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09/30/2008: Halloween Countdown ‘08: Franken Berry Fruit By The Foot!

On this, the eve of October, let us dip into the well that gives Halloween its brightest shine: CANDY CANDY CANDY.

I won’t say that this is the first time a brand of fruit snacks touched my soul, but holy shit. Never before have I danced in response to artificially flavored maltodextrin with such vigor. Seriously, Franken Berry Fruit By The Foot?! How one could march as an atheist knowing these are out there, I do not know.

While the snacks actually came out last year, all of the stores within my personal driving distance arrived at Babylon fashionably late. I spent last October soaking pillows over these, but now, finally…I have them. I have six individually wrapped three-foot strands of non-sticky Franken Berry duct tape. I am complete and I am whole. I am redundant. I am full of chewy red ribbons.

For a great many of us, General Mills’ “monster cereals” are as synonymous to this time of year as carved pumpkins and the McDonald’s Monopoly game. They are our old faithfuls. No matter how dry the Halloween season may be, you can always count on Count Chocula, Franken Berry and their reclusive indigo cousin to dye your milk and lift your spirits.

I’m more of a Count Chocula guy, but I still hold Franken Berry in high esteem. It’s among a very small group of strawberry-flavored cereals that I can stomach. Plus, whatever charms Mr. Chocula wields over our breakfast bowls would be immediately lost in Fruit By The Foot form. While people who enjoy chocolate Twizzlers merely confuse me, those who would enjoy chocolate Fruit By The Foot seem deserving of outright venom.

The flavor, officially titled “Strawberry Scream,” is nice, subtle and worthy of its Franken Berry ties. Lacking the extreme tart punch of most of the other “red” Fruit By The Foot flavors, you can eat this in public with confidence, for it will not be the cause of any unsightly facial puckers.

I don’t have General Mills’ top secret list of Fruit By The Foot chemical compositions handy, so it’s hard for me to tell if this is a “custom” flavor or simply an existing one rebranded for the Halloween season. For what it’s worth, it does kinda smell like Franken Berry cereal. I wouldn’t have guessed “Franken Berry” on a blind taste test, but assuming that the scientists didn’t tie my nose shut with actually-sticky duct tape before shoving the stuff down my throat, I may have had an inkling.

These are wonderful. Beyond wonderful. And if strawberries aren’t your ally, note that they also sell Boo Berry Fruit By The Foot. Boo Berry. Sadly, as has been the case for decades, Boo Berry’s boo beauty is only outmatched by his jungle cat-level elusiveness. Once I find Boo Berry Fruit By The Foot, expect a total rehash of this entry, with “Boo Berry” usurping “Franken Berry” on a search-and-replace.

While not as incredible as Franken Berry Fruit By The Foot, this bowl of Juicee Gummee “Squirt Bugs” still managed to make me giddy. While the packaging seems to indicate that the troth of gummy bugs feature squirting goo centers, I’m sad to report that they do not. The bugs have flavored goo centers in a variety of colors, but they don’t squirt.

It’s disappointing, but since they didn’t taste that great to begin with, now I won’t have to live with the temptation to continue eating candies I don’t want to eat. Honestly, it’s an army of rubbery, multicolored insects nesting inside a bowl labeled “Squirt Bugs.” There are things you eat, and things you just want to look at.

Finally, from Rain-Blo, we have two different types of Halloween gum. Thank God.

The smaller package on top features ten pieces of “Jum-Blo” gum, which are large enough for you to call out the jaw muscle reserves when attempting the first few chews. Most of the gumballs simply rotate between orange and black single colors, but there are two far more interesting pieces hiding beneath the “Jum-Blo” label. Since these two far more interesting pieces are the same ones you get a hundred of in the giant bag below the smaller package, we can probably move on to that.

Rain-Blo’s “Eyes of Terror” bag consists of 100 individually wrapped eyeball-themed gumballs, with incredible details, like bloodshot speckles and a peculiar skull shape held within each gum eye’s pupil. Click here to see all of Rain-Blo’s Halloween gum varieties up close, and pick your poison.

