X-Entertainment's Christmas Season & Advent Calendar, 2008.

04/06/2008: Chicken McNuggets Shanghai!

It took almost an hour to cook up the right mix of junk, but I’m back from Toys “R” Us with a hundred bucks worth of whatever.

And it was freakin’ fun, let me tell you. Notwithstanding the pain one must endure if he or she chooses to plow through the virtual Land of the Dead that is a Toys “R” Us store on a Sunday afternoon, the experience was delightfully ridiculous, and I can’t recommend it enough for anyone who is both in the black and not at all opposed to looking like an idiot.

I’m taking pictures today and will work on the article this week, but suffice to say, it’s a great collection of completely pointless trinkets ranging from mainstream action figures to all of the weird junk they hide two aisles beyond the Hot Wheels section. You can get a general sense of the wealth of toys from the photo above. Also take note of our super genius talking cat, seen thumbing through a pile of books in the hopes of finding something intellectually challenging. (I believe she settled on a Far Side compilation.)

Now for something completely different, with a catch: I reserve the right to expand this into a full article at a later date, assuming I find the other things that I’d need to do so.

My utter fascination with the many marketing hits and misses of the McDonald’s company has been well documented across the site, but outside of slight mentions in one or two blog entries, we’ve never seriously discussed one of their best promotions of all time: Chicken McNuggets Shanghai.

I can’t remember if it happened in 1986 or 1988, but it was one of the two. In a promotion that wouldn’t fly today since we’re all so uptight about everything, McDonald’s issued special takeout-style boxes of Chicken McNuggets, complete with a fortune cookie, teriyaki sauce and most holily of all, a pair of chopsticks. (Holily is an actual word; I can’t believe it either.)

The commercials for Chicken McNuggets Shanghai featured patrons goofily trying to work the chopsticks and failing miserably, treating them like such insane novelties that we must assume that sushi didn’t once touch American soil until the ’90s. I can’t speak to the validity of chopsticks being totally foreign objects in the late ’80s, but since I was just a kid at the time, they were certainly new to me. McDonald’s food always had an intangible “play factor” to it, but here we had an open invitation.

Between the fancy red boxes that housed the nuggets to the individually wrapped fortune cookies (which were actually imported by the planeload from China), Chicken McNuggets Shanghai thrived on its presentation. The meal was served in a themed bag filled with four different dippping sauces, and when all was said and done, nobody could deny that a Chicken McNugget just tasted better when you ate it with chopsticks.

Which got me to thinking: Chicken McNuggets Shanghai might be history, but chopsticks and Chicken McNuggets aren’t. I’ve got a stockpile of the original McDonald’s chopsticks in one of my many drawers full of mirth, but you don’t need to be so lucky. Any regular pair of chopsticks will do, and nothing is stopping you from reliving the glory of a high class Chicken McNugget.

Whether you eat them once a week or once a year, I’m really going to have to insist that you use chopsticks the next time you down a pack of Chicken McNuggets. What was merely delicious before transforms into a distinctly religious experience, and I can think of no simpler way to make shitty McDonald’s food reek of top floor metropolitan class.

I’d originally intended to show you how to recreate the discontinued McDonald’s Salad Shaker collection by using a few Slurpee cups and a pair of scissors, but this is way cooler. Try it. You’ll feel distinguished and sooo less greasy than usual.

PS: You don’t need to be a chopsticks wizard to make the magic happen. Shown above is how I did the deed back in ‘86, and it worked just as well. Actually, it worked even better: Poke two holes, and you’ve created your very own McNugget Buddy, free to cavort around McDonaldland as Ronald continually suggests an innocent round of Marco Polo in a pool full of barbecue sauce. It’s a good thing dead chicken parts can’t sleep; clown will eat them.

I would imagine they couldn’t distribute chopsticks today because some kid might poke someone in the eye.

Third…darn. Matt here’s my question. Did you save those chopsticks for 20 years or was somebody selling them on the internet? Or are you just saying you had saved those chopsticks and are being sarcastic but I’m too dumb to figure it out.

I asked for “all three” sauces and hoped for the best. They gave me barbecue, sweet and sour, and what was supposed to be hot mustard but was actually something else, along with a not-pictured tub of ranch dressing.

