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3 entries this month
So I Tried to Eat the Thing...
20:56 Apr 23 2017
Times Read: 193
I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking, but I did actually attempt to eat the burger that was composed of funnel cakes, caramel sauce, carmelized bacon and a deep fried mars bar topped with a soft serve ice cream cone. Honestly, it wasn't so bad if you fished the hamburger patty out of the whole mess and ate that separately. Trying to eat it all together as a single item was nauseating, and not a single one of us managed to entirely finish the monstrosity.
Sadly, I really liked the bacon even when it was soaked in caramel sauce - however my stomach did not find this to be a delicious creation. Thankfully I preemptively bought ginger ale because I figured it wasn't going to be rough on me.
I think my ability to stomach pretty much anything has started to wane in the past few years. There was a time when I was running a classroom racket, getting other kids to pay me to eat odd combinations of things. Made some good lunch money back then. Pickles and peanut butter, various odd things dunked in pudding...I think the only thing that set me off then was the chocolate melted into ravioli. Would not recommend.
Anyway, this "burger" really was an atrocity and I really don't think it will ever win the competition. So at least I will never have to see this terrible creation ever again. Thankfully, I don't think we'll ever have to tell the future chefs again that deep fried mars bars are not a good hamburger topping.
One thing that's really weird in this whole competition is that I'm not actually sure that any entry contains seafood. This is an island, why is no one mixing hamburger and seafood up? There are multiple entries mixing hamburger and chicken, or hamburger and ribs. Boston Pizza is featuring a burger topped with cactus cut potatoes for their entry. So why am I not seeing mussels, or a lobster burger here? Am I missing it?
Is there just hidden seafood in this competition somewhere?
*Shrugs* All I know is that I no longer trust Frosty Treat with hamburgers. I know your entry was to troll us all, but seriously...never again, guys.
Re: Invader Zim
01:40 Apr 06 2017
Times Read: 214
There is some talk of Invader Zim getting some more time in the spotlight here soon, and I'm not actually sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I really did enjoy the series. There was so much going on in each episode, and from any angle I looked at it, it was a great show. I liked the characters. I liked the social satire. I liked the setting, the pacing of the episodes. Hell, I loved the all-around insanity.
Invader Zim, in it's time, was competing in the market with shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, Spongebob Squarepants, and South Park. It had it's own charms to it, appealed to both a younger and older audience and was simply enjoyable.
My worry here is that cartoons have shifted. While many of it's prior competitors are still up and running new episodes, we now have the entrance of shows such as Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Archer, and a slew of other slapstick, offhand comedy. I worry that they will shift focus and try to out do these shows. And I worry that they will lose a lot of the charm the show has.
There was an odd charm to the way they presented the world in Invader Zim. Something perhaps I really felt mimicked my own view of the world at the time I was watching it. It was dark, unnatural, mindless, almost surreal, and unapologetically so. The way they presented society just seemed so apt.
So I have a lot of hope for Invader Zim in the future, however I need to be pretty cautious in my optimism. Certainly, I will make every attempt to watch it, but I'm not about to hold my breath that they preserve the world of Zim for me. Hope I shall.
Dib: Don't you care that Zim is trying to destroy all mankind?
Gaz: But he's so bad at it.
Burger Love
14:39 Apr 05 2017
Times Read: 224
So, here in my province, we have this thing called Burger Love, which is happening all this month. So I have this giant road-map style pamphlet of all the burgers being offered here. There are 84 entries into this contest. 84 hamburgers, most of which I will not be able to try due to the lack of finances for such thing. So what happens is, every year, a pile of restaurants make up a burger that must be sourced from local beef. They make the most outlandish, creative and potentially delicious thing they can think of. Then judges go around trying all their burgers and declaring a winner (I believe people may also vote for their favorite), who is required to keep that burger on their menu. I’m not certain how long it must stay on the menu, but it may be a permanent arrangement.
Why am I talking about this? Mostly because I’m hungry and I like hamburgers. Though it’s also because I’m out of ideas on what to write about. Or perhaps the better way to word it is that I have a long list of things I would love to write, however I am just mentally stalling.
Anyway, so one of the contestants just slapped a little rack of ribs on their burger. Another has decided to top their burger with a pork slider. A number have included coleslaw as a topping. I’m not certain, but I think someone strapped a deep fried pickle to their burger, and another decided on mozza sticks. These are the less interesting submissions. At least one restaurant has entirely done away with the bun idea, and decided to put the beef patty between two funnel cakes with a deep fried mars bar and slap an ice cream cone on top of that whole mess. Yet another is using pickled apples and black forest ham as a burger topping.
This contest is great. I am definitely one of those people who will try pretty much anything. I don’t guarantee I’m going to finish it, but I will at least give it a good go. If you’re bored, go google Burger Love and see some of the craziness I’ll be trying to get in on in the next month. Marvel at all the terrible and wonderful things that can be done to a hamburger.
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