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Dissecting Gummy Frogs, with Crab Chip bonus.

The latest Halloween Countdown entry, which I am dating as yesterday's to keep myself and check and not try to skip a day, turns one of the most memorable and disgusting moments of grade school into hot Halloween candy. It's the Gummy Frog Dissection Kit, and it comes with a knife and everything!

And as if that didn't spike your appetite enough, get a load of these:


I wrote a big long hate rant against Clamato in my youth, but the truth is, I've warmed to the idea. Went to Canada a while back and had dinner with a bunch of locals who all ordered Bloody Caesars, which more or less take a Bloody Mary and replace the tomato juice with Clamato. I've always regretted not joining in. I love Bloody Marys, but I never feel right ordering them because I'm always the only person in the place who wants one. Caesars are like, the official drink of Canada. Everybody drinks them. It's close enough to a Bloody Mary, and I'm tempted to go back there just so I can finally down the swishy red drink without having to be the only idiot in the joint with vegetables protruding out the top of his glass.

It's those inklings that make me not at all averse to Lay's new "Crab Spice Seasoning" chips. I never saw them before yesterday, so if they aren't new, they're at least new to my city. The list of ingredients vaguely refers to "crab spice seasoning," but I'd say that they're basically regular potato chips dunked in a pit of Old Bay. They really aren't that bad, and while I wouldn't christen them as the new "it boy" of Potato Chip Land, it's neat to see bright red crabs on the potato chip bag you're eating from.

Posted by Matt on 09/27/2007. E-mail me!



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Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 09/27/2007 4:33 PM

Old Bay makes everything edible.
You can eat mashed cardboard if it’s got Old Bay.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/27/2007 4:34 PM

What is Old Bay? Never heard of it.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 09/27/2007 4:35 PM

Yellow tins of an unknown spice blend. And it goes with everything.EVERYTHING.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/27/2007 4:37 PM

There are actually Clamato flavored tortilla chips, and they aren’t half bad.

Chestnuts roasted by Big McLargehuge @ 09/27/2007 4:38 PM

I bet it even goes with frogs’ legs.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/27/2007 4:38 PM

they have those at the dollar store near me. terrifying terrifying chips

Chestnuts roasted by DrWorm @ 09/27/2007 4:46 PM

So is it, like, crab flavored or spice flavored? Crab flavored chips would be really gross….

Chestnuts roasted by Ben @ 09/27/2007 4:46 PM

I have to get one of those frogs for my little brother! I did the disection thing in 10th grade and couldn’t touch it- i was super grossed out. Also, I’ve suffered from lifelong frog fear so that didn’t help.

Chestnuts roasted by cb @ 09/27/2007 4:51 PM

When I was in 7th grade (home schooling sucks, don’t ever home school your kids or I will punish you) my mom borrowed a frog dissection kit (one with a plastic frog skeleton that one would pour some sort of green jell-o-like substance around) from another “home school mom”. A real religious whacko type.
The kit came with this little pamphlet, talking about frogs and how they live, etc. It started out “for millions of years frogs have been hoppin’ around and shit” or something like that. But the “millions of years” part was blacked out with magic marker, as well as a part later in the pamphlet about frogs’ habitats being destroyed by pollution. Apparently there is no such thing as millions of years or pollution.
I am pretty sure I refused to do it just based on who it was borrowed from.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/27/2007 4:53 PM

We didn’t do frogs in middle school, we did Sharks in high school. Much, much better in my estimation.

I was excited at first, then hesitant when it was plopped down in front me, then sawing away like a demented mortician. Within I found quite possibly the most beautfiul thing I have ever seen: a turquoise heart with bright red viens and arteries interlayed. It was a gorgeous :)

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 09/27/2007 4:55 PM

I must have one of those frog dissection kits! I never thought I would say this about a zoological procedure, but that looks like a blast and a half!

And I’m curious to know if those are spice-flavored or crab-flavored as well. As an avid fan of crab the meat, I would at least give those a one-chip try.

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/27/2007 4:58 PM

That frog is so disgusting… I MUST HAVE IT!

