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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!



Discussion Thread: 151 comments

25th!

Anna: That is about the worst story I’ve ever read. They made you cut up mammals? And worse yet, rats? Pregnant rats?

Chestnuts roasted by Chris Martin @ 09/27/2007 6:19 PM

Crab flavored chips? Sounds interesting. I once ate a crab mousse at a New Year’s bash. Weird tasting stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 09/27/2007 6:24 PM

I definately remember frog dissecting. I think it was sixth grade biology for me. While someone else in my group did most of the cutting (which, even with a scalpel, is harder than it sounds), I had fun digging around with the tweezers. What made it fun is that you didn’t know what gender your frog was until you cut it open. Some students were disappointed they didn’t get the gender they wanted. My group got a female, which was fine with me because that just meant an extra organ or two to check out.

The school nurse dissected a cows eyeball in second grade, which was cool because of all the goo. I also remember a pig’s heart later on. I think I may have also did a pig fetus, too. But really, once you dissect one whole creature, there is really no need to do it again.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/27/2007 6:24 PM

In my Biology 2 class my junior year of high school we did…wait for it…cats and rabbits! I kid you not, we were cutting on bunnies and kitties! All we were missing was a few puppies for good measure. Now that was truly one f***ed up class!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Saint @ 09/27/2007 6:24 PM

At my school we did worms, frogs and sharks. The only drawback was we did the shark’s in the summertime at a school with no A/C over the course of a week. Talk about a rancid smell!! Ugh!

Chestnuts roasted by Dan H @ 09/27/2007 6:27 PM

i once had a hamster mommy dissect a fully formed and furred baby. i came home to find fur and bones. literally the baby was the size of two thumbnails. i think it died and the mom ate it.

theres a few computer programs you can rent from the library or flat out buy from i guess barnes and noble or other education type places, it lets you vitually dissect animals.

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_The Reaper_Reeves @ 09/27/2007 6:32 PM

Gross! What’s happening to snack foods these days? Can’t they just make something blue and call it good? PS Have you seen the new budweiser/clamato drinks they put out? It may be a Texas thing, but it makes me wanna puuuuuke.
http://www.rumorsdaily.com/brd/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dsc05380.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 09/27/2007 6:33 PM

Eddie
It’s not just TX, they have it in Colorado too. I’ve seen a banner for it at the liquor store just down the street.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan H @ 09/27/2007 6:35 PM

Just as a reminder to those kids who are grossed out by the frogs: if you played around with a certain nerve, you can make their legs twitch. ;D

Chestnuts roasted by Ben @ 09/27/2007 6:36 PM

Crab juice or mountain dew? Ewww, gimme the crab juice.

Chestnuts roasted by Andy @ 09/27/2007 6:39 PM

FIVEEEE years ago on the Halloween Countdown:
Knock it off. There was no Halloween Countdown five years ago.

SIX years ago on the Halloween Countdown:
Stop it already you are grasping at straws.

I loved that. Try saying this next year, one of those won’t be right.

The article was great. I didn’t dissect a frog. I actually had dissections in my senrior year of High School in marine biology. We dissected cool things, like clams, a crawfish, and a small shark!

Also, speaking of Clamato, my college cafeteria had a single bag of the Clamato Tortilla Chips at one time…I regret not buying it and trying it.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/27/2007 6:39 PM

heres a site that shows the dissection (click my name)software…theres tons of it on google.

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_candy corny_Reeves @ 09/27/2007 6:40 PM

If it weren’t a life-sized gummy frog, I’d say that “dissection kit” is a huge waste of potential. No gummy organs? Come on.

Also, there’s a Pennsylvania based chip company called UTZ that makes crab chips- defiantly supposed to taste like crab spices, and not actual crabs.
Actually, UTZ is a pretty fantastic company. They’ve got a Chip of the Month club and snacks by the barrel for christsake.
http://www.utzsnacks.com/products.html

Chestnuts roasted by GloriousKyle @ 09/27/2007 6:50 PM

Nobody else did pig fetus dissection like I did? Another honor of graduating from the Alabama school system ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Shuanfu @ 09/27/2007 6:55 PM

I wanna try these chips because I love weird chip flavors, but I kinda doubt I’d be able to find them in this landlocked state I live in.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 09/27/2007 6:59 PM

We dissected the pig fetuses. The mouth had to be sliced open Ichi the Killer-style, which made the urge to treat it like a Muppet that much harder to resist.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 09/27/2007 7:06 PM

Sometimes I wish we had Target here in Canada. Sounds like they have a cool section. I remember oddly enough, The Bay of all places used to have a really neat Halloween area. But they haven’t done that in years. Ours here doesn’t even sell toys anymore.

Ha, I didn’t even know Caesars are a Canadian thing. I see those commercials on TV for Clamato and everyone starts salivtaing watching the girl in the outdoor patio drink her Caesar, but I guess I thought they were American ads. My brother told me a couple of years ago he was shocked to look at the ingredients and find clams actually listed. Well, there are clams on the label! But he said he thought it was just a name, like Kellogs Apple Jacks not having anything to do with apple.

Chestnuts roasted by CMJ @ 09/27/2007 7:12 PM

Popcorn shrimp flavored popcorn? Lobster Jerky? Salmon Popsicles? Where will this madness end???

There’s already Candy Corn flavored Popcorn. Can’t even begin to list the wringness in that.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/27/2007 7:13 PM

Shame about the insides. When i saw that faint dark glow from inside i imagined all sorts of crazy tiny little organs.

Instead, shitty pieces of brown crap that in no way resemble flies, unless they went technical and the flies are already digested and ready to be excreted.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/27/2007 7:15 PM

LONG time reader…second time poster?!

Here in NC we did fetal pigs freshman year. All I can say is eyeball fights (yuck!)

In college I took a Zoology class, which was my favorite class I took (wondering why now that I’m thinking about all of this dissection) Well, my professor was OBSESSED with dissection. I can recall sharks, worms, frogs, cats :-( , sea anemone (anemones, anemoni??), star fish. There were probably more, but it was too many years ago to remember. Thankfully I had a partner that would do EVERYTHING for me :-D

Chestnuts roasted by Jeffininer @ 09/27/2007 7:19 PM

Seventh grade? Jesus, we didn’t have to do the whole frog-dissecting thing until Grade 12. Oh wait, no, we dissected frogs in Grade 11 — a year later we were dissecting small pigs. Now I remember.

Chestnuts roasted by Retro_Playback @ 09/27/2007 7:25 PM

We cut up cats as well, I collected serveral paws that day, friend of mine ended up with few cat fetus as well.

Chestnuts roasted by El Loco Gordo @ 09/27/2007 7:43 PM

I can’t even begin to imagine cutting up a cat. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 09/27/2007 7:47 PM

As soon as I read about “formaldehyde and froggy juice” it all came flooding back; the smell of the bucket of frogs, the lab tables, and the pleasing way our frog danced and sang like the Looney Tunes frog.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/27/2007 7:54 PM

I saw those crab chips at the local pizza place/deli. My hand was drawn to them, as if there was some sort of magnet…a hand magnet.

They were tasty!

Chestnuts roasted by Pepe @ 09/27/2007 7:56 PM

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