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Summer Megaparty 2010: X-E’s Freezer Revealed, Volume 2.

Hard to believe that it's been four years since I revealed X-Entertainment's Freezer, a place where any foodstuff's expiration date is disregarded, and anything packaged with a cartoon character on the front becomes a collectible in cold storage. I am, frankly, disgusting.

In the years since that article was published (and most of the written-about contents finally thrown away), our freezer has slowly built up a new army of things that would probably sell well on eBay if I had any way to ship them.

Recently, I was told in no uncertain terms that our freezer needed to be used for it's truly intended purpose, and could no longer dedicate 50% of its real estate to five-year-old 7-Eleven Slurpees and breakfast foods promoting the movie Shrek 2. I've learned to pick my battles: It was time to clean the freezer.

For the once-delicious treasure below, today is their last hurrah!

First up, a Superman Returns "Kryptonite Ice" Slurpee from 2006. I have no idea what persuaded me to keep this, as I already wrote about it in full. The Slurpee on the right is from one of the Transformers movies, and I can only surmise based on the cup design and Slurpee color that it had some sort of Bumblebee-themed flavor. Given its condition, it seems that the Transformers Slurpee liked to mouth off to all of the other old food when I wasn't looking.

In the middle, a McDonald's Shamrock Shake, leftover from my 2006 tribute. I went through a lot of trouble to find a McDonald's that still sold Shamrock Shakes that year, and my decision to keep one stemmed out of fear that they'd never come back. I suppose I had dreams of owning the last Shamrock Shake on the planet, with which I could parade into cold climate pop museums and name my price at a later date.

These Sopranos edition Chipwiches came out right around the show's finale, and since it's hard to imagine anyone having a distinct need for ice cream tied to The Sopranos, I'm guessing that they were only sold in the show's Tri-State area home turf.

To make the Chipwiches more Sopranos-esque, they were made with cherry-flavored ice cream, as opposed to the typical vanilla or less-typical-but-still-familiar chocolate. How cherry ice cream makes them more Sopranos-esque, I cannot answer. I'd say it's an Italian thing, but I'm Italian, and I live 20 minutes from Tony Soprano. I've never eaten -- or even seen anyone else eat -- cherry ice cream in my entire life. Maybe it was supposed to represent blood and violence, or the #CB152D series logo?

Ahhh, I'm glad to finally rid our freezer of the above collection, since all of the entrants came in big boxes that made it really difficult to use the freezer for practical purposes. A breakdown:

Fear Factor Popsicle Pop-Ups: ...which I had absolutely no reason to save, as they were reviewed years ago. Plus, I hated and was easily grossed out by Fear Factor, and have no idea why I'd force myself to be reminded of the show every time I went to dig out frozen chicken.

Popsicle "Great White" Bars: Hey, I reviewed these, too! Nearly everything in this blog post is from 2006, and I'm starting to wonder if there was some kind of impending disaster threat that made me want to hoard anything and everything edible, up to and including half-melted shark-themed Popsicles. My memory isn't what it used to be, but if this is any indication, I was in a bad place in 2006.

Shrek 2 Waffle Sticks: Yup, covered these too, but they're from 2004. I'm happy to break the 2006 seal, though I'm not sure if it's an improvement to switch to 2004. I had a ball that year with all of the Shrek 2 foods, which ranged from color-changing Cheetos to an ogre edition of Totino's Pizza Rolls. Though I bought and covered almost everything Shrek-related in 2004, only these Waffle Sticks have survived. And I know why. It's the tubs of "Green Swamp Syrup." There's no way to throw something like them away. (I snuck the aforementioned syrup tubs back into the freezer just now, so if I reveal X-Entertainment's freezer again in 2015, they will be on display.)

Eggo Choco-Nilla Flip Flop Waffles: Do they still make these? No clue. For a while, Eggo seemed to be unveiling a new type of "crazy" waffle at a rate of three per hour. Google tells me that I never bothered to write about them, and I can understand that, because I still can't think of anything interesting to say about two-tone waffles. "Neat?"

Yay!!! Totally forgot about these. A relic from that undervalued X-E classic, From One Fry 2 Anotha, it's Ore-Ida's "Kool Blue" Funky Fries! A big stupid bag of dyed-blue fries, with said fries (and paper eyes) still intact! Clearly, by holding on to these I was hedging my bets that the food industry would never again sell blue french fries. And I don't think the food industry ever has. Where's my fame and power?

