Happy Eating Day! (Thanksgiving 2014)
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! And to those readers outside the United States and don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, feel free to eat way too much today… ‘cos let’s face it, nobody over here actually cares about the holiday itself, just the eating. Eating or maybe Football (personally, though, I’m more in it for the Parade and the MST3k marathon than any sports)
So, that’s your special treat for today, but be sure to tune in tomorrow for THE BIG CLIFFHANGER PAGE BEFORE CHRISTMAS STUFF STARTS!
What part of the XalGox proudces the drumsticks, exactly?
I’m pretty sure these are a genetically engineered variety created and bred specifically to have the extra drumsticks.
It of course does reduce their lifespan considerably, but that probably wasn’t much of a concern for a locationally limited seasonal offering.
In THE FUTURE™ there seems to be a very fine line between “Horrible travesty of nature created by demented Mad Scientists” and “Delicious commercial product created by regular scientists”. (and from what we’ve seen, at the Caligari household, there seems to be no line at all between those two things)
I think that at least a few of the instances we’ve seen of Xal-Gox in cups or bowls or cones or whatever actually AREN’T in any of those things, but they were bred with the “containers” as outgrowths of their bodies.
That just raises more questions, like “Are tiny mini-Zal-Gox bred for the breakfast cereal?” or “Do the Xal-Gox that come from vending machines actually live their entire life cycle int he vending machine itself, and you don’t refill the machines with Xal-Gox at all, just occasionally fill it with whatever Xal-Gox eat?”
Wait, would that mean that for Xal-Gox that come in bowls, the bowls are edible too? Because, if they aren’t, why would you go to all the effort to stop them from being edible (as Xal-Gox “Bones” need to be edible, because skulls are hard to eat around), and if they are, why have we not seen Layla eating a cup or a bowl from a Xal-Gox yet!
The cones make sense, though, having a Xal-Gox grow it’s own icecream-cone makes sense.
Maybe the bowls are edible, but Layla just doesn’t like them. It’s like kids who want to eat the soft part of the sandwich bread and leave the crust or something. FOT moms have to admonish their kids to eat their bowls too, not just the Xal-Gox – the bowls are where all the vitamins are!
Just to make things even more complicated, we have no idea if all Xal-Gox come from the same source, or if there’s multiple farms/plants/ranches/whatever that may or may not raise them differently. So some versions of Xal-Gox might come with edible containers, but others might not, and even more might TECHNICALLY be edible but not as other brands. There’s just no way to be sure!
As ubiquitous as they are across the entire, galaxy, there’s got to be hundreds, if not thousands of entire planets, covered completely with nothing but 100% Xal-Gox breeding facilities across their entire surface – even more since the recent trends among consumers towards Free-Range Xal-Gox requires a lot more space to raise them. And that’s just counting the licensed facilities, who knows how many unlicensed counterfeit Xal-Gox farms there are – probably 10x as many as the licensed ones! And, lest we forget, market share has been increasing recently for those off-label knockoff brands that, while technically legal, skirt the edges of trademark law, like Zalgo-X. In blind taste tests, 9 out of 10 consumers couldn’t tell the difference! (And if the blind consumers couldn’t, the sighted ones probably won’t be able to either)