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06/23/2007: Summer Megaparty: The McDonald's Hulaburger!

Ray Kroc sounds like the name of a professional wrestler in a snakeskin singlet, but he's actually the guy who bought the McDonald's franchise for three bucks and a pack a gum, quickly transforming it into the megapower it is today. Kroc was an amazing personality — a capitalist and an opportunist in every way, but also an artist who truly loved everything he exploited.

Still, every hamburger hero has his tragic flaw, and in Ray Kroc's case, it was the "Hulaburger."

See, Catholics weren't supposed to eat meat on Fridays, but Ray didn't want that to mean that Catholics wouldn't eat at McDonald's on Fridays. If the Catholics couldn't have hamburgers, what could they have? The simple answer is "fish," but Ray was anything but simple. He didn't want to serve fish. He wanted to serve pineapples.

Yes, the Hulaburger replaced meat with slices of pineapple, and as you might imagine, the sandwich flopped. Arriving and exiting in the '50s, the Hulaburger has lived on in every article penned by someone who wanted to make Ray Kroc look like a dummy.

But was he really a dummy? Pineapple burgers, especially when you think of burgers in McDonald's terms, really don't sound that bad. Maybe Ray wasn't insane. Maybe he just overlooked the fact that people who couldn't eat meat generally went to places other than restaurant chains that sold nothing but meat.

I was determined to know if the Hulaburger was actively bad, or maybe just misplaced. There was only one way to find out.

I had to make a Hulaburger.

The official recipe for the Hulaburger has never been disclosed, but even without any photographic evidence to serve as my guide, I think I can handle "replace meat with pineapple" without too many errors.

Through various articles online, I've gathered that the pineapple was grilled in butter to help make it an easier sell as a meat-replacement. So, I sliced some fresh pineapple, greased a pan and sung "Mele Kalikimaka" to my cats as it cooked.

While the pineapples browned, I had the ungodly task of trying to separate the meat in a McDonald's cheeseburger from the cheese. The cats, who were such a wonderful audience during my impromptu concert moments earlier, each received scraps of torn hamburger and I prepped for the next step of Hulaburger creation.

After slipping the pineapple into the bun, I realized that I likely sliced it a little too thick. Would've restarted the process with a thinner pineapple patty, but I was rapidly losing interest.

Upon the first bite, I can't say that it was either horrible or very good. Thing about it is, even when you take out the meat, McDonald's cheeseburgers still taste exactly like McDonald's cheeseburgers. So it was basically like eating a McDonald's cheeseburger and pineapples at the same time. Slightly wrong, but somehow, slightly right.

The Hulaburger made much more sense in the '50s than it does today, thanks to the nationwide Polynesian fad that saw Americans regurgitate a foreign culture in the form of raffia table skirts and coconut bras. Pineapple burgers fit right into that mentality. Today, it's a little harder to look at the photo below and call it "chic."

I can barely make popcorn without doing something wrong, so my presentation of the Hulaburger really shouldn't be the barometer. I can kind of see what Ray Kroc was going for, but maybe that's just because I get giddy thinking about my drunk ancestors stumbling into McDonald's to order "one a dem Hulaburgers."

Shit, is today Saturday? I made these last night. That means I spent Friday night dissecting McDonald's cheeseburgers and refitting them with pineapple slices. HELLO ladies!

Eww. Although I bet you could make a badass hamburger with pineapple on it, you'd still want meat, I think.

Super job, Matt. Over the past couple of years I think I have memorized your bite radius. If you ever assault someone, try not to bite them. Too much evidence.

Man, that just looks nasty. Of course I can't stand cooked pineapple at all. Red Robin has a burger with pineapple on top of it and that's just…eew.
I have heard of the Hula Burger though, and now that I've seen one, I'm glad they just went for the delicious Filet o'Fish instead.

At first I thought it sounded nasty, but then I remembered that pineapple pizza has bread, tomatoes and cheese and it's not too bad…

Man, I love pineapples and have been known to succumb to the craving of a McDonald's chee, but that's pretty grody. Ew, I just remembered there's pickles on there! And mustard

I alway enjoy seeing the influx of fishy type sandwiches that pop up around February. Not that I would ever eat one.
Happy Saturday everybody! (PS to fellow The Office fans: isn't the hula gal up there a dead ringer for Kelly Customer Service Kapoor? Just me?)

Woo, finally, a hulaburger. I can see why the Filet-O-Fish came along (which I like).

