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Friday, September 21, 2012
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And, then, the absolute grossest thing happens. For family game night, they play a game that involves smelling each other’s breath and guessing who the person is by their breath. OK, I personally have an issue with breath – I hate the very idea of someone breathing on me. I know it sounds weird. I just have a very strong sense of smell and I don’t like to smell the breath of people or animals. You know what I’m talking about.
Do you really want to smell June’s fragrance?
In a perfect world, I would never have to smell anyone’s breath. Even if the breath is “minty fresh,” I shouldn’t have to be subjected to it. And, here I was watching the family play a game in which they would have to figure out whose breath they were smelling while blindfolded. That totally triggered my gag reflex.
And then, June is all lovey dovey with SugarBear.
Look, I love that June and Sugar Bear are happy together. But, I don’t want the mental image of them turning each other on – I just can’t discuss this scene anymore.
And, just as I start to think that I can’t be anymore grossed out, the ANOTHER gross thing happens. While playing the breath-smelling game, Pumpkin has June smell the dog’s breath and Chickadee laughs so hard that she pees a little.
That’s not even the grossest part. I have been around enough pregnant women to know just how normal that is. The gross part starts with Chickadee not wanting to change her pants. She says that it was just a little in her underwear. June points out that it actually made it to the couch. And then, she touches the stain and smells it to be sure.
Right there with you Pumpkin.
Look, I get it. My youngest sister is considering becoming an RPN once her little boy starts kindergarten. When she first told me that, I said some pretty immature things. I told her how I wouldn’t be able to touch sick people and deal with their bodily functions. I reminded her of the time that our other sister wanted to be a masseuse but realized she would have to touch people she didn’t know. My youngest sister paused for a second before she said that having kids took away all of her squeamishness. Then, when we discussed this episode, she told me June was most likely trying to see if Chickadee’s water had broken.
I have no idea if she was trying to further gross me out or if that is true; plus, she has laughed every time I’ve asked her.
So, I think I need you guys to give me a “The More You Know” moment, as I don’t have the fortitude to google search the smell of a pregnant woman’s water breaking. Just typing that last sentence made me a little nauseous.
I know exactly how you feel.
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LOL This episode had a whole mess of “aww” moments. I think your friend probably meant well. I bet the Honey Bubus would want to adopt her and give her a “better life” too. For example if they found out she never got to go roll in the mud.
I thought the breath game was gross too. What’s not gross is that the whole family spends that much time with each other. To even know what their breath smells like blindfolded.
What’s wrong with throwing spaghetti on the wall? It’s not like you leave it stuck up there. Or eat the 1 you threw. At least I don’t. Come to think of it I think Alana did though!
Oh I forgot. You could tell on June’s face she was wondering if Chickadee’s water broke. I did too! And I’m not even a mom.
The people here that are moms can say for sure. But my guess is it’s not like smelling another person’s pee would be for us. Chickadee might be pregnant. But she’s still a little girl. And June’s her mama.
Pregnancy has got to be one of the most contradictory things ever. I have never heard something called awful and amazing in the same breath as much as pregnancy. I think it’s nothing but awfulness. I don’t see how people do it. I find the thought of having something growing inside me disturbing.
The sketti thing was gross, but not as gross a the peeing on the couch.
I give your sister credit, nurses have to do some pretty disgusting stuff. My mom’s a private nurse, she currently takes care of this old lady suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. But she worked for the home health department for several years and she has tons of stories. My favorite one though, is about how one of her patients died while she was bathing them. She said she finished bathing, dressed them, and then went and told the family. She was pregnant with me at the time too. I also have a roommate who’s a Nursing major and wants to help deliver babies. And I have a best friend who just became a registered nurse. So I’m a squeamish person surrounded by people who have no problem with looking at and handling super gross stuff.
no the gross show which you have not had on here yet is where we get to see..”by the way i was eating chicken when this happen” snort which was juicy coming out of boo boo’s nose and the camera just focused on it,, and then we see boo boo try to suck it back in her nose or perhaps eat it..by this time my mouth is full of chewed up chicken and im decided to barf and swallow quickly…i choose to swallow quickly…turning my head away from the tv…gasp!!! so ty learning channel for showing us that…and we still love you honey boo boo child!!
plus on this same show was boo boo’s birthday which fans online sent boo boo mega money and toys!!!
Ah PlathA, my squeamish soul sister. I was getting urpy just reading your ‘cap. I’ve had two kids and it is disgusting, but most of the disgusting parts happened while I was in the hospital, so others had to deal with them.
Yay.
i’m a nurse, but not a maternity nurse. however i do remember being taught in school that you can tell it’s a womans water breaking because it will have a slightly sweet/pleasant smell to it. definitely different from the smell of pee. there are a lot of “gross” things you have to deal with as a nurse by my two grossest things are mucus and chewed food. give me poop, pee, blood, vomit. but suctioning someones trach to get the mucus out and people who drop their chewed food out of their mouth make me have to consciously make myself not gag.
