Recieved one of the best emails ever from "h" with subject line "Monkey Chow Motivation". Tried to write back but am getting blocked by comcast. Great sense of humour and incredble motivation - please write again.
Hey, there's that old saying that the body is a temple. I'm glad to meet someone else who thinks of the body as a laboratory. :-)
A couple of months ago, I ate nothing but rice (with salt) for a week. I was only eating 1200 calories a day -- I didn't plan it that way, rice is just boring and bulky -- and I wasn't hungry at all. Bear in mind that dropping to 2000 calories a day makes me lose about a kilo a week; I figured 1200 a day would make me ravenous, but I was okay. I was a little tired, a little slow, but I could function at work just fine.
A friend of mine who is reknowned for her hyperacute sense of smell also said I lost my body odor! I'm thinking of eating rice and butter for a week to see how that affects my smell. I wonder if someone could use this for hunting, to disguise oneself from animals that detect you by smell.
Question - back in Video Blog 3 you discussed the financial advantages of eating Monkey Chow. Where the figures presented in Canadian Dollars, or Real Money? If it was in Canadian Dollars, let me know and I will do some figuring to figure out aboot how much real money you would be saving. (Note, real money = Euros; us yanks are screwed...).
I will donate $1 to the nutrition or primate related charity of your choice for every day you stick to this diet. Minimum 8 days (time served included), maximum 31 days.
They seriously should create Monkey Chow that includes "human primates" aswell.It would still be Cheap, needs no preparation, contains all the nutrients needed, and palatable to humans. I think there's a market for that. It's called college.
yeah I wrote that thing on monkey chow that includes people. One question: Have you consulted your physician and ask his opinion on your new diet? Just wanted to know how they'd respond.
I live pretty close to the plant where they make food like this for many animals. The city I live in actually paid several million dollars to convince the company to move like 30 miles south so that their city wouldn't stink so bad anymore.
The plant gets dead animals by the truckload. I don't know where they come from but maybe roadkill that hasn't decomposed too bad. It's a mix, so it's not like their raising some animal and slaughtering it.
I talked to a guy who was doing the electrical work on the new plant (the one 30 miles away). He told me they load the animals on large hooks, which carry them from the different rooms. The rooms have names like "the blood room", if that gives you any idea.
First their put through large rollers, where the liquid (blood, urine, whatever) is squeezed out of the animals. They then proceed to large chopper blades like you'd see in a move and are cut up into tiny bits.
I'm not sure what else goes on but the animals are ionized or disinfected somehow.
From all this there are two results. One is a brown powder that smells like feces and dog food put together. The other is sorta of a whipped jello looking substance. The brown powder gets made into food for animals (dogs, cats, MONKIES, etc.). Not sure where the other stuff goes.
Awesome idea and great site. Thanks. I went to the Zupreem web site and saw that you can also have some Monkey O's Foraging treats for snacks. Break open a bag, throw it around the room and explore your inner monkey. You Swing, MC Angry Man!
Did you think of hanging up a big tire to swing on?
And, hey, why don't you invite "inCurious George" to share a meal with you? You know who I mean - he lives in a big white house near Virginia. I don't know his telephone number but maybe your senator could hook you two up...
I'm struggling with my weight myself, so I thought I'd read your blog to see how you were doing, like, maybe I could switch from Lean Cuisine to Monkey Chow. I've decided to can have my share.
Good luck to you. And if you should see Jane, you're hallucinating...
I think this is a great idea. Did you have to pretend to run a zoo to get the monkey food? Maybe the company that makes it could create a human line. As for the details on animal fat, it doesn't sound much worse than what goes into jello, and jello's pretty alright.
HAhaa I'm feeling for angryman's inner monkey right about now. Mostly because it's 2 in the morning and I'm still at work, feeling a bit like a monkey at my desk... but that's not the only reason.
In any case, my middle school health class project centered around a question directly related to the experiment in progress, and uncovered some information which may yet prove of interest.
My project's central question was quite straightforward: Is There a Perfect Food?
In addition to doing some basic research of the FDA allowances and basic metabolism, etc, I interviewed a professional nutritionist. In my youthful naïveté -- or was I actually on to something? -- I envisioned some kind of cheaply available, relatively uniformly textured, processed substance that could be comprise the entire nutritive requirements of a human primate.
