Day 7 Video
Day 7 video is up. Sorry that it includes nothing as funny as yesterday's monkey shots for breakfast. Hard to be creative on day 7. I'll try to get some first meal footage tonight. Chief Medical and Science Advisor Scooby has recommended we whip up some home-made sausages. This flies in the face of hundreds of emails I recieved recommending a slow transition. This is exactly why I have Scooby on board.
I'll also post some more thoughts on the experience as my head clears. Overall I feel pretty good today. My mood is improving and pulling my health up with it.
I'll also post some more thoughts on the experience as my head clears. Overall I feel pretty good today. My mood is improving and pulling my health up with it.
83 Comments:
CONGRATS! You made it. So I have been thinking, you mentioned that very few people understand what it feels like to be hungry. After watching you on this mission I am very curious about what monkey chow tastes like. Clearly, you have inspired me NOT to take on a week long mission but I don't think it would be a bad idea to have a tribute meal. (and from looking at the two huge bags I bet you have more than enough to share)
Here is wishing you luck on your first REAL MEAL (your body will love you and hate you at the same time)
Curious George says good luck :)
A fine close to an interesting, and fun adventure. Thank you for being so candid and honest. You are a rare and wise person.
What I find most interesting is that the experiment started as somewhat of joke, but combined with its own ad hoc community and personal hardship, concluded with substantive new ideas. It's a good illustration of what in philosophy we would call a dialectic.
My sincere thanks for giving me something to chew on (sorry, couldn't resist). I wish you the best in whatever the future holds for you.
T.C.
So glad you got some insight from that odd experiment and thanks for sharing what you learned about hunger and cravings.
I will check out World Vision and Bread for the World (?) 'cause it's always good to be reminded that we can do something about other people's needs (other than flash, that is).
Will you share your first real meal? I think that would certainly be part of the experience.
I'll second the previous anonymous poster's request. You really should do a prologue with Day 8. Show what it's like to transition back to real food, and what an experience the eighth day's first meal is.
I wonder if the monkey food tastes as gross to the monkeys as it does to us. Maybe.
Another hunger-related charity:
http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites
Just click the yellow button and they get an ad impression which they use to buy food, apparently. They probably keep a cut for themselves. I don't know.
More on the effects of inadequate nutrition: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thegoodwar/diary.html
In World War 2 the U.S. carried out "The Minnesota Experiment" to find out the effects of starvation and diet. They had 32 guys living on just barely enough to survive for about a year. By the end, it hurt for them to sit down because the fat had melted off of their rears and they were sitting on bone. They had serious health problems for the rest of their lives.
Congrats on achieving your goal! I've enjoyed the diaries all week.
From the picture of you with the 2 huge bags of food, it looks like you ordered too much. Any plans for the leftovers?
Dude, your the man you made it to day 7 WOW!!!
You entertained so many ppl, you crated a huge buzz, you got ppl talking, and thinking, and as crazy as it is you turned your "stupid idea" in to something real that captured ppls attention, and made us discover things about ourselves thru you. Everyone should act on there ideas more in life.
On top of it all you have drawn a lot of attention, and money hopefully to one of the world biggest, and far to often ignored problems... In a world of plenty we are letting human beings suffer, and die of starvation.
Thank you for your insight.
Your the man.
No, really dude - you are my hero. Keep it up!
Just to clarify, by "keep it up", I mean keep coming up with the ideas and actually _doing_ something about them! Seriously, "If you only ever acted on your good ideas, you wouldn't do much" - that has to be one of the greatest philosophies I've ever heard. Thank you!
Thank you for this, just the simple fact that you followed through on a bad idea with style and honesty.
Also, after reading the first comment on this post, I'm thinking that with all the extra 'kibble' you've got floating around, you could sell some Authentic 'Monkey Chow Diaries' Monkey Chow on e-bay and make quite a bit for the charities of your choice, even if one of those charities is yourself.
Keep chasing down the ideas, at the heart of some ludicrous notion you may just find something great.
peace,
finite
Cyber - thanks for sticking with me all week. Too burned out to say much more, but it was appreciated.
Congrats (I think) on making it all the way through.
Though I think you missed a great opportunity to don a monkey suit for your last video (you at the very least should have flung some poo at the camera). :-(
Cheers,
Ed T.