*waves hand* Another nurse! And yes, there is a very big difference in the way those two smell. I’m not a maternity nurse, either, but I vividly remember my clinical rotation through obstetrics. Trust me, it was an unsettling experience. I can handle the poop, pee, blood, vomit, suctioning, stab wounds, gunshot wounds, etc, but don’t try to make me birth no baby. Or start IV’s on children. We all have to draw that line in the sand at some point.
i’m due to have my first in may 2013, and i, too, agree — giving birth sounds disgusting! i wanted to adopt, but my husband didn’t want to. last night, even though i’m not even quite 7 weeks yet, i told him this is the only baby i’ll ever have, and if he wants another, he’d better call the adoption agency.
i have a very weak sense of smell, but i hear ya on the nastiness of that breathing game — i don’t want anyone breathing on me, especially not on my face, either! i hate when my husband wants to hug when we go to sleep, like i REALLY want to be swapping breath with someone all night. ewwww.
the ‘sketti recipe was gross, but people eat weird stuff. my sister was OBSESSED with ketchup when she was little — she would eat ketchup (JUST ketchup) “sandwiches,” for instance. but then again, i like to soak cucumbers in lime juice and salt, and when i’m done, i totally drink the salty lime stuff … it’s gooood but i know people who think it’s pretty nasty.
@sagittariuskim — pregnancy sucks. as much as i want my baby, i HATE being pregnant. i’m angry as hell and there are so many gross things that happen that no one even freakin’ tells you about … and the labor thing … just reading about an epidural made me cringe and scream a little. i’m asking for laughing gas (which apparently can be used during labor); at least then if i’m stoned i might think it’s funny or something.
some people (like people who become nurses and doctors) are just not squeamish, i guess. one of my doctor friends, who works ER, said “it doesn’t bother me when people die,” which sounds totally sociopathic out of context, and i was like OMG NO. i would have a complete and utter panic attack if i was around dying, bloody people all the time. my sister-in-law is a dentist and i can’t imagine spending my life with my hand in people’s NASTY MOUTHS, but apparently her life’s goal was to be a dentist since she was little. ewwwww, i say.
sign me up for the squeamish club here. i faint most of the times i have my blood taken because i freak out and hyperventilate, lol.
These people are gross and not “all that”. I don’t understand the insane amount of praise given.
@Sloth, perhaps it will help to have seen other “realities” like Eden Wood, the kardashallhopes, the Lohans…
A family enjoying being together on tv is a rare, rare treat.
Of course, the bar has been lowered.
Somebody fill me in, please. In the context of Honey Boo Boo, what is a moon pie?
I stopped watching this show after a few episodes because it seriously depresses me, so I did not have the visuals to be grossed out by the Honey Boo Boo spaghetti sauce. I’m totally trying butter & ketchup sauce on spaghetti. Maybe they should can it and sell it. How great would it be to see Honey Boo Boo take Chef Boyardee down a peg and become the next reality star tycoon à la Bethenny Frankel?
@Crankyguy…Probably your favorite part on Mrs. Cranky…besides her beautiful mind of course
And I agree with @kthxbai…June had a look of concern when she was smelling the sofa. She was definitely checking to make sure her water hadn’t broken without trying to alarm the others.
@fancyface, thanks. Are we friends again? I hope so.
the family recipe for ‘sketti is ketchup and butter – except, it isn’t butter
I would be amazed if it was actually butter, because “butter” in redneck culture is almost always margarine. I’m gonna use butter in my Honey Boo Boo sauce because margarine grosses me out since it is essentially salted, flavored and colored Crisco.
I saw Elvis’s cook on some TV show telling how she made his legendary peanut butter and ‘nanner san-itches. Pan-fry two slices of some very specific brand (I forget what) of some generic white bread which has been heavily slathered with some very specific brand (I forget what) of peanut butter in one whole stick (yes, that’s one whole stick) of some very specific brand (I do remember this for some reason — Blue Bonnet) of margarine (which Elvis called “butter”). Elvis would throw a fit if he found out that the specific brands that his maw used were replaced with something else. Authenticity is important, damnit. The bananas did not have to be brand-specific, but they did have to be put on the san-itch sliced length-wise, never in rounds.
There you have it. I wonder if it goes well with “butter”/ketchup ‘sketti?
Lol I grew up in a perfectly middle class household eating spaghetti with ketchup on it. My (little Jewish) mother called it “Jewish spaghetti sauce,” and my grandmother served it to her that way when she was a kid. I still put ketchup on my Mac-n-cheese
@cranky guy #11, I’m guessing (bc I haven’t watched the episode yet) that Moon Pie refers to the strangely popular southern confection of graham cracker cookies, marshmallow filling and candy coating (chocolate, vanilla, banana or strawberry).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_pie
I’ve lived in the South all my life and have never eaten one. I think they’re on par with Little Debbie snacks. Way back when , RC Cola and Moon Pies were called “the working man’s lunch”.
@TG93, sounds like there are two different definitions of Moon Pie, according to you and @ FancyFeast. I’ve heard of yours.
While we’re still on Bottom Chef, my dad (Mother didn’t cook) made spaghetti by sautéing hamburger, onions and green peppers and mixing in tomato soup and water. Dad wasn’t much of a cook either, come to think of it.