I’ll spotlight more of this year’s best Halloween candies in a future post, but it looks like we’re off to a good start.

sweet - need to get my hands on them froot byt the foots.
Was thinking of opening my box of fruit brute this year - but I think about it every year around this time. I will not end up doing it im sure.

I love the eye balls! It makes me want to grab a quarter and find the closest gum ball machine!

I may just make a special trip to Buffalo to find that fruit by the foot! My wonderful home and native land wont have it.

YUMM…I’m so looking for these next time I’m out. I do have a question Matt I know you have old cereal, kool-aid, soft drinks and other things–do you buy modern stuff and hold on to it in hopes that it will become a “Ghoul Aid” or Clear Pepsi? I just thought of that question and was curious.

I have to admit that despite loving them in theory, I can’t really hang with the spooky cereals, or really any cereals with the elusive “dye the milk” properties. I’ll never get through a whole box eating it dry, so Fruit by the Foot would be a good alternative way to still experience the Frank.

gingela: Not really as I’m losing my penchant for excess clutter as I grow older. But there are some things I’ve written about that I can’t bring myself to throw away — usually anything frozen. I believe I still have a Shamrock Shake in the back of our freezer from when I wrote about them years ago. I like to pretend that I’m not the type of person who does things like that, though.

When I eat Fruit By the Foot, I take the entire roll off the paper and cram the whole thing in to my mouth at once. I get an ginormous rush of extreme fruit flavor that I can only describe as complete and utter ecstasy. It is like the sweaty Zion orgy scene in Matrix Reloaded is happening in my mouth. Just thinking about it now makes my mouth salivate. I need to stop at the grocery store on the way home…

X-E Matt, if you are not amassing current products as an investment in the future, and your supply of ancient products is not limitless, the days of this site’s nostalgia are numbered.

Geeze, BUCKLY!, you make that sound so enticing. Sadly though if I were to do that with FBtF, the pain from my teeth would probably make my head explode. Damn my delicate dental dilemma.

I think this post just reinforces the fact I am getting old. I read this twice and the key words that jump out in my head are flossing, headache, crown, and sticky fingers. Oh God, I think my candy of choice are Werther’s Original’s and the weird blue mints at my great aunts house.

I’m with Buckley. Fruit By the Foot is just…it’s insane how good it is. Nothing else makes my mouth feel so tingly. I have a serious addiction to them. I cannot stop eating them until the entire box is gone.

My wife bought a Costco box of them last week, to pack for my son’s school lunches. They were gone in one weekend, and then she yelled at me.

I realize a Count Chocula FBTB wouldn’t work, but I think would have been a perfect opportunity to resurrect Yummy Mummy or the Fruit Brute!

Fruit by the Foot makes my tongue itch. I’ll have to give the Squirt Bugs a try.

(Eww, new person! Run away!)
Squirt Bugs have the best name for a gummi product I’ve seen in ages. Also, Matt, it’s awesome that so much of this stuff is purchased at Target, because I work at one and saw most of it before I read the articles about it. Now I know what all the stuff I walk past does!

“how ’bout a monster for breakfast to-day?”
… how do I stil remember these jingles that I haven’t heard in 25 years???

Jonny Von - Try beano for your gas issues, and then you’ll be able to leave the house again.

My tooth was already hurting when I started reading this so you can imagine how I feel right now. XD

I guess I brought down the highbrow vibe of humor around here with that beano comment. I am sorry. Going forward I will pass no further gas remarks.

It is with trepidacious anticipation that I approach Halloween ‘08 and all of the saccharine bounty it offers. I have an obsession with all things candy. So much so that I even created a fake candy company in order to obtain ridiculous amounts of free candy - some of which is still considered “concept” candy. I cannot walk down the candy aisle of a store without the almost certain likelyhood that I will make a purchase of anything bearing the “NEW” label. Even something wretched like black licorice, because I can always give it away to someone who enjoys that sort of thing. Sadly, I have recently undergone (and am still undergoing) extensive dental work leaving me on a steady diet of hydrocodone-ibuprofen. Because I am fully aware of my candy addiction, I feel it is safe to predict I will be sacrificing oral comfort for the sake of taste bud gratification. Ah, such is life.

