When I think “spring”, I think of a mason jar full of instant cocoa from Big Lots on a filthy doily. Nothing sounds better on a spring day than a cup of brown water with Lucky Charms in it. It’s magically repulsive!
Her kid might have done the filthy job for her – maybe he just doesn’t like marshmallows, and picks them out of his morning cereal. She hates to see a good thing go to waste, and upcycles them… It’s a “Cereal Killer” cocoa mix!
Why the hell don’t people make stuff out of the nasty cat food in the REST of Lucky Charms? I’m sure you can make something Vintage Steampunk out of it…
Is it just me, or is her marshmallow to mix ratio really off? You can see those festive spring marshmallows almost all the way to the bottom of the jar!
I love how she says it comes with a “fabric topper” but she failed to include that lovely addition in the picture.
Well, her Tortilla Soup Mix includes the “fabric topper” in the picture, and I’ve got to say that it doesn’t exactly add any incentive to buy either product.
Though both photographs were taken on the same shelf and the same doily, which leads me to believe that this is her food-presentation-corner.
I shudder to think of it, yet at the same time I can’t stop browsing her shop…
And yet the extravaganza of bath salts in her shop enjoy any number of jaunty backgrounds. Which lead me to believe she’s trying with the presentation, just not succeeding.
That’s, ummm, interesting. I’m thinking someone needs to get her off the computer and introduce her to that place called “the produce department” in her local supermarket.
But didn’t you see the part that says “Mix is made at time order is placed to give you the freshest ingredients possible?”She’s using the freshest potassium benzoate money can buy!!! What more do you want?? WHAT MORE I ASK!!!??
Princess Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
March 17, 2011 at 1:55 pm
I don’t understand people who decide to sell food on a craft and reseller website. Or the people who decide to BUY food from a craft website – or any website, actually.
You know..we are so removed from the sources of our food, I think people have become sort of numb to that..and unusually trusting.
But then, I am someone who can barely get more than 10 tomatoes out of 6 plants a year…even if I play them music and read them stories and massage their little leaves.
Oooh, we need sprinklers with motion sensors. Some people let their dogs crap in our yard. (Especially galling when our cats are indoor only so, among other trouble they could get into, they don’t mess in people’s flowerbeds).
you know what’s weird? how they can even sell food at all on Etsy. The kitchen at our church is clean and professional, yet the daycare that operates there during the week can’t get a permit to cook food for the kids there! Where is the FDA when you actually need them?!
Apparently you can buy the Charms without the oats online. They are known simply as “Cereal Marshmallows.” Hopefully the seller buys them in bulk instead of pawing barehanded through boxes of Lucky Charms while collecting the marshmallow bits on some grime-encrusted lace doily. HOPEFULLY!
YES. I discovered them this summer – my boyfriend’s mom gave us a bag of them she bought at the Amish store nearby (yes, Lucky Charms marshmallows are totally Amish, didn’t you know?) and I freaked out so much over them she sent me another package for Christmas.
On a completely unrelated to repackaged Swiss Miss in a jar news, found this hot Octopus on Octopus action in the “Recently Listed Items” section of Etsy.
If they are hallucinogenic bath salts, it’s probably not a good idea to pack them in the same environment as the food mixtures, especially in similar jars. Isn’t there a possibility of cross-contamination?
Methylenedioxypyrovalerone and Lucky Charms are a bad combination. It will make you climb into a tree and try to play a leprechaun. In Alabama.
My grandma used to give me crap like this for birthdays. Only it was usually a single packet of Swiss Miss, enclosed in a card that reminded me how many calories are in a cup of hot chocolate, and that she only sent one for a reason.
My grandma never did that, but I remember once doing something dumb, feeling bad about it, and feeling worse when she said “I thought you were supposed to be a *smart* girl.”
My grandma’s thing was giving me “gifts” that were obviously just flotsam and jetsam she’d dug out of her basement clutter.
But for some reason she always, always put these bits of detritus in a Laura Secord chcoolate box (not purposely to mess with me, I don’t think), and I must have had a short memory when I was a kid because I’d get all psyched up for chocolate every single time and then open the box to find…ancient, dusty bath beads. Or a bag of a discontinued brand of hard candies, welded into a solid block. Or a pink plastic comb with missing teeth.
WHAT WERE YOU DOING WITH ALL THOSE CHOCOLATES, GRANDMA?!