(Admittedly, I had probably seen Soylent Green for the first time not too long before that.)
As you might expect, the nutritionist wasn't having it. She was all about variety in source, color, texture, quantity, composition, and any other gastronomic variable you might imagine. I rather vividly remember her saying, "no single food contains all the nutrients required by the human diet."
After the interview, however, I found a short reference, tucked in some corner of the local library, to a food substance developed for poverty-stricken regions -- one that had the very qualities of Monkey Chow brand primate food that inspired (or at least encouraged) this venerable weeklong endeavor.
With my still undeveloped research skills, I had quite a bit of trouble finding much more than that one reference, and don't think I had much success beyond one or two more very short references. In any case, it was all quite some time ago, and my memory is a bit spotty.
Clearly (and angryman was fully aware of this, I assume), there are nutritive disadvantages to any fully uniform diet -- those being outweighed, of course, if you are poor and starving to death, very lazy, or apparently if you are a non-human primate -- but just such a food HAS, at least experimentally and perhaps in practice, been developed for humans. That much I can confirm. I've even seen a picture of the stuff. It looked greyish.
Unfortunately, I can't remember or find the actual name of the food. I believe it started with an S, and had three or four syllables, but could be wrong. I'm hot on the trail, though, and will let you know whether I learn anything.
I would hope that it would be more palatable than processed monkey food, at least.
Adam: Keep reading and rereading the more inspiring and encouraging emails, and I will look forward to your next dispatch. Ninly out.
Wow, you are one brave and dedicated soul. Keep it up man, you are almost there! If you're ever in California I'd like to cook you a meal, or at least buy you one.
You sure have some great will-power!! Enjoying your videos and that canned crap looked so disgusting - did you ever finish the whole can??? (I truly doubt it.) I think you deserve a really great meal of your favorites after this week is over...but take it easy, eating too much rich food after starving yourself on monkey chow may send to to an extended visit to the bathroom. What do you plan as your first meal after monkey chow week?
if that Atkins guy could convince people to shell out huge wads of cash for an all-meat diet, you might be on to something: the poor man's diet regime.
write a book! repackage & rebrand the extra bag of monkey chow you've got lying around, and sell it for $3/day--it's still comparable to Ramen!
Once, I too considered a nothin-but-kibble diet, seeing the same cost and convience advantages AYM has pointed out. I wasn't as resourceful in my choice however(i tried PC dry cat food). Sadly i wasn't able to get over the taste issue. I'm 28yo and just too conditioned to real food. But shall i ever decide to have kids...
I haven't completely read your site but I wanted check if you had looked into the possibility that "Monkey-Chow" might be trade marked. In high school I unloade train cars full of various Purina feeds and all were called "_______-chow". I think I even remember unloading a car-load of "Monkey-Chow". Just lookin' out for ya'! Tim
btw: "Trout-Chow" is some stinky, greasy, heinous stuff.
mark jude poirier wrote a short story about die-hard broke mountain climbers in Flagstaff who save money be eating, you guessed it, it's the name of the story...
You should dig up MFK Fisher's "How to Cook a Wolf". Her recipe goes something like
One of the most interesting and intensely practical suggestions Mrs. Fisher makes is in a chapter called, with grim frankness, ''How to Keep Alive.'' She does not recommend it to gourmets but to those who have failed to keep the wolf on the outside of the door, and would be grateful for a recipe that would feed a whole family for four days for fifty cents. Fifteen cents' worth of ground beef (not hamburger), ten cents' worth of ground whole grain cereal, twenty-five cents' worth of inferior, coarser, tougher vegetables, carrots, celery, cabbage, onions are needed. After proper boilings, choppings, mixings and coolings, you have a paste Mrs. Fisher calls ''sludge.'' It may sound depressing, but it is superbly nutritious for the cost. ''You can eat it cold and not suffer much, if your needs are purely animal and unfinanced, but if you can heat what you want two or three times a day it will probably taste much better.'' Not only is it good for people, it is ideal fare for dogs.
One thing you haven't mentioned in your dalies is your energy level. Monkey Chow may have the basic minimal nutrients you need to survive but it's not worth it if you're tired & sluggish all day. How do you feel? Can you function as normal? Could you continue to work & live if this were the only food available to you?