I like FBTF and all but for me nothing compares to Fruit Rollups! Fruit Rollups are more a part of my childhood than the foot. I spent many school recesses taking my rollup and wrapping it around my finger and then trying to eat it as fast as I can before the bell goes. Then of course for the rest of the day you have a stained finger that, no matter how many times you wash it is still sticky.

IHAQ - I also love Fruit Rollups. Probably more than an adult should. On the advice of a friend of mine, I started putting them in the freezer. It does not do anything to alter the taste, but they’re fun to snap apart before eating.

I never had Fruit Brute or Yummy Mummy, but I definitely think they should be resurrected.

I second Teddy Ray on wanting Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy resurrected. They must complete the Monster Cereal Family!

Hey Matt, I’m not sure if you still work in the city, but the CVS at Lexington Ave and 53rd street has about 10 boxes of the Boo Berry Fruit By The Foots.

I too Love the eyeballs. Does anyone remember the ones that had red powder in them? I recall getting these every year on my annual candy hunt. Will definitely keep an eye out for the Frankenberry FBTF, probably won’t be successful living in the Great White North.

Vincent, I feel that opportunist’s rush. I am RIGHT NEAR that very CVS and even though I have no use for fruit by the foot, and in fact might even be killed by it if I were not currently under the watchful moustache of Wilford Brimley, I feel like its very closeness to me is reason enough to go out and buy 10 goddam boxes of fruit by the foot. What is with that?

The eyeballs are great. I even typed yesballs at first, probably a freudian slip that shows just how I neat I think they are.

Maaaaan I gotta get my hands on some Boo Berry FbtF. Has anyone seen the Halloween Gushers this year? I haven’t, and I’m distressed over it.

Those Jo-Blo eyes are for sure going into the pot for trick or treaters to grab. Awesome find Matt.

Jo-Blo, what am I 80? I meant Jum-Blo, sorry. Now I’m going to watch Urkle and then other shows that I call by the name of the most recognizable character.

At the Shaw’s Market down from me they have a plethora of Boo Berry and Franken Berry foodstuffs. They’re actually on sale, two for the price of one. I am really surprised. They’re kind of tucked away, so I’m not really surprised that people haven’t found them yet. I’ll check on the FBtF.

Lovely, wonderful, domofilled Target has a large variety pack of the gumballs, which includes the ones reviewed herein and a few additions, most notably the pumpkin lookin ones with cheapie jackolantern grins printed on and filled with candy “seeds”.

Oh, yes, and I am back! After a long, sad, lonely interrum wherein I relied solely on Little Debbie pumpkin faces and Candy Corn flavored salt water taffy, I am back for the Halloween Countdown! Come now, everyone, don’t panic in your urgency to welcome my return and crush eachother in the process…

Ooh Matt, Could this Franken Berry posting me a subtle sign that my Halloween countdown submission from last year will rear its lovely head this year??
I’m not kidding, I’m like a kid waiting for Christmas each countdown day waiting for the possibility. I’m not one for masochism, but it’s coming close.

Just the other week, all the stores around here started stocking their Halloween decor! I work at Spirit Halloween and I’m psyched! It’s pure mayhem! Out with the question marks, in with the exclamation points!

Good to see that you’ve also found this Frankenberry Box of Awesomeness, Matt! I need to remind myself to pick one up at work later…

I hope you are going to do something on Blood Bag Candy. That stuff looks awesome. There is a link to a youtube clip of it if you click my name.

I saw the Frankenberry Fruit By the Foot at the grocery store where I work yesterday and wondered when Matt was going to get to them. They also have Boo Berry. Haven’t seen the eye gum or the gumballs yet, but I’ve only glanced at Wal-Mart’s Halloween section while looking for shelves for my massive stuffed animal collection. I’ll take a better look when I’ve figured out what I’m going be for Halloween this year.

