Pumpkin Spice Twinkies

There are few junk foods less pretentious than the Twinkie. There are few junk foods more pretentious than pumpkin spice flavor. When I found out that they’d combined the two into a limited edition Pumpkin Spice Twinkie I just had to try the fancy bastard.

So how does the tarted-up Twinkie taste? About like I was afraid it would. My reaction to the combination was essentially the same as my reaction to the limited edition Oreos I’ve sampled: It was totally fine and all but it really just made me wish I had either a good old fashioned, regular Twinkie or a piece of actual pumpkin pie. The Pumpkin Spice Twinkie taunts you, man. Every bite is a reminder that you aren’t eating either real thing. This Twinkie’s not just a show off, it’s a jerk! It’s also a little heavy on the cinnamon.

Pirate's Booty

Apparently Krispy Kreme is celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day on September 19th. If you go in to a participating location and talk like a pirate (which is basically saying arrr a lot and otherwise imitating actor Robert Newton who played iconic pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island) you get yourself a free donut. And if you dress up like a pirate you get a free dozen. Pretty sweet. I wonder if they'll accept a cardboard Long John Silver's restaurant hat as a costume?

Either way, I think that if you really want to imitate a pirate to get free donuts you should probably just go in and loot the place. But please keep down the pillaging. Some minimum wage kid is going to have to clean up that mess.

Playing With My Food

I've been playing with my food for a while now. As evidence I submit some old stand-up footage I ran across today. This is me working a comedy club in Louisville, Kentucky a few years back. Prepare to be amazed.

Cookie Trick from Scott Sullivan on Vimeo.

Bad Oreo

Here's a quick outtake from the S'moreo video. Sometimes you just get a bad Oreo.



Oreo Reject from Scott Sullivan on Vimeo.

The Additive Theory of Junk Food

What happens when you combine multiple junk foods into a single dish? If you're me and you have way too much free time on your hands you postulate yourself a science-y sounding theory, that's what you do! Click play and get educated on the subject.

Combos Test from Scott Sullivan on Vimeo.

Music by Jamon Scott
Artwork by AshleyRose Sullivan

KFC WTF?

What’s up with these Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials? First Darrell Hammond plays the Colonel with a creepy, creepy chuckle.

Then Norm McDonald takes his place and declares the Hammond version of the character an imposter.

Is KFC going somewhere with this? Did they just can Hammond for some reason and then have to adjust the campaign on the fly? All I know is, no matter how weird and kind of disturbing these commercials get, there’s no way they’ll ever equal the f’ed up factor of this actual 1967 KFC commercial starring the actual Col. Harland Sanders. Click play if you need a little nightmare fuel.

Ode To A Japadog

You think you don’t want mayonnaise on a hot dog but you’re wrong. I get it. It sounds disgusting. But you’re speaking from a position of Japadog ignorance. I pity you now but, until a few months ago, I actually envied you. In 2013 I ate a Japadog in its natural environment on the streets of Vancouver. Then I came back to the states and was forced to suffer Japadog deprivation. I would have been better off not knowing what I was missing. But then the Hot Dog Gods smiled upon Southern California and gave us Japadog carts of our own. Now I can get me some Japanese hot dog fusion on a regular basis.

Japadog offers a wide variety of crazy/tasty combinations (including the noodle-smothered Yakisoba, the UME with onions and plum sauce, and the fish flaked Okonomi) but none are better than the Japadog that started it all, their signature Terimayo. It’s so good it made me write a tribute to it in the popular haiku form.

Teriaki dog--

A seaweed sprinkled wonder.
Mayo makes it good.