Chestnuts roasted by josherjohn @ 09/27/2007 5:01 PM

By the way, I feel compelled to inform everyone that my school didn’t do frog dissections (but I did assist on a cow eye dissection) and that I dropped out of my zoology class last semester because it was boring. Thus gummy frog dissection is right up my alley!

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/27/2007 5:03 PM

We didn’t dissect frogs in school either. We dissected rats and biology was right before lunch. I can never eat turkey sandwiches again with out getting a whiff of phameldahyde.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 09/27/2007 5:05 PM

We dissected frogs, grasshoppers (and i’m talking HUGE–like the size of your face HUGE), and worms. My science teacher was actually a taxidermist on the side, and was REALLY creepy. There were stuffed animals EVERYWHERE! Anyway, since he was so excited about dissection time, he’d let us take the frog’s eyeballs home. Needless to say, there were “frog’s eye fights” in the hallways and on the bus on the way home. Fun times.

Chestnuts roasted by Maria @ 09/27/2007 5:06 PM

I hope its OK to veer from the blog topic, but I had a question and thought this site was the best venue to ask it in. Has anyone else noticed to lack of 80s movies airing on basic cable these days? I can’t figure out when it happened, but it doesn’t seem that long ago that movies like the Goonies, Princess Bride and Back to the Future were on tv constantly. Now I can’t remember the last time I saw any of them. True, I own all those movies on dvd and can watch them whenever I want, but it makes me a bit sad that movies from my childhood are now too old for most TBS viewers. And how are todays kids going to discover these movies if they’re never on TV??

Chestnuts roasted by julie @ 09/27/2007 5:07 PM

julie, mostly I think they’ve moved to the prime stuff, HBO or cinemax. I saw all three recently on one of those networks. maybe they realize as we get older and have more money we are willing to pay to see older shows on HBO. which to be honest works for me as I will put it on even though I own them.

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 09/27/2007 5:16 PM

Old bay is amazing, put it on French Fries, put it in vinegar and dunk crab meat in it, its just too delicious. Have always hated crab chips though. Just not for me I suppose. 17th is probably the closest to first I’m ever going to get… FIRST! I feel like I’m on aintitcoolnews.. what a loser I am.

Chestnuts roasted by vanbilderass @ 09/27/2007 5:18 PM

Oh yea… I was cleaning out my garage and I found a Rude Ralph… and NOW it feels like Halloween countdown time.

Chestnuts roasted by vanbilderass @ 09/27/2007 5:19 PM

hmm. I’m Canadian. and i HATE caesers. and I think that out of say 20 of the people I drink with frequently (I’m in college) one person likes Clamato. personally I’d never touch the shit…i’ll eat someone’s celery if they don’t want it…but that’s about it.

I had to dissect frogs…AND worms and grasshoppers AND final year in highschool biology a PIG FETUS. thinking about the smell still causes me to gag.

Chestnuts roasted by ellaenchanted @ 09/27/2007 5:33 PM

We didn’t do frogs at my school. We did rats. Sadly when I opened mine up it was full of babies. I never thought I’d see a biology teacher almost throw up…

Chestnuts roasted by Anna @ 09/27/2007 5:36 PM

I went to Target today, searching for Halloween goodness. Not only did I find the massive Halloween section, but I also found a horrible affront to common decency…a Christmas section in September. It’s not as if this was just wrapping paper that looked Christmasy and a few strings of lights that don’t quite fit the orange and black of Halloween…no, this had Christmas trees and stockings and other such indicators that this was genuinely a Christmas section already showing it’s red, white, and green in September; a part of my soul died today.

Chestnuts roasted by Ragnarok @ 09/27/2007 5:38 PM

Utz (potato chip company in the NE) has made Crab Chips for years. I got addicted to them when I lived in Baltimore, and every so often come across them in NYC… but it’s a gamble. Good to see that I might have another source of Old Bay-enhanced potato goodness. http://www.taquitos.net/chips/Utz_Crab_Chip

Chestnuts roasted by Patrick @ 09/27/2007 6:04 PM

I’m not a big fan of seafood and I see this as the potential for a disturbing trend. Popcorn shrimp flavored popcorn? Lobster Jerky? Salmon Popsicles? Where will this madness end???
The frog looks tasty though…

Chestnuts roasted by Saint @ 09/27/2007 6:13 PM

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