One of the things I really miss from my wonderfully misspent childhood is the fact that way back then, the Monster Cereals were year-round food. Off to YouTube the old ads!

The office cubical decorating has begun! I’ve found a $3.99 pack of plastic static wall clings of haunted house paraphernalia and the classic cotton spider webs. It begins…

Btw, Matt and everybody: check out the Child’s Play Chucky’s 20th Birthday DVD! Great value, awesome extras and a great price. I once lived across from the Chicago alley in which Chucky was sold to Andy’s mom, while my girlfriend lived down the street from the police station from the first film (also Family Matter’s Carl Winslow’s precinct). It’s a film I hold very near to my heart.

Man, I would love to be able to decorate my desk area, but I have a feeling that it would not go over well with the stuffy old ladies I work with.
Come to think of it, I don’t actually have any Halloween decorations at all since my evil ex pretty much took everything I had. :( I must remedy this situation post haste.

I for one was glad to finally see Frankenberry branching out into other food areas. It’s about freakin’ time.

the Grocery Store by me will not carry monsters cereal any more . The stock boy told me he was ordered to pull them on Sunday because they are unhealthy and not in line with the “new” christian ownership of the store . I pointed out the Lucky Charms and asked how those were healthy . I will be sending a letter to the owner , how dare he not sell me Monsters Cereal that i have been pining over receiving this time of year for the last 31 years. I will also have Satan noterise it for me … maybe then they will discontinue the Mead writing paper i purchased from them

I’ve never fully comprehended it, but candy is (was) about number 10 on my list of what excites me about Halloween. Even when I was younger it was more about getting as much candy as I humanly could than it was about actually eating it. It’s still interesting to read about though.

I’m currently snacking on Pumpkin Spice Herhey Kisses and the new Halloween Jones Sodas. Yum.

I also saw what has to be the messiest candy in existence. It was a jar filled with edible goo that had gummy pieces (body parts, I believe) in it.

You know, I’ve never been a gum guy, so I was always disappointed whenever someone gave me gum in my Halloween sack. I still ate it, but it was always some of the last things I ate.

@Starscream77 - I feel so bad for you. Seeing Booberry and Frankenberry on the shelves are a sign of the season to me. I honestly don’t see the connection between Christianity and discontinuing Monster Cereal myself. And if the commercials of my childhood taught me anything its that those cereals are a part of a balanced breakfast.

Starscream77: Oh, but you know that anything even remotely related to Halloween is of the Devil (which is why it’s so much fun!)

Yo Matt, I found the eyeball Bunjie Buddy at my local Target and can send one your way if you’re still jonesing for it.

Okay, I love Halloween, fall and the stuff that comes with it. However, I cannot bring myself to go through any type of walk-through haunted attraction and my bestest friends have decided that every weekend from now until Halloween, they are going to go to a different haunted house. This weekend they are hitting up Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride. I am so dismayed at my wussyness, but I fear that I just can’t get over it. Blah.

Y’know, Starscream, if they were really Christian, they would gladly give the food away, instead of selling it like the minions of soul-less corporate entities that probably eat baby kittens and bunnies for breakfast.

Kingklash,
We’er not supposed to be eating bunnies and kittens , there goes a good portion of my morning routine

Matt - Sadly, General Mills just stuck Boo Berry’s face on a box of “Razzle Blue Blitz” Fruit by the Foot (which is still around) and called it “Razzle Boo Blitz”…

So far I’ve only been able to find Franken Berry & Count Chocula around here (Northern New Jersey) if Halloween goes by and I get no Boo Berry, someone is gonna get hurt. Pretty off topic, but at the same time it’s fitting for Halloween since this use to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid. There was a show where this guy (or maybe a girl) was in a black body suit, and as I remember it back then, rolls of toilet paper for it’s eyes, so this said “person” would dance around all freaky and would pull the toilet paper off the rolls, thus as my young mind would take it, ripping it’s eyes out!!! so I would run screaming from the TV everytime I saw it…anyways I’ve searched all the different terms I could, trying to find out what this was on or from, but not having the name of the show or person to go by makes searching kinda hard…so any help would be welcome, I want to be able to show this to my friends all of which don’t remember this thing at all. Help me people of x-entertainment, your my only hope.

