# Minty-fresh toilet bowls and other vaguely inappropriate products **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769 "2002-07-31T22:38:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/21 "2002-08-03T01:01:00Z")
Any cat food products that are beef or pork-flavoured have always seemed a little weird to me - I imagine my little puddins taking down a full-grown cow and munching away on it. It would last them a year! Cows are definitely not a natural food of the common housecat. (Now, mouse or sparrow-flavoured foods - THAT makes sense to me!) ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/22 "2002-08-03T05:34:32Z")
I found some [orange-flavored milk](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=90971&highlight=orange+milk) once. It has disturbed me ever since. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/23 "2002-08-03T07:30:28Z")
Those heat-reactive t-shirts (the ones popular in the early 90s) struck me as rather weird. I mean, what are you trying to do, get people to feel you? Well, maybe that really was the point. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/24 "2002-08-03T14:33:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*Any cat food products that are beef or pork-flavoured have always seemed a little weird to me - I imagine my little puddins taking down a full-grown cow and munching away on it. It would last them a year! Cows are definitely not a natural food of the common housecat. (Now, mouse or sparrow-flavoured foods - THAT makes sense to me!) \*\* I have sitting before me one interesting tome, titled **" Vegetarian Cats & Dogs", by James A. Peden**. A lot of his thoughts on this subject can be found here, at the [Vegan Cats and Dogs](http://www.peta.org/mc/facts/fsc14.html) home page. I kid you not. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/25 "2002-08-03T19:08:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Chocolate chip bagels? That’s not a bagel, that’s a donut made of bread! - Lea Delaria ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/26 "2002-08-03T19:11:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > Another “hunh?” product, with a side order of dangerous - those little silver balls that my mom used to decorate cakes with. They were only slightly less tough than your average bb - broken teeth just waiting to happen. Especially if one got into the cake where you could bite down on it without seeing it. Those aren’t edible? ---
**Author:** ![MIKE\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MIKE\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MIKE_P)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/27 "2002-08-03T19:31:08Z")
While walking down the frozen food isle I discovered these odd flavored french fries,I think they were called Oreda Funky Fries or something like that: Chocolate Pink and Blue Cinnamon Sour Cream and Chives :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/28 "2002-08-03T20:18:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\* > > Those aren’t edible? \*\* The deal with those little silver balls is that they ARE edible - barely. I personally couldn’t eat one now - my teeth really would break. ( **MIKE\_P** , those really are strange flavours for fries, but with my taste for fries dipped in a chocolate shake, I probably would like the chocolate ones. Excuse me, I think I have to go to McDonald’s now.) ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/29 "2002-08-03T21:12:06Z")
Four years of boarding school food mean that anything (except plain pasta and rice and meatballs) is edible if it’s food:) And some stuff that isn’t (including boarding school cafeteria material). ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/30 "2002-08-04T14:18:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\ ***Cukelope** : A long thick cylindrical food with a bumpy surface, filled with dark orange meat. Frequently held in hand and eaten in a series of enthusiastic chomps. > 😃 \*\* Are you serious?? That sounds disgusting on oh-so-many levels… I love cukes and I love canteloups, but ACK!! :eek: I need to settle my stomach… where are those donuts? ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/31 "2002-08-04T15:30:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*A friend of mine brought back a whole bunch of disposable paper underwear from Japan to give away as gifts. \*\* Paper underwear? This is one way I _definitely_ don’t want to get a paper cut! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/32 "2002-08-04T16:08:24Z")
