Birthday cake icing (e.g. a big sheet cake from the supermarket) can do this. Second-hand information suggests that McDonald’s “Shamrock Shakes” had a similar effect.
More disconcertingly, beets can turn feces red (at least in very small children) to the point that it suggests intestinal bleeding. Also, urinating into a toilet that has been bleached – but not flushed – will cause the urinator to think he or she is pissing blood.
Oh man, we typically did not have “sugar cereals” at home – Golden Grahams were as rowdy as it got. The exceptions were usually because we were visiting relatives and they had them. So, to make up for the lack of sugar in the cereal, I’d add my own. I think the nutritional info used to specify creal plus milk and two spoons of sugar. So, I’d use tablespoons, turning plain shredded wheat from something resembling an abrasive scrub pad into a rather tasty treat.
After a while I didn’t bother with putting the sugar on my cereal. After breakfast, I’d sneak a Moon Pie, or maybe a hardened clump of brown sugar. Once, before my sister’s birthday, I got into the can of cake frosting. When it came time for Mom to make the cake, the can of frosting was there all right, but empty. None of us (including me, the actual culprit) would 'fess up. My dad lectured us on what happens to liars and specified Richard M. Nixon as an example. I let my sister (then 2 1/2, and unable to find, much less open, the can of frosting) take the rap.
In spite of all this I made it all the way to age 13 before having any dental caries.
ETA:
You are DEAD to me.
I was never allowed to have sugary cereal. So I’d get oatmeal with half a pound of brown sugar, enough salt to choke a yak, and a stick of butter.
Oh, irony.
Oh but they know, they know what many purchasers will do at least once, and why the purchase will seem to bring such joy…
Of course they market as an addition to some presumably healthier kibble, just like these things below are marketed as pens, and roses, at the checkout of convenience stores…
Lot’s of Blue Kool Ade will give ya a nice green product.
So does the herb golden seal.
Also… God it is a good thing the Interwebs didn’t exist when I was a kid.
I forgot about The Report. Off to the labs…
Yes, off to drop a cover album of greendays most popular songs… What was that album called with the mushroom cloud…? What am I gonna drop…?
Ah, boing boing bbs what would I do without you? Subject’s gone from “Oops all berries” to “Poop’s all scary” in less than 30 comments! Bravo!
We. Try… grunt Harder.
Now you done it. I’m off to make a splash in Hollywood.
Well, Burbank, anyway.
Ah, excellent. Gift-wrap available.
For those of us in Canada, the outlandish shipping rates are $35 before the cost of the chips.
No thanks.
I get that the glass tubes the fake roses come in MIGHT be appropriate for smoking crack/meth/coke (if you broke the sealed end off so air could pass through? or is there a ‘carb’?), but what is the ulterior utility of the pens?
same here. i was all ready to order until i realized that shipping doubles the cost : (
Same, the tube on the pen is glass. Pretty clever, since it perfectly resembles a plastic pen, and is a pen.
There’s a foil cap on the closed end of the rose tube.
People should be able to buy their crack pipes without all the rigamorale IMO, it isn’t as tho denying someone proper gear ever stopped anyone from indulging in their vice.
did anyone try and read the terms & conditions for better made snack foods? it’s blank but you still have to agree to order from them.
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