Thanks for making this week of work go by faster. OK, so technically it still dragged on, but there were a lot more laughs to be had at the expense of everyone's favorite monkey man. {I was laughing with you, not at you}
I admire your humility throughout this whole experiment, most notably your empathy for those who have to survive on less than we do on a daily basis. If you got nothing else out of this, then it was all worth it. I think we would all do well to follow your lead and make a donation to our favorite food-related charitable organization.
Enjoy your last hours of ape-hood, and thanks for the laughs!
Signed,
A new fan in Massachusetts.
So you finally made it!
Gratz.
I have a good idea for the next video.
Eat only McDonalds for a week and see how much weight you gain.
Good luck
Thnkas for sharing all that and congrats on making it through the week!
You have a really sharp and subtle wit -- some of your small comments had me rolling.
Congrats again and best of luck with whatever you do in the future.
Monkey's can't play baseball.
Congratulations! That was something pretty fun to follow. I can't wait for the next time you have an idea, stupid or not!
You rock. You have motivated our entire work! We at NDRI support you!! Go MOnkey Chow oat!!!
:)
WooHOO!
I love you monkey man!
It's been awesome following along with your Monkey Chow experiment!
Way to go on sticking it out to the bitter end.
Dear Adam,
i thought i drop by some thoughts of mine.
i learned some stuff about "tastes" of humans concerning food on university ... for example theres people out there which love a special kind of vegetable, which is extremely sour for us western-sweet-lovers.
in the end .. it all comes down to what kind of food you are used to (what you have been fed all your live .. especialy your very first years of life)
so basicly .. no wonder you cant get enough of that monkey chow into your stomach to kill the hunger.
the only chance to find out if a human can live of monkey chow ... would be ... to eat it for so long .. until you get used to it.
oh .. and about the hunger ... 1 week is exactly the timespan which includes the worst effects of "fresh hunger" .. after one week your body starts to get used to it ... at least mine did: i tested it once .. by only eating 1 bowl of rice+fruit every second day ... for about 1 month)
cheers
(if you care to answer, im on youtube.. same nick)
PS: you got some great idea with this site of yours! :)
Well done sir. Well done!
Here is a suggestion for you.. Find out how much it will cost you to ship a 1 pound bag of Monkey Chow, including materials, your efforts etc. Then tack ten bucks on that. Ship out one pound bags to the first 30 or so people who order them. (or however much monkey chow you have left. Then take that 300 bucks, treat yourself to a top shelf steak dinner, and tack the rest onto your charitable contribution.
It's one of those rare win/win/win situations.
Well Adam,
I kind of stumbled onto your endeavor by accident on Monday, and have followed your hilarious yet painful videos and blog entries since. Congrats on being done! I don't know if you're in the Vancouver area, but if you are, I'd like to buy you a beer or three. I live in Bellingham, WA, right across the border, and just happen to be a brewer that owns a beer store. Drop me a line at poncydickensheets@yahoo.com. Cheers.
Man, you rock. You make me wanna do something like that! email me at bubba11793@bellsouth.net
Also one qustion, where do you get Monkey Chow?
Cool experiment. My sincere regards from Sweden. This is truly what life and internet is all about!
Adam,
I just stumbled on to your experiment today but am glad that I found out in time to congratulate you before your first meal! I'm going to be donating to my local food bank this weekend b/c of you. Just a suggestion for your first meal- you should try to get the same balance of nutrition as monkey chow. Since the first 5 ingredients were carbs, I think you should balance any meat eaten with 2x or 3x the amount of carbs (be it bread, pasta, corn, whatever). This will help your body adjust back to normal food without too much digestive discomfort. :)
Thanks for making me laugh and think on a long Friday!
After watching your videos I'm almost sure I won't ever try monkey chow. So - thanks.
For your sake, I'm so glad it's over! For my sake, I'm not! I"m going to miss hearing you talk. It's been a great week. For me anyway.... :) I'm so proud that out of your suffering you came to understand the suffering of others on several levels. It's quite amazing. If only we could all experience that. Don't ever forget what you learned.
You know, the orangutans and gorillas at the Audubon Zoo eat better than you've been eating this week. My wife and I visited there last weekend; those primates got lots of vegetables and (because it was a hot day) these frozen Gatorade popsicles. No monkey chow, though.