JLAJRC: I pickedup the Great Pumpkin pops. Not very good in the taste department, but still nice to have!

Sharkagator - that sounds quite familiar. My first thought is that it is a Mummenschanz routine, but a quick search for that didn’t match it up. Sounds like something they would do, though, so it might not be a dead end to keep looking their direction. Good luck - I definitely remember something very like that from my own childhood, though I don’t know if I had the same reaction of extreme terror, myself.

im dying for some count chocula right now… those boo berry fbtf’s are pretty awesome.

ah - here’s your freaky nightmare toilet paper head people. I was right about the Mummenschanz:

Anytime you are trying to sleuth out something incredibly bizarre from your memories, it’s usually a good guess to start with Mummenschanz, the champions of genius performance art insanity.

Just read on thhe net my fav line of sweets ever.Haribo..are launching a halloween range

The Haribo horror mix and magic mix. I don’t think the magic 1 is new though(well in the uk)as I seem to remember having them last year. And even better was about a week after halloween my local shop had loads left an put them on buy-one-get-one-free!

I met the guy who plays Jason in the new Friday. he’s real cool and promised he’s a fan of the originals and did not mess this movie up. I even ahd a shot of whiksey with him.

Frankenberry Fruit by the Foot, I love it! The monster cereals are my fav cereals of all time BY FAR!!! And I too wish they would bring back Yummy Mummy. Once again Matt youv’e officially made me want something because it was featured on X-E. =) I must have the monster cereals and their fruit by the foots too. Also my fav of the cereals is Boo berry.

Matt, you continue to please. If I wasn’t so sick right now I’d hoof on over to Wal-Mart and get some eye gum and Franken Berry FbtFs.

I’ve not been able to find any Boo Berry FBTF this year yet…. and the only store around here that i can find the ceral at is Big Lots… which is fine, because it’s dirt cheap.

I vaguely remember having Fruit Brute as a kid, but cannot ever remember having Yummy Mummy - or ever even seeing it. I was in high school when it came out, so I guess I was distracted by other things…

Matt: just out of curiosity, when are we going to see the results for the whatever-O-lantern contest?

Now, as for candy that actually goes *squish*? I saw these at Target. I am leaving it to YOU, Matt, to try these… I’m too afraid. http://www.stupid.com/fun/ZPOP.html

I was intrigued when I saw the package of eyes, but upon seeing the close up, I was unimpressed. I’d still chew ‘em though.

PlantMonster: That’s without a doubt some of the most disgustin candy iv’e ever seen! Which means of course that I want to try them immediately! =)

Carpeteria - THANK YOU!!!! sorry I would have writen back sooner, but I had to run away from my computer as soon as I was sure those were the toilet paper head people!! thanks again.

Oh my gosh… I went to nine stores this weekend looking for Franken Berry. I finally found it in K-Mart, of all places! Yet, Boo Berry was easy to find… hmm. I imagine the Fruit by the Foot will be my next search.

Oh….I was gonna say Mumenschanz…lol they are creepy! he he eh eh….I was so addicted to People.com last night, after I figured out they let you ANY magazine online from their 34 year history. Woweee

Uh… Matt? I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but… the Christmas Jukebox is still up.

A lot of us, myself included, like to dabble in Christmas music at inappropriate times all throughout the year. Now that the Hallo jukebox has been fixed, both will be up all year.

Call me crazy, but I like listening to the Del Rubio Triplets while carving odd fruits and veggies into whatever-o-lanterns. I think the Xmas jukebox is A-OK.

Matt I know EXACTLY what you mean. I listen to holiday music all year round. In fact I’ve had Christmas lights up since Christmas 2006! I’m DEAD serious! lol

Matt, when do you plan on announcing the results of the whatever-o’-lantern contest?

We have both Frankenberry and Boo Berry fruit by the foot at work (CVS), but I’m not a big fan of FBTF. I’m the dumb girl that said no when I was offered boxes of the cereal (I was sick that day). I rue that day. RUE!!! RUE!!!!

