09/27/2006: Halloween Honey Buns & Pepperoni Recipes!
I don’t think I’ve ever actually eaten a proper “honey bun,” nor have I ever had any huge desire to start. But it’s tough to resist when they start dressing foxy.
From Cloverhill, it’s the official “Halloween Honey Bun.” Sold at the pretty incredible price of 2.99 for a big box of six huge buns, I couldn’t believe my good fortune. Honey buns, in orange bags, with pictures of spiders and bats on said bags. I was really hoping that the buns themselves would be shaped like something spooky, but
dog shit ain’t spooky. I’m still in love, though. They’re so genericky and wholesomeish. The kind of thing you’d find for sale on an elementary school hot lunch line in October. If I thought kids would find it more “cool” than “insane,” I’d totally give these out to trick-or-treaters and make sure their scarves were nearly tucked before sending them off.
I found these last night, along with a recipe booklet detailing how to turn Hormel pepperoni slices into Halloween heaven. That was a bigger issue, and I’ve written about it in the latest Countdown entry.
Discussion Thread: 103 comments
Man, I miss Sam’s Club. Nothing like buying a box of two dozen assorted Svenhard’s breakfast pastries. I have a mighty need for a raisinette right now. But you’re right, honey buns are definitely the kid picked last on the breakfast pastry playground. And that’s even when the bearclaws aren’t giving them wedgies.
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Jedoc @ 09/27/2006 11:42 PM EDT
wal-mart has honey buns like that (non halloweenish) and boxes of snowballs like that 9 for 3 bucks!! YUMMY!!
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Goob @ 09/27/2006 11:43 PM EDT
Honey buns are mighty tasty. It’s also something you can call your lover if you’re feeling particularly cheesy at the time.
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X @ 09/27/2006 11:46 PM EDT
You don’t know what you’re missing by not eating honey buns.
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Ragnarok @ 09/27/2006 11:50 PM EDT
Now I want a ghoulish pepperoni pizza. Darn you.
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Hey I'm Jeff @ 09/27/2006 11:51 PM EDT
Tom Petty reigns supreme.
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K- @ 09/27/2006 11:53 PM EDT
I took a bite of the one I opened; tasted like a regular glazed donut to me. Is it correct to assume that they all taste like this? I’ve never been fond of things that have “honey” in the title, becaue it’s usually meant “too much honey.”
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Matt @ 09/27/2006 11:59 PM EDT
I usually get Mrs. Freshley’s and they just take like dough and sugar. Sweet, sweet sugar.
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K- @ 09/28/2006 12:01 AM EDT
First of all, I despise honey buns. They are tres nasty. But I still might buy a box for my dad… to try to get him in the Halloween spirit.
Second, that was the most adorable little pepperoni and cracker kitty I have ever seen in my entire life. Not that I’ve seen many pepperoni and cracker kitties, but ya know…
Third, Matt, only you could find a bell pepper masquerading as a pumpkin.
And fourth, I now feel compelled to get a job as a pizza delivery person just so I can deliver pizzas on Halloween night dressed in a reaper costume. I’ll bet I get the most tips of any other delivery driver that night…
I really want to make a Tom Petty cracker! No really, I love the idea of making halloween treats out of crackers and other food. I have to say I think you did a great job, I really love the pizza!
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IHAQ @ 09/28/2006 12:05 AM EDT
The mention of Farfetch’d just made that article all the better, in actuality I pictured a Farfetch’d - a Frankenstein creation Farfetch’d - smacking cracker-animals in the face with its spring onion and turning them eebil.
Y’know, the good kind of evil - like Tim Curry. But not.
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Formaldehyde @ 09/28/2006 12:13 AM EDT
I wonder if Curry is aware of his deification on this site.
/Cue someone posting as Tim Curry to thank us profusely.
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K- @ 09/28/2006 12:18 AM EDT
Awesome job with the pizza. Now I want to make one.
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mudogramx @ 09/28/2006 12:31 AM EDT
Matt: You’re pretty much right about the taste of honey buns. Although I like to nuke mine for for about 30 seconds to make it less stale and more pastery-like.
That is one cool looking pizza. The closest thing around here to that is when Papa Murphy’s makes heart-shaped pepperoni pizzas on Valentines day.