They make like re-usable salad shaker cup things, though, don’t they? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them around Dollar Tree and the likes.

I remember this promotion. And I will indeed take your advice and use chop sticks the next time I eat chicken nuggets. Nice Simpsons reference at the end. =)

I don’t really remember the Shanghai nuggets, but then again, I stopped eating nuggets so long ago (I always hated the dark meat nuggets and ended up getting more of those than not) so that’s probably why I don’t remember them. I do love me some chopsticks, though. Oh, and I think stabbing your food with chopsticks is considered very impolite (like if you were in a native chopstick using land.) lol

Hah, so Toys R Us won, huh? I guess Mr.Matt would have more fun there than I would, as I would of just blowng it all on one big item, or a few board games. I might do the 100 buck supermarket raid on my own, though.

Well, I just got back from Wal-Mart/Best Buy. I was on a mission trying to find the Smurfs DVD and sure enough, it was at Wal-Mart. I also picked up the Aristocats there because I just don’t feel right walking into a big store to find one small item. Oh well, gotta love Wal-MArt, if only for the fact you can use those Self-Checkout lanes and not have to be embarassed if the checkout clerk gives you a strange look at the item you are purchasing. Anyway, I was trying to see what I could get at Best Buy and I ended picking up Perfect Strangers Seasons 1 and 2 and 7th Heaven Season 5 (I didn’t even know they released Season 5 on DVD, I kept thinking it was still on Pre-Order). Anyway, I didn’t find the other series I was looking for, which was the complete George of the Jungle series so it looks as though I may have to order it off of Amazon.

I don’t recall if I ever remember those Shanghai McNuggets. I keep thinking that may have been my first time ever eating McNuggets, but the only way I can be certain is if I borrow Doc Brown’s DeLorean Time Machine and go back in time to know for sure. Of course, I can think of a thousand other time periods I would travel back to rather than to the first time I ever ate Chicken McNuggets. I think I may have gotten them one time during my Happy Meal craze (I did get McNuggets a few times but you can only have one “first time”). I don’t know, but can’t wait for the article Matt! Oh yeah, and I also tried going to 7-11 and getting an IronMan slurpee but there was a big line in the store so I declined. Now I probably won’t step into another 7-11 for a couple months, long after the promotion is over!

I actually got a commercial on a vhs somewhere that advertised this. It came with hot mustard, teriyaki sauce, or sweet and sour sauce.

They probably still do this in Shanghai, as I found a small commercial for something chicken mcnugget-related. Here’s a link.

I don’t like Chicken McNuggets, and I haven’t eaten any in over fifteen years.

Wow, McDonalds did some weird things in their history, huh? I JUST GOT BRAWL!!! Can’t wait to hook up my Wii to play it. Then I can brawl you, Matt. Soo back to the subject at hand… when are you going to post the article with the TRU stuff? Aw, man I wish I was born in the Shangai Nugget area. lol

Didn’t McDonald’s briefly bring back the chopsticks and soy sauce when Mulan came out in 1998?

I always hated it when I got dark meat nuggets, back when they didn’t use all white meat.

The last time I ate Chicken Nuggets was last spring, during an SNT when they were heavily discussed. And they forgot the sauce, so I had to go back.
I’ve got a stockpile of the original McDonald’s chopsticks in one of my many drawers full of mirth
Oh, to be able to dig through those drawers.

Wow, I half expected it to be all small stuff but those bags look packed! Lemme’ guess a few:
Action figure from a dead TV show (Dragon Ball/Ultimate Muscle) and~ flesh colored toy soldiers. If I’m right I’m totally psychic X3

I just saw something online that stated that the George Clooney comedy “Leatherheads” didn’t do so well in its Opening Weekend. I was thinking of seeing this, but laziness got the best of me this morning and I didn’t go. The Jodie Foster comedy “Nim’s Island” beat it but it only came in second. “21″ holds the Top Spot for the second weekend in a row. I saw this movie last week and was surprised at how well it was. Of course, I already knew the story and it’s about one of my favorite casino games, BlackJack (it might be, but Texas Hold ‘Em, Three Card Poker, and Let It Ride give it some competition). Anyway, just thought I’d share that bit of information with you all! Now back to the Chicken McNuggets talk.

