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09/27/2007: 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.


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Discussion Thread: 151 comments

Crab Spice potato chips….drool. I will be looking for those tonight when I re-supply myself with Ghost Dots (my son and I have devoured a bag in the past week). I don’t think I could bring myself to eat a gummi frog, especially one that big. I wsouldn’t eat it all at one time and I think I would find it even less appetizing partially eaten on the counter. I could never bring myself to eat cat litter cake (the one with tootsie rolls as cat poopie) despite the fact that many people have made “delicious” ones here at work. If it resembles something normally less than appetizing, I have difficulty ingesting it, no matter how good someone says it is. A word of warning, stay away from the gummy eyeballs at Target. It may be my fore-mentioned aversion to “gross” foods but the eyeballs tasted awful.

Ghosted by freudguy @ 09/28/2007 2:50 PM EDT

scott, I think one of us is misremembering…don’t owl pellets come from the other end?
We were just talking about kitty litter cake at the office yesterday, since someone brings one to the Halloween potluck every year. I don’t understand how anybody that’s ever had a cat could think about eating that.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/28/2007 3:35 PM EDT

oh yeah. i guess i forgot that. still, imagine how traumatizing it would be to puke up bones.

oh god. i did a google image search for kitty litter cake, and it was horrifying. my friend’s place always smells like his cats shit, and i got some olfactory flashback when i looked at those cake pictures.

Ghosted by scott @ 09/28/2007 4:18 PM EDT

Kitty litter cake is one of the most disgusting sounding things I’ve ever heard of. I hate that dirty catbox smell so much.

Ghosted by Annette @ 09/28/2007 4:29 PM EDT

It was 8th grade that we had to dissect frogs. I can still remember the day that we did it too. I was very angry that I had to take apart a poor frog, but once I had the thing cut open, it was really interesting. Then once we had the organs all labeled and were going to throw the frogs away; one of the boys decided to cut the head off his frog put it on a pair of tweezer and started to make it talk and sing to all the people in the class. The advanced science class had to dissect cows eyeballs and a pig fetus. That was one time I was glad I sucked at science.

Ghosted by Alyssa @ 09/28/2007 4:40 PM EDT

Jessica Marie..I completely agree with you ^_^

Ghosted by Anonymous @ 09/28/2007 5:00 PM EDT

Hmm, since we’re talking about dissections, I may as well relate my experiences with ‘em. I never got to dissect any frogs myself, however I DID see the aftereffects. Once I arrived for my science class, and the previous period’s class had apparently done frog-dissecting, and there were multiple trays of dead, sliced-open frogs sitting out. This was back in ‘99, and Dragonball Z was still cool, and my class was filled with geeks, so there were a lot of Captain Ginyu jokes flying around… As for what I did, dissection-wise, I did slice open a cow’s eyeball… in Physics Class. We were doing the unit on Lenses and Light, and the eyeball was done to show… something to do with how the lenses in the eye refracted light. I also cut open a rat in Bio class… The formaldehyde stench was horrific, especially when the rats turned out to be part of the final exam, where there were 30-something dissected rats sitting out with pins stuck in various innards, and the exam was that we had to identify the innards and what they did. There was also the incident where I found a mysterious chunk of gray, formaldehyde-smelling meat under my retainer later that night, and spent 20 minutes and half a tube of toothpaste frantically trying to remove formaldehyde from the inside of my mouth…

Ghosted by DocDragon @ 09/28/2007 6:05 PM EDT

I remember those Halloween McNuggets toys, Paul. That is, I remember going to McDonald’s with my grandmother, ordering a Happy Meal, then having my grandmother tell the person at the counter to leave the toy out because it looked stupid.
That was my mean grandma. I wasn’t sad when she died.

Ghosted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/28/2007 6:07 PM EDT

Chris Martin; Cutting up rats is standard in UK schools it seems. We do rats rather than frogs. My rat was not supposed to be pregnant, that was just my bad luck (and the rat’s, I suppose). I hope I didn’t make your evening too icky! :)

Ghosted by Anonymous @ 09/28/2007 6:17 PM EDT

Sorry Leigha! I get a little passionate sometimes; environmentalism is a big part of my life. Let’s see if we can connect the topics with some bad science…I dissected a frog once, and if we keep dissecting them, there will be none left and this will throw off the ecosystem and everyone will die! Hence, no more Halloweens.