I’ve always wanted to make a holiday-themed treat but I always found them to be more complicated then what their worth. From flag cakes on the 4th of July, Gingerbread men/house on Christmas, to those Halloween recipes The Food Network throws at us in October.
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JLAJRC @ 09/28/2006 12:32 AM EDT
Wow that pizza looks really good. If it was earlier in the night I would’ve changed my dinner plans. Any chance of you reviewing the many pumpkin flavored/halloween themed beers that are out now? There are also spooky wines out, one of which is called something like “Satan”, but it definitely comes in a bottle shaped like a black cat. Check out Central Market if you got em there.
Honey Buns are good but when I ever I get a craving for them, I go to the store and end up seeing one of those 3×3x3 ft Cinnamon Rolls in the bakery with 4 pounds of glaze on them and I’m like “fuck honey buns”. But if someone else were to go get me one when I had the craving I’d pay them in hugs. No one ever takes that offer.
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dohopoki @ 09/28/2006 1:17 AM EDT
Who knew honey buns could be so spooky?
The Honey Buns I used to eat had this kinda thick layer of whitish icing on them, and it was gross because it would just peel right off like a layer of Fimo clay or something. It was a lil greasy too. I think they were Hostess.
Anyhow… Jesus, it’s time like this when I wish I liked pepperoni and that I knew of a vegan substitute for it! Well, next time I make a pizza, it will have a jack ‘o lantern face of veggies.
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Ryane @ 09/28/2006 1:44 AM EDT
That In Store Recipe Display Thing Reminded Me Of A Really Good One I Came Across About A Year Ago. It’s Just A Simple Party Mix But It’s Tasty As Hell! The Four Things You Need Are: 1 Box Of Honey Comb Cereal, 1 Bag Of Mini Marshmallows, A Jar Of Peanuts, And 2 Of The Big Bags Of Oreo Minis. Dump ‘em All Into A Big Bowl, Mix And Serve! You Should Use Honey Roasted Peanuts Obviously, But Regular Is Good Too, Just Make Sure They’re Salted Or The Peanut Flavor Will Be Too Weak And Your Party Mix Will Chew Dong. Now, I Think This Stuff Is, If I May Indulge In The Use Of The Following Phrases, Da Bomb, Fo’ Shizzle. Word To Your Mother, Dawg. If I Didn’t Believe In This Recipe, I Wouldn’t Have Just Used Such Hardcore Gangsta Verbage, Would I? Plus I Wouldn’t Have Wasted This Much Time Typing This Long Assed Essay On My Fucking Cell Phone’s Number Keypad!!! But I Love You All That Much! So Please Someone Out There Give This Stuff A Try And Tell Me What You Think Of It, And What It Should Be Named. Try It!!!
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antenna villain @ 09/28/2006 1:45 AM EDT
Heh, I hate when I go overboard at the grocery. Then you’re having that mini panic attack up at the register while you’re watching the total soar past $160, then $180, and you’re going, “Why, why did I have to get the name brand cheese? Do I really need two bags of croutons?”
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squee4242 @ 09/28/2006 2:22 AM EDT
You could coat the honey buns with some Betty Crocker ready made chocolate frosting and give them out to the kids on Halloween claiming that they’re real shit.
To make the pepperoni recipes extra scary, substitue all of the bell peppers with Dorset Naga chillis and Red Savina habanero chillis.
How about getting some halloween peeps ghosts and decorating them with coloured cake gel out of tubes.
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JEM @ 09/28/2006 3:24 AM EDT
Thank you matt, you’ve made my halloween season strong and stronger still with your awesome find. By this time last year (and most previous years) I have staked out every conceivable place with halloweeny stuff 10 times each. This year I havent’ gone to nearly a sinle place, and I am getting frantic.
But the Hormel Website was awesome. I strongly suggest others go there as well. I could listen to that song from the ogan and watch those skeletons dance all night long. I just may.
It filled me with spooky wonder love and you betcha making time and going around tomorrow to everywhere. This is my time and if it takes Hormel’s brave push into Halloween to remind me, or push me into action, then so be it.
Yeah Hormel, Yeah to Matt! I am on an adventure tomorrow.
(seriously guys, go to the page.)
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spooky @ 09/28/2006 3:24 AM EDT
I declare this the finest Halloween Countdown to date…and it’s not even October yet! Good work, Matt.
