31 - Reindeer Pâté

[Graham]

It's what's for (Christmas) dinner!

[plummeting_sloth]

Wait a second... this pendant isn't keeping my dog from being possessed. It's keeping me from being perfect! What a friggin ripoff!

[Spatial Coffee]

It's pretty good meat actually.
Hmm... I think I'll have some reindeer next saturday.
Thanks for the idea, guys! =)

[Graham]

I've only had normal deer, and it was really good. I'd try reindeer for sure.

[WAYF]

Yesss, the crazy singing hat made a reappearance!

Alex's Riddler impression reminded me why I find Alex so terrifying.

[Vigafre]

I think venison is the best meat replacement of beef.

[Preacher]

Why does fruit cake get such a bad rap? I mean sure it kinda sucks to get given one for christmas instead of something you actually wanted. But they don't taste that bad, and if worst comes to worst, just use it as a paperweight or doorstop.

[Graham]

Excepting the kind with the weird candy-fruit in it, I really like fruitcake.

[DuelLadyS]

Yay! Tis the return of the crazy singing hat! I love how serious you look with that on.

I'd try reindeer given the chance. Of course, I have relatives who hunt, so over the years I've eaten deer, bear, ram, cougar, and porcupine, that I'm aware of. I could probably get rattlesnake if I bugged the right uncle (I know he's killed then before, just not sure if he ate them too.)

[LogicSword]

Fruitcake + Wensleydale is the nicest thing ever.

[Ororon]

Yes Zoidberg meme :3

[Ororon]

Also, who WOULDN'T want that hat?!?!

[plummeting_sloth]

Also, who WOULDN'T want that hat?!?!

Someone with a very, very fragile neck

[phlip]

Why does fruit cake get such a bad rap? They don't taste that bad, [...]

You seem to be working from the mistaken assumption that fruitcake is edible... when in fact it is the closest real-world approximation I've found for dwarf bread from Discworld - intended for purposes other than consumption.

[tak197]

Excepting the kind with the weird candy-fruit in it, I really like fruitcake.

As I believe Alton Brown put it, the only candied things that should ever go into a fruit cake are candied orange peel and candied ginger. Technicolor Pineapple (which is also the name of my Beach Boys cover band) is just... wrong.

Also, I feel you missed an opportunity for a seizure chicken stinger.

[Flewellyn]

Why would you want that hat?

Well, you might be Hannah Hart of "My Drunk Kitchen":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcD7pbi9kfw

[the amativeness]

And the Hat Market introduces the new ZOID stock.
This post is strictly the comedy of the author of this post, and in no way represents the ideas or actualities of the Hat Market, its creators, or LoadingReadyRun.

Also, we've now seen the "Santa's Elves" hat. So when will we see the "Seizure Chicken" hat?

[phlip]

"Santa's Elves"

So that's what it's saying... all this time, I've been thinking it's "Santa's bells", and wondering why it didn't make any sense...

Stupid low-quality audio reproduction...

[the amativeness]

"Santa's Elves"

So that's what it's saying... all this time, I've been thinking it's "Santa's bells", and wondering why it didn't make any sense...

Stupid low-quality audio reproduction...

It's a slightly sped up version of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbxcHVmdJos

[Avistew]

I like candied cherries in fruitcake.
Fun fact: fruit cake in French is called "cake". And I don't mean the French word for cake, I mean the English one. I guess fruitcake is originally British and was somehow considered "regular" cake when the French word came up? No clue.
The name in Canadian French is probably different because it often is when the France French word matches an English word.

I've had elk. I think the best replacement for beef is horse too. Leaner, cheaper, tastier. But nowadays I don't really care since I don't eat any meat anymore.
Which every so often leads me to go "awww" when I get the opportunity to try an animal I've never had before. Last time was camel.

[Flewellyn]

Just got back from the grocery store, and one of the clerks was wearing a dancing "Santa's Elves" hat!

Apparently those damned hats are everywhere. They're in like Bob!

[Duckay]

I love the stinger on this one.

Also, look, that's a list of petty shit, but we are talking about perfect. I think 69% perfect is a damn good average.

[Avistew]

Yeah. And the fact the things they complained about are minor flaws and not "he beats me up" or things like that is a good thing, too. I'm glad the complaints were petty, because that means it's the worst their guys do.

[JackSlack]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Slack with your Action 9 News hat report. Oh yes. Good times are here, baby.

It was an electric week on the Hat Market as the infusion of Alex's return to the Alex Must Wear a Freaking Hat Rule, Though Granted We Didn't Imagine That One (Act of 2011) signalled an inflationary response in the haturation. In response, the Graham Force came in with a surprising influence on the market, resulting in booms to HATS, SPEC, and NADA. Basically, haturation is about to bubble over and kill the market again, but right now every investor on the market is going home happy.

Everyone except NPEW investors. Boy, those poor bastards.

Y'know, there may be no more fun times to be had that unloading a few ten thousand shares of NPEW to the Childcare and Disability Volunteer Workers Superannuation Fund, and then watching it crash. Well, no. But the most fun you can have outside of Manama. Ahh, good times. Seriously, forget Bangkok. It's done. Manama. Oh yes.

Um. Got sidetracked there.

So, let's look at those graphs to close us out. I'm Jack Slack, for action 9 news.

[Preacher]

Why does fruit cake get such a bad rap? They don't taste that bad, [...]

You seem to be working from the mistaken assumption that fruitcake is edible... when in fact it is the closest real-world approximation I've found for dwarf bread from Discworld - intended for purposes other than consumption.

It saddens and shames me that I have no idea what your talking about. I know what Discworld is, I just have never read a book from that series