I second the suggestion for adding fruit to your current diet. It wouldn't be cheating. Even monkeys in the zoo get fresh fruit. Monkeys in the wild eat even better.
Be careful when you return to your normal diet. The protien overload of a steak could make you sick. I would go with cereal & fruit the first day back & ease into the meat. It might not be so bad since it's only been a week but still, be careful & watch what you eat.
I'm getting worried. You look so depressed in the videos, at times like you're about to burst into tears. I hope you make it through this ok. Above all, good luck & take care of yourself.
Has Purina given you hassles about your use/misuse of the 'Monkey Chow' trade mark?
As far as I can tell you're not eating Monkey Chow but another product and you are using 'Monkey Chow' as a generic term for monkey food.
That is all fair enough but corporate trade mark lawyers tend to lack both a sense of humor and a sense of perspective. It wouldn't surprise me if you get a cease and desist letter asking you to take down any use of their trade mark.
Monkeys are adapted a diet much different from humans (especially Homo Urbanus). While I applaud your efforts, I feel what you really out to do is work with the industry to come up with Human Chow. Simple, nutritionally balanced and pellitized food available in bulk would represent the next step in our evolution.
What an interesting idea. I wonder how great everything will taste when you switch to regular food. Oh yeah you definitely need to stock your cupboards with your favorite stuff for at least as long as you do this MC diet. Good job! Good luck!
This is great and all, but how are you going to follow it?
You could reenact some of the funny monkey videos we've all seen, like the ass touching/hand smelling/falling out of a tree one, or maybe just the peeing in its own mouth one. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to watch.
I used to have a pet monkey. She was a Rhesus. A little illegal immigrant, though. We bought a big bag of monkey chow for her. She wouldn't touch the stuff. We tried covering her eyes after we showed her a grape and had her hold her hand out. When we put the monkey chow in her hand, she would open her eyes, see the chow, jump into the air and start wiping her hand as if she had poop on it.
I just saw this for the first time yesterday, and it's great. Now I'm curious about what you do for a living? Are you going to work with a brown bag lunch of monkey chow? Keep it up!
I salute you for being strong enough to be the subject in your own experiment.
Just a suggestion: Don't they also feed the monkey's various fruits ? A bannana, maybe an orange ? I know when I visit the Zoo they often hide the fruit for the monkey to find.
It's bloody brilliant! The idea of not having to cook & clean, I mean. You think there must be a company that can produce something nutricious and tasteful.
Anyway, hang in there! You're allmost there. And enjoy all the nice things that are happening to you right now.
Hi Just wanted to tell you that I have truly enjoyed watching your site the past few days. It's amazing how such a simple concept can be so intriguing. Keep it up! You're gonna make it!
You are absolutely right not to eat the fruit to keep the initial idea behind the experiment alive (spend as little time, and money on your nutritional needs).
I do agree w/ some of the ppl that say you should go see a Dr. when you are done, or maybe a Vet.
P.S. I'm going crazy tring to find H's comment, where is it?
Have you had certain primate urges whilst watching Animal Planet yet? lol Seriously though, I found your site and I find you a hilarious bloke indeed. From the stuff you write on your blog down to your video diaries, you just crack me up!! If you keep this up, you might find yourself on Jay Leno or Oprah...now there's motivation for ya! Hee hee :P
Angryman, Keep up the good work. You have a new career in comedy. I truly haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Very funny stuff. You should work with the folks at www.cockeyed.com to come up with some a whole new category of "science" experiment. You made my day. I hope to see you on Leno in the near future. Mike
One of the goofy things that you see for less than a second during the credits of "Futurama" is Bachelor Chow... I don't know if Matt Groenig copyrighted the name or not, but that's even funnier than Human Chow to me. :)
don't worry about what sam said at 10:11pm. He gets confused. That was the cheerios plant he was refering to. Given the fact that there are tolerances for even people food, ie: cereal is allowed a certain percentage of rat turds, and over your lifetime you probably eat alot, I wouldn't worry so much about what's in monkey chow as far as food products. Chemicals and what not, those I'd worry about.