@TurtleGirl93, I know what THAT Moon Pie is and I have actually eaten one. They are not bad as that sort of thing goes. Fancyface gave me a hint about what June meant when she said “moon pie,” but I thought that was a “biscuit.” Is a moon pie and biscuit the same thing in June-speak? This is getting confusing.
As far as pregnancy goes (and I’m currently BEGGING my 5th offspring to break my water so I can go to the hospital – I’m that close), yes – pee and water breaking smell different. I (personally) would never smell them, but I’m also all about heading to the hospital and letting a nice nurse or resident with a ph test tell me if my water has broken or not.
I suppose if I didn’t have that easy option, I would certainly do what I had to do to make sure it was one not the other. Even if it wasn’t for me.
@SSC — I made the butter/ketchup sauce for lunch, about equal parts of each (I don’t know the official HBB proportions) with some black pepper and garlic powder added. Man, ketchup reeks of vinegar when it is heated. It wasn’t bad, but I think your dad’s sauce would have been better.
Speaking of odd ‘sketti sauce, I saw on YouTube some Top Chef contestant’s application video. He made ramen noodles with a sauce of Italian sausage mixed with heated mayonnaise. That was actually good, but I don’t eat it very often because that much fat at one sitting is just wrong.
The show is refreshing compared to the Housewives Reality shows. My opinion.
By the way I have never seen anything I have written here come through.
Unless you have a slow leak in your water bag, you would definitely be able to tell the difference in breaking your water and peeing a bit because you laughed. There is a huge volume change!! When my water broke, the midwife got doused!!!
@ellemenop Thanks to Cracked know more than I ever wanted to know about the awfulness of pregnancy.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19298_7-terrifying-things-they-dont-tell-you-about-pregnancy.html
@TurtleGirl93 I was just thinking about moon pies the other day. I used to gorge myself on them when I was little during Mardi Gras. And it’s not strange that their so popular their basically s’mores, only better. I nver had strawberry flavored and vanilla is meh. The best ones are banana and chocolate.
Hey ellenmemop,
I like how you told your husband that if wants another baby he should start looking at adoption agencies. I only had 1 kid myself and told my husband that if he wanted anymore kids, he was going to have to have them with someone else. I hated being pregnant, hated gaining 60 lbs and wanted to kill him during labor. Especially after I delivered our daughter and he said “that wasn’t so bad.”. Whaaaaat. Did u just have a watermelon come out of your vajaja?
Anywho, I love tis show but I lve all trashy tv.
I actually thought the grossest part of this episode was when Alana tasted the lemonade and then put the spoon that had just been in her mouth BACK in the pitcher of lemonade she was about to serve to perfect strangers. I think that put me off of children’s lemonade stands for life.
I saw part of the episode with HBB’s party. Now that was nice. She and her friends had a great time and I thought it was really nice. I’m sure TLC paid for it but regardless I’m sure she’ll remember it for a long tme. And, I thought HBB and Sugar Bear’s date to the skating rink was cute. It’s nice she got to spend alone time with her father. I would have strangled her with that f*cking blow-up hammer though.
BUT, I’m sorry I just cannot get behind everyone’s warm fuzzies for this family. I’m not blue blooded or anything I just think they are extremely common and gross. I can’t even watch for the humor and love that June imparts on her kids. Smelling people’s breath? Sniffing you’re pee? The absolute grossest (and I’m not sure which epi this was in) was when HBB sneezed and had incredibly disgusting discharge from her nose. And, the camera didn’t cut away. I had to turn the TV off. They have no manners. No sense of right or wrong. Everything’s a joke.
I’d rather watch Kate Goselin screech at her kids. At least they’re clean and well mannered.
@2muchbravo – I can understand your dislike of them and their grossness – but calling them “extremely common”? Why is that bad? I’d rather be common, than extraordinary for a stupid reason (ie: Paris Hilton or the Kardashians).
And I absolutely disagree with “[they] have no sense of right and wrong.” Quite the contrary! I think June and Sugar Bear have a VERY good sense of right and wrong – and go out of their way to impart that on the girls…
That being said, I’m actually one of the few who likes Kate Goselin, also.
@Sloth You can get such simple enjoyment watching this show. Even if you’re a jaded old bitch like me. To where the 1st comment I made about it, I felt like I needed to start off saying I’m not new sincerity!
It’s the last show you’d expect would blow up the internet though. With near about as much ugly as MBFAGW did!
Thanks to @PlathAddict though it’s not like that here. There was maybe 1 spell of people talking about whether they’ll want and or accept help when their family’s time of need comes.
That gives me the same good feeling I got when MBFAGW was on. 1 time somebody gave a link to an article somewhere else. And it took them till like comment 2 for somebody to call for genociding Gypsies or Travellers by blowing up.
Tvgasm was the about only place on the internet that was clean of that!
Thanks @Pollyanna (ﾉ^ ‿^)ﾉ ♡彡
I guess we all get some credit too. This site attracts mostly the right class of people.