In 2006 (again?!), I wrote about a limited edition brand of King Kong ice pops, which fashioned the titular gorilla's head out of fruit-flavored icy goodness, with gumball eyes. Well, I held on to a sealed one, and that's what it looked like upon opening. Evidently, ice pops cannot last forever, regardless of temperature. Poor Kong is reminiscent of a murdered Gremlin, and the look on his gumball eyes betrays grief and confusion. I'm sorry, Kong. There will be another day.

Danny Phantom Kid Cuisine! I'm tempted to open this baby up and show you how ghost-shaped chicken nuggets look after a five year stasis, but I can't. Years ago (guess which year), I wrote about a fan protest in NYC to save Danny Phantom from cancellation. To this day, rabid Phantom fans still make comments on that entry, because the best way to resurrect a years-dead series is by posting on a years-dead blog entry on a near-dead site that's completely unassociated with the subject at hand.

Still, I admire their passion. They love their Danny and they think he's cute. They seem like the type of people who'd fork over hundreds of dollars for the lone remaining Danny Phantom Kid Cuisine, MISB. E-mail me, brothers and sisters. Free shipping.

Posted by Matt on 08/06/2010. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 108 comments

I’ve gotten to the point where I just throw leftovers away too, if I can’t pawn them off on my husband before they go bad. I don’t like eating leftovers, and I don’t like having to clean that nasty shit out of my containers after it goes fuzzy. Unlike some people, I’ve never subscribed to the idea that you’re somehow committing a cardinal sin if you throw away a little bit of food now and then.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 08/07/2010 3:04 PM


Amy- You’re gonna have to explain that one. Unless you are directly related to 1985′s Herbert West. You’re excused if that is the case.

Well, we used to have a buncha jars and cups full of dead bugs in the freezer. We kept them for our bug collection projects (as required by my old school) over the years, and then kept them longer to give to other people’s bug collections. We no longer have them, but the smell of frozen Styrofoam still holds bad memories for me.

Also in the moldy category, I spend some time each year volunteering at a tennis tournament. This tournament requires food, and since throwing leftovers out is bad, I just compost them. By compost, I mean dump them off a back porch and let a giant pile of squirmy maggots eat them. It’s horrific and fascinating. Mostly horrific.

But that’s why we all love maggots, right?

Chestnuts roasted by PlantMonster @ 08/07/2010 4:00 PM


I love old food. You know what I mean.

In other news, I am meeting up with GUISE in real life tomorrow. If I never post here again, it means he killed me in my sleep.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 08/07/2010 4:55 PM


Ewwwwwwwww @ plantmonster

Chestnuts roasted by Mandy_reeves @ 08/07/2010 5:01 PM


Plantmonster – where my mom and dad live in the mountains of Colorado, dumping food off your back porch means you’re going to have up-close-and-personal experiences with bears. Heck, even if you secure it tightly in your trash, they can still find a way into it. My dad once built a huge wooden box for the trash, complete with a padlocked lid. The got up one morning to find the lid split in half, and tossed about 20 feet down the road.

Chestnuts roasted by tanta07 @ 08/07/2010 5:03 PM


No matter how true it seems sometimes it makes me really sad to see Matt say,”…on a near dead site…”

Chestnuts roasted by BoomingEchoes @ 08/07/2010 5:05 PM


haha, Muppet Baby. “If

That’s adorable.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 08/07/2010 5:20 PM


I once found a frozen spider in my freezer. I have NO idea how it got in there!

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 08/07/2010 5:23 PM


tanta, I grew up in Colorado and I know numerous people who have had the same thing happen. Where are they living?

My freezer and fridge are pretty boring. We cook so that we don’t have leftovers and the oldest thing in the freezer are some Otter Pops from about 2 summers ago. Interestingly I tried to eat one and it was ROCK hard. I don’t mean like normal, I mean like biting into steel. Does that mean popsicles sort of expire?

Chestnuts roasted by drew do @ 08/07/2010 5:32 PM


Okay, now that you all are sufficiently horrified…

The cat is my kitty, Spooky. He was 17 years old in Feb. 2009 when we put him down because he had a tumor in his mouth and couldn’t eat or drink anymore. Since it was winter (in WI) we left his remains in the freezer at the vet’s office until spring.

