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Bubblicious + Bubblicious + Pig Feet
FOUND by Erin
in Hawaii
I recently moved into the apartment my university uses to house internship students. I found this while cleaning out the freezer.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
YUM-O!!!
As they say in that film....TOGA PARTY!!!!
Bubblicious and pigs feet: Cottonmouth and the munchies.
Not that I'd choose pigfoot for munchies but, hey, there's no accounting for taste, and the lovely pink color probably had some attraction.
It's either that scenario, or some tweeker was picking up a couple packs of gum to keep his jaw working while he dissected that pigfoot.
Actually, this person is working on a secret plan to combine those two things into THE GREATEST GUM EVER! (if you like pigs feet that is)
I just hope they manage to finish the formula and copy right it, before this find inspires someone else to try it.
p.s, I am reminded of a futurama episode I saw long ago, where they buy ham flavored gum...I wish I could remember what they called it.
p.p.s my anti spam answer is 420. is this a sign Found is run by potheads?
Fry: Hm, Spider, Hubble, Nitrogum... ooh, Big Pink! It's the only gum with the breath-freshening power of ham.
Bender: And it pinkens your teeth while you chew.
@Kuma
your memory for the show was much better then mine. thanks
and something tells me that if there were such a gum as Big Pink, the person that receipt belonged to would be chewing it right now.
pinkens your teeth. what could be better than that. I wonder if this person was trying to recreate the gum from futurama.
and monkey... you could be right, about the pothead aspect. who knows. who cares.
Of course they bought gum and pigs' feet. It's the traditional Yellow Pigs Day celebration.
Yeah, I always keep my grocery store receipts in the freezer, too. Burglars never think to look there.
How many feet do you get for $4.06? How much does a pig foot go for these days? Do you pay by the pound or just by the foot?
I was thinking the same thing pixi. I think it was more than one foot.
What do you actually do with pig's feet? I have seen them in stores, but never knew what people do with them.
@Pixi & Lawndude: ditto. However in Hawaii, pigsfeet might go for a premium. So maybe this is just a small serving.
you can't even get pigs feet around here any more. I think you'd buy them by the pound. There's a surprising amount of meat on one, tho you wouldnt catch me eating them. i guess you'd liken it to eating a chicken wing, but more disgusting, i think.
I much prefer Big League Chew, Big League Chew, and calves' brains.
@ Mona: YOU EAT THEM? Seriously?
gag
wow! pigs feet are only 4 bucks!!
Ham gum. What will they think of next?
Here's what I'm thinking.
Intelligent young Kentuckian realizes his life long dream of being accepted to college in Hawaii. He gets all the way to Hawaii and, Lo and Behold, Pigs feet in the KLA Super Store! A yummy little taste of home
@fooch, what a person does with their pigs feet in the privacy of their own home is no ones business but their own...
I use them in puppet shows I put on to entertain young children.
And ah wash mahself with a rag on uh stick.
I like to dip them in ink and put prints on my ceiling, a la Homer Simpson...*humming spider-pig, spider-pig*
round here, 4 bucks would buy a largish pack, split. they do *everything* with them- grill, bbq, pickle, whatever...but much, much more disturbing is the shrink-wrapped pig heads in the piggly-wiggly (yes, that is a real grocery store) ew. ew. ew. ew.
Maybe growing up in the South has made me immune to the hilarity of pigs feet...
I am kind of curious about the kind of bubblicious that was purchased. Did it match the feet?
@Monkey & Kuma: Pinkens! Ha!
omg, no i dont eat them. My husband used to, before he turned vegetarian. I can't even look at them.
Growing up in a rural area, I was constantly confronted with jars of pickled pigs feet upon entering the home of an older relative. I consider myself an adventerous eater, but I never got the nerve to try them. I think mostly older folks enjoy them.
The sales tax in Hilo, HI is less than half what it is where I live.
@Matt--The sales tax in HI is less than half what it is where I live, too! But, we also have no state income tax.
At the county fair this summer, we spent some time watching a pig auction, and also looking at a cute little newborn "litter." (Is that what you call a new bunch of baby pigs)? What I'm wondering is why anyone would want to eat feet that have spent the last few years in stinky poop and mud??