I just got back from my gf's sorority car wash. Yes, good as it sounds…but mainly as a way to get my car cleaned for cheap. I haven't been in a real car wash in…today's the 23rd…more than a year ago.

wow, how sad is this? I'm watching old 1970's Kung Fu movies on Telemundo. Spanish voice over Chinese movies are the only choice I have. It's like wearing your shoes on the wrong feet. It's might be close but it could not be more wrong.

Ray Kroc also sounds like he could've been Batman villian Killer Croc's alter ego. i'll bet it would have beeen better if you didn't use the McDonald's bought cheeseburger as your base. Freshly prepared I'll bet it would be pretty good (minus the onion cuz i think it would ruin the pineapple taste). Pineapples are good on pizza so they should be good as part of a "stripped down" cheeseburger in my opinion.

Yeah, a burger with pineapple plus the typical beef patty doesn't sound too bad. Don't quite know if I'd want it myself. This post has still made me hungry though…

Perhaps they could've served fish with pineapple. And for Catholics on other days of the week as well as non-Catholics, perhaps the Hulaburger could make a comeback in the form of a pork McRib with pineapple (since of course pork is standard fare at a luau). Or maybe they could play it safe for Jews, Muslims, and Hindus too and serve mutton like Mickey Dee's does in India.

That said, heh, IMVHO I think fundamentalist Catholics wouldn't have had too much of a problem eating McDonald's standard burgers on Fridays, if you know what I mean. I personally don't think of McD's as food so much as "food".

Pineapples are fucking delicious, especially mashed up in some cottage cheese. I'd probably eat a burger with a big fried hunk of pineapple inside.

My cat was bugging me to wake up too early so she kept meowing and getting all up in my grill and eventually just settled on sleeping on top of my hand.

Wow, that looks horrible and tempting all at the same time. Typically I love pineapple, and I can stomach a McDonald's burger from time-to-time, but could I choke down one of these?

MMM…fried pineapple burger…delicious. I've had the Red Robin chicken teryaki pineapple burger sandwich thing and it is very yum. Also pineapple and canadian bacon are my favorite toppings for pizza, and sometimes I throw onions on there too. I love pineapple, especially fresh, raw or cooked it doesn't matter. I'm also one of those people who like to mix salty and sweet things together, so that burger sounds just right in my opinion. Carl's Jr., my favorite fast food place, has just come out with a burger + pineapple that I want so bad, but haven't tried yet. Maybe I can convince my sister-in-law to stop and get me one on the way back. God now I'm very hungry!

I love Hawaiian Pizza which has pineapple, canadian bacon, regular bacon, and red onion. DELICIOUS!

in a burger related story…
Picked up a bag of the "mystery flavor" Doritos X-13D and came to the conclusion that Frito-Lay figured out a way to powderize a hamburger with ketchup and mustard and sprinkle it on corn chips. Anyone else taste these?

As I sit here reading this thread, it occurs to me that I've eaten pineapple maybe once or twice in my life. I have no recollection as to whether I enjoyed it or not. The Hulaburger is tempting, but that could just be because I haven't had lunch yet.

For all you west-coast people, Carls Jr. has a new "Teriyaki Burger" that comes with a big Dole pineapple slice and sounds the same as the hula burger only with teriyaki sauce as well. Haven' tried it yet as it is one of those very large Carls Jr. burgers and i dont have the apetite.

I don't know. Pineapple's not my favorite, but it can be okay. I like Hawian Pizza, and I think I might try that burger at Red Robin, but if the Hula burger was just a cheese burger replacing pineapple for the meat?… Yuck.

Cheese, ketchup, mustard and pineapple? Gross. Are you sure there wasn't some other kind of combo with the pineapple?

This reminds me of eating fresh Pineapple at McDonalds in Hawaii. Only time I have eaten Pineapple and liked it, actually….

Happy SNT; be back later to help drink the leftover mixed drinks and clean up a bit

Makes me want to lightly toast a bagel, slap some cream cheese on it, put a cooked pinapple ring on that , and top it with the other bagel half. Then eat it while watching a old Kung-Fu movie.

Pineapples actually aren't all that bad on a pizza — too much is no good, which is why Hawaiian pizza could get a bit tiresome, but one a burger bun? I think I'll stick with a Big Mac.

For some reason I just pictured an 80's comedy movie style montage of us X-E addicts preparing a SNT Megaparty luau style. I could be the nerd checkin out a babe while painting and end up painting on the person next to me because I'm too busy not paying attention to the task at hand. At some point we would have to have a robot buddy help out but turn out to ruin everything. Robots showed up frequently in movies they didn't star in back in the 80's and at the most random times…I'm suprised the robot helper in the Rocky series survived into the 90's.