(OK there’s this 1 that gets typing fits sometmes. That flares up people’s carpal tunnel. But at least she usually apologizes)
@SSC and @Cranky, somehow I didn’t even see Fancy’s def for moon pie. My bad. What is it with this family and food items for personal parts?
I saw today that our Hardee’s is advertising “bacon bacon biscuits”. I’m very visual, you know, and that was quite disturbing.
Whoopsie–
@Sagi (sorry but I’ll never be able to spell your name) I had never even heard of a Moon pie until I was in college. I’ve never tried one but I love s’mores. Mmmmmmmmm…
@TG93, after reading FancyFeast’s comment about MoonPies, I’ll never look at one the same again. Never had one, but I adore S’mores. Homemade.
@kthxy, I loved the comments MBFAGW inspired. That may have been the one that caused many of us to suspect that reality is more cast and scripted than we had ever imagined before.
Good times. Wonder if they will do THAT one again.
The best way to tell if spaghetti is done is to bite it. It could be perfect, it could be overcooked; you just don’t know until you bite it. Of course, that is just my personal stance on the testing of pasta doneness. So much of the final dish depends on getting the pasta to just the right amount of doneness. Throwing it against the wall just proves that you have gluey pasta.
And then, the ketchup and Country Crock mixture? That was so gross. Not as gross as children, but still, pretty freaking gross. I love pasta too much to ever approve of that as a meal. If June would just grow a garden, she could have plenty of tomatoes to make an actual sauce.
I’m not sure I am ready to discuss MoonPies.
Oh @Plath, you are so smart. Al dente means to the tooth, meaning we should bite the pasta to ensuere it is done. Having the pasta done al dente means that the sauce ( I’m thinking not a ketchup laboratory experiment mix) will adhere properly.
I am so with you ( as are so many health conscious Gasmii) on the garden thing. Imagine the exercise while overeating on fresh peas in the pod and beans. The thrill of pulling up potatoes. Finding out that the raccoons have figured out that the corn was ripe the day before you do… Oh well. Can’t gave everything.
@karyn — if my husband says that to me after pregnancy, he’d better duck!!! how obnoxious. the worst part is i’m sure at least half of husbands do it. and they whine when they have colds.
@antm fan — i’d forgotten about the spoon thing — i agree, gross!
Okay, I didn’t notice the snot.
The breath smelling. Pure grossness.
Licking the spoon and putting it back in food you’re going to serve to non-immediate family members? The same.
Sketti, well, yeah. I can’t get past the margarine.
Smelling the pee on the couch? A natural reaction and not gross to me. But I have kids. I smell random puddles to figure out what they are, and you better believe I’d be on it in an instant if there was a chance it was amniotic fluid.
As far as pregnancy being gross, I guess it is. But at this point I’m on my 14th consecutive cycle and I’d much rather be pregnant just to not deal with this monthly annoyance. We don’t want more kids right now, so that’s not an option. I just miss the break that pregnancy and nursing give me. (Two years this last go round!)
First, I personally loved being pregnant. I loved it so much that I would love to be a surrogate and carry someone elses baby. My skin was never so clear, I was never nauseous, it never slowed me down in any way and I loved having a life growing inside me.
That said, I learned something today- throwing spaghetti on the wall to see if it sticks is a real thing? I thought that was just a phrase that meant to brainstorm a problem. Wow, HBB is educational.
And on that note, of all the gross things on this show I have never been so grossed out by anything more than that ‘sketti’. Ketchup? On spaghetti? Another thing I thought was a racist myth my Italian mother warned me about- she used to tell me to be careful if I ate at my Irish friends houses because that’s how they made pasta sauce. It never occurred to me that this was a real thing. My mind has been expanded…
@Rave – my 3rd pregnancy was a surrogate – it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
(And I can say this, even when in the midst of having contractions that make me want to take a butter knife and rip the offspring I’m growing out of my body….)
A Moon Pie is something best eaten while sitting on a log in back of your grandma’s house with your cousins… RC cola is the enly thing to drink with a Moon Pie…
Life time southerner here, too, and I grew up with the fam eating moonpies. I never cared for them until my mom heated one up in the oven and put a little ice cream on top. Now, that was yummy. My father used to love pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs, vienna sausage and souse meat. I can’t even bear the smell of any of those let alone consume one. Never much cared for RC cola, either.
@crankyguy – bet you could fine those moon pies right next to the giant chessypoofs at walmart!
And someone talked about eating ketchup sandwiches? I can do you one better…..I used to eat mayo sandwiches. Mayo slathered on white bread! I knew I was finally maturing into an adult when I started putting mustard on one half.
@lindaw205, keep in mind that I didn’t see the show. So when June talks about moon pies she is talking about the actual Moon Pie™ that I can buy at my beloved Wal-Mart and is not using it as a June-ism for something else?
@Rave. I tried the HBB sauce out of morbid curiosity. It was edible, and I won’t ever make it again, but I can think of a lot more things this family does that are higher on the gross-out index than ketchup and margarine on sketti. Hell, I think the Elvis peanut butter ‘n’ nanner san-itch I posted about earlier is much more disgusting.
