1. KFC's Famous Bowl, described by comedian Patton Oswalt as "a failure pile in a sadness bowl." (please note video is funny but full of swears). The Onion's A.V. Club dared Oswalt to eat a KFC Famous Bowl and write about it, which he did, at length and quite entertainingly.
Donut Hot Chocolate - yup, that's a donut blended INTO a cup of hot chocolate.
Cake Shake - same deal, different food + drink combo.
Pie Shakes - I don't know why pie in a shake is more deeply disturbing than cake in a shake, but somehow it is.
Observations on this trend, in no special order:
1. Patton Oswalt's famous cheese/strawberry tasting scene in Ratatouille emphasized how combining foods in sequence, rather than in a blender, would enhance them individually. No real point, just a nice parallel there.2. Do we need our calories made even easier to take in, or aren't most of us getting plenty of them as it is? Or is the objective for all of us to get the stage of the citizens of the Axiom in WALL-E, responding like Skinner-bred mice to the siren call of "Lunch...in a cup!"
3. My father, who died several years ago, was brought home for hospice care after a brain tumor and stroke left him deeply compromised. When he got to the point where he could not eat properly, a home hospice worker grilled a big cheeseburger, blended it up for him, and served it as a "cheeseburger shake" with a straw. It looked weird but smelled great, and sparked his appetite. Now, most people would be grossed out by such a thing, but I saw it as a real act of kindness for a person who could no longer enjoy food the normal way. I now wonder, however, whether we might actually see something like a cheeseburger shake sometime soon.
Oh, holy mother of God, IT REALLY EXISTS! The Cheeseburger Chill from Jamba Juice. Okay, well, I am literally reeling a bit now, so if you choose to watch, be warned. (Erratum: It doesn't exist. If you click on the Cheeseburger Chill link above, they explain it's a joke. Phew! (and thanks, Mike!) The universe is a tiny bit less out of balance.)
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I followed the link mentioned in the ad and found a pretty interesting website devoted to cheeseburgers, which (thank heavens) said the cheeseburger smoothie idea was a joke. If I was in hospice care, I'd go for it.
Cheeseburgerchill.com's take on it:
"In 2010, a popular smoothie joint decided to cash in on the cheeseburger bandwagon. Thus, the birth of the Cheeseburger Chill. Now, you don’t have to be a master in mental arithmetic to realize what big numbers and how big a buzz that news gave the smoothie joint. It was so controversial that a lot of people immediately Googled it and got so excited about this.
But to everyone’s dismay, Cheeseburger Chill is nothing but a faux-promo. It was actually a prank by the people from the smoothie joint and sort of a mockery of McDonald’s smoothies. McDonald’s think they can introduce “healthy” smoothies” so the smoothie joint retaliated with their supposed cheeseburger-flavored smoothies.
The smoothie joint said that “It does seem some burger chains are getting into the smoothie business, which to us is about as weird as a Cheeseburger Chill Smoothie. So we’re sticking to what we know.”
Nonetheless, it was a fun prank and something that has tickled the fancy of all smoothie lovers and cheeseburger lovers out there."
Later,
Mike
Funny stuff.
We went to the golden corral in Rockford today. It was pretty decent as buffets go food wise, a fair number of folks there could audition for the live action version of wall-e, and all the bumping and jostling made it feel like a real corral! Very exciting indeed.
Thing was they had a "chocolate fountain" there, with skewers and strawberries and marshmallows, strawberries were good. But Sam stuck a piece of bacon in there for good measure too.
We considered running other things through the fountain, like a chicken drumstick and some cotton candy but didn't pursue it.
Dave.
dave - do NOT get me started on chocolate fountains. At least the Romans had a vomitorium. Modern gluttons just eat, keep it all down, and go back for more. Uhhhhhh (*Lurch sound*)
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