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Scott @ 09/28/2006 3:24 AM EDT
The site IS awesome, Spooky!!!!! Those dancing skeletons made my night. Does it remind anyone else of Ultimecia’s Castle?
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K- @ 09/28/2006 4:15 AM EDT
Sam Adams Octoberfest Brew, pepperoni Tom Petty hors d vors (read “ordervs”… damn french) and a jack-o-lantern bobooli pizza face? Holy shit SNT, here I come!
You are absolutely right, though. Costumed Halloween themed food delivery would clean up anywhere. The reaper brings the pizza, Satan brings Chinese, Spongebob brings fried seafood, Darth Vader brings Mexican… Quick poll, “what costume for what food?”
FM
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Fungusmungus @ 09/28/2006 4:46 AM EDT
I used to know this kid who had a framed picture of Curry as Frank N. Furter on his living room wall. He was not wrong.
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Kid Nicky @ 09/28/2006 7:53 AM EDT
I agree with others, the pizza was the best one. Someone mentioned that it’s not yet October, boy it feels like it’s about the middle.
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kb @ 09/28/2006 9:02 AM EDT
BoBOOli? I’m glad I stuck around until the end.
I don’t know if I’ve ever commented before but words cannot describe how much I love this site.
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Jen Diff @ 09/28/2006 9:11 AM EDT
I’m with Ryane. I need to find a vegetarian/vegan substitute for pepperoni, and fast!
In unrelated news, I’ve started my five-day Friday the 13th Marathon. Yesterday was #1 and #2. Today will be 3 and 4. And so on until Jason X. I’ve never seen past 3, so I’m really excited.
And then Nightmare on Elm St. And then Freddy vs. Jason. And then I’ll cry because I don’t have the Halloween or Child’s Play movies, which are most deserving franchises in their own right.
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Spoodles @ 09/28/2006 9:36 AM EDT
I was at the grocery store last night getting stuff to make lasagna, and saw that they had their Halloween section up. Well, I dropped everything (and broke a jar of tomato sauce, dammit) and drug the girlfriend over to see what they had. Some of the cool finds were wall “posters” that would cover between 30 and 50 feet of wall with spooky halloween goodness. Also saw some interesting new candies to give out, can’t wait to taste test!
But the big score, the reason I’m writing, is the holy grail of cool: The Great Pumpkin Fruit Snacks! Seriously. It had Snoopy dressed up as the Red Baron, Linus as a vampire, and a bunch of the others too (can’t remember, my brain went into shutdown when I saw it). Definitely worth hunting down if you can!
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Dr Sketch @ 09/28/2006 9:50 AM EDT
Holy shit Matt, you have INSPIRED me. My friend’s birthday is on Halloween and we have a huge drunken costume party every year…THIS year will now include Hormel goodness and a jack o lantern pizza. Right on.
In high school, my entire family ate so many honey buns (as a result of a sale) that we all got sick and have not touched them for years.
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Muppet Baby @ 09/28/2006 10:26 AM EDT
That is one sinister pizza, and I think it’s the peppers that do it. It looks like it should drive a white, windowless van.
Lmao! Hormel’s website is one of the BEST halloween themed sites i’ve seen in years.
Especially when you tease the lurch butler lookin dude into moonwalking back into the kitchen over and over again lol. Being injured off work i can see me having a lot of fun with that today.
The pizza was great by the way matt lol, definately doing that for this years halloween bash.
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Dan @ 09/28/2006 10:50 AM EDT
I used to LOVE honey buns. They are even better if you nuke them in the microwave for a few seconds to warm n soften them up. It also melts the congealed sugar and turns it into a soft sugary yumfest. I would just throw them in for like 15 seconds still iln the plastic wrapper. Dont overnuke though or you end up with a honey bun thats harder than a rock and thats just nasty.
That pizza is soo awesome looking, I nearly choked up when I saw it. That is TOO freakin COOL for words~
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kittycatgirl @ 09/28/2006 10:53 AM EDT
I was about to excuse from the double post, but thanks to kittycatgirl i don’t have to 
If any of you throw halloween parties or you are doing this year you should REALLY check out hormel’s website, seriously they went all out on this. From creating your own sound effect’s tips to listing some creepy tunes (i busted out limewire), lighting tips to decor, and of course recipies, it’s a shockablock of halloween fun.
