September 1985

I grew up in Chester, VA, about 2 hours away from Virginia Beach. When I was a Thrasher-aged kid, I would occasionally get to go visit Mt. Trashmore, the giant skatepark built on a mountain of garbage. I could only imagine that is why this episode of Skarfing Material has Chef Boy-Am-I-Hungry in Virginia Beach. There's no other reason I could imagine wanting to go there (The last time I went, I got carjacked by a crackhead, for real).. and I can certainly see the police there not being too cool. If you want a good picture of the place he's talking about, dig out your copy of Future Primitive and watch the Trashmore segment. I'm glad I don't live in Virginia anymore.
CRAP SANDWICHES
They say that a turd with glitter sprinkled on it is still a turd, and I'm going to add that a smore with sunflower kernels sprinkled on it is still a smore. Call it a crap sandwich if you like, but it's juust a goddamned smore with peanut butter and sunflower kernels. What's the deal with the sunflower kernels, anyway? They added no flavor or texture to the dish. But yeah, it's just a smore.

ingredients for CRAP SANDWICHES

about to put the lids on..

READY 2 SKARF!

March 1986

Sorry it's been a couple weeks since I updated. Truth be told, doing this project made me gain ten pounds. I've gone on a diet since then, and now I don't really get the opportunity to make as much Skarfing Material as I'd like. Don't worry, I'm still gonna finish this project, it just might take a while, I'm not racing against the clock like Julie did in the movie (I heard in real life she got REALLY fat and her husband left her), so I'm gonna just take it slow. It probably won't hurt to start up again with something a little healthier, like the
TORTELGAGGA-NAG-NAG with a zesty NO IF, AND, OR BUT SAUCE
Chef Boy-Am-I-Hungry really likes to give cool-sounding names to boring-tasting food. This wasn't even that boring, the sauce was pretty good, if a little watery. I used whole wheat tortellini because it's probably healthier, I guess. At the end of it all I had a very decent pasta dinner.

everything you need to make TORTELGAGGA-NAG-NAG with a zesty NO IF, AND, OR BUT SAUCE

 and the completed dish

July 1986

MEXICAN TUNA
It didn't really taste mexican at all, only a tablespoon of taco sauce kinda blended in to the rest of the salad and you couldn't even tell it was there. Overall, it was a pretty decent tuna salad. I tried it on my finger, on bread and on tortillas. I liked it on bread the best.

ingredients for MEXICAN TUNA

here it is in a bowl...

...and on a bit of finger


SCRATCHEDDAR NOSE-DRIP-DIP
I'm assuming that by "Cheddar-type cheese" they mean Velveeta. I sure hope so, cuz a pound of real cheese costs twice as much as two pounds of Velveeta. Anyway, I've made Velveeta-and-Rotel queso dip millions of times, but always in the microwave. Now I know why, melting it in the frying pan kinda cooked it into a solid cheese pancake. The garlic and lemon gave it a different kinda flavor than queso, but it worked pretty good with the french bread. It was extremely dense and filling, I only ate a few mouthfuls before it went in the fridge. As to whether or not I'll finish it, it looks doubtful.

How could you go wrong with these few simple ingredients?

oh, like this. Note the hole I made in the solid cheese pancake when I dipped the bread in it.

June 1987

DEAD SKULL SURPRISE
Surprise! This was gross! I get the idea of what was supposed to happen, the butter and boullion were supposed to slowly cook and seep into the fibers of the onion to flavor it, not a bad idea in theory. The recipe of course never explicitly said how long to cook it. I let it sit in the oven for about an hour, and it was pretty tender when I pulled it out, but the buttery boullion hadn't really done its job, so I ended up with a pretty bland cooked onion with an INTENSE flavor explosion in the middle. so intense that it was inedible. I cut the whole thing up with a knife and fork and smeared it all around the plate, mixing the flavoring with the onion. After I did that, it wasn't too bad, just a kind of chicken-flavored onion. I would not eat this again.

supplies for DEAD SKULL SURPRISE

 
here's how it came out.

OREOS ALAMODE
I guess they don't make Oreos like they used to because I couldn't get them to separate and leave all the cream on one side, it was pretty equally split onto both sides for each one I tried (5 of them), but whatever. The cherry/coconut side tasted very much like a wedding cake. Not a birthday cake, but a slightly fancier, grown-upper wedding cake. It was okay. The peanut butter side was fucking excellent! The donut sprinkles were kind of just for show, as they didn't add to the flavor or texture at all, but overall these cookie things were pretty good.

 let's make some OREOS ALAMODE

delicious!

February 1987

That was a pretty cool apocalypse mad-max skate rider story. Did you ever see the movie A Boy And His Dog? It's from the late 70's, a post-apocalyptic story about a dude (pre-Miami Vice Don Johnson, to be exact) who scavenges the nuclear winter wasteland, looking for food. The movie has an INCREDIBLE twist ending that will totally blow your mind.


The NITRO EGG did not blow my mind. Like always, the instructions weren't very specific so I ended up putting way too many vegetables in it. It was supposed to fold over like an omlette but there wasn't enough egg to keep it together so it just became this big lumpy gross mess. However, it tasted great. Any time you mix chili, cheese and eggs, it's gonna be good, no matter what. This certainly wasn't the worst material I've ever skarfed.

ingredients for NITRO EGG

here's how it came out.

January 1986

Read that story and imagine that it's actually referring to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson when the rock is mentioned. It gives the story a whole new meaning.

ROCKLESS OMELETTE
This was actually a good recipe. I was pretty proud of myself for actually making the omelette correctly and even flipping it without fucking it up too bad. I really liked the cottage cheese, It worked with the egg to give it a creamy goopiness, and I was worried the raw onions were gonna be too strong but they actually softened up pretty well. If I had ordered this at a restaurant, I wouldn't send it back. I wouldn't tip very well, either.

  ingredients for ROCKLESS OMELETTE

and the finished product.

December 1986

I listened to both Tammy Wynette and The Ramones while cooking these.

BUCKY'S WEENIES
This hardly counts as a "recipe", it's just cut up hot dogs with some sauce dumped on them. However, I've been to Tulsa, OK and I can understand how someone there might consider this to be good. What else are you gonna do with Lost Lake beer besides pour it on hot dogs?

ingredients for BUCKY'S WEENIES

 adding a little Pabst while they cook...

 the finished product.


BROWN BLOOD SLAMCAKES
I dunno if you read those ingredients right, but it calls for a HALF A POUND of M&Ms. That is a lot of M&Ms. This recipe made 5 pancakes, all with WAY too much chocolate in them. I put chocolate syrup on them be cause I am, indeed, that kind of person. It was just too much chocolate, I couldn't even finish two of them. This was a nightmare to clean up.

this is all you need for BROWN BLOOD SLAMCAKES

 a chocolate holocaust.

TORTUNA
I'm guessing that Chef Boy-Am-I-Hungry is a few years older than me, and therefore was probably a little too old to get down on Return of the Jedi, for had he been a fan, he would've most certainly called ths recipe Bib Tortuna (at least he should have) but anyway, I wouldn't really consider this to be an actual "recipe", but I went ahead and made it anyway. This is just tuna salad in a flour tortilla, something every stoned kid has come up with on their own since probably 1975. It works, it's not bad. They probably sell this at McDonalds as a "fresh wrap sandwich" or some shit.

 ingredients for TORTUNA

tuna salad

a "ready-to-eat" TORTUNA.