Anyway I agree about the jukebox. Might as well leave it up.. Of course, I also have a Christmas tree dominating my living room.. With Christmas Story ornaments all over it.

I do like chocolate Twizzlers. I have been searching for them for a few months now and can’t find them (I live on Long Island). Has anyone seen them in any stores?

Ooo, those eyeballs were a favorite when I was a kid until my mom found the Pumpkin Seeds gum (or whatever they’re called). I LOVE those!! I think I found some at Dollar General the other day, I’ll have to pick some up tomorrow when I go buy crappy Halloween decorations for the convention this weekend.

I started Nannying for a new family recently, and am happy to report that they fully support my need to over-decorate for Halloween. I get to have my way with their house this weekend. I will totally have to pick up some Frank and Boo FBTF for the kids to have while they help me decorate. Yay!

Love Franken Berry! Never tried the Fruit by the Foot versions though, so I may have to pick some up.

Man, I remember when FBtF first came out. It was like a giant fruit rollup that you could hang from your mouth and dangle down like some mutant lizards tongue. Then you would slurp it all up and chew the whole gooey gummy mess.

Maybe this has been asked, but isn’t Fruit by the Foot the same as a Fruit Roll up? I can’t remember ever having a Fruit by the Foot but we always like Fruit Roll ups when I was a kid.

@Starscream77- Wow. As a licensed Christian minister, who loves monster cereals almost as much as he loves Jesus, I shed a tear crying PSA Indian style for that. (I can say Indian instead of Native American. I’m Choctaw. Deal. Haw haw.)

Annette-That is truly a CD of the most sublime music ever. One day after seminary I had a really crappy day, and I put it in. Two hours of listening to it made it like the best end of a day ever.

Ultraman-Mad, mad respect for kickin’ it Christmas since 2006. That takes commitment. My wife yells at me cause I like to go to Christmas mode after October 31st. As much as I like to give thanks, November 1st means Christmas time. Hasn’t anyone other than Matt and I heard of the “Two Months of Christmas?”

They’re not exactly the same. Aside from the shape, FbtF has a softer and more breakable texture, as opposed to a Fruit Roll-Up, which is like some kind of alien plastic. I prefer Fruit Roll-Ups.

I miss the hay day of the Fruit Roll-Up. I wish they kept all the odd flavors like orange and grape. Even the strawberry had seeds in them. And if I’m not mistaken, wasn’t the plastic harder to peel off the back of the strawberry? I remember giving up the struggle and eating it with the plastic.

Cat the Vampire Slayer:I don’t have to put Christmas lights up this year, because theyv’e already been up for over 2 years straight. It’s cool havin X-mas lights up indoors all year round. =)

Terror Claws: I’ve been kickin it Christmas for 2 YEARS, STRAIGHT!!! =) And i’ve loved every second of it. Nuthin like May with Christmas lights blikin in yur living room.

I’ve never been this excited for Halloween. For one thing, Matt’s blog has me more in the holiday spirit than ever, and finally moving from an apartment to a house means I actually have a front yard to decorate with a ridiculous assortment of Halloween-y objects.

Ultraman: See my house gets super busy right at the beginning of November, cuz of the Santa Claus thing.

Last year, my parents worked at the Festival of Trees, and they do these big fake trees that people can buy. One was themed A Christmas story. It has the old fashioned big lights, and a star on top, and a bunch of christmas story ornaments with plastic round old fashioned ornaments and thick garland. It’s super cute, and came with two red rider metal posters, and of course, a leg lamp.

Dad was going to shrink wrap the tree and put it in the cellar.. but.. it kind of didn’t get there. It’s wrapped, not shrinked, and still dominating the living room with it’s plastic covered Christmas.

As a youth i used to cherish Jum-blo’s eyeball gum more than any other halloween loot, and would gladly trade any fun-size bar for just one retinal delight. I also used to set my candy bounty up as if I had my own mini convenience store in the corner of my room. Despite all this I like to think I turned out okay.