Carl's Jr. is Hardees on the east coast. I learned that the other night. I can do w/o a terriyaki burger, thank you. Though, I do love Terriyaki beef jerky, so maybe I will try it.

Too bad they didn't have soy burgers back in the 50's, they could have just used those. Wait, did they have them in the 50's? I wish my McDonald's still had soy burgers. They remind me of school food. I LOVE school food. I'm crazy, I know.

I WILL BRING THE SMASH MOUTH ALBUMS, phunq!!!!! There was a time when all I wanted was for the world to be one big Tiki-themed pool party. I still want that…in the quiet moments

I honestly don't know if I would be brave enough to taste a Hulaburger (mustard, ketchup, pickle, onions and pineapple ???). I've heard Hawaiians like Spam so maybe instead of no hamburger on it you could put Spam on it with the pineapple. Hmm…. 'cuz Spam isn't really a meat :0.
**No offense to all those Spam lovin' people out there. HAHA!**

I absolutely love tiki torches, tiki candles or whatever has a flame outside in a torch-wanna-be container. A few cold brews, a great chair and those flames. That's livin'!
Wandered around the Polynesian while at Disney last week. Wish I could afford such a place. I forgot to check out their food court area. Do they have one? or is it just sit down service? Food good or bad? Maybe it doesn't matter after some of those tiki-drinks!

hula burger…..sounds horendous, and would likely only funnel money to Kenny Rodger's Dole pinnapple slave plantation island if it existed today. 7-11 nachos still rule

And Phunqsauce, where did you find the X-13D Doritos? I've been looking everywhere for them, I'm starting to think they don't sell 'em here in Southern Michigan. Was it a big bag or a little one?

Gweff:
hey man, nope you're not the only one, and neither am I, there's at least 3 more dudes that i i know of from st. johns and the surronding erea that read the site religiously, not sure if they post on the blog though, we should have a newfoundland x-e summer bbq!!

Big McLargehuge - I found them at my local Giant Eagle supermarket and they were in a big bag. I live in northeast Ohio so I'm technically regionally close to you so I'm not sure why they wouldn't sell them in your neck of the woods…then again I don't make their business decisions. Just imagine you could be eating doritos that taste (to me anyways) like wendy's hamburgers!

Matt - I tried emailing you a couple of days ago. I have some old commercials I was going to send your way.

Thanks Phunq. I don't think we have any Giant Eagles around here. I tried Polly's Country Market (local chain I believe), Meijers, and a few convenience stores, but no love…

Meijer doesn't carry it?????? I find that fucking AMAZING! that store has EVERYTHING!

Blech! Looks awful! If you can choke down a homemade hulaburger, you can throw down some shots of Creamy Cucumber. C'mon! For your fans!

Well, my plans for the evening began to rearrange themselves so I decided to cancel completely and not go anywhere at all. Guess tonights a good night for an X-E party after all.

I'll eat anything on pizza but anchovies and olives, so Hulaburgers don't sound too repulsive to me. As someone who is on a diet (and hates MickeyD's anyway), maybe I'll try my own version, with real cheese instead of nuclear and no ketchup or pickles.

That sounds intriguing. I am putting it on my "if i ever get a chance to use or own a time machine this is what I am going to do" lists. I love canadian bacon and pinapple pizza, that sounds good right about now. Also we always order combo with pinapple for pizza. My grandma makes sweet and sour on rice and that shit is GOOD. It's sweet and sour sauce, with chunks of pinapple, chunks of meat you would put in a stew, and chopped up green bell pepper. You pour that on top of white rice. Sounds easy but I have never made it myself. I got the meat once and the sauce (in a bottle at your local grocery store) but the meat went rotten before I got a chance to use it.

I just was stretching my leftovers too long in those days, I was in denial saying "oh I'll use it before it goes bad, don't worry" and then it goes rancid on the bottom shelf of my fridge. I just hate the process of thawing out meat within hours instead of just using it after you buy it at the store. I usually plan my meals a few hours before I cook dinner so overnight thawing is not an option when it's 1 in the afternoon and you don't have the meat out of the fridge you know what i mean.

Happy SNT everybody, and I am working a temp job on wednesday so hey 9 dollars an hour for one day is better then nothin. So woohoo!

My poker game fell through, so it's a night of checking the XE SNT and Forza on the XBox.

I have to echo others' sentiments that pineapple pizza kicks butt. I prefer mine with ham, pineapple, mushroom, and extra sauce. If I hadn't just gotten back from a crappy all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet, I'd totally be headed to Papa Murphy's instead of typing this.