An aside – was this day surreal for anyone else? Like the weather, however your day went…my day was really strange and kind of freaky, but I can’t put my finger on the reason. Must be Halloweentime!

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 09/28/2007 6:17 PM EDT

Crab flavored chips.Look at what our science has wrought.Next thing you know, we’ll have Solyent Green flavored chips.And we all know we don’t want that.

Ghosted by BloodMist @ 09/28/2007 6:25 PM EDT

Matt,

Friday the 13th Parts 8 and 9 Booots. Best Halloween review EVER.

Ghosted by Cotter @ 09/28/2007 6:49 PM EDT

I saw that Edgar and Ellen stuff at Target and was mesmerized. I didn’t see that gummy frog for some reason, though. :T

The crab chips are nothing new here, though. My mom and dad would always get the Utz Crab Chips, but I can honestly say I’ve never tried them. They always sounded gross, and I was never a fan of seafood.

Ghosted by Ryane @ 09/28/2007 6:52 PM EDT

Now that DocDragon has made me never want to eat again….

FNT baby!! Wooooooo! (I’m usually doing something else on Saturday, so I like to make my own SNT out of Friday.) Join me! FuNT can begin!

Ghosted by Terror Claws Cole @ 09/28/2007 7:30 PM EDT

Until this article I had never heard of Old Bay seasoning. Guess we don’t have it round these parts. I’m sorry, but the idea of crossing potato chips with the taste of seafood just seems completely foul to me. I love them both seperately, but together? Yeah, I don’t think so.

Kitty litter cake? What in the hell??

In case anyone gives a care, I’m working at my current job right now Mon-Fri and driving an hour and a half away to train at my new job on Saturdays and Sundays, which I will start full time in about a week. I’ve counted it up and since I’ve started training all the way to my last day at my current job (which will be next Thurs), it’ll be 25 days straight working somewhere without a single day off. Today is Day 19 of that. I think on Day 25 my brain will fall out of my ear.

The good news is, that day is next Thursday! So, I have to train tomorrow and Sunday, then have 4 more days at my current job, I’m off on Friday, and move on Saturday. And on Sunday, I shalt rest.

Ghosted by DJ D @ 09/28/2007 7:51 PM EDT

Science classes in USA sound gross…although when I was in school, we were supposed to dissect cow’s eyes and hearts. I never did it though, because my teachers always let me off when I said I would vomit everywhere.

I was going to switch to Science at uni until I found out that Biology was required for at least one semester, and at my uni you had to cut open a rat while it was still alive so you could do an experiment on its heart. YUCK!! They were cute little pet rats too!

Ghosted by Jasmine @ 09/28/2007 7:58 PM EDT

Yeah Bloody Marie’s are sometimes better without the Bloody. I just like spice!

Ghosted by Joker @ 09/28/2007 8:02 PM EDT

I’ll be posting a new Countdown a bit later tonight. It’s a fun one. :)

But everyone is gone!

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/28/2007 9:50 PM EDT

I’m here….thanks in advance!

Ghosted by diamonds @ 09/28/2007 9:56 PM EDT

Just dropped back in…looking forward to it!

Ghosted by DJ D @ 09/28/2007 10:06 PM EDT

I be here. I got payed for my proctoring job, and my Wii back, today!!!!!

Oh, and I got the X trilogy for the price of a single DVD!!! That’s good seeing as my copies of 1 and 2 are currently in the possession of someone I’d rather not ask them back from :P

I’m hitting up Target tomorrow, fo’ shizzle.

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/28/2007 10:35 PM EDT

I’ll be lurkin’ round here somewhere, cant wait!

Ghosted by JoshC @ 09/28/2007 10:37 PM EDT

still here for a little while

Ghosted by Joker @ 09/28/2007 10:42 PM EDT

It’s cool Jessica Marie, I was just joking anyways. you guys can talk about global warming all day long….although i did watch an inconvenient truth, and al gore is the man. the day after i watched the movie i decided that i should ride my bike to the kent state campus….since that is where i go to school…..and its like 3 miles away. needless to say after i got there i felt like i was dying. and then on the way home, i definitely flipped the bike over and got some serious road rash and chipped the bone in my forearm. so the only environmental thing i do now is recycle…..i guess that is better than some though……

Ghosted by Leigha @ 09/28/2007 11:17 PM EDT

I’m around.