Hell it’s even made me FEEL more into the season, this alone has made me want to give them money.
A+ to Hormel all round.
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Dan @ 09/28/2006 11:02 AM EDT
Holy crap Matt, those honeybuns really do look like dog shit…
they taste pretty good though.
the honeybuns. not the dog shit.
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m1928mouse @ 09/28/2006 11:08 AM EDT
I know what makes the pizza so sinister, it’s the mustache and the eyebrows. Same mustache as Clayton and Captain Hook. That pizza is dastardly. He’s planning on tying a girl to some train tracks as we speak. Green Onion train tracks, but train tracks nonetheless.
Dastardly, I tells ya.
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K- @ 09/28/2006 11:11 AM EDT
i don’t know if anyone was going to mention this but not only is that a pizza with a freaking pumpkin face it’s a pizza with a freaking pumpkin face that has a green pepper MUSTACHE. possibly the greatest moment of my entire life.
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danny @ 09/28/2006 11:15 AM EDT
Those things are full of refined sugar and bleached flour!
And those things are delicious!
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Somethin\' Funny @ 09/28/2006 11:42 AM EDT
I recently purchased a Pizzazz Pizza Oven, and I just might make me a spooky pizza right soon. ‘Twould be fun just to watch the punkin spin and turn into a melty, cheesy, pepperoni-y mess o’Hallowe’en goodness.
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kingklash @ 09/28/2006 12:35 PM EDT
Kind of Halloween related: found this brief article on Boglins on this website: http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/
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Melissa Y @ 09/28/2006 12:38 PM EDT
OMG Matt, you have the same dish(es?) that grew up eating off from. Those white plates with the weird blue flower design on the edges. Bizare.
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Heather @ 09/28/2006 1:48 PM EDT
Oy vey. My grandma had those.
She also had hard water so her dishes felt really weird to the touch.
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Somethin' Funny @ 09/28/2006 2:09 PM EDT
OK the ONLY honey bun that really matters, is one from Cinnabon (Spellcheck) in my local mall. They have giant cinnamon or honey buns with this sweet cream that you put on top and watch melt and drizzle all thw way down. The cream hradens as it cools froming a glaze in front of your eyes. I have never had a pastry bring me thid close to an orgasm before. Highly recommended.
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Old E @ 09/28/2006 2:41 PM EDT
Thid = This
I suck at typing due to large appendages.
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Old E @ 09/28/2006 2:46 PM EDT
I’m eating a honeybun right now. I hope you’re happy.
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K- @ 09/28/2006 3:00 PM EDT
Someone’s gonna hire a hitman to take me out for saying this, but I can’t stand honeybuns. I can’t even lick one without feeling disguted. Don’t ask why, it’s just the weirdness that is Deuce.
Once I had a buddy give me one, and just to be nice I decided to eat it. It took me over a half an hour to eat 3/4’s of it. Then I secretly threw the rest away.
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Deuce @ 09/28/2006 3:23 PM EDT
Just WHAT do you DO for a living that allows you to be able to afford the time and money to go so totally crazy on this stuff?!?
Whatever it is, sign me up!
But, at any rate… you are an absolute Halloween Deity!
Carved pumpkin alters should be erected and Tom Petty shaped crackers should be the communion wafers.
You’re insane.
And that’s a GOOD thing.
~P~
P-TOR
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P-TOR @ 09/28/2006 4:02 PM EDT
I am making a Phtog costume for Halloween. I will post pics.
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Old E @ 09/28/2006 4:33 PM EDT
“From now on, I’m putting green onions on everything. I’ll run around screaming “Farfetch’d” as I whip Charmander in the ass with them.”
F’in A. But I’m still caught on Ghost With The Most…what is the name of the other ghost?
I don’t know why, but food makers are feeling really in the Halloween spirit this year, even food that doesn’t normally go all out for the holidays, like Hormel or something I’ve sold a couple of times at work and may ultimately buy myself even though it’s a diet-buster: Pilsbury’s Halloween Cinnamon Rolls, basic pop-from-a-can cinnamon rolls with jack-o-lantern orange frosting.
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starwenn @ 09/28/2006 5:41 PM EDT
I was never allowed to “play” with my food as a child, which meant I was not allowed to so much as make a smiley face with my ketchup. The closest I ever got to personified food was when I was able to get a Clown Sundae at Friendly’s.