@CrankyGuy….”@fancyface, thanks. Are we friends again? I hope so.” Ummm…ALWAYS! I told you I can’t quit you! BTW…yes, in this case, moon pie was a ‘Juneism’ ala biscuit. They were using it while talking about where babies come from.
Also, as a Mobilian (Alabama) I can remember the best thing in life being Mardi Gras & the best thing about MG was yelling for, fighting over, & bragging about catching the most MOON PIES! But strangely, I can remember having an aversion for them as a youngin for some odd reason. That was until my mother did the best thing ever & popped one in the microwave! Umm..HELLO! So. Much. Goodness. (Right @Lindaw205? Nothing like a melted moonpie) Definitely of the smores persuasion! I haven’t had one in my adult life as far as I can remember, but this convo is making me wonder why!
The ketchup thing? We do realize that ketchup & pasta sauce are actually made from tomatoes right? (at least REAL ketchup is) I’ve made ketchup, marinara sauce, & barbeque sauce during the same cooking session using the same ingredients but I def don’t think I would interchange their uses so, my argument is pretty much moot I guess.
Any mother who says they don’t smell puddles of all natures on a regular basis aren’t raising normal kids or have some kick ass housekeepers/nannies/etc that does the sniffing for them. How else do you figure out if the stain is yogurt or pee?
I blame the editors for most of the grossness we have to endure. This family does normal things like having coughing or sneezing fits while talking & instead of editing them out like other shows do, they highlight it. The Alana sneeze with unfortunate um..drippage (?) has happened to anyone with a cold & is quite common for kids that spend the summer swimming & swallowing/sniffing water. She was CLEARLY embarrassed, never took her hand down after it happened, & was confused as to what to do while in the middle of the interview. Instead of cutting & letting her take care of it or handing her a tissue, they just kept shooting & thought it would be a cool way to end the show. So I blame TLC for that one.
This family is all kind of fun bat shit craziness without all the human body functions being highlighted. So let’s be grossed out by June finding Sugar Bear smexy & not a little girl sneezing umkay editors?
Pregnantcy and giving birth IS gross. And have kids and I never want to experience it first hand or second hand. I went and visited my sister in north Idaho, and she was legit, about to pop @ any moment. She was doing everything she could to try and go into labor with me there. I was like stay in there lil buddy. She had him 2 days after I left, thank Jesus. I mean I’m supportive and all, but I don’t wanna see it.
TLC used to mean The Learning Channel. Now it seems to be synonymous with exploitation. A family with 19 kids…let’s make a show about them! Conjoined twins…let’s make a show about them! A family headed by little people…let’s make a show about them. Bratty, tarted- up kids in pageants….let’s make a show about them.
even though i would never eat ketchup and butter (just the thought is revolting, but then again, i don’t much like either of those things) on anything, i will ‘fess up that i have microwaved hummus & salsa to use as a topping for pasta in the pasta … it was actually pretty good ….
i had a vegan moonpie in brooklyn once. as an adult. that was my first and last moon pie … i thought it was pretty gross, but i also am not one for desserts.
@rave — i’ll hit you up for my next one; if he won’t do adoption, i’m going for a surrogate. my skin is DISGUSTING (i am breaking out more than ever, AND have random gross dry patches around my lips), i keep getting “those” infections, i’m growing random lanugo, i’m nauseous all the time, often freezing (i already had bad circulation) and/or dizzy, AND i want to punch things from random anger bouts. i’ve only gained about 10 pounds (i’m 5’8″, though, so it shoudln’t be such a significant difference, and i gained on purpose because i was underweight) that have put me just around a BMI of 18.5, but my stomach is HUGELY bloated. need i say more? i DESPISE pregnancy. and i have another 7+ months to go. i seriously refuse to give birth to a second child. i miscarried my first pregnancy, but i was only at 5 weeks (to the day), and at this point i think if i miscarry again i’m not willing to get pregnant ever again. it suuuuucks. ok, anti-pregnancy rant over.
@lindaw205 — lol! i was the only who said my sister ate ketchup sandwiches, but i agree — mayo is even worse! i liked that you said you were maturing by adding mustard, haha
@fancyface — i do agree that the editors are clearly at fault with the gross-outs. they’re just showcasing all the gross stuff that happens to make it look like it happens CONSTANTLY. okay, no, i can’t attest to that, but i do have a rather strong suspicion.
A vegan moon pie! What kind of blasphemy is that?!
A Moon Pie is vegan already except for the gelatin in the marshmallow, so it’s not very blasphemous to have a truly vegan version. But a moon pie as defined by June is necessarily non-vegan, and to even attempt a vegan substitute would indeed be blasphemy. What would it be? A blow-up doll?
@crankyguy, the traditional moonpie is not vegan. Between the marshmallow, the shortbread mixture used to make the “cookie” part, and the shortening used in the icing, I’m pretty sure that none of it would fit into a vegan diet.
But, I am having a difficult time deciding if I should actually explain what a moonpie is, or just talking about what a moonpie is.
June was not talking about the (totally non-vegan) pastries that one would enjoy with an RC.