Now that I see that I'm not the first to suggest Followup, I'm happy to see that day seven will lead to day eight (ate?)
I agree with others concerning a slow transition to people food. I suggest something broth-based (egg-drop soup perhaps) and slowly building from there.
Human Chow is a great concept now that you've imagined it. Good spark!
just more laurels. i'm really glad i got to follow this, and hope you enjoy every bit of your return to normal, civilized human primate dietary practice.
do savor (and chew!) your every bite -- you surely will -- and keep having, err, ideas...
and thanks for the laughs and the thoughts!
My friend, I have to day, in the past week, you have become one of my favorite people. This may not mean much to you, but it does too I, since Im going to be living the rest of my life with your name atached to eating nothing but monkey food for a week. Thank you Dan Scott, the Last Angry Young Man.
One week is not enough time to play this experiment out, just when your body is about to adjust to the change you stop. Now we'll never know if a human can survive on Monkey chow. I bet that after a couple more days your body would start adjusting and you'd start to thrive, what a wussy.
You go. Wierd idea, thanks for the entertainment.
(I was, however, laughing at you at times)
Hey, Adam, I loved your videos. You are a seriously funny guy. Great delivery. I think you have a future in comedy.
You mention on your web site that Michael Moore is somebody you admire. Have you tried contacting him? He might be able to help with your donation to hunger causes.
Just an idea. Sorry if this has already been mentioned (I have not read all of the comments).
By the way, I love monkeys so this is what got me interested in your videos.
Thanks, again.
This adventure has been more fun than a barrel of dead monkeys! Speaking of dead monkeys, check out this story from the Tampa Bay Times with the headline (and I am not making this up) "Chimp dies in zoo brawl".
http://www.tbt.com/tampabay/news/article24076.ece
The article doesn't say what the pissed off chimp was eating but we only speculate that it was *Monkey Chow*!! Good thing you stopped at 7 days...
Adam... I finally made it over here! :) This has been an amazing adventure, and how exciting that you've let us all follow your journey. By my calculations, you should be preparing for people food about the time I get this posted. I hope you enjoy it -- you've earned it and you certainly deserve it... and I hope the webcam is rolling when it happens. We who are about to dine, salute you!
--Susan
PS Still figuring out what sorts of goodies I can get through customs to you. :-D
Congratulations! I've laughed (with you?) all week. Here's hoping that whatever you break the diet with stays down and you get to enjoy it. I'm guessing your stomach's not going to be too thrilled with you for a few days. :) Monkey Chow, out!
congrats dude!!! i knew u could make it. Who exactly is this Scooby? imean i know he was the one who gave u the idea but who is he exactly. anyway i have enjoyed the Monkey Chow Diaries immensely and am now a fellow Angry Man fan.
I thought of this monkey-chow diet myself about four years ago, but never followed up on it -- and now I'm amazed that someone else has done it! Congratulations, Angry Adam!
cheers! i'm impressed that you've managed to get chicks to send topless pictures to you as a response to a monkey chow diet and talking about your poop. very impressive.. you can't buy that kind of sex appeal! enjoy your steak, and godspeed on the next big idea.
Congratulations! I salute your will power! I twice had to do a 2-day clear-liquids-only fast before a colonoscopy, so I know how rough it is.
I support the idea of selling little bags of leftover chow on eBay--I'd buy one, because I'm so curious now what it tastes like.
You inspire me in some odd way.
Thank you for that.
I loved every day of your video. You seem like such a sincere, honest, funny, normal guy. You're a great catch.
C'mon man, go for 30 days, and SUPERSIZE IT!
Maybe you could alternate the menu with some gorilla chow, or special monkey chow formula for senior monkeys?
I actually fell into your MCD yesterday and was like Who in the hell is that crazy? I do have to admit that it was exreamly amusing and want to thank you for the advice. I am actually going to the zoo on monday and have decided not to eat food in front of the monkeys. I'm gonna keep watching for more fun stuff...keep it up...Congrats!!!
Peyton Mairegun
Today you mentioned girls sending you pictures and it got me to thinking... did monkey chow affect your sex life at all? Increase/decrease arousal? More of an appeal of hairy large women? etc.?