Hey Matt, you hear Jones Soda made some sports-related sodas? They include DIRT and SWEAT flavors.

I know it technically isn’t a Halloween-related item, but it sounds pretty terror-inducing to ME. The first flavors in awhile that I’m too scared to try. ;_;

Ghosted by ChibiSoma @ 09/29/2007 12:10 AM EDT

I just pre-ordered the Seahawks collecter pack. Jones Soda outbid Coca-Cola as the cola vendor for Qwest field for the next five years. GO HAWKS!!! I don’t know if they serve it in bottles or draft at the games since I only drink beer while I’m there.

Ghosted by racinjason @ 09/29/2007 12:43 AM EDT

i just checked out the jones soda site, and i am slightly disturbed by the dirt and perspiration flavors…..but im wondering if they are really supposed to taste like those items. also, i finally broke down and listened to the X-E halloween jukebox, and i effing love it. i just wish there was more depeche mode on it….but that goes for any playlist….and perhaps joy division….i am stuck in an 80’s timewarp when it comes to my choices….but oh well

Ghosted by Leigha @ 09/29/2007 12:44 AM EDT

Sorry for the double post, but I forgot to add that I hope they don’t serve the sweat, dirt or grass flavors.

Ghosted by racinjason @ 09/29/2007 12:44 AM EDT

Friggin’ Target … I swear, that damn place can entice me with ANY seasonal item. I went in yesterday for a wedding anniversary card and “30 Rock” Season 1, walked out with Pillsbury Halloween funfetti cake mix/icing and a five-pack of Halloween Hot Wheels cars. I told myself, “Hmm…for the nephew,” but they’ll wind up on my bookcase. Target…gah!

Ghosted by Commander Awesome @ 09/29/2007 12:46 AM EDT

Oh, Matt. Everyone is not gone. As a matter of fact, X-E Readers are definately not a whole lot of things (gone being one of them). There is a theory that, in fact, the total population of X-E REaders, in the statistical sense of course, are actually not almost everything. We are certainly less things than we are not. That’s a lot of stuff not to be, man.

Ghosted by Pamalamadingdong @ 09/29/2007 1:08 AM EDT

Pam: We are all still here. And I am full of a lot of things!

Ghosted by Bill @ 09/29/2007 1:19 AM EDT

I still am posting tonight, btw. Almost there. :)

And yes, tomorrow is definitely slated as a “hit every store in the city for Halloween stuff” day.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/29/2007 1:22 AM EDT

WTF?

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/29/2007 1:22 AM EDT

Cant sleep…baseball…was too exciting for me tonight! Anyone else watch the joy that took place at Fenway?!

This was a ways back up the thread, but I see some peeps were talkin about Happy Meals. Those Halloween buckets kicked ass. I remember my Grandma took my brother and me to Burger King, and this was when Beetlejuice was like the hottest thing, and my brother HAD to have one of those kids meals toys. My grandma asked the nice girl behind the counter for a “Beet Juice” Toy”…I have never seen a 4 year old boy so embarressed as my brother was at that moment…lol.

Ghosted by crazy_mainer @ 09/29/2007 1:25 AM EDT

I can’t even go Halloween stuff hunting yet, nobody here in Canada has anything. I spent hours searching for those skull and zombie candles in vain. :(

Ghosted by Philip G. @ 09/29/2007 1:36 AM EDT

Which brings up an interesting question: I wonder what Halloween is like in other countries. Canada, specifically, because you wouldn’t picture it being that much different. I live in such a small bubble.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/29/2007 1:45 AM EDT

I don’t think it is too much different, just we don’t get anything interesting. People don’t buy as many decorations for Halloween and we also have Thanksgiving in early October to compete with.

Ghosted by Philip G. @ 09/29/2007 1:51 AM EDT

Hey Knegative – Do you really think WTF is an appropriate comment on a site where people regularly go on about crab flavored chips and Kitty Litter Cake? I think NOT!

Ghosted by Pamalamadingdong @ 09/29/2007 1:58 AM EDT

I’m really not sure what I should do for Halloween, the original plan was for my friends and I to go as the Aquabats..but I don’t see that happening. Any ideas?