Shortening is vegan, just not very healthful. I was going off the ingredient list on the Moon Pie Wikipedia article. The only non-vegan ingredient, unless I missed something, is gelatin. There were no eggs, dairy, or any other animal product in list.
@crankyguy She said vegan moon pie from Brooklyn. There had to be some kind of blasphemy involved.
@sagittariuskim, I’m afraid the scourge of veganism has ensconced itself in almost every city, town, and burg. You might even find a vegan or two close to McIntyre, GA.
@sagittariuskim — well, i’m vegan AND allergic to eggs, so i wouldn’t even risk trying a non-vegan one just in case there were eggs in it! trust me, though, i’ve had an aaaaawesome vegan philly bbq steak sub, among other things. most of my friends and all of my family members eat meat, and even they admit some of the places i’ve made them try are excellent. i don’t know about the moon pie, because it’s not like i think it’s a regional thing here, but there’s a place in brooklyn that essentially sells vegan junk food, so i guess that’s why they put it into their menu.
hey, southerners, don’t hate! i don’t hate on the south. in fact, my yankee friends and i were in birmingham for our transplant-friend’s wedding in may, and i was the only one who gave it some slack. i even tried chicken-fried tofu (YES IN ALABAMA … i must say, the birmingham whole foods is actually not bad!) … except i thought it was nasty.
aaaannd … that was supposed to say bbq steak; no philly. i’ve had decent vegan philly cheesesteaks, but nothing to write home about. i’ve been vegetarian (not vegan until a bit later on) since i was 13, though, so many vegan versions of foods i’ve had, i’ve never tried to meat versions of.
i thought the whole country crock and ketchup thing was gross, until i thought about it And ketchup is made from tomatoes and you typically put tomato sauce on “sketti” so maybe its not that bad (Not saying im ready to try it, but just a thought) . But as an italian myself, im sure there would be many italian’s rolling in the grave if they saw that. I mean spaghetti is a classic, why change it???
@sagittariuskim, it occurs to be that I don’t know if you mean it’s blasphemous to take a Moon Pie and turn it vegan, or it blasphemous to take some junk food item that is manufactured in the South and have some Yankee in New York City try to recreate it her bakery and sell it, or it is blasphemous to even sell any vegan food in a borough famous for so much non-vegan ethnic food, or you mean something else entirely.
@Lilly19, isn’t ketchup essentially basic marinara with a lot of vinegar and too much sugar? I never was much of a ketchup lover myself, but growing up, I had several friends who would put ketchup on EVERYTHING.
If I ever had the opportunity to scold June on adulterating a classic Italian dish, I’m sure she would tell me, “Fuck you, crankyguy. Ah don’t give a shit.”
@lily19 — i’m not italian, but i’m really into cooking and am semi-obsessed with italy, and i personally don’t think your average ketchup is that far of a cry from popular jarred pasta sauces sold in the u.s. (like ragu or prego), if you just add some spices like oregano. i RARELY eat pasta (like, literally MAYBE twice a year), but even when i make it for my husband, i won’t use that stuff — i make the sauce myself; i do use canned tomato paste as a base, but everything else i use in it is from scratch, including fresh tomatoes, olive oil, freshly minced garlic, etc. but i also don’t think it’s really a “horrible” thing to eat prego sauce — i just am not a fan of pre-mixed things and avoid them whenever i can (but i’m not going to pretend i make EVERYTHING from scratch — i don’t have the energy for that, and to be honest, just to use an example, sabra makes a better hummus than i do, so i don’t make my own. if i made crappy marinara, i’d use the jarred stuff).
@crankyguy — give us vegans a break! i am originally peruvian, and i’ve traveled and tried many ethnic foods (granted, my meat consumption ended at 13, BUT my parents always fed us a very large variety of foods; my mom is a professional-grade cook), but i think i should be allowed to eat a vegan “fish” stick dipped in vegan tartar sauce if i want one!
@ellemenop, what are you talking about? I wasn’t really serious about veganism being a “scourge.” I know some animal rights vegans who have a horrible diet consisting of coffee, soda pop, and vegan junk food, but at the same time I am absolutely convinced that a low-salt, low-fat, whole-foods vegan diet consisting of grains, beans, herbs and vegetables, fruits, with a few nuts and seeds, all simply prepared, is the most healthful dietary in existence.
@crankyguy — i think i misread/misinterpreted your comment. i do agree some vegans are HORRIBLY unhealthy. most of my intake is what you’ve described at the end of your last post (minus low-salt; i AM a salt addict, and i do love my coffee), but every once in a great while i do want some junky thing (even though under normal circumstances i won’t have it, since i know what’ll happen), but i think that’s normal. even now that i’m pregnant i don’t really want junk food, but i’m sure i will eat something crappy again in the next few months.
@snowshoecat LOL Me too! We ended up with everything from art to history to weddings to I don’t know what all.
It was like if TLC doesn’t want to educate us then we’ll just do it!
@PlathAddict’s educating me about spaghetti right now.
So you’re saying it’s not even supposed to stick to the wall? How do you keep it from being gluey enough to stick? (We do bite things like rotini. Or tortellini. So we’re at least doing some of them right).