Hi Monkey jackass. first of all let me reiterate how fucking retarded you are. honestly monkey chow ? Can you say cry for attention any louder. Hey everyone I am a balding jackass that is willing to eat monkey food and put a webcast about it up in hopes that some news site will give me my 35 seconds of shame.. wait I mean fame. I actually watched all of your videos hoping to see you choke on your kibble and die via the web. Honestly you just took 27 steps back in the evolution of man. Thanks a lot fuck face !
Yours truly
Jon
If you make a t-shirt with the monkey giving the finger and your comment about where would we be if we only followed our good ideas, I would buy one.
Nice work dude, nice work
wow. i've only watched up to day 4 so far (i have dial up), but i have to say that in the beginning i was expecting a few laughs, but now i just want to cry. i'm so glad you've stopped at a week with this thing.
take care and keep on fighting the good fight, adam! :)
Howdy dude,
I just had throat surgery and I am fearfully hungry but deadly afraid to eat anything as it is like trying to swallow hot coals mixed with razor blades. Having said this I feel like I have the smooth end of the stick compared to your little endeavour.
My wife adds that it has been "interesting and amusing" to follow your antics. I don't know if it helps at all but it has given us a laugh and right now I am really glad for a bit of a gentle giggle.
Lotsa luck
i have the overwhelming desire be give you the biggest hug imaginable. you are a stronger person than i. (and i thought being vegetarian took a lot of work and will power)
if i said 'i want to have your babies', would that be out of line?
Here's my problem with this entire experimnet... You didn't drag Scooby down into the pit with you... Sure, he'll suggest it to you fully, but if the shoe was on the other foot, would scooby hold out as well as you? As For the rest of it, Well, thats a hell load of will power. Congrats on the conclusion of the entire experience. I also hope you first actual meal was fantastic...
My advise for next time... Get scooby to do it with you, then you don't suffer alone.
I just came accross your video's amd watched them all. Not sure if thanks is in order but I enjoyed listening.
enjoy your human food again !!!
OMG - ypu are too funny! I have not seen something so funny in a long time.
BTW: I had to look up ZuPreem
http://www.zupreem.com/pdf/PrimateDry67.pdf
Check out the line that states:
Highly palatable: Readily consumed and enjoyed
saw you on cnn this morning.
great idea. Ill be sure and watch your progress.
Adam I completely second this:
Anonymous said...
If you make a t-shirt with the monkey giving the finger and your comment about where would we be if we only followed our good ideas, I would buy one.
Man!! I never thought of Eating Monkey Chow for an entire week. You are crazy, and funny at the same time. BTW...The last time I ate health food for a long period of time, then went back to eating the "NORMAL" stuff, it was torturous! Good luck man. If you think that one night spending two hours on the can was bad. Wait til the evening of the first meal! Especially if it's Sausage!! God Bless you!!
Incredible feat. Nicely executed. You really made me think about the hunger people in this world experience and live with daily, and how fortunate we are in North America (Canada here..) for having the luxuries of daily life. And how we take much of those luxuries for granted.
I have a sponsor child in the Philipines, whom I am helping to feed. And I commend you in sending this awesome message out to the world. Help make world hunger history. Thank you for that.
You ate monkey food for 7 days. Not impossible you stupid fuck.
Adam, you rock.
I'm glad this experience will help so many in need.
Tres cool.
It will be interesting to see what happens when you eat normally again initially. I would not recommend beer and nachos immediately.
Love your rants page too by the way! Hilarious.
Thank you for the Nebraska comment. :P I'm from Omaha myself.
keep up the good work man.
peace.
This means that if it isn't already invented - which it most likely is - the coming of dried fodder for humans is imminent.
First let me say, I am no orthographer. But, there is something I have to point out. "Recieved" is spelled received. Your site has a few misspelling of the word. I am generally forgiving of spelling on the Internet but my obsessive compulsive mind will not let that one go as it is a common misspelling of a frequently used word.
I'm a new fan of your stuff and look forward to frequently checking back with your site. It is my wish this letter does not meet your Small List.
Wow, Adam, this was awesome. As someone who's eaten dog biscuits before, I figure it was like that. I have to second the following ideas:
- Sell your remaining stock in small quantities (maybe ten kibbles)
- Give us a followup on your readjustment to people food! It's hardly complete without that. :-)
- Who is this Scooby character who sucked you into this?