I remember from when I was still living with my parents, we had a can of either roach- or ant-killer, which was _pine-scented_. Yikes! Just what we need, a toxic, probably carcinogenic product that encourages people to inhale it deeply. In Asian grocery stores, there’s a line of trashy snack foods and desserts called, and I’m not making this up, “Hot-Kid,” with a logo of an ecstatic little boy, spreadeagled, mouth open wide, eyes turned up in eager expectation, and wearing a sort of topless jumper thing. I’ve shown these to friends and they couldn’t believe it. Hot-Kid makes everything from the “It Tastes Really Good CRUNCHY STICK” to the “WANT WANT LOVELY PUFF (Chocolate Flavour),” to my favorite, a big box containing an eensy-weensy little sealed bag of tiny, relatively flavorless candies (the entire package is in Japanese), but which comes with a life-size plastic model of one of four species of big beetles, the kind that are popular children’s pets in Japan. A surprisingly elaborate model, with different parts that have to be snapped together… the wings, mandibular parts, and thorax can be moved! So, if you don’t mind having to settle for the wussy Pez-wannabee candies (that look like Altoids) that come with your magnificent, anatomically detailed, life-size plastic beetle toys, then this is the Hot-Kid treat for you! 😃 That, and wine coolers on general principle. Bleccch! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/33 "2002-08-04T18:14:38Z")
Scented fingernail polish - does anybody use/like this stuff? Do my fingernails really need to smell pretty? Is there an issue with smelly fingernails that I’m not aware of? And then there’s Dove Antiperspirant with moisturizers for your underarms. I have _never_ felt that dryness was a problem with my underarms - maybe there are people in the world that want their underarms moisturized. I can’t imagine anyone needing that, but who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/34 "2002-08-04T20:56:00Z")
I’ve seen this a couple of times in the dairy section: pre-cooked pancakes in tubs. If you’re not going to make real pancakes, why not just get Eggos or other frozen waffles? The black pantyliners freak me out, too. I get itchy just thinking of it. ---
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/35 "2002-08-04T23:01:22Z")
Those jars of both peanut butter and jelly have always struck me as wrong. I mean, it bugs the crap out of me when I get just a _little_ bit of peanut butter in my jelly jar or vice versa. I know they end up together on the sandwich, but mixing up in the jar is just…I don’t know…unnatural. I bet you have this too, **BiblioCat**? 🙂 And how about those huge bags of pre-popped popcorn. Yeah, you get ten pounds for a quarter or something like that, but who wants to eat popcorn that was popped two hours ago, much less two weeks? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/36 "2002-08-04T23:53:43Z")
Okay, confession time. I eat Wal-Mart bagged popcorn. It tastes GOOD. It’s extremely old, and yet not stale. It’s firm, and tasty, and not too salty. It’s also 22 pounds for $ 1.75… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/37 "2002-08-05T02:03:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peasea \* > **Those jars of both peanut butter and jelly have always struck me as wrong. I mean, it bugs the crap out of me when I get just a _little_ bit of peanut butter in my jelly jar or vice versa. I know they end up together on the sandwich, but mixing up in the jar is just…I don’t know…unnatural. I bet you have this too, BiblioCat? 🙂** Sorry, no, even my kids have standards. 😉 But you know what I do make for them? PB&J rolled up on a tortilla. Spread a little PB on a tortilla, leaving a little bare edge all around, then spoon a line of jelly down the middle, roll up and enjoy. Yummy! What? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/38 "2002-08-05T08:18:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monica \* > \*\*Spencer’s has edible panties…I was just thinking, what happens when someone gets a little exuberant in trying to eat them off, and ends up taking a bite out of something else? \*\* Perhaps that’s the idea. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by The Scrivener_ > **In Asian grocery stores, there’s a line of trashy snack foods and desserts called, and I’m not making this up, “Hot-Kid,” with a logo of an ecstatic little boy, spreadeagled, mouth open wide, eyes turned up in eager expectation, and wearing a sort of topless jumper thing.** Well, now we know where the [disturbing dance costume](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=126340) has its origins. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/39 "2002-08-07T01:53:35Z")
Warning: The thread that **Rilchiam** links to is about a link to an ebay item that is dangerously close to kiddie porn. Go there at your own risk to your peace of mind (I wish I had never seen it). (There’s nothing vague about how inappropriate _that_ ebay item is.) (Okay, now I’ve just made people more curious about what it links to - it links to a used leather boy outfit for sale, modelled by what looks like an 12 year old boy, bought by a probable pedophile, and is quite sleazy.) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769/40 "2002-08-07T02:58:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*Another “hunh?” product, with a side order of dangerous - those little silver balls that my mom used to decorate cakes with. They were only slightly less tough than your average bb - broken teeth just waiting to happen. Especially if one got into the cake where you could bite down on it without seeing it. \*\* Silver dragees. You’re not supposed to eat them-they’re inedible. I think they’re mildly poisonous-at least, that’s what I believe Snopes said. But I’m too close to bed time to look it up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minty-fresh-toilet-bowls-and-other-vaguely-inappropriate-products/121769.md?page=3)