This gives me an idea…Rice Krispie Treats in a used coffee can. It would be half-filled with marshmallows and half-filled with Rice Krispies…Just add margarine and put it on the stove, and VOILA!! One hell of a mess all over the stove…with a caffeine boost…
*Salutes the wonders of American food* If I’d known about these before Pancake Day, I would so have tried to get some. We don’t have such things in little Britain. Not even in Asda-Walmart.
looks like she’s trying to sell her food storage. Whenever people give us one of these jar mix things, it sits unused for years until we give it to someone else we don’t really like.
“Comes in a 4 quart Mason jar”……so that’s a gallon of mix (4 quarts = a gallon = 16 cups of mix) that makes 16 cups of cocoa? It scares me when “cooks’ are that far off in their measurements. Folks like that ususally work for NASA.
Also, a 4-quart Mason jar would be worth $5 empty. Do you suppose I could get her to sell me empty jars for $2.50 if I didn’t want the chocolatey mess?
Looking through her other listings, she seems to list all of them as being in 4 quart jars, but from the pictures & number of servings she lists, it would seem more like 4 cups. Leaving aside the apparent unsanitariness of this stuff, I don’t think I’d trust the recipe of someone who can’t tell the difference between a cup & a quart.
Imagining that this is soil that was unearthed from Lucky the Leprechaun’s grave is actually less disturbing than accepting that it’s actually a food item that someone could conceivably buy and ingest.
My husband bought Swiss Miss in bulk at Costco. After 2 years of not eating it I shipped it off to Goodwill. Who knew I was sitting on such a gold mine.
Um, nasty. Aren’t the colored marshmallows usually something like Tropical fruit flavored? I remember my grandma getting them when she’d make ambrosia salad for the church potluck. Fake fruit in fake chocolate. I think I’ll just go throw up right now instead and save the five bucks.
Nah, these are the dried marshmallows that come in Lucky Charms cereal, and apparently bulk as well. Feel free to throw up and keep your money, though, it might save you from getting hantavirus from the dirty kitchen.
I think I should bookmark this thread. Next time I’m tempted to wreck my diet I’ll re-read it, look at the pictures, and lose my appetite.
It’s the Regretsy Hot Caca Diet!
You might be onto something here. I love the “filthy doily” sound. Maybe it needs to be a gourmet shop. “Filthy Doily Hot Caca Mix” or “Filthy Doily: Your One Stop Gourmet Shop”
I just really hate the whole idea of these baking mix gift jars. If you want to give a gift of cookies, is it really that hard to bake the damn things yourself from scratch? With these stupid jars, the recipient would have to supply some of their own ingredients *and* do all the fucking work.
March 17, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I’ll just take the hot cup of water,thanks.
March 17, 2011 at 1:27 pm
And I’ll bring my own cup.
March 17, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Does the price include the ring of scum round the top of the cup? I will pay extra for that.
March 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm
My sister and I used to make shit like this to sell to people for 5 cents…when we were 8.
March 17, 2011 at 4:37 pm
I used to make shit like this to see if the mean boys down the street would drink it and die.
March 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Because I totally want to relax with a huge mug of hot cocoa when it’s warm enough to go outside wearing just a t-shirt.
A+ thinking there.
March 17, 2011 at 1:36 pm
You’ve never experienced a British spring then.
March 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm
No but I’ve washed with Irish Spring
(I’m here all week, folks!)
March 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm
How many boxes of lucky charms did she violate in order to make this monstrosity?
March 17, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I think it was even GENERIC Lucky charms…the shapes are not discernable!
March 17, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Yes, I recognize the shapes–it’s Malt O’ Meal’s Marshmallow Mateys! Hand-picked with her very own hillbilly fingers!
March 17, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Her kid might have done the filthy job for her – maybe he just doesn’t like marshmallows, and picks them out of his morning cereal. She hates to see a good thing go to waste, and upcycles them… It’s a “Cereal Killer” cocoa mix!
March 18, 2011 at 9:34 am
@crainnhy – OOORRR…She is so mean/cheap/whatever she won’t let the kid have the marshmallows at all and just gives them the cereal part…
March 21, 2011 at 1:33 am
Hopefully, none, since there’s cerealmarshmallows.com. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
March 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm
I actually think this is more downcycled.
March 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm
I didn’t know you could make hot chocolate look unappetizing. Buy it for your kitchen counter as part of a new weight-loss strategy!