As for monkey's being stuck eating something that tastes that we think of bad...I recall trying baby formula once. Real nasty stuff, yet little babies consume it willingly all the time.
there, you read all this and now its 2 minutes closer to something non-crunchy and non-dry to eat. Have you decided what it's gonna be? this is like a last supper in reverse. Choose wisely:)
I will point out that a bunch have said easy does it on that first meal. I've watched the TV show Survivor and been surprised when folks haven't eaten much for a week then win a drinking prize with pringles yet don't get sick. I think you have to go much longer before food intake might effect you. Then again, who wants to take a chance and end up sick. There...another 30 seconds closer. One more day to go!
Adam, Now, what I'm really interested in is how you're going to get rid of your extra Monkey Chow. No doubt you'll have some left over. Have you been planning some less-than-flattering way to 'dispose' of the leftovers? Or should the just go in the cabinet next to the cereal in case you ever get the craving again? No matter how long you hold out on this journey, you'll always have the most impressive story in a crowd! Good for you. -Joz-
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Hey, there's that old saying that the body is a temple. I'm glad to meet someone else who thinks of the body as a laboratory. :-)
A couple of months ago, I ate nothing but rice (with salt) for a week. I was only eating 1200 calories a day -- I didn't plan it that way, rice is just boring and bulky -- and I wasn't hungry at all. Bear in mind that dropping to 2000 calories a day makes me lose about a kilo a week; I figured 1200 a day would make me ravenous, but I was okay. I was a little tired, a little slow, but I could function at work just fine.
A friend of mine who is reknowned for her hyperacute sense of smell also said I lost my body odor! I'm thinking of eating rice and butter for a week to see how that affects my smell. I wonder if someone could use this for hunting, to disguise oneself from animals that detect you by smell.
Question - back in Video Blog 3 you discussed the financial advantages of eating Monkey Chow. Where the figures presented in Canadian Dollars, or Real Money? If it was in Canadian Dollars, let me know and I will do some figuring to figure out aboot how much real money you would be saving. (Note, real money = Euros; us yanks are screwed...).
I will donate $1 to the nutrition or primate related charity of your choice for every day you stick to this diet. Minimum 8 days (time served included), maximum 31 days.
They seriously should create Monkey Chow that includes "human primates" aswell.It would still be Cheap, needs no preparation, contains all the nutrients needed, and palatable to humans. I think there's a market for that. It's called college.
You must be pretty stupid.
yeah I wrote that thing on monkey chow that includes people. One question: Have you consulted your physician and ask his opinion on your new diet? Just wanted to know how they'd respond.
FYI when I use the word "his" I am talking about "his/her"
Yeah I dunno why I'm so anal about this
I live pretty close to the plant where they make food like this for many animals. The city I live in actually paid several million dollars to convince the company to move like 30 miles south so that their city wouldn't stink so bad anymore.
The plant gets dead animals by the truckload. I don't know where they come from but maybe roadkill that hasn't decomposed too bad. It's a mix, so it's not like their raising some animal and slaughtering it.
I talked to a guy who was doing the electrical work on the new plant (the one 30 miles away). He told me they load the animals on large hooks, which carry them from the different rooms. The rooms have names like "the blood room", if that gives you any idea.
First their put through large rollers, where the liquid (blood, urine, whatever) is squeezed out of the animals. They then proceed to large chopper blades like you'd see in a move and are cut up into tiny bits.
I'm not sure what else goes on but the animals are ionized or disinfected somehow.
From all this there are two results. One is a brown powder that smells like feces and dog food put together. The other is sorta of a whipped jello looking substance. The brown powder gets made into food for animals (dogs, cats, MONKIES, etc.). Not sure where the other stuff goes.
Anyway, enjoy your meals.
Awesome idea and great site. Thanks.
I went to the Zupreem web site and saw that you can also have some Monkey O's Foraging treats for snacks.
Break open a bag, throw it around the room and explore your inner monkey.
You Swing, MC Angry Man!
As far as the animal food production plant description, it sounds a lot like the plants described in "Food Nation" that make our hamburger meat.
Did you think of hanging up a big tire to swing on?
And, hey, why don't you invite "inCurious George" to share a meal with you? You know who I mean - he lives in a big white house near Virginia. I don't know his telephone number but maybe your senator could hook you two up...
I'm struggling with my weight myself, so I thought I'd read your blog to see how you were doing, like, maybe I could switch from Lean Cuisine to Monkey Chow. I've decided to can have my share.
