4/1/08 | Alien Bear Ramen
[ Currently Eating: Alien Bear Coffee ]
Well, let me tell you - I had a whole production planned for April Fool’s. This involved changing the website to look like it was bought by Google, buying a domain name (cheepeatr.com) and installing social networking (web 2 point blow) software, and then youtubing myself sitting naked in a bathtub full of caviar saying, “How do you like me now, suckahs!”
I had actually planned to do something funny like that since about last summer or so. But as it turns out - I’m just not a funny guy. In fact, I’m so un-funny that on the Funnilee Scale, which is measured similar to the Scoville hotness scale but in units of funnyness - I rate a little higher than a bell pepper.
I don’t know about you, but being as funny as a bell pepper means I have a hard time coming up with laughy joke production things. It’s true I can be funnier than Saturday Night Live, but hey, that bar is set REAL low…
Also, it turns out that I have no funny friends to inspire me to new funnilicious heights. You see, I have been living in a cave for the past 2 years and while the benefits are decent (low incidence of predators in the area, running stream just outside), the walk to the comedy club where all the other alien bears hang out to get their funnybones tickled is just too far to make it on an average day.
The other thing is that I can’t really leave the cave for long periods of time right now because I’ve left my flying saucer double parked in front of the meadow where we’re gathering specimens to take back to Betelgeuse. The Alpha alien bear really gets PO-ed if he notices anyone doing that, so I’ve had to keep an eye-tentacle out. Last thing I want is to have it impounded by the Galactic Bear Force and be stuck on this godforsaken planet for another year or so.
So in lieu of the hilarity that normally goes with April Fool’s, here is a nice picture of Alien Bear Ramen defaced by myself with a light sky blue Photoshop pen. It is the best I could do on such short notice with the computer in the cave, but I figure it gets the point across. Happy April Fools, earthlings.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Dunno why I thought this site was written by a girl, no ofense and no joke.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 am
A girl? Crazy people are crazy.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Oops. I thought this was written by a girl too. I have no reason to have thought that… You need like a picture of a man on here or something. lol
Maybe you should put you dressed in caviar. haha 
For the record, I AM a girl 
Just sayin’.
BTW, I’ve been perusing your site. I love it. Can you do Meals for 4 under $4…with a twist…they have to be healthy!
April 4th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Finally I meet someone at the same level I am on the funnilee scale!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
wow, this is probably the last possible response to an April Fool’s joke post that I expected. Still - I don’t mind it. I guess it is better to be told that I write like a girl than I fight like a girl.
Hahaha. ha.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:47 am
I love ramen. It was a staple of bachelordom to help fund the beer.
Not to pile on the surprises, but I thought this site was written by a woman as well.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:28 am
…Am I the only one out there who thought this site was written by a terrestrial bear?
Alright, give. Recipes! What’s in the ramen besides egg and a green brillo pad?
I’ve found that you really have to be careful not to overboil the green brillo pad, or it gets unnaturally chewy.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
It had nothing to do with April Fool´s I just thought so because as far as I´ve read this blog I´ve never seen a reference of the writer´s sex until this post.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
The Brillo pad is a piece of Nori. Oh also, this is “real” ramen you get in a noodle house (yes, there is more to ramen than the packaged stuff).
Hm.. I’ve definitely referred to my “wife” in several posts. Just two back, the St. Patrick’s Day Soda Bread post. But really, I don’t mind. Maybe I should mention sports more often, hehe. =)
April 10th, 2008 at 3:00 am
weird, I’ve read quite a few posts referring to your wife, her family, etc…
If we’re going by your ramen pic alone though, you don’t write like a girl but you draw smileys like a girl :p
April 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
it is the girly smiley face I think.
I love noodles and this looks very noodleishous Udon, roman I don’t care give me a big bowl with a few rolls on the side. Now I will have to stop for sushi after yoga, see what your blog did.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:53 am
Hey, Mr. Cheap Eats Editor.
Don’t you let them get to you.
I’ve been reading your blog for at least a couple of years, and their is lots of evidence on here that you are male, Asian, married, and SO do not write like a girl. I guess it is GS’s idea of an April fools joke, and others jumped on the bandwagon.
I feel for you, because my husband is a construction worker with all the attendant machismo. He would be horrified to have anyone say he did anything like a girl.
We were in a really good Mexican restaurant Saturday night that we hadn’t been to in about three years. They offer combo plates with one, two, or three items you select, plus Spanish rice, refried beans lettuce, tomato, guacamole and sour cream. They call the combo with the 3 optional items “Macho.”
He started ordering the Macho, and although I remembered be had been unable to eat it all in three meals last time we went there, I didn’t say a word. We had a male waiter, but it wouldn’t have mattered if we had a waitress.
It’s all good, though, because he got three good meals out of it, and I got two, because I ordered the rather wimpy sounding “Poco,” but that’s OK cuz I AM a girl!
Not cheap eats, but not too bad considering the $40 tab, including a $7 tip works out to $8 per meal, and I had a delicious frozen Margarita and he had two beers with the meal. I also didn’t have to buy, prepare, cook, serve or clean up after any of it, and that is a rare and enjoyable pleasure for me.
I hope your carpal tunnel problem is doing better for you.
Happy April Fool’s Day and I love your blog!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 am
skibs, shayne - haha, I DO draw the girly smiles! Im going to have to start putting some sort of mustache on them from now on…
karen - thanks for the nice comment… well, don’t write off the construction worker husband just yet. It’s probably handy when you need to do any really heavy lifting - I’m a little short in the muscle dept. =) Also, i often do the same thing as him and order a larger meal than i can eat but like you said if you can reheat the leftovers you can get more meals out of it.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Ramen is a good cheap eats staple… you should do some reviews of the different big-brands. especially since lately many rice cheapeaters are kinda getting hit hard in the pocketbook.