I just finished playing Smash! Dammit! I think I put you up as a friend though, Matt.

I haven’t had McNuggets in like 57 years or something. I’ve cut way down on the chemical-icious junky stuff, so. Sometime in the future I might go get some for old time’s sake. Eating them with chopsticks actually sounds kinda fun.

I tried my own small-scale version of Supersize me by eating a McShitty’s $1 double cheeseburger twice a day for a month (I normally eat fairly healthy and work out regularly). I noticed that I got headaches more frequently, my prostate felt like it was expanding, and “dropping a deuce” happened less often but was like having a porcelin Jackson Pollack festival. Also, my normally borderline futile battle of gut expansion reached constant “You’ve put on a few” comments by everyone. These results are nothing groundbreaking, but I just thought I would share them.

As for the dipping sauces…dang, I had just thrown out a bag full of every McDs dipping sauce. There’s actually 2 kinds of ranch dressing & BBQ sauce: McNuggets Version & Chicken Selects version.

Out of the McNugget sauces, I’d say there’s currently 6 sauces: BBQ, Sweet & Sour, Honey Mustard, Hot Mustard, Honey, Ranch.

As for McNuggets, note that there’s always the circular McNugget and the one shaped like Indiana. I believe Matt got both in his assortment. And yes, 6 Pieces still exist in Happy Meals (well, the Mighty Kids Version) or by itself on the dollar menu if you wait long enough.

That promotion sounds really familiar, but I’m not too sure if that’s what I’m thinking of. I would have been like…. 4 in ‘88 >.>

Nice. I actually just got back from toys r us myself >.> though my bags aren’t nearly as full. I got a “Zatch Bell” doll that shoots silly string from it’s mouth. That made it all worth while >.>

God, eating a McD’s double cheeseburger twice a day? I’d rather just shoot myself in the face. It wouldn’t taste as good but it’d get the job done faster. XD I commend you for having the balls to do your own experiment like that though.

Actually, I don’t know how people can eat hamburgers as much as they do. My fiance wants to eat them like, all the time. I like them well enough, but I can only stand having a couple a month, especially if they’re the really cheapo kind. You know, like Sonic burgers. The thing is about 1/8 of an inch thick and I swear they’re more grease than meat.

Ryane-
They don’t make dark Mc Nuggets anymore,they’re all white since people complained.

Oh yes,it was ‘88. I remember begging my folks to get me a pair of the chopsticks and like you they were eventually stabbed at after my hand cramped up from trying to hold them like scissors(which didn’t work too well either I might add).

Oh, yeah, uh… Cameron and Kid Nicky, I added you guys to my brawl list since you guys said you added mine. Thanks for taking the time to add little ol’ me >.>

Mystie I have seen salad shaker type of things like that at the store. There are these cups I want to pick up someday that are a cup with a lid and a little container that screws onto the bottom. On the label it shows milk in the cup part and oreos in the bottom part. But I bet you could do dressing in the bottom and salad in the top part. There are also these great things for lunch I see that are by that same brand that have a removable cup in the middle of a plate for yogurt, peanut butter, chip dip, ranch dressing etc. w/ a lid and a plate area around it for fruit , chips, veggies etc. And other things like that. They are a bit expensive but the plastic is durable.

Like you Matt I am always fascinated with gimmicky products that have come and gone. I saw a guy on tv that collects products once. Yep, when he goes grocery shopping if he sees a new product he buys it and puts the package in his collection. He has aisles of them in his garage/storage area. Oh to spend time walking through looking at those.

A friend of mine is looking for codes. His Brawl code is 3050 7289 7513. His real name is Jason, and I have no idea what he goes by in Brawl, but be nice to him! Not really, he’s really damn good with Kirby. Be warned.

Also it says awaiting registration next your friend code. I don’t know why it says this if you added me.

Well, it’s just as well i’m gonna have to take a raincheck on brawling tonight anyways. Try deleting the code and reentering it. Maybe that’ll work .

I was not expecting to be stimulated by mcnugget porn tonight. X-Entertainment: Surpassing My Nugget-lust Expectations Since 2002.

