# Fudgeums horrifies me. Horrifies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932 "2006-08-23T19:45:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/21 "2006-08-25T12:59:52Z")
Having never seen this commercial (and, boy, am I glad!) how does one pronounce the name of these things? Is it Fudge-ums or Fudge-Gems? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/22 "2006-08-25T13:20:25Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] Finally, the ‘busca un dominos cerca’ link does not find my nearest Dominos. Why do companies assume everyone lives in the US? [/QUOTE] Typing “Domino’s Pizza Saudi Arabia” into Google gave me a link in which I found Domino’s site for international locations. [I was suprised](http://info.dominos.com/dominos_pizza/contact.nsf/frmIntlLocator?Open&c=Saudi+Arabia) to discover they have 14 Domino’s there. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/23 "2006-08-25T13:24:27Z")
Not to mention there’s also a link on the page which says “Non-U.S. Residents Click Here.” ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/24 "2006-08-25T14:20:57Z")
Not only is Fudge-um’s gross–it can’t dance for shit. I’ve seen better moves come out of Big Bird --oh, wait, let me rephrase that… ---
**Author:** ![parrot\_recipes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@parrot\_recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parrot_recipes)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/25 "2006-08-25T15:18:28Z")
Oh my God. Can a Church of Fudgems be far behind? ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/26 "2006-08-28T16:43:05Z")
[QUOTE=foolsguinea] My mom got those when I was a kid & I’d get into them. Addictive. [/QUOTE] Probably because they were full of [speed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzedrine). ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/27 "2006-08-28T17:13:31Z")
That is just horrifying. What were they smoking? It does remind me of one the Resident Evil games. There was an easter egg where you could play as a character named Tofu. Who was. . . a big block of tofu on legs. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/28 "2006-08-28T17:40:11Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] So disgusting. _Sooo_ disgusting. [/QUOTE] Not to me, probably because I mentally associated Fudgems with a cubical Cousin Itt instead of a cubical piece of shit with legs. I don’t like the commercial because the reactions of mom & kid are so over the top _cute_. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/29 "2006-08-28T17:42:27Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] ‘Brownito’ is the Spanish version? Why? Should he have a name that is (I dunno) Spanish? [/QUOTE] Adding “ito” to a Spanish word makes it refer to a smaller version of said word (e.g. “oso” is bear, “osito” is little bear). Therefore, “Brownito” would be “Little Brownie.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/30 "2006-08-28T18:59:56Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Adding “ito” to a Spanish word makes it refer to a smaller version of said word (e.g. “oso” is bear, “osito” is little bear). Therefore, “Brownito” would be “Little Brownie.” [/QUOTE] Um…except “Brownito” is in no way a Spanish word. That would be like saying “Fudgeito” means “Little Fudge” in Spanish. Dulcito, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/31 "2006-08-30T06:27:54Z")
I am disappointed. They are running a series of adds here for **Domino’s Brownie Squares**. I’ve been cheated, I tell ya! Where is Fudgeums? I await patiently as a good feeder for the next POP-sicle. What do I get? …Brownie squares. I feel like a test market stooge. Don’t you see…this is exact5ly why you should go fudgie. Fuck Middle America~ ---
**Author:** ![parrot\_recipes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@parrot\_recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parrot_recipes)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/32 "2006-08-30T06:34:54Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] So disgusting. _Sooo_ disgusting. [/QUOTE] Right up your alley then. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/33 "2006-08-30T11:54:53Z")
[QUOTE=Dooku] Um…except “Brownito” is in no way a Spanish word. That would be like saying “Fudgeito” means “Little Fudge” in Spanish. Dulcito, perhaps. [/QUOTE] “Moronito” means “little _moron_” (rhymes with _cabron_) and means “tiny brown (thing)”. And yeah, I saw Fudgeums dancing, and he can’t hold a candle to [Domo-kun and a bunch of Japanese cheerleaders](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqlhxsv7XNI) dancing to Olivia Newton John’s _XANADU_. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932/34 "2006-08-30T13:30:57Z")
I saw this commercial the other day. Extremely disturbing to say the least. I found myself strangely transfixed though. I couldn’t look away, I had to see how far they would take it. When the little girl hugged the creature, and came away covered in goo, I have to say, it was one of the most astoundingly, profoundly _wrong_ things I’ve ever seen on television. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fudgeums-horrifies-me-horrifies/369932.md?page=1)