I usually have nothing against Catholics. However, there was one time in my life where I must shamefully admit that I wanted to persecute Catholics. I used to work in a restaraunt that closed at midnight. Every Friday during lent, we'd have bunches of Catholics coming in and ordering just before midnight. The nice ones would just let the food come and stare at it until 12:01. The jerky ones wouldn't let us serve them until after midnight. The crew would have to stay late to accomodate those assholes. You couldn't clean the grill, take down the soda fountain, etc util they were done. It was worst for the wait staff- they didn't get overtime, and the Catholics for some reason were notoriously bad tippers. I have to wonder if they realized that if they told the waitress not to serve them until after midnight, every meal came with a little something extra? I guess it was a minor retribution for doing something so hypocritical as to wait until 12:01 to have meat.

Kudos to you Matty boy for bringing in a touch of history to your pop culture lesson tonight. Permission to plagarize and enlighten the young people of middle-GA next school year when I am teaching the 50's??

I have got a discussion topic but I will hang on to it since the Hulaburger is going so strong. HAPPY SNT!

Also, I don't know if it's cool, but I had to share this with this crowd. I'm sure many of you have seen the whole fad of dubbing the "300" trailer audio with video from some other movie, or some other audio with the "300" trailer. I just saw an awesome dub of the "300" audio with video from the 1986 Transformers Movie. I want to see a TF movie like that! Click my name.

My husband turned me on to Hawaiian burgers. I thought they sounded too weird, but then I tried them. Ours are really simple…just ground beef patties cooked with a little teriyaki on a King's Hawaiian roll with a juicy pineapple slice on top. Yum! The pineapple is juicy enough that you don't need anything else. I think the problem comes with over-condimenting. The Red Robin burger actually has teriyaki on it as a condiment and I find it overpowering.

I found my Doritos X-160D at Wal-Mart, but that's the only place I've seen them. They do taste like cheeseburger.

Thanks for the clip spaz; it made me want to go watch the old movie right now…

Question for Lori, were you the one who lives who next to a famous Civil War battlefield (that will remain nameless to protect you from…whatever)??
I know one of the X-E-ettes told me that they did but I don't recall who…

big mclargehuge-
try walmart i know there has to be one of those near you someplace, they are freaking everywhere. that is where i found mine and what you find at one walmart you typically find at the next six million.

While we're doing this…Manimal your from middle GA?! I'm on the middle west state line….C-town area

I am inside of the house. I am ready for partying at this moment till the end of the night. It is time for having enjoyment.

shuanfu, we should find a move that a lot of XE readers have and watch it some SNT. Even better, we could set up a chat on XBox Live or some other voice chat and get all MST3K on it.

Does the Hulaburger remind anyone of the burger place in Pulp Fiction? I think it was called Big Kahuna Burger or something like that.

That means I spent Friday night dissecting McDonald's cheeseburgers and refitting them with pineapple slices. HELLO ladies! That made me laugh.

Yeah, pineapple instead of and not just on top a beef patty sounds odd. I usually like a little fruit mixed in with my main course But pineapple pizza is my personal favorite. And not with ham either. I don't eat pork or eat meat with cheese so pineapple pizza is the way I usually go when I do eat pizza. Oooh, except for Cheeseburgers. Meat plus dairy is fine then. In fact everything is fine when there's a cheeseburger in front of your face.

Happy first SNT of the Megaparty everybody!! I am flat broke so I am staying in. I do have leftover fruity beer from buying drinks for the people who helped me move. So I might come back later when the xe party's hopping and say nonsense.

I don't think it would be very fair to Matt for us to meet up here just to go voice chat somewhere else.

McDonald's UGH! The only thing they have going for it now is the big breakfast ( minus the greeeaaasssyyy hash brown) and the Southwestern salad thing. That salad is gooood! But that's all. Mc'D's has gone downhill since the 80's! Even their fries aren't good like the old days…

FYI
At Disney's Animal Kingdom they were charging like 7 bucks for a double cheeseburger meal. Like HELLO that is on the dollar value menu! Even with fries and a drink it is $3! I am NOT paying 7 bucks for a double cheeseburger just because it is at Disney. YIKERS!

Did you just say minus the greeeaaasssyyy hash brown?? the greeeeaaasssyyy hash brown is mcdonalds best item. Get one with a sausage mcgriddle and put the hashbrown into the sandwhich.

dohopoki
My stomach thanks you (again and again and again and again………)
UGH!

dohopoki…I..can't beleave I've never thought of such a great idea..tomarrows breakfast will be one of legends!

McDonald's breakfast is good and I like their Chicken "selects" (Why TF can't they just call them "Strips"?). But everything else? Yech!