Since we’re on the subject of video games, has anyone played Brain Chef? It’s a browser game that’s pretty addicting for some reason.

Oh! I’m about to cry ‘coz
I INSANELY love when child-hearted people make toy reviews. I’m always searching for reviews of cheappy kiddy toys narrated in a funny language.

man, it’s so funny how you don’t remember something ever exisisted untill you see a picture of it. i too ate the shanghai mcnuggets with one chopstick. by the way downtown portland, oregon (where i live) has a bunch of old “shanghai” tunnels underneath chinatown. they were used to smuggle illegal contraband and to kidnap drunken sailors into a life of slavery. absolutely true!

Maybe I’ll try that…but with my hippie-approved, vegetarian, fungus-based Quorn nuggets, rather than McNuggets.

Thank God these things really DID exist…I remember anxiously waiting, looking out into a thunderous rainstorm, as Mom returned with these from the only McDonalds near us…an hour and 1/2 drive - each way. They were glorious.

This is why I am a fan of this site: It provides PROOF that some of this crap existed.
I mean, you can tell/ask someone about chopsticks and McNuggets but it’s nicer to have a smoking gun.
Well done, sir.

I really wish I knew what this Smash business was so I could join in the party. Oh Well.
PS, yesterday, I found Kleenex from 1977 at the world’s oldest general store.

Funny, I was a Mickey D’s addict as a child and I have no memory of these at all. I wonder if my area didn’t do the promotion.

I only have vague memories of that promotion, probably because I’m terrible at using chopsticks and I hate Chicken McNuggets. I was always a Quarter-Pounder girl as a kid.

“I’ve got a stockpile of the original McDonald’s chopsticks in one of my many drawers full of mirth,”

I’d pay any amount of money for the chance to rummage through Matt’s drawers.

I actually found a real Chicken McNugget Shanghai commercial. It’s the very last one in this Youtube collection.

The only things I can eat from McDonalds are the nuggets and the fries. If i’m actually brave enough to eat anything else from there, then i’m going to spend the next hour on the toilet. And on top of that i’m going to experience some pretty intense cramps. McDonalds is pretty much the exact polar opposite of health. lol.

On an unrelated topic, I can’t believe that I can’t find the DAILY SHOW clip of Charlton Heston being crowned “THE MAN OF THE MILLENIUM”

So…. I could have sworn I had a intact pair of shanghai mcnugget chopsticks somewhere in my childhood bed room…I think I still might.
My fave dipping sauce has got to be from 98 when A Bug’s life came out. they had some weird apple flavor dip. It was soooo awesome!

The chicken nugget commercials with the shanghai…were’nt they done by a black guy and a puppet named lester.

I honestly didn’t know it was possible to live 90 minutes away from a McDonald’s anywhere in North America. Even in like the Dakotas. They probably have them in the woods. Next to the bears.

These McNuggets of an asian variety are new to me, and I was certainly alive in 86. Anywho, I am sooooooo stoked for the new article, I think I may have actually squeeked.

I remember the shanghi nuggets. I think they had some pretty tasty sauces, at least tasty to my young palet. I remember the chop sticks being somewhat foreign. Great stuff Matt, can’t wait to see what is in the bags. WOO HOO.

yeah…..Norbert, that’s the guys. That vid is FUNNY! I never saw that one yet. That guy made me want to get a ventriloquist puppet but alas the good ones I wnted were like 200 bucks back in the 80’s.

Having lived in Japan for the last 8 months I am now sufficiently acclimatised to Japanese culture that I visibly flinched when I saw how you were using your chopsticks in that last photo.

Suffice it to say doing that in Japan would be like eating an entire 3 course meal with one knife.

I can’t believe I got McNuggets today for the first time in months and ate them before reading this. I really missed out on the opportunity to class up my lunch.

