Food Challenge 2011

Warning: This blog post is gross.

It may give you a queasy stomach.

I have blogged before about a fun little holiday tradition

that goes on between my brothers and Cole.

It's the food challenge tradition

and it's particularly gross this time.

You see, my brothers think it is funny to

offer Cole various amounts of money

to eat odd and sometimes gross things.

Some past food challenges have been:

licking a plate of syrup

eating several boxes of Peeps

seeing how many saltines one could eat

eating various spoonfuls of condiments 

(that one ended up with a very upset stomach)

And this year's food challenge:

5 Cat Treats for $40.

One thing I can say for Cole is that his price has increased over the years.

So here we go: 

Food Challenge 2011

Take note at 2 things in this picture

1) The pure delight on Greg's face

2) Cole is picking cat treats out of his braces.

Here we have a good representation of the 2 sides of this challenge.

Pure delight

&

pure disgust

Again, Mallory is delighted, Mike is disgusted.

And Cole is doing his best not to lose it.

Focus Cole!

And thankfully at this point, someone saw fit to hand Cole a trash can.

Just in case.

It was at this point in the challenge

that Greg began to read the ingredients

which led to an even deeper gross-out factor.

But in the end,

to the victor go the spoils.

He did it- he managed to eat 5 cat treats and keep them down.

No more complaining about my cooking!