On an unrelated note, after over a month without internet, I have moved yet again (4th time this year)and just caught up on the countdown as well as the blog. I am so glad to be sitting in front of a computer once again!
While unpacking a box of children’s books for my roomate I came across what I consider a little treasure. I found a Wuzzles coloring book titled “Bumblelion’s Sports and Games Coloring Book”. It was put out in 1985, and I want to know why I never had one. I suppose all that matters is that I do now, or at least I will after I confiscate it from the kids bookshelf!
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MissJess @ 09/28/2006 6:17 PM EDT
I remember first seeing a packaged honey bun at our local convenience store as a kid (Cumberland Farms or Tedeschi’s, I forget which store it was). It looked like a giant extra-glazed donut, still shiney with gooey goodness. In fact, it looked so good my kid-mind could not fully deal with the image of me actually eating one, so I just obsessed over it for months.
One day I actually worked up the courage to buy it, I couldn’t believe they’d sell such a large delicious treat for only $.50! I didn’t eat it at first, just kind of looked at it in the wrapper for awhile. Perhaps I was simply basking in its majesty.
I finally opened it up. Now, looking back on the moment I seem to remember it registering in my sub-consciousness that the “gooey goodness” did not stick to the wrapper at all, in fact it all slid out intact and kinda slightly moist in a heavily-preserved kind of way. This should have set off all sorts of warning bells but I was way too caught up in the moment.
I bit in with the taste of a fresh glazed Dunkin’ Donut (or Krispy Kreme if you prefer, though I’ve never had one so I’m speaking from speculation there) in my mind. Instead of a mouthfull of gooey goodness bliss I ended up with slightly slimey stale ass. The best part was that the slime actually made it go down quicker so it didn’t linger in my mouth.
Looking back I bet if I never bought one I’d be telling you right now how honey buns are the tastiest food on the planet. What a cruel world we live in.
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Ryle @ 09/28/2006 6:46 PM EDT
i know exactly what you’re saying ryle. i actually feel the exact opposite of the way i feel about whoppers. with honey buns i always find myself saying hells yah. but then when i finally take a bite i find myself screaming why god why!?!?!
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danny @ 09/28/2006 6:58 PM EDT
Today is surreal. The ice cream man came by work today, despite it being now officially Fall. Then on the way home I giggled in glee at the rickety old Halloween store shining a big “open” sign. And now it’s storming!!!
It’s storming, it’s storming, it’s storming, it’s storming, it’s storming, it’s storming….
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Mystie @ 09/28/2006 7:02 PM EDT
LOL, I had a slightly more innocent take on the pizza face, to me it looked like he would be in the park, leering at girls, perhaps even with a stereotypical French accent.
Hi Jen Diff, welcome to the blog :). (And P-TOR, Matt works at Nick)
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squee4242 @ 09/28/2006 7:34 PM EDT
Hey, we use the same kind of plates, Matt!
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Timmy @ 09/28/2006 7:49 PM EDT
I’m eating from the exact same bag of Hormel pepperoni. They’re becoming room temperature, and the grease is…..melting….
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ColonelCatsup @ 09/28/2006 8:01 PM EDT
I prefer Oscar Mayer pepperoni. Less greasy.
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Mystie @ 09/28/2006 8:03 PM EDT
Hey Hey Hey looks who’s back…seeing those crackers reminds me of the Mitch Hedburg bit about the suggestions they put on Ritz boxes forcrackers…”why would i want to put things on my crackers, maybe i just want to eat crackers…” or something along those lines. RIP Mitch
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phunqsauce @ 09/28/2006 9:03 PM EDT
“I like crackers! I didn’t buy them because they’re little edible plates!” - MH
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squee4242 @ 09/28/2006 9:19 PM EDT
Thanks squee……….always dependable!
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phunqsauce @ 09/28/2006 9:21 PM EDT
I’m pretty sure we have the same plates here… Must be popular! =/
I absolutely love all of those creations you made. That pizza is super sinister looking, but I’m partial to the bats on the website. Of course, the dough would never stay bat shaped. =( I can’t imagine how long it would take to get something to perfect looking like that. I know I could never ever do it.
