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    Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches

    It's The Great Trainwreck Pumpkin, Charlie Bitch
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    Clearly I'm not the only one who's virtually wetting my pants with excitement to see the film adaptation of The Road.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    I got a pumpkin. I got a big-ass, who's-yer-Daddy kind of pumpkin, right here in my house.

    I would consider letting it go for the right offer.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    Eggos? Real America runs on cereal. Delicious, delicious breakfast cereal.

    I can do without Eggos. If General Mills goes out of business, however, we're gonna have problems!
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    WTF is a Christmas pumpkin?
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    As long as there'll be greenbean casserole for Thanksgiving, all is not lost.
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    Image of GretchenWieners (is praying she passes the bar) GretchenWieners (is praying she passes the bar)
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    Not to put a serious spin on pumpkin shortages, but here in Mississippi the governor just declared a state of emergency. The rain has ruined crops of all sorts...

    Of course, his budget also proposes we merge all of the historically black universities in order to save money. So there's that! Racism is always snarky fun.

    Also, Ham. Florida is not the South!

    I hate today.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    11/18/09

    @GretchenWieners (is praying she passes the bar): NORTH Florida is the South. Believe it.
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    Image of GretchenWieners (is praying she passes the bar) GretchenWieners (is praying she passes the bar)
    11/18/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Yes. Thats true. My scariest most redneckiest kin are in North Florida. Perhaps we're related?

    Sorry for calling you a scary redneck, possible cousin!
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    Bah. Eggo waffles taste like syrup covered sink sponges. Who can ever get the damn things cooked right? Either they're burnt to a tree bark consistency or they're half frozen in the middle. And no matter how much syrup you slather on 'em after two minutes you might as well eat a sugary flip-flop. I'm not registering the alarm here.

    However, if IHOP could no longer operate and serve to the masses demonic fried cake, rolled in sugar, jellied fruit, and stuffed with everything from cream cheese and cinnamon, to cured meats and possibly shellfish given the promotion of the week, most of middle America would just up and walk into the ocean.

    Also, pumpkin. ew. No true Southerner would dare use pumpkin when there is so obviously sweet potato available. You Yankees with your high-falutin food stuffs.
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    Image of Btwbfdimho Btwbfdimho
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    That pumpkin looks like another hoax from Colorado. Does it fly?
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    Image of HaysiFantayzee HaysiFantayzee
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    I was at the Oakland Zoo the other day, and there were pumpkins everywhere. Everyone was eating them: goats, monkeys, giraffes, and I don't know what all. Mystery solved.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/18/09

    @HaysiFantayzee: pumpkins today, world domination tomorrow. Mark my words.
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    Great photo. I love how someone felt the need to identify the enormous pumpkin, as if there were people out there too stupid to figure it out. Well, actually ...
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/18/09

    @El_Gato: It could conceivably be some type of marketing-and-promotion-related noun that ends with "-mobile."
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    Image of TomatoIsAFruit TomatoIsAFruit
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    Okay but seriously, who is Gossip Girl going to line up for breakfast food product placement?
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    Image of nozer nozer
    11/18/09

    @TomatoIsAFruit: Marlboro.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    If swear if I don't get pumpkin pie this season I'm gonna be shivving mofos left and right.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    Let Eggo be a lesson to you--don't mess with Aunt Jemima!
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    I have a solution for you: Trader Joe's. Their multi-grain waffle blows Eggo away.

    Haven't you read Omnivore's Dilemma? Humans need multiple food sources, even for toaster waffles.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/18/09

    @momof3wildkids: I tried to read "Omnivore's Dilemma," but I ate it.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/18/09

    @momof3wildkids: Or Van's Organic Blueberry waffles. Yeah, they are vegan, but they are honestly quite tasty. Leggo your Eggo and embrace the alternatives, I say!
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/18/09

    @AzureTexan: I imagine it would be high in fiber.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/18/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Power to the people. Reject corporatized, farm bill food while you're at it. Vans are good.

    Momo, Loved Omnivore's Dilemma. One of my favorite books. (Pollan is a nice dude too.)
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/18/09

    @momof3wildkids: Indeed. But I found the chapter on cannibalism* particularly hard to swallow.

    *note to readers and lawyers: there was no chapter on cannibalism.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/18/09

    @AzureTexan: I found the chapter on Trump hard to swallow as well [gawker.com] *

    * Note to readers and Trump (who is likely to sue me) there is no chapter on Trump.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/18/09

    @momof3wildkids: Funny how the comments, like the food cycle, often come back round.
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    Image of PoBoyNation PoBoyNation
    11/18/09

    @momof3wildkids: One of the things that bugs me about The Omnivore's Dilemma, or at least the conversation around it (because I still haven't read it) is that there are times in life when one just wants to eat some food that is not Good food. When I crave a waffle, the waffle I crave sure as shit is not going to be multigrain. It is going to be one grain only, and that grain is wheat bleached within an inch of its life. The better to slide down my gullet when topped with butter and syrup! It's not Good food, but Pollan can't tell me it's "not food."

    And organic aged cheddar just does not taste as good on a diner burger as a slice of American. That is the way it is -- for me.

    Paula Poundstone made this point better than I when Pollan went on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me; she was talking about Swiss Cake Rolls and the joy they had brought into her life, if I remember correctly.

    Buy local, eat in season, eat less meat -- yes, of course; I prefer to do this too. Just don't take away my Wheat Thins, ya heard me?
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/18/09

    @PoBoyNation: Savor your Wheat Thins! American cheeze? Really, I'm not sure that is cheese. [en.wikipedia.org]

    I don't think Pollan is saying eschew all food products that are essentially a solidified stew of chemicals and preservatives that have been trucked across the country or world. I think he is just pointing out that it is not the best thing for your body and it is not good for the environment/world either.

    The industrial food complex is wrecking havoc with our environment and our bodies. That said, a twinkie or whatever nasty thing gets you going, isn't the end of the world every now and then.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/18/09

    In reply to Good Luck at Your Crappy Thanksgiving With No Tasty Pumpkins or Eggo Sandwiches
    HamNo, I think you're from Florida, and I assume you live in New York. How the hell do you know about scrapple?
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    11/18/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: The South is made out of scrapple and biscuits and gravy.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/18/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Wow. I thought it was the Mid-Atlantic's dirty little delicious secret.
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