Pigs feet and bubble gum. How can you NOT "have a nice day" as the receipt says?
Truthfully, we've raised pigs, and when we have one butchered, I always ask to not have the feet packaged and returned to me. The poor little things would just lay in my freezer till I had to toss them away after so many years. I never knew what to do with them. Never thought about slathering them with buffalo sauce and eatin' 'em like wings, Mona, what a nifty idea... but I still think .. umm... no.
Well, the Finder specifies "internship students," which I take to mean "people well on their way to being doctors."
Once on an episode of ER, young Dr. John Carter was practicing his stitching (as in of wounds) on a pig's foot.
So maybe interns do that IRL.
But yeah, some people eat 'em. In our local grocery store (before I moved to the other side of the mountains) they also sold freakin' chickens' feet. Now WTF is THAT all about?
obviously:
the two packs of gum are to cleanse the palate between bites of pig feet and reduce the urge to hurl.
the pigs feet are the culmination of a bet made during the tail end of a long, drunken night in Des Moines. it went a little something like:
"how much money would it take for you to eat pig's feet?"
"like, right off the pig? or in a jar?"
"in a jar."
"pickled or unpickled?"
"either way. your choice."
"hmm. i'd do it for a round trip ticket to Hawaii, but i'm not eating the feet until i get there."
"deal."
First thought: Wow.. only 4.something sales tax!
Second thought: 4.1666.. the pigs feet were going to be used for some satanic ritual obviously. (watchout for those cloven hooves.)
I can't believe something as gross as pig's feet cost over 4 dollars.
Pig's feet 'n navy beans 'n cornbread = good eatin'
The gum was to keep the little'ns quiet 'til it was fixed.
When I got together with my (southern) cousins as a child we took great delight in calling their local market to ask if they had pig's feet. Of course we knew they would say yes, and we would respond (with tears of laughter rolling down our faces), "Well, put some shoes on and maybe no one will notice."
We were such cards!
Clearly the ham gum was inspired by the same creator of Nuts-n-Gum:
"I'm a white male, aged 18 to 49. Everyone listens to my ideas, no matter how dumb."
-- Homer Simpson, grabbing for Nuts-n-Gum.
Everyone's all grossed out by the pig feet, but what about the Bubblicious? You've heard they make that with spider eggs, right?
Seriously though, given a choice between the two, I think I'd take the pig feet. All of the sugar and artificial flavors of the gum is not appealing.
@Monkey: Your use of the word "potheads" is a slur at something that is beautiful, man, BEAUTIFUL! (I'm tearing up.)
There is no sales tax in Hawaii. It's an excise tax or something, not that I particularly understand the difference.
Where I come from, you buy pickled pigs feet in a jar. Which if you put it in the fridge will gel up. Back then they were poor person's/drunkard's food (they always had pickled pig parts in the cheap taverns, behind the bar with the hardboiled eggs)but I suppose now they're a "specialty product" meriting the $5 price tag.
What does the "F" stand for? They have francs in Hawaii as currency, maybe?
Or fins?
At least it's not tongue.
Pink Pigfeet Bubblegum. Tastes just like Easter ham.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING compliments an Easter ham meal like pork flavored bubblegum.
(You can achieve bigger bubbles that way too)
baby basil, I think F stands for Food. They sell pigs feet in the grocery store by the cow tongues and tripe. I think they come in a pack of six.
Jars of pickled pigs' feet in the grocery store, I have seen. What I'm unfamiliar with is the idea of un-pickled packs of six! That's not a natural number of feet, either.
(When I first saw a jar as a child, I reacted with "ew, gross!" My mother's response was "That's not as nasty as headcheese," which she then explained!)
@ Alan goes "pting" . . . that's the LAST thing you want: getting tongue from a pig!
I thought pig's feet were something akin to camel's toe.
You don't get tongue from a pig - you get tongue from a duck.
No wait - I think I got my jokes confused...
I guess our buyer is out $4.06 plus tax, seeing as how they don't have the tape receipt to return them when they find out just how disgusting pigs'feet are and think maybe they could just return them.
