*come on guys… lets come up with a detailed list of items in a “man-salad”
bacon-flavored bacon bits on bacon strips (with a hint of bacon)
beer….
pizza….
nachos…..*
I might even settle for the 1970s Cracker Jacks “prizes” that were more than stupid little bits of paper. I think I might still have the little plastic triple-image lens from a box of yore. Might not sound like much now, but it was a neat little ‘special effect’ that didn’t require digital video editing to pull off.
Odd, but I am actually a bit surprised I have NOT seen “baconated” cigarettes. I don’t smoke, but used to work at a so-called convenience store and thus became far too familiar with cigarette brands and designations.
Trail Mix…otherwise known as M&M’s with obstacles.
Not original, I know, but still true.
P.S. To all trail mixers…please 86 the raisins. They’re only good for one thing, and one thing only…oatmeal cookies.
I am going to disagree intensely. I like raisins in lots of things, but oatmeal cookies exist only to disappoint people who are expecting chocolate chip cookies.
Oatmeal cookies and “good” should never be in the same sentence.
Also, raisins should have remained the grapes they were meant to be, instead of shriveled up sour little…rat turds.
I’m going to be the unpopular one here and suggest that trail mix is fine the way it is.
The trick is, you don’t eat it a bit at a time, you eat it one giant handful of protein, chocolate, and weird squishy things. Individually, they’re only OK; combined, they are a sweet-and-salty heaven in the mouth.
Oatmeal raisin cookies, otoh, are an ABOMINATION UNTO NUGGAN. Especially since I recently discovered that oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies exist.
Personally, I’m starting to feel like the guys-are-unhealthy-slobs angle is getting a little tired — the punchline here was kinda just “Health food? It must have been women!”, which is kinda… meh.
I don’t know that I’d call it explicitly sexist, but it does take advantage of “men are acceptable targets”. Maybe I’m being touchy, but I’ve liked other strips better.
Quadrafecta, since he’s also implicitly conflating trans and gay.
Also, trail mix is fine if you eat it on the trail and you’re sweating like a pig and the M&Ms are half-melted. The salt alone will make the stuff a perfect compliment to fresh water.
Costco is American, I assume? I’m in New Zealand, we don’t have them. But to be fair, we treat tramping as a free excuse to eat vast quantities of chocolate, so it evens out.
I kinda agree actually. Sure, the sweet trail mixes are all right but the one I’d go for is something spicy, like… I dunno, assorted tiny spicy crackers?
I should try making that, but with a few substitutes (namely, the pizza crusts for Slim Jims, the Ding-Dongs for cured bacon, and the cigarettes for reefers. But not for me.) Male Mix, I’d call it.
Also, the closest thing we’d have to vegan is offering triple fried TURKEY bacon rather than triple fried bacon.
i can see it being made by guys as a torture test or something you would eat as a dare.
come on guys… lets come up with a detailed list of items in a “man-salad”
bacon-flavored bits on bacon strips (with a hint of bacon)
beer….
pizza….
nachos…..
*come on guys… lets come up with a detailed list of items in a “man-salad”
bacon-flavored bacon bits on bacon strips (with a hint of bacon)
beer….
pizza….
nachos…..*
+steak
peanuts
goldfish
m&m’s
candied bacon
dried pineapple
It already exists. It’s called a “taco salad”. Ground beef, nacho cheese, sour cream, salsa, refried beans, hot sauce, all put in a deep-fried bowl.
Now I’m hungry, Ian.
There needs to be a useful prize at the bottom, like a torx bit size 2 or maybe a perfectly shaped stone for stone skipping.
I might even settle for the 1970s Cracker Jacks “prizes” that were more than stupid little bits of paper. I think I might still have the little plastic triple-image lens from a box of yore. Might not sound like much now, but it was a neat little ‘special effect’ that didn’t require digital video editing to pull off.
Odd, but I am actually a bit surprised I have NOT seen “baconated” cigarettes. I don’t smoke, but used to work at a so-called convenience store and thus became far too familiar with cigarette brands and designations.
It’s pretty logical, might as well go all in!
Or scotch. I know people who dip their cigars into scotch, anyway.
Interesting. I’d heard that the pairing was a ‘fine cigar’ with a good brandy.
“Would you like a smoke and a pancake?”
Trail Mix…otherwise known as M&M’s with obstacles.
Not original, I know, but still true.
P.S. To all trail mixers…please 86 the raisins. They’re only good for one thing, and one thing only…oatmeal cookies.
The only other thing the raisins are good for is making the nuts kinda of chewy and not crunchy, ick!
I am going to disagree intensely. I like raisins in lots of things, but oatmeal cookies exist only to disappoint people who are expecting chocolate chip cookies.
^^THIS!^^ Oatmeal raisin cookies are the only cookies I can’t even fake being excited about.
Oatmeal cookies and “good” should never be in the same sentence.
Also, raisins should have remained the grapes they were meant to be, instead of shriveled up sour little…rat turds.
I’m going to be the unpopular one here and suggest that trail mix is fine the way it is.
The trick is, you don’t eat it a bit at a time, you eat it one giant handful of protein, chocolate, and weird squishy things. Individually, they’re only OK; combined, they are a sweet-and-salty heaven in the mouth.
Oatmeal raisin cookies, otoh, are an ABOMINATION UNTO NUGGAN. Especially since I recently discovered that oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies exist.
I Love the title, Adam!
Thanks
Personally, I’m starting to feel like the guys-are-unhealthy-slobs angle is getting a little tired — the punchline here was kinda just “Health food? It must have been women!”, which is kinda… meh.
I don’t know that I’d call it explicitly sexist, but it does take advantage of “men are acceptable targets”. Maybe I’m being touchy, but I’ve liked other strips better.
You’re not the only who thought it.
I don’t know that “Not Enough M&Ms” counts as health food. I wouldn’t mind the pizza crusts and Ding Dongs, but no meat in mine, thanks.
Yeah, not alone, mostly with the whole “only women are vegetarian / vegan” thing, as it slams like a billion people….
not all women are vegans, but all vegans are women. Even the male vegans.
Huh, you even got to add in some sexism AND homophobia. Trifecta!
Quadrafecta, since he’s also implicitly conflating trans and gay.
Also, trail mix is fine if you eat it on the trail and you’re sweating like a pig and the M&Ms are half-melted. The salt alone will make the stuff a perfect compliment to fresh water.
That’s one meaty trail.
…trail mix has M&Ms? Where I’m from, it’s purely composed of fruit and nuts. I suddenly feel like I’ve been cheated for my whole life.
If you find a Costco you will probably find the M&M variety… Or you could just mix up some yourself. Crasins + m&ms + peanuts + cashews + almonds.
Costco is American, I assume? I’m in New Zealand, we don’t have them. But to be fair, we treat tramping as a free excuse to eat vast quantities of chocolate, so it evens out.
I kinda agree actually. Sure, the sweet trail mixes are all right but the one I’d go for is something spicy, like… I dunno, assorted tiny spicy crackers?
That’s called chex mix
I should try making that, but with a few substitutes (namely, the pizza crusts for Slim Jims, the Ding-Dongs for cured bacon, and the cigarettes for reefers. But not for me.) Male Mix, I’d call it.
Also, the closest thing we’d have to vegan is offering triple fried TURKEY bacon rather than triple fried bacon.