I, too finally picked up the Frankenberry FBtF earlier tonight. It’s just strawberry, but it had Frankenberry on it, so who’s going to argue?

I have no fruit by the foot. I made a grilled cheese sandwitch at 2:00 a.m. and I swear to u people its 1000 times better now then if I made it for lunch.

Yeah well, apparently not me. My sister in law is going into labor, so I got called at 3 am, when I’m barely coherent. Expect more rambling posts from the hospital. And to think, I was just going to go buy Count Chocula and sell crap on eBay today. Yaaaawn.

Grilled cheese! Woot! It always makes me think of Halloween because it was my mom’s traditional dinner every Halloween - Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato rice soup!

Bill you forgot that it was his son rip on line toot. That line makes me crack up everytime. Also, DrWorm do you like to play the drums? That is a great song.

Can you imagine how amazingly nasty a Count Chocula Fruit by the Foot would be? Chocolate fruit strips, sounds like a stripper move.

Oh my gosh I would LOVE Count Chocula FbtF. It’d be like those super sweet Nestle’s chocolate bars they made in the 90s. Love those!! Thanks for the help Neg.

Happy October, all.

Today’s entry is more likely to be posted tonight. Work hell.

We feel ya, Matt! I am currently attaching Country Of Origin description tags to about 4,000 meat items INDIVIDUALLY!

Speaking of pork chop sandwiches, Terror Claws, I will be having one Saturday morning in Mayberry itself. My son and I are stopping in Mt. Airy, NC (home of Andy Griffith and model for Mayberry) on our way to SPOOKYWOODS near High Point, NC. We’re getting a world famous pork chop sandwich at The Snappy Lunch on Saturday morning, going by the TV Land Andy and Opie statue, check out the Andy Griffith museam/playhouse. After that, we’re going to the afore-mentioned Spookywoods to get the crap scared out of us. I figure it will jump start our Halloween season into high gear (not Mayberry, Spookywoods).

Oh man, I am so picking this up on Friday when I go shopping. I can’t wait for Frankenberry and Boo berry cereals to come out. Where are they?!?!

Yay for October. Boo for having to move on Halloween. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I’m moving because I hate my current apartment, but why did it have to be on the 31st? I swear to God that one of these upcoming years I am going to do something cool on Halloween. D:<

2. Matt is clearly the big boss of halloween. I can see Rev taking a supervisory role however.

X-E Matt, you know if you want to declare yourself the Big Boss of Halloween, you don’t have to do it as the stinkbutt character. It will command more respect and be imbued with validity if you just use your own name.

The stinkbutt character gives off many impressions, but authority is not one of them.

I wonder if anyone will dress up as a mortgage loan document this halloween…it’s a scary thing now a days….

Did you ever see the movie “Dagon”? The main character is a genius who assesses many a situation. His assessments always come down to “Two Possibilities!”, and this becomes his catch phrase.

1. X-E Matt absorbed his evil twin in utero, a la The Dark Half, but instead of George Stark, he got stinkbutt, who in a terrifying struggle for control over the one body he and X-E Matt have to share, periodically cries out in desperation that he is the big boss of the area.

2. stinkbutt is a real boy just like Pinocchio, and he gets very upset if I don’t comment for a day or so. Thus, he appears to challenge me. His big boss posts are the equivalent of slapping me across the face with a little white glove.

Hope everything goes well with your sister, Terror Claws! Be sure to let us know if it’s a boy or girl so we’ll know if you’re an aunt or an uncle.

Wow, I did not know that about Terror Claws, or if I did, I forgot. I’m four tribes, one of them Choctaw.

I really don’t take well to phone calls that come after midnight. I make sure to warn people that it had better be very important, because I tend to take my sleep seriously.

One month till my Birthday! All Saints’ Day! 39 years! Discount Hallowe’en candy! Which I can’t really indulge in because of the diabeetus! Oh, the irony! Exclamation point!

I don`t know if you GREMLINS fans out there have seen this, but I figured I`d throw this link out there.