March 17, 2011 at 3:21 pm
This too:http://www.etsy.com/listing/69380158/introducing-the-one-and-only-sweet
March 17, 2011 at 4:40 pm
March 17, 2011 at 1:27 pm
It looks like the tiny marshmallows are stampeding, standing upon their fallen brethren, in a frantic rush to avoid being buried alive.
March 17, 2011 at 2:38 pm
We shall not forget their struggle.
Why the hell don’t people make stuff out of the nasty cat food in the REST of Lucky Charms? I’m sure you can make something Vintage Steampunk out of it…
March 17, 2011 at 1:28 pm
St. Patrick’s Revenge.
March 17, 2011 at 1:28 pm
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March 17, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I take it back. After going through the rest of her shop now I’m nauseated.
March 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm
You should see the chicken soup mix.
She stuffs a whole chicken into a mason jar!
March 17, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I would be interested in making a purchase if it were a mason jar of marshmallows inside of a chicken.
March 17, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Those poor bees… Those poor, dead, otherwise healthy Italian bees…
March 17, 2011 at 2:42 pm
“I would be interested in making a purchase if it were a mason jar of marshmallows inside of a chicken.”
Turducken, meet Marshicken.
March 17, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Oh my fucking god. This should be on the front page, because I’d bet anything those Lucky Charms marshmallows were hand-picked.
I demand an update if the seller tries to sell the plain ol cereal somehow. Collage time?
March 17, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Maybe a portrait of John Goodman.
March 17, 2011 at 2:23 pm
you mean she put her hands on them??? to pick them out of the cereal box….ewe ewe ewe
March 17, 2011 at 7:56 pm
That is the most efficient way of separating the marshmallows from the cereal, cause we wouldn’t want any cereal in our mason jar of cocoa, oh no…
March 17, 2011 at 1:30 pm
This would probably look more appetizing if it was against an old barn wood background.
No, wait. It wouldn’t.
March 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm
If you mean thrown against an old barn wood background? Very Jackson Pollack.
March 17, 2011 at 1:30 pm
So this is what the day-after looks like for all those hard drinkin’ leprechauns.
March 17, 2011 at 1:31 pm
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March 17, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Can’t people make their own goldang hot chocolate? Is it too hard to schlep your fat ass to the Safeway, aisle 3, for some instant Swiss Miss?
March 17, 2011 at 1:35 pm
or H.E.B. or Wal-Mart in case you live in San Antonio
March 17, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Amusing fact: in the United Arab Emirates they’re called Safestway.
Annnnd back to the usual snarkery…
March 17, 2011 at 2:52 pm
“Safestway” unless you are a woman driving there. Then it gets sorta dicey. Dicey with a chance of stone throwing.
(interesting tidbit, actually~)
March 17, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Or even cocoa, sugar and …milk?
(though I love Mexican “Abulita” chocolate the best….with that a little bit of pepper and cinnamon…yum..)
March 17, 2011 at 3:37 pm
“Grandmother in a box!” At least that’s how my friends translated it at Kash n Karry.
March 17, 2011 at 6:58 pm
aww….it’s a hockey puck of love.
March 17, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Hopefully, not an actual Grandmother. Too hard to stir.
March 17, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Is it just me, or is her marshmallow to mix ratio really off? You can see those festive spring marshmallows almost all the way to the bottom of the jar!
I love how she says it comes with a “fabric topper” but she failed to include that lovely addition in the picture.
March 17, 2011 at 1:38 pm
I assumed that was what the dirty doily was. *shrug*
March 17, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Well, her Tortilla Soup Mix includes the “fabric topper” in the picture, and I’ve got to say that it doesn’t exactly add any incentive to buy either product.
Though both photographs were taken on the same shelf and the same doily, which leads me to believe that this is her food-presentation-corner.
I shudder to think of it, yet at the same time I can’t stop browsing her shop…
March 17, 2011 at 3:03 pm
And yet the extravaganza of bath salts in her shop enjoy any number of jaunty backgrounds. Which lead me to believe she’s trying with the presentation, just not succeeding.
March 17, 2011 at 1:35 pm
The dirty smudges on the corner shelf makes me wonder about the cleanliness of the overall processing facility….
nestle’s it ain’t.
March 17, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I would have at least wiped down the shelf and wall before taking the picture.
March 17, 2011 at 1:38 pm
But then it wouldn’t be shabby chic!
March 17, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I think you mean stabby chic.
March 17, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Salmonella chic!