I’ve *never* had a honey bun, and judging from the reviews here, I guess I’m one of the lucky ones. 
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Christine @ 09/28/2006 10:55 PM EDT
Matt are you out there man?
I need help!
Also, I think I’ve finally mastered this “Very Dirty Martini” business.
Mix 3 ounces vodka with 1 ounce vermouth and 1 ounce olive juice. Pour into glass. Add more olive juice, liberally. Drink until it’s 1:30 and you’re clam happy and ready for bed.
Which kind of olives do you use? I bought black ones today but looking at your post from back in August? it looks like green ones. I am an idiot? So do I use green? Have you tried both? Do you really need the vermouth?
Looks like this drink mixing might have to wait a day :(….
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threebeesatdisney @ 09/28/2006 11:01 PM EDT
BLACK OLIVES??! NOOO! NOT IN THE MARTINI!
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Matt @ 09/28/2006 11:03 PM EDT
I AM AN IDIOT! I will have to hit the store again tomorrow! Maybe I will pick up some pepperoni while I am out and make those cute cat cracker things! The ones you made turned out GREAT! Also, your pizza looked tasty too! You are right about the PIZZA Giants out there! They would make a killing selling pumpkin shaped pizzas!
Thanks for the help! Memo to self: GREEN OLIVES! Repeat….GREEN OLIVES! Oh yeah, VERMOUTH TOO!
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threebeesatdisney @ 09/28/2006 11:15 PM EDT
I’m gonna make an Appletini and call it a night! I know how to make that one! HA! Thanks again!
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threebeesatdisney @ 09/28/2006 11:17 PM EDT
Just made this TASTY one:
CARAMEL APPLE
1 1/2 parts DeKuyper Sour Apple Pucker
1/2 part DeKuyper Buttershots
YUM!
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threebeesatdisney @ 09/28/2006 11:32 PM EDT
Oh my god, it does look like dog shit! I’m never eating honey buns again.
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jazzy @ 09/28/2006 11:59 PM EDT
Oh man, the last few posts… woo! First hearty chuckle of the… wait, it’s already tomorrow. Damnit! Well, in the last 12-18 hours, at least.
Anyhow, GOD BLESS THE FRONT that’s moving through! It reached about 80 here today and I thought I was gonna have to vomit because of it, but then, lo and behold, torrential downpours came, and knocked the temps back down to 60! Aww yeah! (official about 57 degrees here right now :D)
I went to Target tonight, and damn, it was on the verge of being cold, and the sky was totally black with lingering rain clouds. Looked like Satan was going to swirl down out of them at any second. I was so happy. And buying Fright Bites made it even better, cause Jesus, those things are delicious! I had my doubts by your description, Matt but, really, they are Yum.
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Ryane @ 09/29/2006 12:10 AM EDT
Black olives are solely for pitless, mass consumption. Or pizzas.
Green olives, aside from mass comsumption, are strictly for martinis. God had a plan.
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ColonelCatsup @ 09/29/2006 12:38 AM EDT
I’ve got an old Wuzzles colouring book! They never broadcast Wuzzles on tv over here in SA, though 
I have to say about Matt’s food :- Fangtastic! Bootiful! Spooktacular![sorry]
I think I’m turning into a chocolate vampire. It’s working in this shop - the cake is called Death by Chocolate. Two chocolate sponges with Bar-One sauce in between, caramelised condensed milk on top and cream on top of that. I lurked in a corner and devoured a piece and got Bar-One sauce all over my face. Too bad it wasn’t red. Bwahahahaaa!
Ps. I miss Trajeal.
Pss. One matric dance I went to (”senior prom”?)was entitled The Vampires’ Gothic Gala, and it had little grade eights made up as zombies in little suits with red cummerbands, and a vampire at the entrance with a huge book on a lectern to see if we were invited. He had a red cape and real fake fangs. We had to walk past all these dead branches, like a Transylvanian forest, and all we heard in the background was screams! Everyone thought it was more grade eights, forced to hide in little coffins somewhere covered in fake blood, but nooo… it was the way to the bathrooms! When my friend Lisa and I ran on our high-heeled shoes (ow ow ow) to the loo, we found out that some fiend had hung long strings of black cotton thread from the ceiling all along the passage - it was like running through spiderwebs! (Had we not been wearing the dress-equivalent of the gnp of a small African country, putting sticky syrup on the threads may have been funny.)