Good luck to you. And if you should see Jane, you're hallucinating...
Norm
Keep it up! You can do it! Only two more days and you can pig out on hamburgers.
I think this is a great idea. Did you have to pretend to run a zoo to get the monkey food? Maybe the company that makes it could create a human line. As for the details on animal fat, it doesn't sound much worse than what goes into jello, and jello's pretty alright.
HAhaa I'm feeling for angryman's inner monkey right about now. Mostly because it's 2 in the morning and I'm still at work, feeling a bit like a monkey at my desk... but that's not the only reason.
In any case, my middle school health class project centered around a question directly related to the experiment in progress, and uncovered some information which may yet prove of interest.
My project's central question was quite straightforward: Is There a Perfect Food?
In addition to doing some basic research of the FDA allowances and basic metabolism, etc, I interviewed a professional nutritionist. In my youthful naïveté -- or was I actually on to something? -- I envisioned some kind of cheaply available, relatively uniformly textured, processed substance that could be comprise the entire nutritive requirements of a human primate.
(Admittedly, I had probably seen Soylent Green for the first time not too long before that.)
As you might expect, the nutritionist wasn't having it. She was all about variety in source, color, texture, quantity, composition, and any other gastronomic variable you might imagine. I rather vividly remember her saying, "no single food contains all the nutrients required by the human diet."
After the interview, however, I found a short reference, tucked in some corner of the local library, to a food substance developed for poverty-stricken regions -- one that had the very qualities of Monkey Chow brand primate food that inspired (or at least encouraged) this venerable weeklong endeavor.
With my still undeveloped research skills, I had quite a bit of trouble finding much more than that one reference, and don't think I had much success beyond one or two more very short references. In any case, it was all quite some time ago, and my memory is a bit spotty.
Clearly (and angryman was fully aware of this, I assume), there are nutritive disadvantages to any fully uniform diet -- those being outweighed, of course, if you are poor and starving to death, very lazy, or apparently if you are a non-human primate -- but just such a food HAS, at least experimentally and perhaps in practice, been developed for humans. That much I can confirm. I've even seen a picture of the stuff. It looked greyish.
Unfortunately, I can't remember or find the actual name of the food. I believe it started with an S, and had three or four syllables, but could be wrong. I'm hot on the trail, though, and will let you know whether I learn anything.
I would hope that it would be more palatable than processed monkey food, at least.
Adam: Keep reading and rereading the more inspiring and encouraging emails, and I will look forward to your next dispatch. Ninly out.
Wow, you are one brave and dedicated soul. Keep it up man, you are almost there! If you're ever in California I'd like to cook you a meal, or at least buy you one.
Come on dude, 30 days, you can do it. I will watch every day.
30 days!!!!
You sure have some great will-power!! Enjoying your videos and that canned crap looked so disgusting - did you ever finish the whole can??? (I truly doubt it.) I think you deserve a really great meal of your favorites after this week is over...but take it easy, eating too much rich food after starving yourself on monkey chow may send to to an extended visit to the bathroom. What do you plan as your first meal after monkey chow week?
if that Atkins guy could convince people to shell out huge wads of cash for an all-meat diet, you might be on to something: the poor man's diet regime.
write a book! repackage & rebrand the extra bag of monkey chow you've got lying around, and sell it for $3/day--it's still comparable to Ramen!
Once, I too considered a nothin-but-kibble diet, seeing the same cost and convience advantages AYM has pointed out. I wasn't as resourceful in my choice however(i tried PC dry cat food). Sadly i wasn't able to get over the taste issue. I'm 28yo and just too conditioned to real food. But shall i ever decide to have kids...
-Simdave (28@hotmail), Halifax, CA
I haven't completely read your site but I wanted check if you had looked into the possibility that "Monkey-Chow" might be trade marked. In high school I unloade train cars full of various Purina feeds and all were called "_______-chow". I think I even remember unloading a car-load of "Monkey-Chow". Just lookin' out for ya'!
Tim
btw: "Trout-Chow" is some stinky, greasy, heinous stuff.
mark jude poirier wrote a short story about die-hard broke mountain climbers in Flagstaff who save money be eating, you guessed it, it's the name of the story...