@crankyguy The first two.
I attempted to watch this show because of all the hype and all I could think about (in the 10 minutes before I got bored) is how this child is already well on her way to being a fat, unattractive teenager that nobody cares about. Thanks TLC for jumpstarting this train that will surely wreck.
oh my god!!!! honey boo boo drama!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/exclusive-honey-boo-boo-adoption-shocker………………….oh my god!!!
Wow. the national enquirer. Now that’s a real good authority!
Nannie go ask the Edwards family what they think about the credibility of the National Enquirer.
I will say this: I loved being pregnant! But I have endometriosis and we were lucky to be able to have one baby. I had to have my labor induced also, which was extremely painful, but it was all worth it in the end. We are grateful for the one we have, but yeah as a mom you have to put grossness aside and smell all sorts of things. It all goes with it I think! I don’t think my family would try that sketti sauce even if they didn’t know what was in it. I can get a can of sketti sauce for 79 cents which is way less than what her sauce costs, if you think about it. But I won’t tell people how to spend their money. I am jealous of how June has mondo rolls of paper towels available because my family of three goes through an 8 pack in a little over a week. I totally could have done without the snot at the end of the show. I felt really bad for Alana; the same thing happened to my in Jr. High but luckily we were watching a movie in class and I was able to hide it until I got some kleenex. It’s all in the editing I guess! I’ll bet they are really charming if the show was edited differently.
I still want to see that sketti sauce in a can at my local grocery store with a Honey Boo Boo label on it. We already have Mayberry’s Finest seasoned turnip greens, chicken ‘n’ dumplings, and chili with beans, and the cans have Andy, Aunt Bea, and Opie’s picture on them. All three of those offerings are absolutely awful, so I would say that in comparison, HBB sketti sauce would have to be much better.
I think she ought to have her own brand of cheese balls too.
Having spent just a few years in the south, I was amazed that bacon grease seemed to substitute in for butter in most things except dessert. I can still hear my ex MIL’s shriek when she caught me throwing it away after breakfast one morning.
@Mimo, shame on you for throwing bacon grease away. I became aware several years ago of a Southern delicacy made with bacon grease. I like to try new things, if only once, but I had to stay away from this. It’s called a Grease Dog, and it’s simply a piece of white bread fried in bacon grease until it is completely saturated, and a little crispy. Then it is salted, rolled up into a cylinder, and eaten. It’s amazing what bacon grease can do! Rednecks even fry shrimp in bacon grease, and of course, eggs.
My mom used to have a container specifically to store bacon grease so she could re-use it in cooking. And I’m from the Pacific Northwest!
Heck, I have a metal crock with a picture of a pig on it for my bacon grease. A fried green tomato will not touch my lips unless it is fried in bacon grease.
TC, Robin
*proudly waves hand* I was born and raised in the south. I keep a jar of bacon grease in my refrigerator. There is nothing like a fried potato cooked in bacon grease, and it makes the best cornbread ever.
Caligal!
Yes! Cornbread. I cook mine in a 10″ cast iron skillet. I rub the inside with bacon grease, put it in the oven til it is hot, then I pour my cornbread batter in it and cook. A little crusty and oh soo good!
TC, Robin
Bacon grease is so good to make fried potatoes. We have them like once a year… they are delicious, but you might as well mainline lard.
Once at a family reunion one of my husband’s cousins brought chocolate chip cookies… they were BEAUTIFUL!!!!! But, they tasted like barf… the reason? She had used BACON GREASE instead of shortening in the recipe. It was the most abominable thing you can imagine tasting when you think you are going to taste a good ol’ chocolate chip cookie. Oh, the humanity.
Sharon,
Folks that don’t know how to use bacon grease properly shouldn’t be allowed to render
That would gross me out too.
TC, Robin
Oh how I love you so, Gasmii! Watching the Moon Pie discussion turn to discussions of bacon grease, just reminds me of home (@Fancy I am also originally from Mobile, Alabama). While I don’t want to discuss Moon Pies ever again (I suspect June was referring to the chocolate covered ones and their somewhat star-like shape), I have to love a good discussion about the Southern staple that is bacon grease.
If you do not know how to cook with bacon grease, you simply should leave it to the professionals. Because bacon grease in chocolate chip cookies? That is just all kinds of wrong. Chocolate chip cookies is why God invented butter. You use shortening if you are in a pinch and don’t have any butter. But, why would you not have any butter if you bake cookies of any kind?
Anyway, I discovered that they play new episodes on Monday nights after they repeat the previous week’s “new” episode. I kept thinking the new episode is always Wednesday with a sneak preview of the next right after. So, I am writing up a recap of Monday night’s new episode and will see if they do show the newest one on Wednesday. That means a double dose of Honey Boo Boo this week.
But, I would really appreciate it if, you guys could help me clear up the confusion that is TLC’s programming schedule. I’m working from a crappy cable company and iTunes, so I have no idea what is going on with them.
PS- I have to agree that bacon grease is the key ingredient for the best cornbread, fried green tomatoes, and oven fried okra (which actually uses bacon and the grease that cooks out of it in the oven).
