Fried Kool-Aid

I'm a little late with this one. Fried Kool-Aid was all the rage this summer. Despite it's popularity on the internet, our local fair did not have this for sale. I expected it to be everywhere, just like deep-fried Twinkies were a couple of years ago.

The name "Fried Kool-Aid" conjures up the thought of there being a pot of boiling oil and you throw in a package of Kool-Aid. Then something magical happens and it turns into the tasty treat of my dreams. Something I've never tasted before.

Not quite...

Most of the recipes we found on the web are basically the same. Here is one from friedkoolaidrecipe.com:

Kool-Aid Cookies:
1/2 c. butter
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. unsweetened any flavor Kool-Aid (grape, use 1 1/2 tsp.)
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. milk
1 beaten egg
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 c. flour
Cream butter, egg, and sugar; mix well. Then mix all ingredients and mix to first mixture. Place heaping teaspoon on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes.

ICING:
1 c. powdered sugar
1 tsp. soft butter
2 tbsp. milk
1/4 tsp. Kool-Aid powder
Mix powdered sugar with Kool-Aid powder with soft butter. Add milk and mix thoroughly, then spread on cool cookies.

We used cherry Kool-Aid. The picture of our experiment is posted above.

The result? .... They were OK. The recipe basically makes a doughnut that is ball shaped. The little bit of Kool-Aid in the product acts just as a light flavoring - nothing more.

So, Fried Kool-Aid is a bit of an over hype. Not really worth all the calories you ingest. But I support the GoofyFood community for trying.

October 21, 2011 The Apocalypse

UPDATE - Oct 22, 2011 - Sorry Harold - we are all still here. Better luck next time!

UPDATE - Oct 21, 2011 - It is morning, I am still awake, the good people I know are still here...

UPDATE - Nov 7, 2011 - I heard a report on the radio - Harold Camping admitted he made a mistake, and that he is now out of the predicting business.

Remember all the Hubbub on May 21, 2011, which was "Judgement Day"? Harold Camping from FamilyRadio.com predicted that the Judgement Day, or Rapture was a "spiritual rapture", whatever that is. I never did really understand the explanation.

October 21, 2011 is now supposed to the the actual end of the world. As of this writing, that is tomorrow.

But if you were not one of the chosen on May 21, 2011 - there is nothing you can do. At this point you are either chosen or doomed. The decision has been made on May 21. This is the reason the doom-sayers are no longer driving around and handing out pamphlets. No reason to, any conversions now are worthless (according to them).

Harold Camping has changed his story a bit, though. He now says that the end of the world will "probably" be October 21, 2011. Probably! Is he finally having doubt? Isn't this akin to Moses striking the rock twice?!? Whoops!

It will be interesting what FamilyRadio.com's response will be on October 22. I predict the response will be something like "Sorry for the mistake, but we've already spent the millions sent to us! We'll try to remember to wave from our new yacht!"

See the past ETR articles about this subject:

October 21 Apocalypse
Harold Camping and the Spiritual Rapture

You can still get a Jesus Action Figure. Pretty cool, but it won't do you any good if you did not pass judgement on May 21!

It's too late - but this action figure is still cool!

3 Things China Should Stop Doing ASAP

Not to pick on the Chinese - but ..... I'm going to pick on the Chinese. I know our Western society does a lot of sick things, but I keep hearing about these 3 very disturbing really unnecessary things. Why do they have to do such silly and evil things!

These things are so disgusting that I can not go into detail here. But you can look up the gory details yourself on the web and get involved in some movements against these practices.

Eating Monkey Brains

This is disgusting! While researching this topic on the web I found that most pictures and details of eating monkey brains are too disturbing for this blog. I can't go into the details - look it up yourself if you dare. It is still being done today! Amazing.

Bear Bile

Bottle of Bear Bile

Bear bile? Come on - disgusting! Wikipedia says bear bile is

a digestive juice produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder

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How to they obtain bear bile? That is the bad part. They have cruel farms with bears in small cages. They suck bile from their gall bladder ... I can't go into the details, they are too sick, the stuff of nightmares.

Note: Bear bile is not used to cure impotence.

Shark Fins

Shark fins - yum yum!