That's weird, I hate their Chicken selects. I haven't met anyone who likes them even. I don't like burgers at all but I find it funny that seemingly everyone hates burgers from burger joints. Especially burger king.

I've got to say, Matt, this Summer Megaparty has been terrific so far. From now on, nothing will say summer to me more than Matt Caracappa making Hulaburgers.

I can't believe no one else does the ol' hash brown onto the McD's biscuit maneuver. Are we the only ones? I used to get their BIG BREAKFAST for just this purpose. I would build a custom egg, sausage, and hash brown biscuit. I would also put some grape jelly on there as well for the finishing touch.

Of course to make the hash brown fit the biscuit, and not hang off the edge ruining the look of the whole thing, you had to take a couple small bites off of one side. It was sort of like the "appetizer" to the actual meal.

Dudes…it's McDonalds..Mickey FREAKING D's! ITS ALL GOOD!..except the fish…NEVER TRUST FAST FISH

Born and raised in Jax, FL (*wink to Jazzy) but I have lived (and may even die

) in the Macony area of GA.

magic toe, I actually let the hashbrown lay excess from the sandwhich and make that part the last thing I eat, since it's the last flavor I want in my mouth before I finish my OJ and brush my teeth, as you all should do after every meal.

I lie the idea spaz but without the chat…we all use so many different things here it would be so hard. It would be great if someone, even Matt, would pick a movie in the early part of the day (or the day before), those around find and watch the movie, and then come discuss it here. It may even work better for movies on tv, like when Bill was talking about the movies on A&E the other night…it could be fun

Wow…just, wow. Not much for pineapple on savory foods, so I think I'll pass. Went garage saleing today but didn't find much. I hate when people don't put price tags on their stuff and just say, "what will you give me for it?" because I'm a cheap SOB so I at first I want to low ball them, but then I feel bad, so I'll go slightly over that, but then that's usually still too low, so I feel like a fool when they reject my offer. Oh well, hooray for run on sentences and SNT.

So discuss Poltergiest 2. I thought that when that worm? came out of the dad's mouth (can't remember his name) and turned into the "creature" the effects sure looked dated…..

The idea to have the SNT revolve around (at least partially) a particular movie is pretty freakin' brilliant. Limiting the choices to what is on cable certainly won't be as exciting, but it would also completely eliminate the problems people would have with not having (finding) a copy of a movie or not starting them at the same time.

shuanfu
Ah, the effects affects of rum and coke
that last Poltergeist thing was for you but I forgot the b's for bold and your name disappeared. Rah…

Just a suggestion, I don't know how well it would work for some people but there's lots of bad movies on Google Video for anyone who has a decent connection. Turkish Star Wars among them.

I don't think it would be very fair to Matt for us to meet up here just to go voice chat somewhere else. Wha? I hope I wasn't outta line there.

doho, and does it bother you when I call you doho? You have always had one of my favorite xe names.

Personally, I think Poltergeist was and is a great movie, dated yes but still great. Perhaps because it scared the crap out of me in the movie theater when I went to see it with my best friend in high school. So there are some great memories attached to it!

Thank you kb and no, no one was out of line, particulary you since when I started typing that your message wasn't there yet. I was responding to the latter half of spaz307's idea.

PS, do all the McD's chicken products taste faintly of soap suds to anyone else but me?

I have some mini-suggestions for the "watch a movie and discuss" idea…Interested?

I've thought about telling everyone to run the same movie at the same time so we could all indulge in live commentary, so seeing the idea come up here…maybe we should try it out. Let's do Congo.

We do have a battlefield near us, Manimal. No need to hide it, everyone knows me, Lori, and the Colonel are kicking it on the eastside of VA.

Congo! Haha. I haven't seen that since it was first released on video. I was pretty disappointed to realize that Bruce Campbell had such a small role. He was in that, correct?

Manimal, I think we chatted here awhile ago about the experimental McD's Cafe (sign still says this)at Normandy by 295. I'm new to Jax, was recruited here for a job but like it a lot.

Anyone else watch Jumanji today on TBS? Still a good movie, but man were the effects dated! I hadn't seen that in 10 years.

No no, suggest away! I just always bring up Congo whenever it somewhat applies.

I just realized I don't have a DVD player in this room. What the hell is up with that?

Just a suggestion, I don't know how well it would work for some people but there's lots of bad movies on Google Video for anyone who has a decent connection. Turkish Star Wars among them.

Literally, the last 10 minutes is one of the funniest/most WTF things I have ever watched.