I used to hate it when my mom would cook eggs in bacon grease! I want my eggs to taste like eggs, not greasy baconish eggs. I was the only one in the family who felt that way. It’s ok for potatoes, but I generally don’t care for the greasyness. (yes, I was born in the south.) Bacon grease for chocolate chip cookies? Blasphemy!
Plath, the show airs Wednesdays 10 pm on TLC. On Monday, as well as any day it seems, they run “Extended versions” of the crap we saw already, just with more grossness.
Hope this helps.
its just be confirmed…………………”cue the drum rolling..” tlc has ordered more shows plus holiday shows!!!
that more honey boo boo child!!!! if you mail her a dollar you’ll make her holla…..mail her a 10 dollar and she’ll really holla!!!!
Stock up on your bacon and pork folks, there is a shortage coming next year.
I noticed that my very own curb store suddenly has a prominent display of Moon Pies. I swear they’ve never carried them before.
People fry with something other than bacon grease???
Oh, I am still angry angry angry at my mother for the infamous Skillet Fiasco of 2002. After my grandmother passed away, I inherited (or stole. Puh-tay-toe, Puh-tah-toe) her cast iron skillet. It was perfectly seasoned after decades of use.
And my mother boiled water in it for spaghetti one night when she was visiting. (Homemade sauce, not that that’s the important issue here). I think she was being a little passive-aggressive there myself; she was always a little jealous of how close my grandmother (her mother) and I were.
Absolutely completely RUINT it. RUINT, I say.
I have spent years frying rashers upon rashers of bacon in it, hoping to reachieve some of its former glory. We’re getting there.
@AliceCarroll #63–I kinda believe the Enquirer. At first I wrote Anna off as a sulky, pregnant teenager but maybe there’s something to this.
I am evil as can be… at the family reunion with the bacon grease/chocolate chip cookies, I took two of them over to my late brother in law Karl who did not have an inside voice and had just about as much self control as a gnat (he also had about 4 teeth, but I digress…)… Well, Karl took one bite and yelled out, “WHAT THE F*(%$??????? What is that taste???? Give me a dog’s @$$ to lick!!!”
Ahhh, yes… things just are not as much fun at family reunion since Karl has died.
“PlathAddict
“Oh how I love you so, Gasmii! Watching the Moon Pie discussion turn to discussions of bacon grease, just reminds me of home,”
You are responsible for that. Your articles, while funny as hell, are also Welcoming and folks tend to share things because you are so open.
Take care, Robin
Have all you bacon grease people had a cholestorol test lately? I can’t be righteous though I live in a country that loves fish and chips (fries). When I was young and wouldn’t eat my father would tell that when he was a child during WW2 he would take bread and dripping (the fat from the sunday roast meat) sandwiches to school. My grandmother and mother had a special metal container that the liquid fat was poured into. As it got cooler it became harder. My mother can’t understand why I don’t do that.
Don’t get moon pies or anything like it here but a gourmet treat is a deep fried mars bar. Although I have yet to find anyone who admits to eating one.
We had an eccentric neighbor when I was a kid. She had heard stories about prisoners of war starving because they wouldn’t eat the strange food served to them, so she decided her kids needed to get used to eating anything, just in case they were ever war prisoners. She made them *lard* sandwiches for lunch. Lard! I remember mom saying that after a bit, the kids started to like them. I don’t remember that woman at all, just that she had like 5 kids, and the lard sandwich story mom told me.
Y’all had best be savin’ ALL that bacon grease is all I have to say, ’cause on CNBC this morning they would not shut up about the bacon shortage that is gonna hit bacon lovers hard, and it’s just around the corner. Hard times ahead.
I LOVE THIS FAMILY! every one get off your high horses like pukey kris jenner! EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD farts, burps, pukes, pees, etc etc etc. this family just doesn’t hide it from anyone. so what’s the big deal!!! I’d rather watch a wonderful family like this that iis happy with what little they have than the horrible Kim’s and Kris’ that can’t get enough of everything! They are honest people and a very loving family. They are happy with themselves and that’s all that counts. I think they are great and enjoy every episode. So what if they’re not “beautiful” with their botox, dye jobs, waxings,, and on and on. They are a down to earth wonderful family that love one another and you can see how happy they are!!!!!
First – I gagged every ten minutes watching this episode. Second – I gagged every five minutes reading this recap. Third – I’m gagging now typing this.
(In my defense, I gag brushing my teeth – I have a very sensitive gag reflex. Poor Mr. Bitchy is a very unlucky man in some respects *sigh*).
Pregnancy and child birth are gross – no two ways about it. The good thing is that its temporary.
Bacon Grease – my jar is in my fridge on the door. Fried cabbage in bacon grease? TO. DIE. FOR.
Cranky move over here. No shortage of bacon. Bluepuppy is the resident computer finance nerd for a company that has piggeries. Their sows are producing lots of piglets. We eat bacon but I drain the fat and never cook with it. Everyone in our house is trying to keep our weight down. The dogs are getting fat from the bacon rind.