Dude, you need to get yourself some Primate O's. "Behavioral entrichment treats, designed to stimulate foraging in primates."
http://www.zupreem.com/pdf/PrimateO_s67.pdf
You should dig up MFK Fisher's "How to Cook a Wolf". Her recipe goes something like
One of the most interesting and intensely practical suggestions Mrs. Fisher makes is in a chapter called, with grim frankness, ''How to Keep Alive.'' She does not recommend it to gourmets but to those who have failed to keep the wolf on the outside of the door, and would be grateful for a recipe that would feed a whole family for four days for fifty cents. Fifteen cents' worth of ground beef (not hamburger), ten cents' worth of ground whole grain cereal, twenty-five cents' worth of inferior, coarser, tougher vegetables, carrots, celery, cabbage, onions are needed. After proper boilings, choppings, mixings and coolings, you have a paste Mrs. Fisher calls ''sludge.'' It may sound depressing, but it is superbly nutritious for the cost. ''You can eat it cold and not suffer much, if your needs are purely animal and unfinanced, but if you can heat what you want two or three times a day it will probably taste much better.'' Not only is it good for people, it is ideal fare for dogs.
Hi. I found you through the Stumbleupon extension in Mozilla Firefox. (http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.angryman.ca/monkey.html)
Just wanted to say do it for science, and if you come up with any great recipes, I'll buy stock in your chain of restaurants. :D
-V
You are amazing, I love this. Keep it up, only two more days, you can do it.
When experiment is ended suggest you doing a complete health check up...
Maybe you should try sue them if you get
some illness
hepatitis or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, scrapie, BSE, CJD, CWD, TME, and TSE etc etc
Wow. You're a very brave man.
One thing you haven't mentioned in your dalies is your energy level. Monkey Chow may have the basic minimal nutrients you need to survive but it's not worth it if you're tired & sluggish all day. How do you feel? Can you function as normal? Could you continue to work & live if this were the only food available to you?
I second the suggestion for adding fruit to your current diet. It wouldn't be cheating. Even monkeys in the zoo get fresh fruit. Monkeys in the wild eat even better.
Be careful when you return to your normal diet. The protien overload of a steak could make you sick. I would go with cereal & fruit the first day back & ease into the meat. It might not be so bad since it's only been a week but still, be careful & watch what you eat.
I'm getting worried. You look so depressed in the videos, at times like you're about to burst into tears. I hope you make it through this ok. Above all, good luck & take care of yourself.
Just out of curiousity, what was the last meal you ate before this endeavor?
I did a little looking, and it seems there are monkey chows that are made to taste a bit better than the chow you've chosen.
Apparently, the "banana softies" sold here have a nice banana flavor, and are nutritionally complete:
http://www.primatediets.com/bioserv.asp
They also have primate treats, which could spice up the diet of a primate who feels stuck in a rut.
Has Purina given you hassles about your use/misuse of the 'Monkey Chow' trade mark?
As far as I can tell you're not eating Monkey Chow but another product and you are using 'Monkey Chow' as a generic term for monkey food.
That is all fair enough but corporate trade mark lawyers tend to lack both a sense of humor and a sense of perspective. It wouldn't surprise me if you get a cease and desist letter asking you to take down any use of their trade mark.
If you do, tell them to f*@! themselves.
Actually, I'm missing Michael Jackson jokes, somehow . . .
. . . oh, and - keep doing it.
If you need a change why don'Ät you watch video, e.g. 'Instinct'.
Monkeys are adapted a diet much different from humans (especially Homo Urbanus). While I applaud your efforts, I feel what you really out to do is work with the industry to come up with Human Chow. Simple, nutritionally balanced and pellitized food available in bulk would represent the next step in our evolution.
Human Chow Now!
What an interesting idea. I wonder how great everything will taste when you switch to regular food. Oh yeah you definitely need to stock your cupboards with your favorite stuff for at least as long as you do this MC diet.
Good job! Good luck!
This is great and all, but how are you going to follow it?
You could reenact some of the funny monkey videos we've all seen, like the ass touching/hand smelling/falling out of a tree one, or maybe just the peeing in its own mouth one. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to watch.