The day we went to pick him up, my sister and I couldn’t decide what to do with him. We wanted a proper burial since he’d been our kitty forever. I own my home, but I don’t plan to be here permanently, so we don’t want to bury him here.

He’s in a bag, in a box, in my chest freezer in the basement. He still looks fresh as a daisy. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. We’ll have to figure out something eventually, but for now it is what it is.

Our childhood home was purchased and razed a few years ago for a parking lot that never happened. All of our other pets are buried there, and we do have a fantasy of burying him there in the middle of the night sometime. That would be ideal.

Chestnuts roasted by Amy @ 08/07/2010 6:05 PM


The thing that MB didn’t take in to account is that Matt doesn’t use registration plug-ins for WordPress, so yeah…future posts…I mean, wait, what?

In other words, I’m meeting Muppet Baby tomorrow, if I don’t post again…no-one will notice much difference!

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 08/07/2010 6:10 PM


ericnrosesmom, bing cherries are good, but Ranier cherries are my favorite. I believe they’re only available about a week out of the year. I love those things.

Amy, your story kind of disappointed me. I was hoping Dwight Schrute had watched your cat one day for you.

DJ D, I’m watching The Princess Bride and thinking of you, my friend, since I know you love it so. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 08/07/2010 6:26 PM


Whenever Guise’ not posting, all the other posters should be asking “Where’s Guise”?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 08/07/2010 6:41 PM


Nope, my cat was already dead. Poor Sprinkles…

I love cherries too!!! Even if they aren’t that great of a batch, I love to just zone out and eat cherries while I’m reading or watching tv. I don’t know what kind the ones from Door County are, but they are amazing.

Chestnuts roasted by Amy @ 08/07/2010 6:50 PM


I wonder , where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 08/07/2010 7:09 PM


http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/

I’m sure some of you probably have read this before.

Chestnuts roasted by Berdo @ 08/07/2010 7:10 PM


Funny how a frozen cat-sicle didn’t phase me in the least…but maggot covered left overs made me scream and puke in my mouth a little.

All my buddies and me are animal lovers. To the insane extreme where we would spend 100 dollars at the vet to help a sick hamster that was inevitably going to die in a few months anyhow.

My first ever hamster, a dwarf named Shiggy(after Super Mario Bros. and zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto) had a mammary tumor…and I paid like 80 to get her looked at. She like died two weeks after that, because she was in pain…so I picked her up to comfort her….she lept out of my hand and landed on the floor, and when i picked her up she made a yawn and died. :(

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 08/07/2010 7:14 PM


I haven’t seen that actually. I prefer the classic “Who Will Be Eaten First?”

http://www.librarything.com/topic/61539

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 08/07/2010 7:51 PM


Best Chick Tract I’ve ever seen. And no more ridiculous than the real ones.

Chestnuts roasted by Amy @ 08/07/2010 7:57 PM


Post/SNT coming up soon. I really shouldn’t go so long on these early ones. It’s only going to lead to me catching shit when I’m writing daily single paragraphs about my favorite state quarters in a week.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/07/2010 8:15 PM


Florida’s shot of a Spacecraft and a Pirate Ship about to engage in battle is pretty awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 08/07/2010 8:23 PM


Matt do you still play on Pogo? I remember your article 4 years ago or so, it got me hooked and I have been a paying member for about that long now. It’s a blast!

Anyone try the Taco Bell cantina tacos? I had some last night…the carnitas one was yum! The filling that is…the shell leaves alot to be desired as far as taste

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 08/07/2010 8:35 PM


Just wanted to say that “From One Fry 2 Anotha” is one of XE’s greatest works. Thanks for posting all this stuff, Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Xabungle @ 08/07/2010 11:40 PM


First of all, I have to admire you. Not being a frozen food addict, the only thing I have in my freezer that’s even close to being comparable to anything here is an Edy’s Lemonade Fruit Bar that’s a few months old, tops. You are a pack-rat master.

Second, I work at a grocery store and ran into just about everything covered here at one time or another, and yes, I can confirm that everything except for possibly the Eggo FlipFlops are very long gone.

I recognize the Slurpees, too. I didn’t get the Transformers cup, but I still have the Superman cup (sans the actual drink).

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 08/08/2010 12:33 AM


Doho, and everyone should follow up that question with “And how much do you think bail will be this time?”

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 08/08/2010 1:08 AM


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