Prize housekeeping

by | Saturday | November 7, 2009 | 29 comments

There are now THREE local prizes up for grabs to anyone who has donated $50 (first come first serve):

Dallas/Ft Worth Area: Rwan at Learned Paws Pet Services has donated a full day pet CPR/ first aid class ($120 value)

Bay Area people: Becky from Casa Caudill has donated a one hour family photo shoot.

Orange County: Dr. Hill at the Animal Care Center of Huntington Beach has offered a complimentary office exam as well as a spa day for your pet!

And a prize open to anyone:

I’m due for a giveaway I think. More treats from Biscuits By Lambchop, how about that? AND a bead! Just tell me the worst possible thing you’ve ever eaten. For me it was sweetbreads that I was tricked into tasting. I’ll pick the two grossest.

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  • http://annora.wordpress.com/ Tassia

    I ate a cardboard poker chip dunked in conditioner, it was pretty foul. I got 10 bucks for it.

    Also as a young and foolhardy girl growing up in Cowtown, I ate prairie oysters. I can’t quite describe how utterly disgusting they were, but I choked em down, to the horror of my friends, because I like to gross people out.

  • Evelyn Robinson

    I have two black cats. I have trouble taking their picture inside the house.
    Should I put some flour on them so they can show up better for the camera?

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Yes. And send me those pictures.

      • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

        *pawcurious accepts no liability for anyone who actually dips their pet in flour, ruins their furniture, and has to take the pet to the ER for breathing treatments after inhaling it.*

  • Kim

    Mine are more painful than gross.

    There was a hot pepper (habanero) I was tricked into eating by my ex-boyfriend’s brother. I was asked “Do you like spicy food?” In answering yes, he said “you should try this – it is so awesome!” I was stupid enough to trust him and ate it straight. I couldn’t feel my own mouth for a solid day. Anything I ate or drank made it worse so I just had to sit there in pain.

    I also ate a bee (by accident of course). Drank a bee, actually. I was watching a parade. I was sipping soda and didn’t realize that the bee had actually been sipping the soda too. It was horrible.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      OK, eating a bee wins you the biscuits. That is just wrong. Did you get stung?

      • Kim

        Yay! I was about 11 years old. I was stung on the tongue. Luckily there was a doctor next to us to help my mom take out the stinger out of my tongue.

  • Tamara

    I don’t live in the OC, so no need to consider my answer, but must say: my grandmother’s blueberry pie! (She forgot to put in the sugar) ;-)

    • http://annora.wordpress.com/ Tassia

      My big sister was in Home Ec in junior high, and she made these chocolate chip cookies. Somehow she managed to get the sugar and baking soda mixed up. I ate the entire batch cause she was so upset and I wanted to make her feel better. After the third or fourth cookie, they became strangely addictive. I know they were gross, but I ended up loving them and it made her feel much better. Now she’s an amazing baker.

      • Tamara

        Then you’re a really cool sister :D

      • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

        Wow, you are a good sister!!

  • Lisa

    Foie gras — when I didn’t know what it was that I was tasting. Pure nastiness. Cold, gelatinous, still makes me cringe just thinking about it.

    • Kristyn

      Yay! I’m not the only one. What is the big deal about anyway? I’m addicted to Top Chef, they are always ooohing and ahhing about it. Its repulsive…a terrible reason to be mean to ducks.

      • Lisa

        Yeah, now that I know how it’s made, it’s even more cringe-worthy.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Something about eating organs is just so wrong. bleagh.

  • Kristyn

    Foie Gras. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about…I still don’t know. It was a liquid, but not. It was oily with a sac-like thing around it, when you bit into it, it just sorted disintegrated into this oily spill that coated your entire mouth with a flavor that I can only imagine is reminiscient of the stuff at the bottome of the fryer vats at KFC.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Such an apt description. The texture….ugh…

  • Cheryl

    I think an escargot was the grossest thing I have ever eaten. I had one bite and then swallowed it whole. I can’t say I even tasted it. Yeah, not a future candidate of Survivor here…

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Oh ugh. Was it all rubbery?

  • Kayti

    No need for prizes…I just want to share this embarrassing experience.

    When I was five, I accidentally ate cockatiel poop. YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT. I was sitting on the couch, eating an ice cream sandwich and our two cockatiels were running around on the back of the very same couch. Well, apparently one of them pooped in just the right place so I thought part of my ice cream sandwich had fallen apart so I scooped it up and, well…I figured out my mistake pretty quickly and ran crying to my mother. She thought it was hilarious and I thought I was going to die.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      Oh eeeeeewwwwwww!! That is terrible! lol.

      • Kayti

        Yeah, I was pretty traumatized…that’s why I still remember it so clearly eighteen years later!

  • Valerie

    An ENORMOUS Witchity grub. I was in Alice Springs, Australia and lost a bet I was thought was a sure thing. I don’t bet anymore.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      That won you a bead. :8

      • Valerie

        That’s very kind but I wasn’t entering the competition for the bead, I just got caught up in the spirit of the post and felt inspired to share;)

        • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

          Are you sure? They really are cute. If you don’t want it though, that’s fine too. :)

  • Jamie

    I already won a bead, so just sharing to share, plus I only took one bite after finding out what I did. :)

    Fresh Maine Lobster. Yes, I know some people LOVE this stuff, (my father-in-law for one… he slurps it all up, ugh.) but I had never had it before. We were on vacation in Maine with my in-laws and they were SO excited for me to try it. (as was hubby) Mind you, I do NOT care for seafood, one little bit… but I figured I would humor them with a few bites and move on. I mean, everyone was telling me just HOW GREAT this stuff was!

    Upon opening the lobster, well, a bunch of red and green stuff stared back at me. I look up and point and go “what is THAT?” My husband goes “That is eggs and well um…… poop.” I just looked back at him with this look on my face, “you expect me to eat this…. THING…. NOW?” I found some meat in the tail and took a bite and hated it, of course. Not that I would have enjoyed it without finding the green and orange stuff, but that did not help the situation.

    It was a good thing my mother-in-law is allergic to shellfish. She has to make something else for her to eat and had enough to feed me too, so I didn’t starve to death that night. I can’t ever look at a lobster the same.

    • http://www.pawcurious.com Dr. V

      I feel the same way about lobster. eew.

  • elephant

    Do I say caterpillars in the raspberries, or the time I was holding my newborn in the air above my face, making cutesy noises at him, and he vomited right into my open mouth?

    Hard to say which was worse.