Ghosted by hylianhobo @ 09/29/2007 2:05 AM EDT

Well are you looking for an activity or a costume. I know near nothing about group costumes but for singles, and Indiana Jones costume is easy to throw together and impresses people. I overall spent maybe $15 throwing it together.

If you’re looking for an activity, check out your local amusement parks, the usually have a Halloween fright night thing. The tickets are usually cheaper and line-ups may not be as long.

Ghosted by Philip G. @ 09/29/2007 2:20 AM EDT

To all X-Ers with Pokemon Diamond and/or Pearl:

TOYS R US IS GOING TO BE GIVING AWAY MANAPHY FROM 12-3PM TODAY (9/29)!!

Legit Manaphy. In the Cherish Ball (first in the US!) Also, if you do go, you need Mystery Gift activated.

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 09/29/2007 2:30 AM EDT

Missed it crazy_mainer, but I’m sure it was something. And Bostons got a great team this year, so they really earned their division spot, although I’m not really a fan (Blue Jays man, so shitty that they were never really in it this year).

Is anybody else like freaking out over the Mets falling out of first?

And Matt, in typical Canadian fashion, Halloween tends to be really cold. I don’t know what its like anywhere else, but when I used to go trick-or-treating, I’d usually have to wear pants and a jacket with my costume, which makes it really hard to look like a convincing spawn of Satan.

Ghosted by Tutsuro @ 09/29/2007 2:34 AM EDT

Aye, I can agree with the pants and jacket thing. I was a grossly misshapen mummy.

Ghosted by Philip G. @ 09/29/2007 2:49 AM EDT

Glad to see the rest of the world get on the crab seasoned chips thing!

If you like that, next time you buzz through DC/MD/VA, look around for the Utz brand Old Bay, or any of the small chip producers’ versions. Mmm… the burning…

Ghosted by Katie @ 09/29/2007 8:29 AM EDT

Actually a potato chip brand called Walkers (and some other brand name in Australia) make chips that taste like crab, shrimp, bacon, roasted chicken and around Thanksgiving a “Turkey” flavor, even though they do not celebrate our holiday, it’s still a seasonal hit (the chips, that is). I was introduced to all of these by an ex who is british and I have a friend who occasionally sends me a box full of chips. And to be honest they are WONDERFUL and AWESOME.

My current girlfriend is an Aussie (wow I am the international man of mystery) and she sends me different flavors too.

Anyway I hope to find me some crab spiced chips soon! :D

(By the way I met the Aussie because I was in the Marine Corps for ten years).

Ghosted by Jace @ 09/29/2007 2:52 PM EDT

Guaranteed good time: try some popcorn with Old Bay instead of salt.

Ghosted by Alvis @ 09/29/2007 11:16 PM EDT

Seems like other Marylanders pretty much covered all the bases, but I just wanted to point out that Herr’s is another PA based snack company that makes a crab chip. (Most snack food in the Northeast comes out of PA– I think it’s bc they invented pretzels, natch. :)

Anyone had the Hostess PB&J Krimpet yet?

Ghosted by Beckner @ 09/30/2007 3:20 PM EDT

We dissected all sorts of stuff at my school, from frogs, to fetal pigs, to worms, to grasshoppers, even cow eyeballs (mine still had eyelashes stuck to it…errrgh).

That gummy frog is kickass. I hope my Target has them. I bet my one year-old will help me eat it once I’ve cut ‘im up (the frog that is; not the one year-old).

Ghosted by tanta07 @ 10/01/2007 1:34 PM EDT

they’ve had Utz potato chips with old bay seasoning for years. the lays are nothing new.

Ghosted by matty @ 10/03/2007 12:22 AM EDT

One of the biggest things I miss from not being in college bio anymore is all the dissecting we did. It was really cool, fascinating stuff. We did a fetal pig, a sheep brain, a heart (don’t remember the animal), a goldfish, and a cows eye.

The coolest one was the goldfish, becuase we actually had to wear the magnifying glasses that surgeons use. It was really interesting seeing the tiny vessels. The cows eye was nuts because you had to get out of the way before you cut it open. As soon as you make the first incision, fluid squirts everywhere, it was nuts. Fun but nuts.

Ghosted by Todd @ 10/05/2007 3:46 PM EDT

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