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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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.