I can’t believe I don’t remember this. I’ve been such a big McNugget fan since I was a kid, I would think I would have tried this before. It seems like such an obvious pairing. Why haven’t I done this before? I’m one of those “McNuggets once a week” people, so I’m definitely planning on doing this soon. Yes, I know how bad they are for you and I do feel terrible, but I have a huge weakness for McNuggets and Mc’D’s fries. I don’t think that’s going to stop anytime soon. Thanks for the idea, Matt! Over the years I’ve become pretty adept at using chopsticks but I still can’t get large clusters of rice too well–only if it’s cooked properly so that it clumps up. I’m a rice fiend, btw and can’t get enough of it.

As far as sauces go, when I eat any kind of nuggets or chicken tenders anywhere else, I’m a bbq sauce guy through and through (I hate honey mustard!), but there’s something about McDonalds sweet and sour sauce, that it’s the only one I get when I go there. I don’t know why. I don’t really care for the s&s sauce anywhere else–only McD’s. Oh, and I am SO finding a 7-11 somewhere around here and getting me an Iron Man slushee. It has to be done.

Ben, Were you somehow dropped on your head when you were a baby? I mean…I just don’t know what to say to someone who doesn’t like McNuggets. I just have no words. Speaking of Leatherheads though, some of it was actually shot about 15 minutes from my house in upstate SC. I’ve done a lot of PA work over the years in movies and tried to get on set to get some work but they already had so many people (some of which the production company brought with them), that they were turning people away. I have some film student/PA friends of mine who drove 2 hours to do the same thing and they got turned away too. It was so frustrating to be a film student/PA and to have a major motion picture shot 15 minutes from my house and not to work on it. Ugh! Some family members of mine saw Clooney eating a restaurant they were at though, so at least somebody got a thrill out of the whole thing.

What’s with all these people trying to get into Matt’s drawers? Why are you trying to take liberties with the man?

Brawl is the new Pokemon. And once again, I’m totally out of the loop and have no idea what you guys are going on about. Sounds like a lot of fun though.

Great post seem to be getting the old flavor back, I’ll be happy for this site to make it another five years, Its all in direct coralation with your aging problem. I think It’s easier to read XE and enjoy it in your 30s then It would be to write it. Hey but thats just me. Cant wait for the bag o toys articles

Growing up, I lived in the woods. It was a small town of 3,500. We had to go into the next province to get McDonalds…or see a movie…or go to a ‘big mall’…or get a real coffee…or buy a book. It was rough. But it made McDs special, and now I do not have trouble going without it.

I remember Shanghai McNuggets when they first came out. Back in those days, my mom was the regional PR manager for all the McDonald’s in the area so I was IN with all the new stuff.

I remember the chopsticks and the boxes but I also remember that they decorated their biggest store with all Asian-decor specifically for the launch party. LAME!

I liked the Nuggets but not the sauces. I wasn’t big on sauces that weren’t ketchup until later in life. Now you can have my McDonald’s Hot Mustard when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.

DJ D, I think anybody that vows “I really want to spend the night pounding you with my absolutely invincible Pikachu” has to expect that they’ll have people wanting to get into their drawers.

“The Invincible Pikachu” is a heinous euphemism for what you’re implying here, Squee4242, and almost certainly not in line with the original plan for the prickly little squirt.

However, I can see the subliminal seduction at work here - since starting to read these comments, I’ve put a vile selection of meat in my mouth such as was never intended to cross my lips until now. I refer of course to SPAM, but who knows what beastly acts will follow. X-Entertainment is leading us all astray. The path to sin is lined with 80’s toys and processed meat logs.

Does anyone remember the McDonald’s Shaker fries? They gave you a package of seasoning, like the popcorn stuff, and a bag. You combine the three things together, shake you fries and presto your fries had seasoning on it? I think they had ketchup and Sour Cream and onion flavors. I only got them once, and it was many years ago. at least 15, maybe longer.

okay, so i just saw a commercial for keeblers new “fudge filled cookies” - anyone else think this is a possible replacement for magic middles?! i dont know,… i’m praying they are similar…. PRRAAAYYINGGG…

I am totally addicted to McNuggets!! I’ve had to limit myself to having one 10-pack a week, so I don’t end up looking like a female incarnation of Jabba the Hutt and so I live to see 35. Of course, that one meal probably obliterates all the healthy eating and gym-going I do during the week. Oh well. They’re just too good.
Oh, am I the only one who actually liked the dark “meat” nuggets? I was much more addicted to them before they started making McNuggets with white “meat.”

