is the size of a lime. I went back and looked at Matt’s "lymon" and I was wondering why my child doesn’t have hair yet, as Matt’s child does. Not fair!

If I find out it is a boy then maybe, just maybe Matt will take all the Transformer, He-Man, and other various action figures articles, pictures, etc and put them all on one fab compact disc for me at the low, low, low price of $89.99 so that I can show my son that his daddy had it made back when he was a kid.

P.S. Anyone know when they start doing the jelly on the belly ultrasound, because that huge metal rod they stick in there just freaks me out and makes me feel less of a man.

Cottage cheese is DELICIOUS! Especially with apple sauce. Or in those little cups where you can mix them with fruit. That stuff is awsome!

But speaking of gross food, this one time I was at a sushi bar with a friend and they brough out these appetizers…. they were like oysters or something but they smelled like they coated them in MENTHOL or something I just about barfed from the smell.

No matter how you cook them, the smell will make me sick to my stomach..I guess it’s because inside that yellow runny bit, there’s a chicken that could have grown up, lived a while and then been made into chicken nuggets.

Although, when my girlfriend has pickles relish and mayonaisse on her burgers, that can quickly take the top spot. Faster if she adds black olives to the mix.

I never had a hotdog in my life, the smell…eww the smell! but otherwise I love food!…

Majorwitz
I just found out Im pregnant:D:D:D, do or your wife know of any great baby sites I could go to for info or facts, stuff like that?

When I was a really young kid (up until about 7), I pretty much ate whatever grown-ups gave me without question. I developed a love for certain foods then that I doubt I would go near now if exposed for the first time. That’s how I explain my taste for cottage cheese. I think deviled ham is also that way for me. I got my husband to try it and he thought it was pretty nasty. To be honest, I can understand why he doesn’t like it better than I can understand why I do. Baloney (not to be confused with the more sophisticated bologna - I’m talking dirt-cheap lunch"meat" here) and Vienna sausages are the only two things I can think of that I lost a taste for when I grew up, though I’m sure there are others.

Congrats and all, IHAQ! Plug "Bad baby names" or some variant into FARK’s site search. Every so often, someone posts an article with some reee-heally unfortunate names. Couple of weeks ago, there was a satire article that sparked a long thread of bad names encountered by farkers. And mild surprise that the writer considered "Agamemmnon" to be an unfortunate name.

I used to love Ferrero Rocher chocolates, but, one day, a little over two years ago, I ate one and then felt like I had something stuck in my throat for about half-an-hour. I wrote it off as an isolated incident, but, after that, each subsequent time I ate Ferrero Rocher balls, it would always bring about a mysterious sore throat and other ailments like coughing and sneezing a bit.

It was only after eating a Ferrero Rocher that I received for my 30th birthday last October that I had a hunch and decided to do a little research on the subject, and, sure enough, I’m allergic to hazelnuts.

I tested this hypothesis by accident just after Christmas, when I ate a Quality Street chocolate which was in a green wrapper, making me think it was mint. About a minute later, I had that now familiar tickle in my throat, so I immediately took a Benadryl to prevent mild anaphylactic shock and I checked the little chart showing the flavours of the chocolate, and, indeed, it was hazelnut. For the next half-hour, I kind of felt like I was going to die, but it wore off.

The thing is, I remember a time when I could eat Ferrero Rocher chocolates with no ill-effect, so I don’t know what the hell happened in my mid-twenties to bring about this allergy. Adult onset food allergies suck ass.

LOL Erik, that u/s wand is frightening, isn’t it? They’ll probably do the jelly on the belly one this next time. The wand (my friend, who was trying to concieve so would get frequent u/s to check her ovaries) called the wand Cinderella. She said Cinderella even wears a condom. LOL How many weeks will she be? 12? 13? Did you pick a girl’s name yet?

kingklash, check out the babycenter polls to find some wierd names people want to call their kids. Sometimes I wish there was a d) none of the above, choice in those polls.