There were all these dreadful demonic red-eyed paintings on the wall, and the head boy publicly thanked the head of the Student Christian Association for their loan. We had to eat off of long tables from the science wing, far too high to use your knife and fork properly - peas kept falling off my date’s fork. Oh yes, the dance floor was too small for anyone to waltz for the opening dance, but we all tried. The head boy and his date must’ve been practicing for months, because they did it perfectly - caroming into everyone else and ricocheting off the tables!
All in all, a magic night
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arete @ 09/29/2006 8:58 AM EDT
Thank you, thank you all.
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Tim Curry @ 09/29/2006 9:13 AM EDT
Went to our super market this morning. Found the spooky pepperonis but no free hormel recipes. I demand satisfaction!
I did however pick up the original Halloween and Friday the 13th dvds last night. I can’t wait to watch them as I’ve never seen either of the slasher series (I was always more of a NOES kind of guy).
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Ryle @ 09/29/2006 9:26 AM EDT
Ooo, forgot to mention that the oreos with orange filling made up for Hormel’s (or Shaw’s) blunder. Black cookie + orange creme filling = the perfect snack of evil. Well, maybe not perfect, they don’t scream when you bite into them, but 2 out of 3 aint bad.
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Ryle @ 09/29/2006 9:28 AM EDT
For the record, I scream when you bite into me. But, you just try bitin’ me, ye wee bastards!
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kingklash @ 09/29/2006 12:32 PM EDT
I ALMOST bought a bunch of Halloween decorations today, but I was on my bike, so it would have been awkward getting home. I cannot believe it isn’t October yet…
I got completely SOAKED biking home, and was hoping for a new article to read while I warm up. Oh well. Off to the Hormel website!!
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Muppet Baby @ 09/29/2006 1:34 PM EDT
I loved the pepperoni snacks…I want to make them, and I don’t even like pepperoni!
I am disappointed though…no post on the 28th (no complaints, I think this is the first one missed!)–but it was my birthday, and a countdown post would have made it complete.
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Rosella (aka Joey) @ 09/29/2006 1:45 PM EDT
Rosella, there was a post on the 28th. There just hasn’t been one for the 29th…but the ay’s not over yet. )
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Matt @ 09/29/2006 1:54 PM EDT
Ay/day.
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Matt @ 09/29/2006 1:55 PM EDT
I forgot to mention last night, in my cold weather splendor, that Joann’s Fabric is kinda depressing now. I went in there on my way home last night, and what have they done? Reduced all of the Fall/Thanksgiving/Halloween stuff into 2 aisles!!! TWO BLOODY AISLES! I was so mad… They even squished stuff on a sidecap, like it was clearance stuff already! So, then I go around the corner and I find about 5 aisles full of Christmas stuff! It was sad. It’s not even October yet! 
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Ryane @ 09/29/2006 2:00 PM EDT
Ryane, I agree. It’s totally depressing to see them redecorating for Christmas when it isn’t even Halloween. The stuff I go to the craft store for is rarely holiday-sensitive, and still I have to endure looking at Christmas fabrics in late-August-like weather. It’ll be hearts and pink by December…bah.
It’s all over but the screamin’, Ryane. Ansem goes down TONIGHT!!!
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K- @ 09/29/2006 6:36 PM EDT
Weird…somehow the 28th isn’t showing up for me! But I patiently await the 29th, and 30th, and all the other days til Halloween!
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Rosella (aka Joey) @ 09/29/2006 7:10 PM EDT
Is this Riku as Ansem? Or Ansem himself?? 
Either way - Godspeed, K- I’ll be waiting to hear how it goes!
I haven’t played any PS2 for about a month. I went to Circuit City this morning and now I’m stuck between 2 TV’s and I can’t decide which to get! 
But once I have one of the two, it will be a PS2 fest.
Jessica Marie: I’m the complete opposite! I go in to look at all the Seasonal stuff, for the most part. The fabric side means pretty much zilch to me, though I did buy fabric a couple of times… Yeah, to make a velvet pouch thing, and to fix a pair of pants for this guy.