March 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Agreed. But at least there aren’t any bug carcasses in the corners. Well, visible ones anyway.
March 17, 2011 at 2:38 pm
That’s just because we can’t see her kitchen floor.
March 17, 2011 at 1:36 pm
At least it will look the same coming up as going down.
March 17, 2011 at 2:21 pm
or coming out…
March 17, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Quite!
March 17, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I was only thinking – “Surely this is unicorn vomit.”
March 17, 2011 at 6:59 pm
well, yes, yes, but………with the brooowwwnn….um…
oh nevermind.
March 17, 2011 at 7:02 pm
To twist the words of the song- “What goes down, must come up.” If that unicorn’s been scarfing chocolate bars . . .
March 17, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Only $5?
She should be charging way more. It’s hard work to go through the lucky charms box and pick out all the marshmallows.
March 17, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Not when you have your kids doing it for you
March 17, 2011 at 3:07 pm
*shudder* tiny sticky fingers dragging droolsnot over each marshmallow.
Congratulations on making this even less appetizing! I honestly didn’t think that was possible.
March 17, 2011 at 3:19 pm
She is trying to compete with Starbucks.
March 17, 2011 at 1:38 pm
WAIT A SECOND! Are those dead bees at the bottom of that jar?
March 17, 2011 at 1:39 pm
That’ll give you bees.
March 17, 2011 at 1:51 pm
There had better be bees.
March 17, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Not the bees! Not the bees! They’re in my eyes! My eyes!
March 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm
I laughed. Worst movie ever!
March 17, 2011 at 1:43 pm
I feel sorry for the unlucky kids who woke up in the morning to find their cereal was robbed of marshmallows.
March 17, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Phew! It comes with directions. Without directions I might have had to throw this directly into the trash.
Crisis averted!
March 17, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Directions:
1. Throw directly into trash.
Was that really so hard?
March 17, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Pshaw! Who needs directions? We’re flying by the seat of our skants here people!
March 17, 2011 at 1:44 pm
The mentality that produces this eventually upcycles cavity-ridden teeth in a mason jar after they fall out.
March 17, 2011 at 2:20 pm
uh… what’s wrong with that? The cavity holes make it really easy to make earrings out of them.
March 17, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Oh god, now you’ve done it! How soon before teeth earrings are featured on the front page?
March 17, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Friend, put “human teeth” into the etsy search engine. I did last night. Looooots of teeth out there.
March 17, 2011 at 4:06 pm
What the hell? I had a baby tooth that never fell out until I was 30 (dunno why) and I just threw it away. What a fool I am.
March 17, 2011 at 8:19 pm
My parents have a drawer filled with envelopes of my sibling and my teeth…maybe I should suggest etsy to them. I tried suggesting throwing them away…
March 17, 2011 at 1:44 pm
A practical demonstration of the fine line between “shabby chic” and “filthy slut”.
March 17, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Gives a whole new meaning to Leprechaun Shat. With Farts O’Rainbow!
March 17, 2011 at 1:46 pm
That looks like my cats barf when I buy the bargain cat food
March 17, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Yeah, well her bath salts look pretty tasty.
March 17, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Lemonade mix in her tortilla soup. Y’know, for the citrus flavor.
This stuff reminds me of when they print recipes is the food section of our local paper and they just sound like revolting piles of glop.
March 17, 2011 at 2:04 pm
They’re usually sponsored by the manufacturers. Why else would you find ways to make festive desserts with worcestershire sauce?
March 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm
That’s, ummm, interesting. I’m thinking someone needs to get her off the computer and introduce her to that place called “the produce department” in her local supermarket.
March 17, 2011 at 2:42 pm
But didn’t you see the part that says “Mix is made at time order is placed to give you the freshest ingredients possible?”She’s using the freshest potassium benzoate money can buy!!! What more do you want?? WHAT MORE I ASK!!!??
March 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Is it better to be a Chinese reseller or a Big Lots reseller? Hmmm…
March 17, 2011 at 1:56 pm
At least you don’t have to wait a month to get your cheaply made crap.
You can have your crap much, much faster.
March 17, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Thank you, Jamie Lee Curtis.
March 17, 2011 at 2:53 pm
HA!
March 17, 2011 at 1:51 pm
This isn’t even hot chocolate, look at the bits in the middle. All this is is Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs crammed together in mud.
March 17, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Ew, way too many marshmallows!! That looks disgusting.