Hmm… Soy JUICE, Nikkii? Might you have heard stand-up by Lewis Black? Funny guy.

I’m also half-lactose intolerant (can’t drink milk, but can eat cheese, for some reason) and even with food that I like, I must be picky.

Congratulations IHAQ. I would suggest asking trajeal about websites, but she already beat me to it and posted them. Those color photos of the baby in the womb are awesome.

Trajeal- My wife says she doubts they do the external ultrasound here in Germany as pretty much any medicine they want to give you is a suppository. Almost makes you just want to stay sick.

Funny story. We went to the doctor because my wife was not feeling well. Good news, nothing was wrong but we got to take another ultrasound. Since I had to pick up the kids and take her to the hospital, the girls were in there with us. They saw everything and loved watching the baby on the monitor. I got emotional and starting crying seeing the baby move and the heartbeat. Kassidy, my oldest, asked the doctor if she could manuever the wand. Needless to say, my wife nipped that one in the bud.

The baby made a move with its hands to its head and I explained to Kassie and Kaitie that they were being too loud in there and the baby was covering its ears. Kassidy promptly replied, "No, it was the light on that thing in mommy; it was blinding the baby so he covered his eyes!" Too cute huh?

They are still convinced it is a boy, so here’s hoping. We go in next Monday, at our current timeline she would be 14 weeks, still too early to tell. God, it is killing me!

I found this site last year, and it made me laugh out almost as loudly as the Worst Witch article. People at work think I just laugh at my computer all day. Hmm. Anyhoo, Erik, dont’ name your baby any of these names:
http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

Green beans…ugh. Just repulsive. The smell, the texture, and especially the taste. Makes me gag.

There’s a site from somebody in Utah that lists real names the guy has run accross, and some are real doozys. Here in OK, the news has had a couple of stories where the names of the little girls involved gave me some doubts about humanity. One, a man, who had been murdered, had named his daughter "Tricity." Might not seem too odd, but he wanted her to run for some kind of office when she was older, and use the slogan, "ELECT TRICITY!" And, recently, a little girl was almost kidnapped while she was getting on the bus home from school, but did the whole yell and kick thing giving adults time to come to the rescue. And her name was "Tyranny." Hope she grows up to be a nice person. Naming your child is important, but don’t try too hard. Some folks I heard about tried to find a name for thier daughter that didn’t inspire some sort of detrimental nickname, and decided on "Amber." The day they bring the kid home, her five-year-old brother comes in, looks in the crib, and says, "Hello, Amburger!" Ya rolls the dice, ya takes yer chances.

For some reason, being pregnant brings out Irish/Welsch/Tolkein pride even if you’re not Irish/Welsch/a Tolkein. That being said, Tierrainney (Tyranny) seems to be popular these days, although I don’t know why. This from the awful names site:
Hell, if you’re going to give your kid a cool super-villain name like Tyranny, spell it right!

I heard that a husband and wife in Michigan who loved sportsnamed their kid ‘Espin’ as in ESPN…In a related story, a couple who loved the UPN network recently had a child and named it ‘Crap’.

Ketchup…ketchup is the Devil. Tomatoes are bad…ketchup is worse. Catsup is even nastier…

I don’t like casseroles of any kind.
Yesterday was Mrs. Manimal’s due date. Nothing. Nothing on the horizon today either. That’s the way first baby’s go I guess.

P.S. I like mayonaise but I can see where a lot of people wouldn’t. Same goes for ketchup and human flesh.

Thanks everyone! I’m so excited! I’m not very far along, and havent even told any friends or family yet, so I felt good to at least tell total strangers!

Post once and you are like that cousin that is in the mental hospital that nobody talks about.

Post twice and you are like that weird uncle you only see at Thanksgiving and funerals.