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Ryane @ 09/29/2006 7:30 PM EDT
So now when I open up X-Entertainment in my browser the tab comes up, “X-Entertainment, popping your proverbial c…” and every time I look at it, I think the following “c” word is “cherry” and I’m all O.O with the shocked emoicons and so forth. But then it’s just corn, and not cherry, which would be waayyyy funnier.
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Mystie @ 09/29/2006 7:49 PM EDT
Yeah, I’m not getting the update either Rosella, I tried ctrl F5 but no going.
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IHAQ @ 09/29/2006 8:00 PM EDT
Awww..seeing Tim Curry reminds me of this mentally challenged girl who worked at wa wa with my mom…this girl had the HUGEST crush on Tim Curry…she even had a heart shaped locket with his pic in it! There was a regular customer who had a friend of a friend who actually knew Tim, and treid to get him to meet this girl..i dunno if it ever happened coz my mom quit the job soon after.
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mandy_Reeves @ 09/29/2006 8:12 PM EDT
There isn’t a blog post for 9/28 if that’s what you’re looking for. But if you go to the Halloween Countdown you’ll notice that the pepperoni article was the 9/28 article.
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Mystie @ 09/29/2006 8:17 PM EDT
Ryane - Fixing jeans is pretty ambitious! I’m usually knitting or making jewelry when I go. My sewing machine is broken.
It was Ansem as Ansem, Darkside, A Huge Living Heartless Airship, and then Ansem a la Safer Sephiroth.
Theys is all dead though…for now. The ending tore me up, and then the secret movie I unlocked showed what I assume is a preview of II, but it looked more like the E3 trailer for XIII more than anything, not that that is in anyway, shape, or form a bad thing. Pretty freakin’ cool, actually.
It is an amazing game, and has rightfully been moved into my Top 5 with VI, VII, VIII, and Xenogears.
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K- @ 09/29/2006 8:58 PM EDT
Correction: It looked like the trailer for Versus XIII. And yes, that is a big difference to all those totally not interested in what I’m talking about. 
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K- @ 09/29/2006 9:04 PM EDT
Man, I think that the ideas at the Hormel site are really cool. I’m gonna have a sweet haunted house with some great snacks this year!
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Lester Polfus @ 09/29/2006 10:10 PM EDT
Yeah, thanks Mystie, I’m a total dope.
Good night all
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IHAQ @ 09/29/2006 11:51 PM EDT
holy crap.
the quote “dog shit aint spooky” coupled with that picture made me laugh so much that i cried.
thank you for making my weekend with something as simple as potty humor.
matt rules
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brianfax @ 09/30/2006 1:29 AM EDT
I always drank Wicked Ale for the Halloween season. They had a case in a Halloween cooler at my local beer distributor. Yeah we have to go to a special kind of regulated store to get beer here in PA. I would love to be able to go get a 6 pack that wasn’t $8.00 at a bar.
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Old E @ 09/30/2006 8:22 AM EDT
My husband’s blog (Things I’ve Eaten) always makes me laugh because we are pretty inept at cooking, so your cheez whiz pumpkin is something I can totally relate to.
I love that the Hormel version is all perfect, but everyone knows it just doesn’t come out of the can like that.
Thanks for a hip-happening site!
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McSassy @ 09/30/2006 12:12 PM EDT
I once made a spoOoOoky Halloween pizza with cheddar cheese to give it a little orange and way too many black olives in centralized places to give it a Jack-O-Lantern face. it was thin crust so it didn’t give under the pressure of being cut.
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Jinx Mesmer @ 10/01/2006 1:39 PM EDT
ah, you never fail to amuse me.
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AiSakka @ 10/01/2006 9:25 PM EDT
Attention Ryane: There is vegan pepperoni in existence. It’s made by Yves and/or Lightlife. I buy it at Acme Supermarket, but Whole Foods always has it.
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Jackie @ 10/02/2006 1:22 AM EDT
Okay, I seriously doubt that anyone will even see this post it’s so late, but did anyone else notice that the spider hors d’vors had FREAKIN’ 6 LEGS???!!! That really bugs me. (cue rimshot) I’m pretty sure arachnids have 8, but maybe I’m just splittin’ hairs. I thought you of all people, Matt, would catch that mistake.
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Godjilla @ 10/07/2006 2:21 PM EDT
i must say whoever did the hormel treats is quite artistic
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xELVIRAx @ 10/27/2006 12:43 PM EDT
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