I live in a big squalid rental house with five other students and we’ve built up a pretty impressive collection of take-out supplies including chopsticks, moist towelettes and little packages of chili sauce.

Anyways, we have a cutlery shortage and I’ve been using chopsticks almost exclusively…they come in handy!!

I have not eaten a mcnugget since the fourth grade, when I bit into a sultry little poultry-pod to discover my teeth had embedded themselves in a gnarly, veiny, grey, Chicken McKnuckle and no amount of barbecue sauce could rinse away the feeling that I had crunched into a little bite of horror.

I know for a while there was an ad campaign where chicken nuggets were now being made of meat (novelty!) and you were supposed to stay away from your friend’s meat-bites or get yourself whupped. I always thought it was pretty funny that they would openly celebrate that they were now making chicken mcnuggets out of chicken, as I never forgot that doomed day when McNuggets were erased from my future.

I’ve missed hanging out on the blog. I got behind during a little surgery recuperation a few months ago, and the task of catching up was so daunting that I didn’t make it back. Now that I’m at the point where there’s no way I could reasonably catch up, pressure’s off!

I have a very vivid memory of the Shanghai McNugget promotion. We were actually at McDonald’s, which didn’t happen all that often, and I was struggling with my choice - the prize-containing Happy Meal (the holy grail of kid’s cuisine) or the exciting Shanghai McNuggets. What I was really hoping was that they’d let me have the Shanghai McNuggets in the Happy Meal (a question I asked and got a resounding “no” to.) I decided it was better to have a toy I could leave with than to eat these special McNuggets and have nothing to show for it when I was done. I’ve regretted that choice for 20 years.

Someone mentioned not living near McDonald’s. When I was little, I’m 98% certain that there were NO McDonald’s within 40 minutes of us. We used to drive for an hour or so to go to the doctor (hey, it was free), and in that town, they had a McDonald’s. So in the 80s, going to McDonald’s was a huge treat. Even though I had to ride in the car for 80 years and get poked and prodded at the doctor. Going to McDonald’s made it all worth it.

In the beginning of the 90s, they put one in the town 18 miles north of us, and not long after, they put one in our town! I was so excited for that.

(My computer is being retarded, so I apologize if this double- or triple-posts. >:[)

Kid Nicky - I had no idea that they finally changed them - good for them! I still remember the gross, slightly sliminess, of them… and you could always tell just by the shape! If they weren’t round, I wasn’t eating them! No way. I guess I should’ve mentioned I’m a vegan, now, anyways.

So, no nuggets for me, but I’m glad they changed them for the rest of you! I won’t have to imagine the “gross” nuggets ever again.

Did imagine this or did McDonalds have onion nuggets at one time? I don’t know why I would imagine that but then again, up until a few months ago I truly believed Cabo Wabo was a city in Mexico. So anything is possible.

fuckin’ sweet. Now i want nuggets.
I do believe I remember this.
I think.
No, yeah. I do. But I was young and was still only consuming happy meals. I do believe I recall learning how to use Chopsticks around that time… though I learned from a Highlights Magazine and not the back of a package of choppie stix.

sorry to doble-post…
But I see that AWESOME plastic Dragon head sticking ut and I am DYING to see what you’re gonna do with it.

I definitely remember the Shanghai McNuggets. I don’t think I ever actually ordered them, but I do recall the commercials.

I still enjoy the occasional McNugget feast from McDonald’s, and when I do, only one sauce will do - hot mustard. I love that sauce so much I even learned how to make an exact copy of it at home.

I full-on remember the promotion, though I seem to remember the chopsticks being in a red wrapper. That may just be a reflection on how long ago that was. I thought it was the coolest thing EVER, and it was also how I learned to use chopsticks. That’s right, I’d had chinese food for ages, japanese from time to time, but it took until McDonald’s offered chopsticks for me to learn to use them. I still give people advice on how to use them from what it said on the wrapper!

Unfortunately, I also seem to recall this particular trip to McDonald’s as one of those times I got a fatty McNugget. That’s right, before they were all white meat, you would occassionally get a squshy mass of yuck in the nugget. Put me off from nuggets for years.