I dont like tomatoes, they’re icky. I’ve tried ‘em in salads on hoagies, in "cherry" form and by themselves…the seeds/flavor/texture…I’ve had fruit, and *that* my friends, that is no fruit. Then there’s mushrooms - they taste like what a basement should taste like. Fish, cuz it stares at me(’cept tuna, I can eat tuna–with mayonaisse by-the-by people, i dig mayo–i think because it’s in a can). Peppers and onions cuz…eww. And mangos. Mango’s make me gag. I think because they’re squishy/slimey and I expected it to be firmer the 1st time I tried it, so to this day(some 10 years later) the smell of mango makes me gag. Ugh, thinking about it makes me gag.

I like sauerkraut, I like mayo. What I don’t like is cauliflower and carrots, and mushrooms. Well, the only mushrooms I like are the blue ones.

Wait… I’m sick for eating cottage cheese but you people are eating babies? Weirdos.

An update, I tried the damn He Man chewing gum. It was a lot better than eating babies. Sickos.

I won’t willingly eat peas. But every once in a while peas use their keen trickery skills to hide in a meal where I wouldn’t expect their presence. Then they latch onto my spoon and attack my mouth. Peas are evil like that.

Of course I dislike the taste of chick peas more but find them less offensive than the average green pea because they are innocent beings that stick mainly to the salad plate.

Oh, but the Corey Haim Diary article… that’s a tough one. Doesn’t he play tennis or wrestle or some gawd-awful thing? Wasn’t there an article w/ the Ebay postings of Haim’s rotten teeth being sold, along w/ clippings of his hair and whatnot? Oh, the horror…

That sucks that you may not get an external u/s, Erik. If the baby is in the wrong position to see it’s gender, there’s not muc manipulating they can do to get a better angle.

manimal, here is a link on how to naturally induce labor. Don’t be scared. I can name two things here that worked for me (but I won’t post them here, that’s TMI to the nth degree). Email me if you want. Here is the link: http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,5329,00.html

I would suggest getting an R. Lee Ermy-type to order the kid out, but all the yelling might make it dig in deeper. "Eeek! I ain’t goin’ out there! It’s too noisy!" In the meantime, watch something real funny, like Monty Python, or Marx Bros., ’cause I hear a good laugh does wonders for labor. Maybe read some past threads in the X-E’rchives. I know somebody has to have said something off-the-wall enough to make the kid pop out.

Oh, yeah, my cousin Brenda got her labor going by going big ball bowling (no, that’s not a double intendre). She said the movement, carrying the heavy balls and all of that floor vibration got her contracting. hey, it could work, right?

Eggs are without a doubt the most gross thing known to man. Though every once in a while I’ll have a change of heart and try to eat one (usually buried in cheese) and then regret what I just did and gag. Mushrooms? I like mushrooms myself ^^;

Congrats to everyone who’s expecting and all, but man, I didn’t even realize I was still bitter over my miscarriage. Oh well, ces la vie

Congrats and godspeed, manimal789. Of course we’ll expect you to desert your friends, family and wife to rush over and let us know when the little bundle arrives.
I recently read that California rolls are MADE WITH MAYONNAISE and my world got flipped turned upside down. I still refuse to believe it. Excessive condiments of any kind gross me out, even good old ketchup. I loved bad Chinese food as a kid but I guess I had too much of it since I’ve now developed a pretty severe allergy to MSG. So I can’t eat that under any circumstances cause of the whole anaphylactic puff-up-like-a-blowfish affect.
A couple of fav articles:
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie
Rainbow Brite’s San Diego Zoo Adventure
X-Entertainment’s Three Year Anniversary. This is probably my favorite article ever, even though it’s not really the usual fare. Still gets me with the warm fuzzies, in addition to having one the the most complete article archives on the site.

i HATE cottage cheese. love sushi, mayo, sourkraut, etc.
but cottage cheese and anything grape flavored except for the the actual fruit.

ooo, have you guys heard of ‘blue mountain oysters’? i definetly could not eat those.

they’re deep fried bull testicles for those of you not familiar with them, although i have been told they are really good. blargh

PLEASE HELP ME!! ANYONE KNOW WHAT PRETZEL MIDGEE IS???!!! I had it as an ingredient in a bag of keystone party mix I recently obtained from a vending machine. Needless to say it made me ill. The bag says that the contents are, among other things, Pretzel sticks and midgee. WTF is midgee??

