Julio on 11/25/2010 5:36 pm

As long as they don't create a broccoli flavored gumball then I think the world will be in perfect harmony.

I might order a pizza tonight.

SunnyD (Guest) on 11/25/2010 7:04 pm

tomato soup gumball! blueberry pie gumball! sweet roasted ham perhaps?

Frostor (Guest) on 11/25/2010 9:18 pm

I ended up getting stuck going to a restaurant that none of my family had ever been to due to our preferred choice having been booked up in advance. I expected it to be awful, and it was.

I'm a vegetarian, and so Thanksgiving in general isn't really catered to my tastes, but this was below average even considering that. My "entree" consisted of slightly cold mashed potatoes and squash. Even the carnivores weren't impressed with the $40-a head offerings.

kentucky_fried_negger on 11/25/2010 10:22 pm

Dude I don't eat pigs, first off, is it even good to even eat a pink skinned over weight animal that enjoys playing in the mud?And second,They just smell horribly bad when once use to make those "oink" sound,so don't gouge on them when they're are dead cause they still smell like a donkey anus once your done cooking them.

stevetothepast on 11/25/2010 10:23 pm

Thanksgiving gumballs - God Bless America.

HowardC on 11/26/2010 6:57 am

Note to Vegetarians:

I fully support your alternative lifestyle, no matter how insaine it may be. But perhaps, just perhaps you aren't the best people to comment about a holiday that has it's origins as a harvest festival. You know, a harvest festival, a meal that literally consists of large amounts of meat and potatoes?

If you don't like meat then you might as well skip thanksgiving because the alternative (no meat and/or meat substitutes) is just horrible.

Popcornmonster on 11/26/2010 12:13 pm

I saw these gumballs at the store last week and was tempted to pick them up, but the tin was $5 (or there abouts) so I opted out. Ended up with fizzing bacon drink tablets instead.

ColdFusion (Guest) on 11/26/2010 2:14 pm

The problem, I think, is that for sweet things, you can add sugar.. now sugar isn't very flavor-efficient (that's why we can't have those delicious soda-fizzing tablets anymore, because they had to use artificial sweetener, sugar would make them the size of a hockey puck), but it's okay. It does an alright job... but SAVORY flavors rely on stuff you would have a really really difficult time condensing into a powder to coat some latex with and call it a gumball.. plus most of it's really perishable. AT best you could make a kind of a salty candy.. but then it might as well be a cracker.

Danny 4 Eyes on 11/26/2010 3:52 pm

Now this is a distinctive disadvantage to living in England, no one would dare make anything this crazy. I doff my cap to my American Cousins for pushing the candy envolope. When I eventually go over for a holiday, am just gonna gorge myself stupid.

Frostor (Guest) on 11/26/2010 7:38 pm

HowardC: Whether you support the lifestyle or not, I object to you characterizing vegetarianism as insane, and we can comment on things traditionally associated with the consumption of meat if we wish. I do not like Thanksgiving in general, and I would gladly have skipped it were it not for family obligations.

It's not too much to ask for a decent vegetarian meal though as part of the deal, though. It can and has been done many times by good restaurants and considerate relatives, with and without meat substitutes (which are really much better and closer to the real thing than most people are aware, seeing as how nearly every person who I've explained this to refuses to even try a meat analogue, though quality does vary by brand).

Rant over. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Shadowdancer21b on 11/26/2010 7:40 pm

Invited my parents over and had an alright time.

Ronin S on 11/26/2010 8:55 pm

I'm in Canada, so we already celebrated Thanksgiving a month ago. My family seems to have a bizarre grudge against turkey. They hate cooking it and I have to needle them to put a decent stuffing inside.

Moving on to the weird flavor thing, it's amazing how many flavors scientists can stimulate these days. I'm guessing they worked with the guys at jelly belly, who came up with the Bertie Bot's every flavor beans. I was mystified at first how they came up with stuff like sardines, grass, ear wax and vomit. But I actually tasted the grass one and it was dead on. Didn't dare taste the others though.

GrindhouseCinema on 11/27/2010 3:08 pm

I must have me some of these! Those containers are simply outstanding. I'm sort of surprised there isn't a Candy Corn flavored gumball for Halloween time.

Shadowdancer21b on 11/27/2010 4:17 pm

I blame the bacon internet meme for the existence of these gumballs. America has bacon-flavored everything just like Japan has green tea flavored everything.

HowardC on 11/27/2010 8:16 pm

In response to: Frostor (Guest)

When I said "no matter how insaine it may be" that was obviously a joke. I guess vegans can't laugh about themselves.

But if we want to go down that road it certainly is a questionable (health-wise) and unnatural practice. The only proof you need is to look inside your own mouth. You'll find a few pointy things in there, those are called canines. We are genetically designed to eat meat (as well as anything else judging by our omnivore dental pattern). That isn't to say that one can't survive without meat, but I suppose someone can survive only on vitamin supplements and a ready supply of fat, I just wouldn't reccomend either.

That isn't to say a meat only diet is healthy either, far from it, but there's really no evidence to support that not eating meat is any healthier. Much of that has to do with the fact that science has yet to find a human being on this planet that is healthy and has never consumed meat. That has less to do about the vegan lifestyle and more to do with the fact that everybody eats meat. Current vegetarins ate meat when they were little (when diet is more crucial and will probably do so again).

I guess what I'm saying is don't burn too many bridges, you'll come back to us eventually. ;)

There's nothing morally wrong with eating meat, it's perfectly natural... every species on the planet with the proper dental pattern does so (including us). And there's nothing unhealthy about it either, meat is part of a balanced diet.

So unless you have some sort of rare meat allergy (and if you do I sincerely apologize) there's absolutly no reason for you to not to partake in meat other than you just don't want to. That's fine, but let's not pretend that it's anything more than that.

With that being said, you said so yourself thanksgiving is catered towards vegetarians. So my point is do you really have any right to complain? Isn't that like an atheist complaining about the portrayal of Jesus in a film, or a fat man complaining about the size of an airline seat when he's clearly 4 times the size of an average adult (sorry Silent Bob).

Again, I'm all for it if you want to experiment with veganism, it's your right, I just took a bit of offense that those who don't eat meat constantly want special consideration and complain when they don't get it.

I have some severe food allergies but I don't complain when somebody or some resturant doesn't offer something that meets my dietary needs. I just eat somewhere else. ;)

Dsinder on 11/27/2010 10:25 pm

Pretty cool if only for the neat collectors tins they come in. A buttered sweetcorn or cheese flavor might be tasty tho...

caffman on 11/28/2010 7:36 am

wow a political debate at imockery. I feel like a Kennedy

caffman on 11/28/2010 7:37 am

Oh and we have to wait till Christmas for our turkey. But we get to blow shit up on bonfire night so it all equals out

-RoG- on 11/28/2010 2:34 pm

Haha seriously, how did this discussion about Gumballs turn into some carnivore vs. herbivore debate? Oh right... HowardC trolling.

We're talking about gumballs here. Gumballs gone horribly wrong. Gobble, gobble.

Julio on 11/28/2010 5:41 pm

-RoG- I actually support HowardC on this one, because he is giving an opinion without making the matter a personal affair.

I still believe that broccoli flavored gumballs would be the most awful atrocity ever created by humankind.

Delicious Salad on 11/29/2010 10:31 pm

The future is here...finally.

NBRI (Guest) on 08/12/2011 2:20 pm

First it was bacon candles, now it is roast beef chewing gum...what is next?:)

Karen (Guest) on 09/09/2011 5:29 pm

Nice reference to a staple Thanksgiving TV treat in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Don't forget Home Alone too. Barf! Sorry!