Manimal
It is very unusual to "meet" a real live Floridian. I lived in FL for 11 years and only knew one family that wasn't a "transplant"!

The longest post of the night:
1. Lori,, no I was thinking of someone who lived near Antietam in Maryland.
2. See, 2 more examples of the need for a X-E directory. It would solve the Antietam mystery AND I would have remembered that me and Another Matt already discussed the Westside of Jax.

3. OKAY, here it goes: For whatever reason, I have been obsessed with The Letter People for the last 2 days. I hesitated because it is a stupid topic and a little biased to the B.D. (Before Dressing) crowd.
If you are not familiar, the Letter People are the scariest educational figures of all time.
PROPOSAL: Pyscho-analyze the Letter People beginning with the terrifying Mr. N.

Literally, the last 10 minutes is one of the funniest/most WTF things I have ever watched.
Oh god, that last battle tested the limits of what my brain could handle the first time I watched it. Every single thing that happens is a million times crazier than the previous thing that happened and you'll swear it can't be topped but then the next thing happens. And this runs all the way up to the final blow, which nearly killed me.

I would suggest either something so bad it is good, or something so good it is bad.

Wow, I had forgotten about the Letter People. In the same sort of vein as a lot of Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers, the dark 70's cheap-ass sets are sure downers! And the nose gives me definite feelings of inadequacy.
What about Mr. Bungle for disturbing educational video?

I too, have not seen Congo since way back when. All I remember is angry ape, right?

And speaking of ape, could someone explain to me the origin of "giant ape juice" or whatever it was?

"Giant Ape Juice" originated in a really old article — some gag about being proud of being the #1 Google result for a phrase that obviously wouldn't be anywhere else on the Internet. It carried into the blog at some point. We are still the first result, but no longer the only result.

Mr. N- He really HATES his nose. "I have fancy clothes, yummy fingers, and nummy toes BUT MY NOSE!"

Mr. S was going to be next on my list. Forget the puppet show and go straight to the song at the end. Mystie, Just the person I wanted to show up for this one. I think the S will one day stand for serial killer. Great chorus but creepy stanzas.

I'll tell you this, it has to do with Ivan Ooze and a certain Knuckle extruder I've mentioned about 3 times in the past year.

Oh and because you are dying to know, Mr. K SUCKS. Why I had to appropriate it and make it a remotely acceptable letter.

1.) My parents went to Cortland State in NY in the 70's and had the guy who shot it for a professor
2.) the out-of-control huge soap and cake helpings
3.) the anti-PC hilarious group of little 1950's Boys from Brazil that fill all the rooms.

Speaking of non-sequitur, Mrs. Manimal is having a lot of contractions. It's probably nothing but…

Manimal, I can think of no more auspicious start to a life than to have it happen in midstream SNT…

I know, I'm hella lazy and wouldn't have bothered to ctrl-c it if I were him, so…

ooh, Manimal, you have other's right? So you know you should go get to sleep right now before the little bugger comes. Darn those babies always deciding to head out in the middle of the night.

She's Having a Baby on Oxygen (I know I know)
Stan Lee's Harpies on Sci-Fi (nice)
Starship Troopers on TNT

I have been seeing commercials to that Stan Lee's Harpies. It does look pretty greatly terrible.

I've been working on a dvd project to recreate "TV Times" from different years with some cool video software I found. So far, I made a good 1982 Saturday morning DVD with cartoons, commercials, PSA's… Thinking now it may be the time to move on to classic USA network stuff and shows like this. What would you guys do?

Baaahhhhhh. Shoe People are better than letter people. I'm taking the torn off man shirt i dove over 5 people to snatch and taking my drunk ass to bed. I have to get up in a matter of hours to catch a bus to NYC. Yaaaayyyyy.

I'm gonna go with the Sci-Fi movie…seems to be the most fun choice..aand the end of the movie before it put me in the mood for a bad movie

Hmmm, I think we'd have to either have advance notice, so those of us with gaping Congo-shaped holes in our DVD collections could make arrangements, or maybe do a poll to figure out if there's something we all already happen to own? The problem with trying to find something airing on TV is there's the whole timezone difference.
Manimal, keep us updated! Did you guys end up deciding on a name yet?

If we're gonna watch a movie together, hows about THE WIZARD. Because, you know, it's on DVD now and IT'S SO BAD…

I don't think I'm the only one who would dumpster-dive the Walmart $5 bin for a DVD, solely for SNT purposes.

wow…the first 4 minutes are so bad…it's perfect! And there is a lesser Baldwin in it…score!

If I'm gonna watch a movie with a lesser Baldwin in it, it's gonna be fucking Bio-Dome.