Either a itty bitty Tootsie Roll or a tiny pretzel. Get another bag, then seperate out the individual components and compare them to the info on the bag. When it comes to pretzels, the toy breeds are always a crowd pleaser.

No idea what "midgee" is (it’s not in the dictionary), but a midge is "Any of various gnatlike flies of the family Chironomidae, found worldwide and frequently occurring in swarms near ponds and lakes."

Thanks Kingklash. I did just that and figured out that the midgee are, in fact, the little nonstick-shaped pretzels (i.e., the traditional knot-shaped pretzels). Seems a bit pejorative and non-P.C. to call them midgee, no? Sounds too much like "midget."

I looked up midget and midgee is not the correct pluralization of midget. (think nucleus and nuclei; or cactus and cacti). Very odd name indeed.

As an annoying post-script, now everytime my friends and I refer to any party mix of any kind whatsoever, we call it "midgee;" thereby rehashing this conundrum over and over again.

Fish all the way. Man I hate fish. I can’t sit in the same room with someone eating fish. Gah.

Hulk hates midgets,well then I see a big lawsuit from the Lolipop guild in his near future.

Ketchup IS good but gets not nearly as much love nowadays…DAMN YOU DIPPING SAUCE!!!!

I’m with you on the Mayo, but add Mustard and Ketchup, too. Especially Mustard. Oh, and raw onions. Kepp them away from me!

Here’s some more classic X-E links. I meant to post these during the holiday season, but hey–at least the site’s still Christmas-themed, eh?

I used to have a vegetarian boyfriend who called eggs "chicken periods." How’s that for appetizing? He never managed to turn me off of them, though.

By far the nastiest thing I’ve ever tasted is a soda I recently came across called Brainwash (I was suckered into trying weird sodas after all the bruhaha about holiday Jones sodas). It tastes like death in beverage form. This stuff is darker blue than Tidy-bowl, and after swigging about three drops (it tastes to disgusting your mouth literally won’t let you take in any more) your whole mouth is blue for the rest of the day! Think of what it does to your insides if you drink it! Then, pouring it down the drain dyed my sink blue, too. I think I’d rather drink Matt’s ten-year-old bubble gum Hi-C (the article of which, BTW, was hee-larious).

I can’t stand Lychees- a type of fruit. My dad made me eat one for dessert many years ago and I threw up!. Since then, even seeing a can of them brings back bad memories.

Honestly ill tell you what the wors abomination is to this earth… heed my warnings oh strange ones….. well… I cant think of anything at the momment… but on the bright side… I Happen to love Chicken Periods… I ate and swallowed 4 chicken periods this morning… GOOD protein ^^

Water chestnuts, absolutely one of the nastiest thing people consider edible. Cold, moist and crunchy should describe cereal. Just thinking about water chestnuts throws me into fits of gagging and a "Mr. Yuck Face"!

Tomatoes–they are vile.
Any kind of soup; the idea of "drinking" food in liquid form makes my flesh crawl.
I didn’t remember them until posting on the Pokemon pasta thread, but I’ve eaten those mantis shrimp on the archives; not awful, but not that great either.

Here in Japan, candy with health benefits (added Vit C, collagen, etc.) is all the rage; they have jellybean-gummy things made with placenta extract, supposedly good for skin. Unfortunately, no mention of what species, and no it doesn’t taste weird or anything. I don’t know which would gross me out more; finding out that it’s cow placenta like in shampoo, or human placenta, which pharmaceutic and related companies will snatch up from hospitals after births (no pun int.), for god only knows what.

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