March 17, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Is anyone elses teeth itching? Mine are.
March 17, 2011 at 1:55 pm
The Health Department allowances for rodent excrement seem to be exceeded in this jar.
March 17, 2011 at 1:55 pm
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March 17, 2011 at 1:55 pm
I don’t understand people who decide to sell food on a craft
and resellerwebsite. Or the people who decide to BUY food from a craft website – or any website, actually.March 17, 2011 at 2:00 pm
You know..we are so removed from the sources of our food, I think people have become sort of numb to that..and unusually trusting.
But then, I am someone who can barely get more than 10 tomatoes out of 6 plants a year…even if I play them music and read them stories and massage their little leaves.
March 17, 2011 at 2:22 pm
You need to fertilize them more. With, you know, dead bees and shit. Maybe shit you get from Etsy would be good fertilizer. Or compost.
March 17, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Sort of like what’s pictured above? Or would that just give the tomatoes cavities?
March 17, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Is there anything on Etsy to keep my dog from sneaking over and eating my tomatoes?
March 17, 2011 at 4:18 pm
No but amazon.com sells a sprinkler thing with a motion detector. It mostly kept the squirrels away from our tomatoes.
March 17, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Oooh, we need sprinklers with motion sensors. Some people let their dogs crap in our yard. (Especially galling when our cats are indoor only so, among other trouble they could get into, they don’t mess in people’s flowerbeds).
March 17, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Scrumptious: I do not think it means what you think it means.
I’m just glad she let us know that the hot chocolate is “chocolatey.” I wasn’t sure.
March 17, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I like the Zebra Print Messinger bag…{.her spelling.} I am assuming it was previously owned by Debra Messing? *hoping*
March 17, 2011 at 2:02 pm
It’s spring mix because she was spring cleaning the pantry. Her loss is your gain, folks. This puts the edible in “regredible”.
Next listing – a dented can of tuna with a moustache on it. It’s the chicken of the tragic sea!
March 17, 2011 at 2:04 pm
you know what’s weird? how they can even sell food at all on Etsy. The kitchen at our church is clean and professional, yet the daycare that operates there during the week can’t get a permit to cook food for the kids there! Where is the FDA when you actually need them?!
March 17, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Apparently you can buy the Charms without the oats online. They are known simply as “Cereal Marshmallows.” Hopefully the seller buys them in bulk instead of pawing barehanded through boxes of Lucky Charms while collecting the marshmallow bits on some grime-encrusted lace doily. HOPEFULLY!
March 17, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Then it wouldn’t be handmade. Silly rabbit.
March 17, 2011 at 4:21 pm
March 17, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Now all you have to do is photograph it in your shower.
March 17, 2011 at 5:19 pm
YES. I discovered them this summer – my boyfriend’s mom gave us a bag of them she bought at the Amish store nearby (yes, Lucky Charms marshmallows are totally Amish, didn’t you know?) and I freaked out so much over them she sent me another package for Christmas.
mmmmmmmm.
March 17, 2011 at 2:05 pm
On a completely unrelated to repackaged Swiss Miss in a jar news, found this hot Octopus on Octopus action in the “Recently Listed Items” section of Etsy.
March 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Are you sure that’s not an octopus and a Black Widow spider in some confused mating ritual?
March 17, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I formally suggest naming the resulting abomination Spidopus. Or Fred.
March 17, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Nope, its (apparently) an octopus ring. Though upon closer inspection, it seems to be genetically confused.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/70249320/swarovski-multi-color-rhinestone-octopus
March 17, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Fred it is then.
March 17, 2011 at 4:15 pm
It’s only got 3 legs. It’s a tripod.
March 17, 2011 at 4:15 pm
My 4 yr old said “That looks like a octerpus.”
I’m assuming the ‘er’ in place of the ‘o’ means 3 legged. She is a genius…..
March 17, 2011 at 5:33 pm
At least it’s not a peach pit.
March 18, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Easily_Distracted: It’s pronounced cephalopod. The “tri” is silent.
March 17, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I looked through her shop…does her stuff look handmade to you or vintage??
I can’t get over the yellow haze in the photograph…yech
March 17, 2011 at 2:08 pm
cassie, clean your pantry.
March 17, 2011 at 2:13 pm
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March 17, 2011 at 2:14 pm
There’s a box of Kraft Dinner in my cupboard that expired in 2007. I should put it in a mason jar and sell it as a DIY Macaroni and Cheese Kit.