Interestingly, the ZuPreem page on this stuff says you're supposed to eat one pound per 35 pounds of body weight. That means you should have eaten nearly 5 lbs of it a day — obviously more than you could choke down.
Checked out the rest of your site. You are a fantastic writer, I really enjoyed reading the stuff you wrote.
need a follow up vid!!!
Hi Angry Monkey-Chow-Eating Man,
So interesting! I learned about you and your site from the New York Times, Business Section today. What is more amazing, that they included a paragraph about you in their review of what's new on the 'Net--or that I actually read that section?! Serendipitousness, as always, rewarded! I see you actually lost a fluctuating 4-5 lbs. Just thanking the powers that be that I'm not a food faddist, or that would have sent me right out to the pet food store. As for your melon, I hope you chose either watermelon or canteloups! Best wishes! Thanks for being so amusing--we need it these days!
What are you going to do with all the spare Monkey Chow?
Wow.
I just stumbled onto this. I'm impressed. I've always wanted to try this. I know that variety in the diet effects quantity consumed, so a human-chow seems like the best thing for some people who are being fed under special circumstances. I don't know what those circumstances would be, but thanks for saving me the trouble of doing it myself.
It would be really good that if you ever decided to do this again would be to follow it through with blood and other physiologic testing.
Thanks for being you.
Is the monkey chow vegan?
My brother says primates are naturally designed to be vegan. Therefore, are you pellets vegan?
Congrats on surviving! Now on to the beef!
i don't know if someone has already sent you this, but every time i read your blog, i had this song in my head. i hope you're a fan. congratulations on surviving, now go get yourself a half pound cheeseburger, you've earned it.
the monkey song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=29eL6dDIyPU&search=animaniac
s%20monkey%20song
Monkey Chow man is the king. I can appreciate your work. Stay strong and quite possibly you'll end up in a new and challenging primate career field.
The Dude
What about a nice week of Soylent green to follow up?
The Grin
Damn, why didn't I think of this first...
Day 8..what happened to day 8 video? (said in the Marvin the Martian voice, ie: "Where's the kaboom, there was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom" )
Also, pick your best video and if they still do, or do again, the Funniest Home Video type show where you get 25,000 dollars, go for it.
followup: on second thought, there is no day 8 video because he checked into the local chinese buffet and hasn't left since 9pm Friday.
Please, please, please, more follow-up? Unless you're trapped on the toilet as a result of the post-chow eating binge, ha! Let us know how it smells ;)
I think what's most interesting is that you've actually felt like reflecting on the state of hunger in the world or emotional reactions to food in general. I'm not sure I'd have been thinking anything other than, "Let me get to day seven without killing anyone, please, God, just that." As for world hunger, there's a lot of starving going on in every country, and one thing any of us can do is donate to local food pantries becuase they certainly need it. I know several of the churches where we live are constantly asking for food donations because they do so much working to feed so many. As a child, I never went hungry, but I do know my mother did several times to make sure my brother and I didn't. Thankfully, that situation changed after a short time, but no one should ever have to suffer from a lack of basic needs.
Take care and eat something decent,
Jennifer
Man, this is a very incredible test of will power and self-discipline I have seen in a while. Have you considered a 30-day experiment?
Anonymous asked if the chow was vegan. In the first video he lists off the ingredients, which include animal fat and eggs. So no.
My idea of bachelor chow is something easily accessed, preserves well, nutrionally complete, edible without utensils, and won't make a mess because bachelors are lazy and likely not adept at laundry mechanics. The solution is frozen spaghetti and meat sauce (at least meat flavored) on a stick. That could be your next experiment, haha... btw, enjoyed your vids, if I discovered them earlier, I would've been rooting for you with e-mails and such.
BTW, the stick woudl be made of monkey chow
Congrats on, not only finishing, but finishing with style. Love the "if you don't act on stupid ideas...." quote. Next dumb thing I do, I will be quoting you...
This is brilliant. I'm going to eat this banana I've had in my fridge for 6 days now. Its the closest thing I get to Monkey Chow in Denmark. ;-) (No yellow colouring on it though)
I've added the Monkey Chow Diaries to my blog.
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