This is totally ridiculous. Shark fins are used for shark fin soup. This soup is considered a delicacy and can cost $80/bowl. What is bad about this is how the shark fins are obtained. The process is known as shark finning. Fishermen catch a shark, cut off it's fin, and throw it back into the water to die without the fin.

Millions of sharks die this ghastly death and it is decimating the shark population.

I hear the arguments for these practices to continue:

• Cures impotence
• It is traditional

My rebuttal this: 1 - The Chinese government had to institute the One Child Policy because they were making too many babies. I don't think they need to do these weird things for impotence. Anyway, if they do, aren't there pills for this? And, aren't there factories in China making cheap knock-offs of these pills that would be better than bear bile? 2 - As adults you need to sometimes cast off some of your society's traditions that don't make sense. Grow up!


Image sources:
http://www.squidoo.com/MONKEY-BRAIN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bear_bile_01.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shark_fins.jpg

David Walliams Swims 140 Miles of the Thames

British comedian David Walliams swam to Houses of Parliament from the source of the Thames river. 140 miles. He completed the swim for charity and raised more than £1 million.

As if swimming 140 miles was not enough, his main challenge was living though "Thames Tummy", which is the diarrhoea and vomiting caused from the famously unclean waters of the Thames river. A lot of the Thames pollution is from sewage. Yuck!

David is famous in England for his BBC comedy show "Little Britain" in which he plays a myriad of characters. He looks great in his swimming outfits, he is in great shape, obviously. But most people know him as his alter egos on "Little Britain". For instance, he plays the extremely conservative church lady who gets sick when confronted with today's "liberal" social norms. She doesn't just get sick - she uncontrollably projectile vomits on the naive "liberal" victims.

Yes, it is so gross it is funny...

I am sure that was thinking about the church lady while he was vomiting while swimming in the Thames. I wonder if this will change his future portrayal of the character?

"Little Britain" is available for instant play on netflix. Go to http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Little_Britain/70140407?trkid=2361637. Caution! Some of it is raunchy! The Brits like it that way.

You may wonder "Where is the source of the Thames?" It is called Thames Head, about one mile north of Kemble, near Circencester in Gloucestershire.

Thames head in 1850. Copyright © English Heritage.NMR

Houses of Parliament, where he swam to:

The Debt Movie Review

Rating: A
Note: This movie is rated R. Not for kids!

Saw the movie. Liked it.

This espionage thriller takes place in 1966 and 1997. There are lots of East Berlin reenactments which were pretty well done, gave the the feel that they actually filmed it in 1966 East Berlin. Good plot. I recommend it. It is one of those movies that transports you to another time and after the movie the first several seconds out of the theater into the real world are confusing.

Actress Helen Mirren does a really good job in this movie. She is very intense and has a really bad scar that makes you wince every time you see it on her face. Strange how they do not show her face scar on the movie poster.

Jessica Chastain (never heard of her before) plays Helen's character as a young woman. She is really gorgeous! At least until she got hit in the face with a broken piece of china, the source of the scar. Wince.

Jessica Chastain - without scar - whoa momma!

I kept thinking about the cut-turned-bad-scar on her face. She should have tried this:

Click on the image to reveal the power...

Face In Cutout Hole

You know those large billboards where you put your face through the hole into a scene and it is supposed to look funny or cute, but it never really works?

Well, someone sent me a picture that actually seems to be worth the effort. The picture to the left looks funny and cute. Is she really reading that book? It looks like she is! But I am not really convinced the beaver is reading his book.

If you have any "successful" billboard-scene-face-cutout pictures - send them to me and I'll post them.


Update: Someone sent me a cute cut-out picture! Finally harnessing the true power of the web. See below.

Pretty cute!

And another one! (Same model as in the first picture)

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Sort-of related?
This camera inserts your image into
A scene from the movie!
Click to order one!

1980's Dating Video Disasters

In the early 1980's video dating was all the rage. Remember there was no internet then. This video dating company went out of business, someone found the tapes, and made this collage.

Whatever happened to these guys? Ellen Degeneres tracked down 3 of them:

Big Phil is still a pretty good looking guy! Maurice really let himself go.

The women they dated could have used a date rating standard if they would have had their own Rate-A-Date pads:

Get a Rate-A-Date Pad

Or, if it is immediately apparent the date is bad, but you can tolerate the guy, get this notepad:

Get a - Why I Must Get Drunk With You - Pad