Are all Baldwins besides Alec lesser? And if we are gonna do Bio-Dome can we just have a Pauly Shore-fest? Ooh, Encino Man! (Yes, I did raid the fruity beer.)

the letter people on youtube…..it didn't seem so fucked up when i was a child…heh

Nothing new to report here. She made me go up into the attic to get the baby carrier, etc.

I'd motion that Alec be downgraded as the superior Baldwin, seeing as he is a hypocritical ****tard, but the only possible replacement went wacko several years ago, putting himself in league with Korn's Munky.

Therefore, I motion for a realization of the scene in SP: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. That was the movie where they bombed their house, right?

I don't remember the Mr. X song from when I was in school. That is freakin' awesome!! Second only to Mr. S, because you don't trump Super Socks.

I'm all for more letter people discussion. We'll have to spend more time preparing!
Glad you'll end up getting some rest, hopefully…

After re-examining my last post where I misuse verb tenses and punctuation, it's probably time for me to turn in. That is until the 3:37 "my water broke" alarm clock goes off. As kb said, babies are like Santa Clause, they only arrive when you are asleep.

Manimal, if you're still up, did you go to movies by moonlight at the beach this year…it was an awesome lineup!

I hated when they brought the Letter People show to the school I used to work at….it drove me crazy…

Just call me Super Dad cause right before I tried to get into bed, my 2 year old woke up fussy and I had to get her back to sleep. Mrs. Manimal is still nesting. We'll see…

FINAL THOUGHTS: Mr. N, Mr. G, Mr. B, Mr. M, and Mr. S are the ones that I literally cannot get enough of these past 2 days. Honorable mention to Mr. L, Mr. C, and Mr. T.

What harmful grease and cheese based food should I inject into myself at this hour?

What a strange coincidence… Some friends and I tried to steal–er–liberate a pineapple/table decoration from a local eatery just a few hours ago. Too bad we got caught, I could've made a Hulaburger of my own. Do you know how hard it is to smuggle a pineapple out of Golden Corral? Let me tell you: pretty effing hard! hahaha

How about this: one SNT we watch a particular MST3K episode on YouTube…solves all problems at once….

Dang… This makes me wish they showed Letter People when I was in school… I've got Mr. S's song stuck in my skull.

On a semi-related note, when my little sister was in school, they did something similar to this, involving the inhabitants of 'Letterland'. Can't seem to find any info on it atm though.

Heh Shuan I'd be down, even if MST3K doesn't lend itself to live blogging very well. I've had it playing in the background all evening; I just started one of my favs, Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell. BTW here's a nice convenient collection of links to MST eps on YouTube/Google Video.

Hello everyone, sorry being late agian but work has me playing catch-up once again. I bought a bottle of Mexican coke for a dollar and chilled itin the fridge. I'm going to see how good it is. Thanks for all those who responded to my posts! In other news, today I figured out how to route my tv and video games into my stereo reciever, so I can listen to audio from tv and VHS tapes, as well as from video games, through my stereo speakers, with surround sound! This AWESOME, because I have two super NES games that actually have dolby surround sound (Super Turrican and Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures). I can't wait to play Lego Star Wars II on GCN with this setup, cause it uses tons of music from the original trilogy. Here's a good survey question along those lines: What movie would you most want to watch with a big stereo hookup? I'll start with Batman Returns, since I watched that one today. It made terrific use of the technology, not only with the music, but with the sound effects. You can hear things like paper rustling and pattering footsteps, real subtle details that add to the experience and help create the illusion that you're watching something real.

Wow. I really am going to have nightmares from Mr. X! That song was beyond creepy…in fact, Mr. X's own words sum it up best: "It's all wrong!" Although I agree with one of the comments on the video - it does sound like something Devo would come up with.

So I'm guessing that pineapple isn't a very common ingredient on burgers in the USA? Because most takeaways (not the fast food ones- more the corner shop or family owned takeaways) in Australia usually always have pineapple on at least half their burgers. Occaisonally we'll get them at Hungry Jacks (Burger King) or McDonalds but usually only as a limited edition thing, like when we get beetroot on them as well.

I'm vegetarian now, but I still always put pineapple on my burgers with my vege patties now when I make them…its just weird without it.

One of the yummest things ever is actually a pineapple, tomato and cheese toasted sandwich. Is very good.

Oh lord those Letter People are FREAKY looking! I never remember them being in my class, I might have cried if I ever saw them when I was little. Lol.

My eyes hurts so bad right now ’cause I went swimming in my brother's pool for about 5 hours today. It was killing me trying to read all the posts, but I had to do it!

