the whole reason for this is corn dog nuggets.



So I started thinking about corn dog nuggets, these delicious little corn dogs bites sans stick. It really is an ingenious creation.

I mean one, I'm a huuuuuge fan of corn dogs in general. Growing up whenever we went to Myrtle Beach for the summer my older sister and I would only want 3 things from the grocery store for the week. Drumstick ice creams, cereal, and corn dogs. Our schedule: wake up, eat cereal, go play in the ocean for hours, eat corn dogs, play in ocean more, pass out from exhaustion. Ohhhhh man was it fun!

Secondly, I'm a big patron of bite-sized foods. Especially candies. Kit kat bites....bum. M&M's.....bum. Bite-sized Snickers....bum. Hell even the Mr. Goodbar allows for the transformation into bite-sized form via careful scoring. So yeah I don't understand why more people don't buy into the bite-sized craze. I mean why wouldn't they?! Your food it already divided into small enough pieces for your mouth, you can have the illusion of eating a whole lot more. Instead of being like ooooh 1 candy bar, you can be like ooooooh 10 mini candy bars. And well I'm no expert but I think 10 sounds a lot cooler than 1. At least when it comes to candy.

But anyways, the joy of bite-sizing is not just for candy. Lets take a look at some other foodstuffs divided into delightful smallish pieces. MMM grapes! One of nature's own bite sized creations. They're so small but so delicious and fun filled! I personally enjoy peeling the skin off of them with my teeth then eating them. This usually lasts for about 3 grapes before I give up. Strawberries however are the work of Satan, I do not endorse them at all. What about, what abouuuuut.....TATER TOTS! whooooooa do I need even explain....the world of deep friend hashbrown-esque potato-y goodness all in tot form. And may I also say, these buggers are exxxxcelllent when eaten by the bucket with sushi :D. And well of course there are chicken nuggets, probably the most common of smallish foods, even if not privy to the wide world of bite-size most people have tasted these little poultry delicacies. As a child I was quite taken with the chicken nugget, more specifically the chicken MCnugget. I did not want anything to do with any non MCnugget. Strangely enough now I will not go anywhere near the MCnugget, while I am still a fan of the chicken nugget in general. Aside, it is also great fun to heavily emphasize the MC in mcnugget.

So enough on the separate worlds of corn dogs and bite-sized foods, TOGETHER I say! Yes, the corn dog nugget, one of the most amazing innovations of the 20th century. The way I see it: Television, Internet, Corn Dog Nugget. Here is actually the real meat of my blogging, the catalyst** for this entire train of thought.

I started thinking about how McDonald's for a hot minute back in the early 90's sold corn dogs nuggets, and wondered if anyone else freaking remembered that. HOL-Y CRAP! those suckers were good. Any why the hell doesn't McDonald's still sell them? I mean even as just as seasonal item, like the McRib. I firmly believe that if the McRib were not a seasonal and limited time only menu item that not many people would buy it. I mean it's not even bite-sized, plus it's shaped like it has bones and does not, and well that's just odd. But it always makes me think of the Batmobile....I've been a sucker for advertising for faaaar longer than I'd like to believe. At least I'm hoping to capitalize on it now....but that's an entire other blog for another time.

But anyways the corn dog nugget from McDonald's was amazing, and short lived. I miss you little buddy. However, years later I found that A&W, which might have been called All American Food, might have been called Hot Dogs and More, I don't remember but I'm pulling for the latter, well they had corn dog nuggets on their menu. WHOA. Yes, so many a time in middle school and high school I remember sitting at the mall, being on of those non-driving mall dwellers who flat out freak me out now, waiting for the movie to start across the street and partaking in some delicious corn dog nuggets. See now I live right across the street from an A&W and you'd think "whooo hooo my time has come!" but no....they don't serve them! What the CRAP is up with that. I don't know. So alas I sit and wait for the time when my fairweather friends, the corn dog nugget will surface once more. And I remember better times, like every other Friday in high school when it was corn dog nugget day, and all of us in the broadcast studio cheered aloud when reading the lunch menu for the day.







**CATALYST-- so this was completely off the topic of corn dog nuggets so I decided to save it for a sort of post script or addendum to my blog. So as I was sitting there writing I hit a block in which I needed a word, a word that I knew exactly what it was, what it meant, and even how it started, but alas could not discern. I sat contemplating for about 3 mins, then turned to a friend on iM, and started searching on Google, all of which proved fruitless. So I'm sitting here RACKING my brain for this word, because once I get stuck on a word that I want to use and can't think of, I cannot move on until it has been figured out. Probably a good thing I'm not planning on being a professional writer.

But anyways, I'm not coming up with anything when I realize the saddest part of this situation, not only am I stuck with this word I know and can't think of....but I also have in my mind a film in which the word is used as well as the entire context of the scene it which it is used. This both saddens me as well and excites me to no end. The film you ask? Groove. It's an independent production based around rave-culture in the late 90's/early 00's. It's a really stellar film and gives a nice insight into the whole culture (not that I could really verify it as correct) that seems much more accurate and less Hollywood-ized than it's counterpart of the same period, Go (which I also enjoy quite thoroughly, don't get me wrong). But anyways there's this one part when the characters (which don't ask me who they are or their stories because I haven't seen this film since about 01 at the absolute latest) are at this rave and are taking some ecstasy and drinking orange juice. So what does this have to do with anything....well the orange juice they say acts as a CATALYST for the drug. BOOM!!! words in action. So yeah I remembered this moment, this word, and it's meaning, for yeaaaaars to come. And dredged it from the bottoms of the fen which is my mind to bring to this ever so illustrious blog, on the topic of corn dog nuggets.