I hear ya. I always hated that too. One day I just got so fed up with the nasty nuggets , that I just said “That’s it, i’m done with mcnuggets”. Then when they anounced that mcnuggets would be all white meat from now on, I was glad to hear it. Mcnuggets despite being gross when they were dark meat, were actually quite tasty when they were all white meat. I then was once again a mcnugget fan. lol.

You guys remember that movie The Last Dragon? I grew up loving that movie & b/c of it I always insisted on eating popcorn w/chopsticks…Ya know, Bruce LeRoy style.

I found a pair of promotional Last Dragon chopsticks on Ebay. I guess when the soundtrack came out on vinyl they were taped to it.

I remember my dad getting me those on our weekly trip to McD’s. I had way more fun stabbing the nuggets and eating them than I probably should have.

my BIL loves that gawtdamm movie- he watches that like once a week.
Not to say that it’s bad, I just hate that bastard and have a hard time sitting in the same room as him- therefore I have never seen it.

squee4242, All this talk of Matt pounding us with his invincable Pikachu and Rev.BackItOnUp putting meat logs in his mouth makes me wonder what sort of smut is underlying this site. I’m getting worried.

Next someone will say that there are actually homo-erotic themes in He-Man or that Scooby-Doo was full of veiled drug references and implied lesbianism…

My little Maltese dog, Garth Tater, died today. :-( I was kind of prepared for it since he was an old man, but it still sucks.

Darkside, So sorry to hear about that. That really sucks. I’m still bummed about my cat dying a few years ago. He was mean as a snake and was my best buddy in the whole world. Same situation though, he was really old and really sick so it wasn’t a suprise, but it’s weird how we get attached to them.

Sorry to haer about your pooch Darkside. =( But at least he had a long and full life with someone who loved him. =) Also I have to say that you gave him a very cool name.

Norbert, Yeah I’m surprised that as sensitive as the website filtering thing at work is, that I can even access the site there. You wouldn’t believe the things that are blocked. They finally blocked MySpace, YouTube, and Adult Swim not because of content, but because nobody was getting anything done.

I finally had lunch at a McD’s in Beijing yesterday. I didn’t sample the chicken-nuggets, but judging from the in-store advertising I saw, the nuggets are sold LOTS SPICIER than they are back home. Also, they don’t seem to be sold with chopsticks in China. Figures…

I had myself an Asian McRib while I was at McD’s, and it was awesome! Instead of the lackluster onion-and-pickle treatment the sandwich gets back home, the Chinese McRib is slathered with some kind of funky Ranch-dressing, onion, carrots, red cabbage, and god-only-knows what else. It was durn tasty, believe you me. I’ve still yet to try one of the pineapple fruit-pies sold at a Chinese McD’s, though.

D’oh! Sorry bout that. I just assumed…well, we all know what happens when you assume, and, well, now here we are…

Well, I’m a boy. A Dr. Pepper suckin’, no-Wii havin’ (soon to be PS3 havin’) boy in the South.

Thanks for the well-wishes everyone! I don’t post often, but I’m always lurking about and I know you guys are some of the best and are always ready to offer support. You know what’s kind of funny? When I first got little Garth years ago, I would put McNuggets in my pocket to make him like me. My sisters couldn’t figure out why when we played “lets see who Garth likes best” and we would put him at one end of the room and call him to see who he would go to, he always came to me!

Now if I only had a Wii…I could take some of my emotions out during a Brawl match (I rock at Melee).

Don’t remember that promotion, but do remember how they were selling them in Chinese takeout boxes around the release of Mulan, and how they took quite a bit of flack for it.

Also when I was in college, the local Chinese take out joint across the street LITERALLY served chicken mcnuggets as general tso’s chicken! I didn’t mind, as long as I had my two items over rice for four bucks!

I’ve been rocking this site since the beginning without comment. I even restrained myself through the Cryptozoology years. This is the first time I’ve ever really felt the need to throw some kudos.

There is no way I ever would have remembered this promotion if it weren’t for you, Matt. Thank you, my friend.

8 years of devout silence. 8 years. Finally done in by a startlingly racist McDonald’s promotion.

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