FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP GIVING THE CAT SHREDDED WHEAT
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August 4, 2011 at 2:38 pm
We made these as a craft project in kindergarten, without the chocolate. They were frickin’ awesome. I had a butterscotch pie last weekend that tasted almost exactly like them and I almost died.
August 4, 2011 at 9:38 pm
I made these too, at a friend’s house when I was a kid… I wish I could remember what we called them.. it must not have been funny then, but perhaps it would be now..
August 4, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Haystacks? Bird’s nests? (Especially if you put chocolate mini-eggs in them.)
August 4, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Chocolate Spiders?
August 5, 2011 at 12:42 am
We called them cowpies. Appetizing, no?
August 5, 2011 at 5:40 am
Cowpies are the ones with oatmeal and peanut butter.
August 5, 2011 at 8:48 am
We called them “haystacks”, and they were amazing, although I never got to put butterscotch in them… I am delighted that I am not the only one to be made hungry/nostalgic by this one.
August 4, 2011 at 2:48 pm
These may look repulsive, but they’re oh so tasty.
August 4, 2011 at 2:48 pm
I’m having trouble imagining an angle or lighting that would make chocolate covered chow mein noodles look like anything BUT shit. Such a shame.
One of my uncles refused to eat or even try chocolate ice cream when he was little because it grossed him out so much.
August 4, 2011 at 3:10 pm
I agree, there’s just something about photographing chocolate that never works. The worst is frosting cupcakes with chocolate in a smooth spiral, like so:
August 4, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Cake Wrecks would agree: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/search/label/Oh%20Poop
August 4, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Wouldn’t actually be too bad, if you shaped it in a muffin cup, call it a bird’s nest, and fill it with Robin’s Egg candies for an Easter treat.
August 4, 2011 at 3:53 pm
and then wore a blindfold while you ate it.
that might work.
August 4, 2011 at 2:54 pm
my aunt makes these and calls them “cow plops.” no shit.
August 4, 2011 at 3:46 pm
BB, I don’t know that “no shit” is the best way to convey that you are serious in this context. There most definitely is shit involved
August 4, 2011 at 5:43 pm
My aunt also makes these!
She calls them Chinese Candy. They do look questionable but they are goddamn delicious.
August 4, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I’ve seen something similar made out of coconut and melted chocolate. They call them chocolate haystacks, and if you can ignore the unfortunate shape, they’re actually quite good.
August 4, 2011 at 2:55 pm
We used to make them with butterscotch and call them Hay Stacks, I like them better with chocolate though… Either way, they’re still delicious!
August 4, 2011 at 4:18 pm
I thought Hay Stacks were with coconut, otherwise known as chocolate macaroons. I look forward to Christmas every year so that I can stuff my face with those poo-rific snacks.
August 4, 2011 at 4:20 pm
These are made with chocolate AND butterscotch and sound yummy. They don’t look yummy, but they sound yummy.
August 4, 2011 at 3:12 pm
These are tasty, but really hard to look at while you’re eating them.
August 4, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Have we not achieved a consensus regarding food purchased from strangers on the Internet? I remember that memo.
August 4, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Especially candy.
August 4, 2011 at 9:03 pm
But it’s so reasonably priced at $14
August 4, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Yes, I remember that memo.
Memo Item #3: Especially those items not produced in a Dept. of Health inspected kitchen…
August 4, 2011 at 4:11 pm
At least the maker knows how to properly temper her chocolate, which beats most Etsy candy-sellers. I loved these when I was a kid, so I have to stick up for them.
August 4, 2011 at 4:25 pm
I made some like this but used caramel chips instead of butterscotch chips. The ones I made ended up looking like turtle candies, not haystacks.
I will say that Regretsy makes me see food SO much differently.
August 4, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Someone ate too much roughage.
August 4, 2011 at 5:09 pm
FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP GIVING THE CAT SHREDDED WHEAT
August 4, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Sorry. That was meant to read…The title of this one reminds me of when my little brother had a colostomy as a newborn until about 3. I can still hear my mother yelling “For God’s sake stop feeding gum to the baby!!! (He had a huge chunk on non-functioning bowel as a newborn and had a colostomy at a week old. They reversed it and reconnected the good parts when he was about 3.) And yes, we kept giving him gum.
August 4, 2011 at 9:17 pm
OMG. I would totally eat them.
August 4, 2011 at 9:53 pm
They don’t look much like poop to me, and she did a good job of photography. The DERP factor for me is just that (well, aside from the no-health-department-involved thing with all Etsy foods) why would anyone BUY this when she pretty much just GAVE out the recipe?
August 4, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Or, I could save myself the $14 and just wait for the next time my cousin makes a batch. Waa laa! (I had to) Free snacks.
August 5, 2011 at 12:03 am
I got so tickled at the title of this one that I nearly peed the bed. Bravo!
August 5, 2011 at 12:14 am
They actually look pretty appetizing to me. I want one really badly right now.
August 5, 2011 at 2:04 am
ok… am i the only sorry fucker to have never had these??! I feel utterly deprived and i shall write to the education board and demand to know why these dollops of owl shit were not compulsory in home ec classes when i was growing up
anyone have a good recipe?
August 5, 2011 at 7:18 am
ooh, in butterscotch these were my favorite of all my mom’s xmas cookies she used to make. She used to store them in the freezer to try and keep us out of them. didn’t work. to this day I still eat my xmas cookies frozen.
August 8, 2011 at 12:55 am
We made them with chocolate and peanut butter and called them spiders, my god, I’d forgotten these even existed!