March 17, 2011 at 2:15 pm
The poor Irish. First the potatoe famine, and now this…
March 17, 2011 at 2:18 pm
$5 for bath salts in a Ziploc container? Srsly?
March 17, 2011 at 2:56 pm
My question is, are they the “bath salts” that are actually drugs? Because then that might be a good deal!
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/24/americas-new-drug-problem-snorting-bath-salts/
March 17, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Some idiots will try to get high off of anything. If we banned everything else, they’d probably start ODing on water.
March 17, 2011 at 6:28 pm
If they are hallucinogenic bath salts, it’s probably not a good idea to pack them in the same environment as the food mixtures, especially in similar jars. Isn’t there a possibility of cross-contamination?
Methylenedioxypyrovalerone and Lucky Charms are a bad combination. It will make you climb into a tree and try to play a leprechaun. In Alabama.
March 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm
There are so many marshmallows in there i don’t know how to get to the hot chocolate….
March 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I wonder if she can teach me how to get my unicorn to crap in a jar like that.
March 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Unicorn crap. Perfect. It’s just perfect!
March 17, 2011 at 2:47 pm
To be fair, it is a pretty big jar. You could just hold it under the unicorn’s butt when the time is right.
March 17, 2011 at 3:30 pm
This is my unicorn…
You can hold the jar while I watch.
March 17, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Let me know when the photos (on archival paper) of the process are listed. I’ll be sure to design a treasury around it for you.
March 17, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Yikes. Gonna need an even bigger jar than I was planning. And some gloves.
March 17, 2011 at 5:38 pm
I thought unicorn crap would have glitter, too.
March 17, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Ask and ye shall etc; etc.
March 17, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Thank you, Paper Machete. Nothing like glittering unicorn poop to finish off St. Patrick’s Day!
March 17, 2011 at 2:29 pm
It would be so cute and appetizing if it was a white chocolate hot chocolate. they totally missed the (skid) mark.. he he.
March 17, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Just pop the colored marshmallows in a ziplock baggie with a cheap note that says “Easter Bunny Poop” it would be better than this.
March 17, 2011 at 2:32 pm
My grandma used to give me crap like this for birthdays. Only it was usually a single packet of Swiss Miss, enclosed in a card that reminded me how many calories are in a cup of hot chocolate, and that she only sent one for a reason.
March 17, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Ah, the “Grandma Burn.”
She stings.
March 17, 2011 at 4:21 pm
*taking notes for when my stepgranddaughter is old enough to feel shame about her body*
March 17, 2011 at 9:25 pm
My grandma never did that, but I remember once doing something dumb, feeling bad about it, and feeling worse when she said “I thought you were supposed to be a *smart* girl.”
March 18, 2011 at 4:22 pm
My grandma’s thing was giving me “gifts” that were obviously just flotsam and jetsam she’d dug out of her basement clutter.
But for some reason she always, always put these bits of detritus in a Laura Secord chcoolate box (not purposely to mess with me, I don’t think), and I must have had a short memory when I was a kid because I’d get all psyched up for chocolate every single time and then open the box to find…ancient, dusty bath beads. Or a bag of a discontinued brand of hard candies, welded into a solid block. Or a pink plastic comb with missing teeth.
WHAT WERE YOU DOING WITH ALL THOSE CHOCOLATES, GRANDMA?!
March 17, 2011 at 2:32 pm
This gives me an idea…Rice Krispie Treats in a used coffee can. It would be half-filled with marshmallows and half-filled with Rice Krispies…Just add margarine and put it on the stove, and VOILA!! One hell of a mess all over the stove…with a caffeine boost…
March 17, 2011 at 2:40 pm
I believe it’s “Wallah”!
March 17, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Sorry…I forgot I can spell…
March 17, 2011 at 2:35 pm
But…WAIT!! It’s chocolately! Sounds deelish!
March 17, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Is this real!?
March 17, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Hahaha, you know you want some the next time PMS rolls around…
March 17, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Sadly, yes. Also available with fake blueberries or “original” flavor. Advertised as “low carb”!
March 17, 2011 at 4:16 pm
In what universe is that…THING “low carb”??
Because I will move there.
March 17, 2011 at 4:23 pm
The 21st Century: We don’t have hovercars yet, but we can get anything on a stick.
Even mustaches.