There’s an entire stand devoted to Frankenberry and Boo-Berry at the end of the aisle at the Kroger down here in Richmond, VA. Pretty righteous.

The Monster cereals are a good example of inelastic demand. They know kids (and young-at-heart adults) NEED a box of these cereals each Halloween, so General Mills can raise the price, reduce the size, and probably still generate the same sales.

On a side note, anyone else dying from the suspense of the Jack-O-Whatever contest results? ;D

I’m also wanting to carve up everything i see. My nieces better not piss me off today.

Hey, nice to get a shout out there Kingklash. I probably claim more than I have a right to, I’m only 1/8. However, I have a sort of Superman like ability where I’m total white boy with my glasses, and take em off I’m kind of Indian Superman. LOL…course I’m kinda pale from being indoors and unemployed…

But then I tell people I studied Japanese and they think I’m part Asian instead of Native American. Curse you, landbridge!

Annette: I’m movin too in a few days, so yur not the only one. =)
Matt is of course the supreme big boss of this area. Rev is of course an elite supervisor, as are other X-Ers. Myself included of course.

kingklash - they make all that sugar-free candy now, right? You could indulge in some of that instead. (Emphasis on “some,” as I understand those artificial sugars will come a-runnin’ right out like an angry Texas twister if you eat too much.)

Kingklash, I understand you. For I too hover in fear beneath the watchful moustache of Wilford Brimley.

I highly recommend sugar free reese’s peanut butter cups and york peppermint patties. Relatively little chocolate in these things makes them almost indistinguishable from the originals.

I am fortunate in that I am immune to the side effects of sugar alcohols (”Bob” smiled on me there), but if you’re not, proceed with caution!

When it comes to sugar-free candies, proceed with caution indeed! Back when I lived with my ex, my mother made a trip to the Russel Stover Outlet and got a big box of sugar-free toffee she gave us. I told my ex not to eat too many, but lo and behold, I got home from work one day and there he was, playing WOW, surrounded by Russel Stover wrappers. Needless to say, I was glad that I had my “own” bathroom that night.

Wait, squirt bugs that don’t squirt when you chew them? I’m sorry but if I’m going to put something in my mouth I DEMAND it squirts!

Kingklash, I understand you. For I too hover in fear beneath the watchful moustache of Wilford Brimley.

This post reminds me that I am old,because I no longer crave sugary fake flavors…*sigh*

Happy October Everyone!!! This is absolutely my favorite month of the year; the air turns cold, I have my birthday, then we finish it off with Halloween!!!!!

I’m sorry but if I’m going to put something in my mouth I DEMAND it squirts!

Gralf and Invader Norbert, those videos were great!
I, too, am anxious for the whatever-o’-lantern contest results. Not that I think I have a shot at winning, I just want to see what y’all did.

When we were kids, my brother and I loved the Garfield Halloween special. We’d watch it on tape on loop. Insane love. My mother still pokes us to this day: “Arrr it do be me candy!”

I’m sort of late on this post but darn it I haven’t had Fruit By The Foot in years. I think the last time I had it was probably in 7th Grade.

I picked up both the Boo Berry, and Franken Berry FBTF. They have found their semi-eternal resting places between my Ice Cucumber Pepsi, and randomly placed roach traps.
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I never been a fan of candy or anything that falls into that categorie but i have always had a soft spot for Franken Berry and his pals and this truly made me smile. now if only Fruit Brute got his proper respect.

Cool Jack from Nightmare before Christmas.; Wait a minute these have no affiliation with Disney.

We used to pick up a bag of eyeballs every year, or at least every year we found them. We gave out awesome candy, but would also put Halloween rings and little reptile toys and awesome things like the eyeball gum and allowed kids to pick.

the bugs are disappointing. And i tend to hate gummies with the white bottoms. they always disappoint. Why didn’t they make them more like gushers?

>>I’m more of a Count Chocula guy, but I still hold Franken Berry in high esteem. It’s among a very small group of strawberry-flavored cereals that I can stomach. Plus, whatever charms Mr. Chocula wields over our breakfast bowls would be immediately lost in Fruit By The Foot form.<<

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