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Jenni Madden's avatar

"...but I digest." :) :) :)

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

😂😂 I’m especially proud of that line, Jenni 😅

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Maggie Jon's avatar

Hahah love the mock-up 🙏 Very much appreciated ❤️

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Thanks, Maggie, it took hours of design work to properly convey the pudding viewing 😁

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Teri Leigh 💜's avatar

Was the Plymouth horizon the same as a dodge omni? That tiny little car had the largest turn radius possible. Couldn’t ever do a proper turn as a giant intersection was still too small.

And now I’m gonna go ask my dad why we didn’t drive out to Menomonie for the giant pudding cup viewing in 1981. Our dodge omni could’ve taken us there.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Our family had two Horizons at the time. One looked exactly like the Omni (I just looked it up... they both kinda' look alike a VW Rabbit(!)) Our other one looked more like those awful Mustangs from the 1980s. This is the one I remember: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/in-motion-classic/in-motion-classic-1979-82-plymouth-horizon-tc3/

I know you know all about Swiss Miss! The pudding was truly a sight to behold!!

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Sandra Stephens's avatar

…and my sister had that fake Mustang Horizon. We thought we were cooking with gas, man.

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Sandra Stephens's avatar

Omg my family had BOTH Omni and Horizon. Identical two tone green.

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Mary B's avatar

Love your version with the Lego people, and deciding which is to scale, Lego people or (Chobani) the Swiss Miss pudding cup . . . I can relate to loving how one's town smells. I grew up in the home of Gerber Baby Food, and the air smelled the best when they were making oatmeal cereal, as if one ginormous oatmeal cookie was baking in an even more ginormous oven. Ahhh. Childhood!

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Thanks Mary! We worked hard at figuring out how to do this… 😅

Gerber Baby Food! Now I’m hungry for some puree’d carrots and an oatmeal cookie!!

(Now the closest factory we live near is a fish processing plant which smells like… fish… 🐟)

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Mary B's avatar

Oh . . . . fish! I went to high school in logging town that had a paper mill. If the wind was just right, and all the school windows open, imagine sewer + fish = 🙄

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Chris R.'s avatar

An excellent dollop of pudding lore! It is a pity there is no photo, but perhaps it is best that the pudding is left to achieve its lovecraftian grandeur in the reader’s imagination.

My only quibble as an autistic person is, at what point does the largest cup become simply become a tub of pudding? I suppose you could sell it in the supermarket as “family size” but still it worries me the biggest cup could also be the smallest tub. Surely no greater than the mighty silo in which all the freshly made pudding is stored prior to being cupped?

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

I’m still waiting to see if the Menomonie history group will come up with a side view!! One person told me that their father was one of the creators of the pudding cup but had no pics!

It’s true, the pudding holding silos could be considered the world’s largest pudding… but perhaps not largest pudding cup! 😄

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Chris R.'s avatar

Somewhere someone has a photo of that pudding in a drawer or shoebox… I know.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Definitely

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Gary Spangler's avatar

Another doozie, Adam!

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

I aim to Dooz! 😁

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paul teare's avatar

Here in the UK pudding has a number of meanings. It can be the sweet course at the end of a meal. It can a faintly unpleasant term used to describe a overweight person. It is also used to describe one of the central elements of a traditional Sunday roast lunch; Yorkshire pudding. Yorkshire is an English county, perhaps one if not the most beautiful, the largest, and quite defiantly the most independent. The pudding is amazing especially when filled with gravy. Slavering and drooling inducing so. Language is so interesting.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Americans are just like, it’s sweet! 😁 We have no pudding nuances. I love the Yorkshire pudding.

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Maggie Harris's avatar

“But I digest” had me snorting my coffee (and craving a pudding cup dammit!)

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Now I want a pudding cup… for breakfast! 😅

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Sandra Stephens's avatar

Hahahaha this is the most midwestern post ever, and I, former Plymouth Horizon driver, loved every minute of it. We had no giant food fame for our town... but about 2 hours north there is a white cross the size of Godzilla & I'm told it's a record-breaking cross.

"They also make those hot chocolate packets that I shall not besmirch but also shall not drink. That said, I love those fake little marshmallows." SAME.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Thanks Sandra! I ended up getting this same car from my dad and drove it until I broke the axle trying to get air over some train tracks... yup, Midwestern!

I need to see this giant cross. I was raised a Lutheran...

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Sandra Stephens's avatar

Oh wait, I lied, there is food fame near my midwestern hometown - 15 minutes west, Collinsville feature a giant Brooks ketchup bottle for a water tower. Right off Rt. 159

It even has an official website for itself https://www.catsupbottle.com/

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

I must say, I have never heard of Brooks Ketchup! 😅

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Sandra Stephens's avatar

100% a midwest thing, like Bunny Bread.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Perhaps Wisconsin doesn’t let it across the border 😁

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Sandra Stephens's avatar

those cheese heads are too dignified for giant ketchup, eh

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Sandra Stephens's avatar

I think - I’m not sure - it’s right outside of Effingham, which is the real name of a real city and kinda funny, the big cross at Effingham.

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Dungeon Mistress's avatar

The pudding face is fantastic. 🤣

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

It really is 😁

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Dungeon Mistress's avatar

So sad that’s there no pic from the event lol.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

I’m still on the hunt! I only have that top shot

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Frankie Chocolate's avatar

Wonderful! I love those little pudding. Really hardly get enough. Ty

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Melanie J Wilson's avatar

Love the story! Love the Lego re- creation... Chobani is dairy, right? 😎

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Thanks Melanie, yes, it is dairy but I’d rather have a pudding cup to be honest 😁

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Melanie J Wilson's avatar

Yes for Pudding!!!!

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Sheila's avatar

Very fitting of it to be in front of assembly square! 😉😀

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Elizabeth Quaintance's avatar

My parents used to own a condo near the Blommer Chocolate Company in Chicago. The first time I noticed an enticing aroma, it was faint and elusive, and I wondered if I was having an olfactory hallucination. But I soon realized I could look forward to a happy whiff of chocolate every afternoon.

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Monica P.'s avatar

The ending picture was sublime. 😂

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Thanks Monica, we were actually going to buy some pudding… forgot, and then this seemed funnier somehow 😂😂

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