March 17, 2011 at 2:46 pm
For the love of Zeus. This reminds me of my first (and last) visit to IHOP last week. *shudder*
March 17, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Hey…that could be a vessel of manly desire…
March 17, 2011 at 3:12 pm
… on a stick!
March 17, 2011 at 4:52 pm
*Salutes the wonders of American food* If I’d known about these before Pancake Day, I would so have tried to get some. We don’t have such things in little Britain. Not even in Asda-Walmart.
March 17, 2011 at 2:38 pm
looks like she’s trying to sell her food storage. Whenever people give us one of these jar mix things, it sits unused for years until we give it to someone else we don’t really like.
March 17, 2011 at 2:53 pm
“Comes in a 4 quart Mason jar”……so that’s a gallon of mix (4 quarts = a gallon = 16 cups of mix) that makes 16 cups of cocoa? It scares me when “cooks’ are that far off in their measurements. Folks like that ususally work for NASA.
Also, a 4-quart Mason jar would be worth $5 empty. Do you suppose I could get her to sell me empty jars for $2.50 if I didn’t want the chocolatey mess?
March 17, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Ha, I didn’t even noticed that it said 4-quart mason jar. The one in the picture is definitely NOT a 4-quart mason jar.
March 18, 2011 at 1:13 am
Looking through her other listings, she seems to list all of them as being in 4 quart jars, but from the pictures & number of servings she lists, it would seem more like 4 cups. Leaving aside the apparent unsanitariness of this stuff, I don’t think I’d trust the recipe of someone who can’t tell the difference between a cup & a quart.
March 17, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Imagining that this is soil that was unearthed from Lucky the Leprechaun’s grave is actually less disturbing than accepting that it’s actually a food item that someone could conceivably buy and ingest.
March 17, 2011 at 3:31 pm
My husband bought Swiss Miss in bulk at Costco. After 2 years of not eating it I shipped it off to Goodwill. Who knew I was sitting on such a gold mine.
March 17, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Licensed kitchen, anyone?
March 17, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Um, nasty. Aren’t the colored marshmallows usually something like Tropical fruit flavored? I remember my grandma getting them when she’d make ambrosia salad for the church potluck. Fake fruit in fake chocolate. I think I’ll just go throw up right now instead and save the five bucks.
March 17, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Nah, these are the dried marshmallows that come in Lucky Charms cereal, and apparently bulk as well. Feel free to throw up and keep your money, though, it might save you from getting hantavirus from the dirty kitchen.
March 17, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Clearly she has never had Chicken Tortilla Soup! I would buy it off a roach coach in the bad part of town before I would order hers!
March 17, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I think I should bookmark this thread. Next time I’m tempted to wreck my diet I’ll re-read it, look at the pictures, and lose my appetite.
It’s the Regretsy Hot Caca Diet!
March 17, 2011 at 9:39 pm
I’m pretty positive this is just Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa- Marshmallow Madness poured out into a jar.
See product here.
March 17, 2011 at 10:26 pm
I’m not even drunk and I want to puke.
March 17, 2011 at 11:17 pm
You might be onto something here. I love the “filthy doily” sound. Maybe it needs to be a gourmet shop. “Filthy Doily Hot Caca Mix” or “Filthy Doily: Your One Stop Gourmet Shop”
March 18, 2011 at 1:20 am
I think that may have just cured my chocolate addiction!
March 18, 2011 at 1:26 am
I just really hate the whole idea of these baking mix gift jars. If you want to give a gift of cookies, is it really that hard to bake the damn things yourself from scratch? With these stupid jars, the recipient would have to supply some of their own ingredients *and* do all the fucking work.
March 18, 2011 at 3:07 am
I agree, I would much rather just have the damn cookies.
But then again I hate any kind of food preparation that involves me actively participating in the preparation of the food.
BUT, I would have a handy mason jar left over to fill with bees.
March 18, 2011 at 9:41 am
I can (sort of) understand this in terms of gifting between friends.
Buying non-factory sealed food from random filth wizards, on the other hand, does not compute.
March 18, 2011 at 6:18 pm
A 4 quart mason jar? o-O
March 18, 2011 at 7:58 pm
I know this isn’t funny, but that’s just plain FOUL.
March 19, 2011 at 2:59 am
Hey now, that doily did nothing wrong. It was just in the wrong place at several wrong times.
March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm
I just don’t understand why someone would buy food prepared in a place that isn’t inspected or certified by the local board of health.
September 27, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Vom.