'...then we get bored and do something kind of stupid.'

While searching for something from the June issue, I found an interesting article on Gourmet's Web site that is sort of like my own frightening food finds: "The Gross-Food Movement." Check out this delectable excerpt:

Consider the Taco Town Taco. Inspired by a Saturday Night Live skit of the same name, gross foodie Andrew Sloan and his friends spent hours in an Oklahoma kitchen building this fast-food Frankenstein. Layered among the tortillas and beans were a crèpe stuffed with sausage and eggs, a 'meat lovers’' freezer pizza, and a blueberry pancake. Sloan and friends put it together, dipped it into a vat of batter, and deep-fried it. Then they dropped it into a bucket of vegetarian chili. Then they ate it. A few bites at least.

How did it taste? 'We thought, "If it's all good-tasting stuff, it should all taste good when you put it together,"' says Sloan. 'But when you get a blueberry in the same bite as a pepperoni, it just makes you want to throw up.' So why spend all that time making it? 'We've got big football games down here, and every now and then we get bored and do something kind of stupid.' Sloan's most recent boredom-fueled gross-food creation was a fondue fountain modified to burble chili instead of cheese or chocolate. 'You could just kind of hold the hot dog in your hand and run it under the fountain of chili,' says Sloan. 'In theory at least. It flowed, but it wasn't quite as beautiful as we had imagined.'

As you may already know, Gentle Reader, I was born and raised in Oklahoma, so I can attest to the "big" football games and the stupidity of many a people who attend them. However, I have to admit I'm surprised someone in Oklahoma had the...ingenuity to rig up a fondue fountain to burble forth chili. That strikes me as a beer-fueled moment's inspiration from a Texas tailgater.

If you don't read the article, do at least check out one of the blogs it references, "This Is Why You're Fat." I dare you to look at any of the pictures posted there and even consider the photos' contents to be edible food. And just as a fair warning, make sure you haven't eaten shortly before viewing the site.