Stop that, Basil...now I have a stupid tongue-twister going round in my head: "Pickled pig parts, pickled pig parts, pickled pig parts..."
Alan, please come over and go "pting" in my head so I can change the stupid record!
orinoco - see you in 15 minutes - try to hold on!
pigs feet. tripe. headcheese. souse. liver-pudding. liver-mush. chitlins. kidney pie. spam. chicken paws. (our food lion, being the upscale choice, calls the chicken feet chicken paws, as if that would mask the horror!)
Blood Pudding.
@ John, I'm glad someone else shares my ridiculous sense of humour. I spent an entire holiday erupting into fits of the giggles after hearing someone in the butcher ask "do you keep dripping"
As to the find, I am seeing a weird sculpture of pigs feet held together with chewed up bubble gum, possibly forming a sort of globe shape, about 10 trotters sticking out from a massive sticky bubble gum core.
My mom was once trying to say "pig knuckles" but came out with "pig nickles" and "pug knuckles" before getting it right. She was trying to say her dad used to eat those. Wonder if pig knuckles are the same as pig feet? I've seen packages of trotters -- and yes, there were six -- in the meat case at the grocery, but that was a long time ago.
You really don't realize what horrors can be found back there until you actually work in a grocery store. I'll let you guys guess what "lamb boils" are. **shudder** They came is a package of three, just as unnatural as the six-pack of trotters mentioned above.
I come from a land where there's a Festival every year, during which everyone eats Rocky Mountain Oysters... http://tinyurl.com/6s5gjs
They actually CALL it the Testicle Festival. (and oh golly darn.. we just missed it.)
Pigs' feet don't really freak me out that much.
Did anyone else notice Google's little logo icon today?
I had to save it before it went away, never to be seen again.
http://tinyurl.com/653879
Why a pig? Why today? It sure fits!
My hubby eats chicken feet, YUCK! And, FARMER, you are so freakin' funny!!
Great posts today everyone!
When I was a kid, they almost always had calf heads (with eyeballs)in the meat case or our neighborhood grocery store.
what the hell are lamb boils?
Lamb boils are testicles.
@ Chrome Toaster, I think this is the Chinese Year of the Pig, hence the pig doing Olympic things.
oh yuck! the last thing i would spend $5 on for sure. maybe a pack of big red and sweet potato chips as munchie food.
Bonnie Sue, I thought so at first, too.. but a couple weeks ago I got a Tsing Tao tee shirt that proclaims this to be the Year of the Rat, and it is, indeed, until Feb of 2009. (however it WAS the year of the Pig until Feb 2008.)
I guess no one thought that a RAT doing Olympic things would be nearly as cute as a pig?
I've seen whole, skinned baby goats at Halal markets. (heads and eyes still included.)
And this all reminds me of the other day when we were all singing: come on, everyone, join in! You know the words:
I took a fish head
out to see a movie
didn't have to pay to
get it in...
..."Rolypoly fishheads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with oriental women!
(pig's feet aren't kosher, but certain heads of fish are..)
Chrome toaster, perhaps Google's Cute Icon Designer was under the same misconception I was?
It's too bad since a rat doing High Bar exercises with its tail would be cute.
If you're going to BBQ pig's feet, make sure to boil them first...they are tough! And full of gelatine. Where I live people pressure-cook the bejaysus out of them (about 30-40 min) and then add beans and rice and spices.
There really isn't enough picking on them to bother, though.
Grape & Watermelon Bubblicious... a must have to kill the taste pig's feet!
I don't know HOW I could've forgotten Chris Rock's joke about pig's feet. "Gimme the one with the nail in it..." HA!
About Google --
I think they're doing the Chinese zodiac because today's logo has a dragon playing basketball with a rat.
(Guess who has the advantage?) Very cute, though.
AHA! I was just coming back here to make the same observation, Intimidator! Now it aaaaal makes sense. (I'm still ticked that the day the pigs feet were on Found the pig was on Google. I love those random coincidences.)
In Ireland they're known as "pig's trotters." Does that make them better, or worse, eating-wise?
I came back to see what I'd missed while on vacation. This was gross and interesting.
I've had pig feet but they were gummy candy like gummy worms only shaped like pig feet.