Seeing the Hulaburger just now reminded me of the new sandwich at Carl's Jr. and made me hungry all over again.

I love this website SO much! You guys are the coolest people on the internet…to me anyway…lol.

anyone else wicked stoked for "The Darkness" to come out this week for xbox 360???

Another Matt, I have lived in GA for 10 years; nowhere near the Jax beach.
DocDragon, it's possible your sister was exposed to the watered down, PC version of the Letter People. Click my name for the story on that and other Letter People related whatnot.

The Mr. X song is definitely the "REVOLUTION 9" of kid literacy songs. I didn't know John and Yoko were residents of LetterPeople Land but apparently they were.

Finally, my daughter's interest in GIZMO has turned in to an obsession. She never took a pacifier, has never had a blankie, etc. but my crappy 1984 GIZMO figure who does absolutely nothing is here first "attachment" thing. He goes with us EVERYWHERE.
I bought her a GREMLINS 2 poster (one is GIZMO for here, the rest are Gremlins for me) and I guess I need to place a bid on a storybook.

Finally, everyone dogs CONGO but it is really just a modern day B-movie. Where STAR WARS and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK succeded in reviving the genre, CONGO was just too much.

Manimal: I'm taking the girlfriend to Gettysburg this fall. I always get emotional standing where thousands died. That and Antietam.

Applebees now has a new item on the menu called the Aloha Burger or something and it's a regular burger with pineapple slices on top! Not that bad!

Ugh, I missed out on yet another freaking SNT. What is it about Saturday that makes me not want to use the internet? It's definitely not because I have better things to do. Although, I did finish watching G Gundam yesterday…good times.

When I first glanced at the picture of the Hulaburger attempt, I almost barfed. Now that I look at it a little closer, it's kind of fascinating. Though no filthy pineapple is ever going to find its way onto my burger. Chicken sandwich, maybe, but sweet flavors + beef = barfaroni.

Hey Jasmine, I was in Australia last year. I didn't really go to any fast food places, but I did get introduced to your meat pies. I'd done some reading on Ozland before going, but I was still surprised at how important those little rolls of goodness are to your country. Sorta like donuts in Canada, from what I've heard. I've heard about plans to bring Four-n-Twenty pies to the States, but haven't seen any here yet.

Jeez, that Mr. X song sounds like something by Frank Zappa… Well, the '60s had just barely ended, which also explains the trippier sketches in Sesame Street (like that pinball song with the Pointer Sisters recently parodied on Family Guy) and the Electric Company in the '70s. The hippies had moved on to public television.

Actually, there *is* a Hulaburger recipe available, sort of. In his book Grinding It Out, Ray Kroc described the sandwich as "a grilled pineapple slice with melted cheese on a toasted bun." Thus, you should've toasted the bun and, while he didn't say the hulaburger didn't have ketchup, mustard and reconstituted onions, he also didn't say it did, so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the latter is correct.

Right when I saw the first photo, but before my brain processed what it was, I thought "Oh no, he's gotten ahold of a fifty year-old novelty burger."

Manimal: No, this was something completely different, made in the UK. Click my name to see the stuff in question… Though it looks like some of the characters have been updated. I remember that the guy representing 'h' had a beard in the version my lilsis(and by extension, me) saw.

Matt, what you should of done was left the meat on and added the pineapple - the way of many Australian fish'n'chip shops who make hamburgers.

This doesn't look that horrible to me, but then I have an aunt who regularly serves pineapple-and-mayo sandwiches for lunch, so I'm used to the idea. Still, the ketchup makes it seem pretty wrong…

I love pineapple…to the point that I made a special trip to the dole plantation while on a work trip to hawaii….

and yet the idea of this "hulaburger" disgusts me. I don't like many foods messing with my p-nap. I hate hate hate hawaiian pizza and think that pineapple chunks in sweet and sour chicken are not to be eaten, just for flavor.

This reminds me of a home-made Pitch Black recipe I came up with, having to make do as PepsiCo is obviously run by demons and assorted devils that hate happiness.

Dunno if it's been discussed before, but if you take one of those packets of grape Kool-Ade (the kind without sugar added) and just add it to a 2-liter bottle of Mt Dew, the results taste arguably like Pitch Black. Flavor-Aid works even better, but I honestly have no idea whether or not it's available outside of San Antonio.

Oh wow, I never actually considered that meat pies weren't in USA Andrew…I always thought they were there but not very popular.
Four N Twenty ones are meant to be pretty good (as far as meat pies go…) but be wary of some of the other ones…kinda gross to suddenly come across some grizzle badness mid chew.

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