I used to have a pet monkey. She was a Rhesus. A little illegal immigrant, though. We bought a big bag of monkey chow for her. She wouldn't touch the stuff. We tried covering her eyes after we showed her a grape and had her hold her hand out. When we put the monkey chow in her hand, she would open her eyes, see the chow, jump into the air and start wiping her hand as if she had poop on it.
Seems like SHE was pretty smart...
Just wanted to say that your site has made the rounds at my office today. What a great way to start the day!
I really do hope you keep it up. You are intelligent, witty, and (shall I say) "inspired."
Keep it up!
I just saw this for the first time yesterday, and it's great. Now I'm curious about what you do for a living? Are you going to work with a brown bag lunch of monkey chow?
Keep it up!
Keep it up man! :)
This is a nice everyday must visit site for some period!
Cheers!
Sinisa
I salute you for being strong enough to be the subject in your own experiment.
Just a suggestion: Don't they also feed the monkey's various fruits ? A bannana, maybe an orange ? I know when I visit the Zoo they often hide the fruit for the monkey to find.
Can't wait to hear more from you.
Paul
Keep it up! :-)
It's bloody brilliant! The idea of not having to cook & clean, I mean. You think there must be a company that can produce something nutricious and tasteful.
Anyway, hang in there! You're allmost there. And enjoy all the nice things that are happening to you right now.
Berry (the Netherlands)
I would like to see poop flinging.
Hey..Have you done any interviews on Canadian radio? I work for public radio in Canada (CBC) and I'd love to chat with you!
Send me an email if you can...
Thanks!
Heidi Petracek
CBC Radio One
Freestyle
heidi_petracek@cbc.ca
Hi Just wanted to tell you that I have truly enjoyed watching your site the past few days. It's amazing how such a simple concept can be so intriguing. Keep it up! You're gonna make it!
Dude did you know that monkey eat fruit too? LOL
You are absolutely right not to eat the fruit to keep the initial idea behind the experiment alive (spend as little time, and money on your nutritional needs).
I do agree w/ some of the ppl that say you should go see a Dr. when you are done, or maybe a Vet.
P.S. I'm going crazy tring to find H's comment, where is it?
Have you had certain primate urges whilst watching Animal Planet yet? lol Seriously though, I found your site and I find you a hilarious bloke indeed. From the stuff you write on your blog down to your video diaries, you just crack me up!! If you keep this up, you might find yourself on Jay Leno or Oprah...now there's motivation for ya! Hee hee :P
Angryman, Keep up the good work. You have a new career in comedy. I truly haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Very funny stuff. You should work with the folks at www.cockeyed.com to come up with some a whole new category of "science" experiment. You made my day. I hope to see you on Leno in the near future. Mike
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Human Chow - that's hillarious, and potentially practical. I'd buy some.
Come on Purina!
One of the goofy things that you see for less than a second during the credits of "Futurama" is Bachelor Chow... I don't know if Matt Groenig copyrighted the name or not, but that's even funnier than Human Chow to me. :)
don't worry about what sam said at 10:11pm. He gets confused. That was the cheerios plant he was refering to. Given the fact that there are tolerances for even people food, ie: cereal is allowed a certain percentage of rat turds, and over your lifetime you probably eat alot, I wouldn't worry so much about what's in monkey chow as far as food products. Chemicals and what not, those I'd worry about.
As for monkey's being stuck eating something that tastes that we think of bad...I recall trying baby formula once. Real nasty stuff, yet little babies consume it willingly all the time.
there, you read all this and now its 2 minutes closer to something non-crunchy and non-dry to eat. Have you decided what it's gonna be? this is like a last supper in reverse. Choose wisely:)
I will point out that a bunch have said easy does it on that first meal. I've watched the TV show Survivor and been surprised when folks haven't eaten much for a week then win a drinking prize with pringles yet don't get sick. I think you have to go much longer before food intake might effect you. Then again, who wants to take a chance and end up sick. There...another 30 seconds closer. One more day to go!
Adam,
Now, what I'm really interested in is how you're going to get rid of your extra Monkey Chow. No doubt you'll have some left over. Have you been planning some less-than-flattering way to 'dispose' of the leftovers? Or should the just go in the cabinet next to the cereal in case you ever get the craving again?
No matter how long you hold out on this journey, you'll always have the most impressive story in a crowd! Good for you.
-Joz-
Did you know that manatees are sometimes fed monkey chow too?
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