Kitty Litter Cake is always a hit at La Vergne Library's Gross Grub.
As Halloween approaches, many are putting the final touches on costumes and party-throwers are deciding what kinds of food to serve partygoers.
Lorna Cripps, Youth Services coordinator at La Vergne Public Library, has much experience working with discerning palates and spooky snacks.
Every year the library holds Gross Grub, where “ghoulish delights” are served up for the young at heart.
“It’s all good food. It’s nothing weird,” Cripps said, adding the names of the dishes are usually grosser than the food itself.
Take a “Kitty Litter Cake,” for example.
The cake is just a chocolate confection presented in a new litter box and served with a pooper-scooper.
Cripps said the effect is topped off with tootsie rolls fashioned to look like poop.
“It really gets a good response,” she said.
Other super spooky snacks involve anything with a body part or excretion, like scabs (dried cranberries or cherries), disgusting diaper dip (bean dip) or cockroach puree (walnut dip).
“It’s just what you call it,” she said.
Call a hot dog a severed finger or deviled eggs, eyeballs or shrimp, severed ears; and watch the gross factor climb.
A yearly Gross Grub favorite is “used Q-Tips,” which are simply mini-marshmallows on a thin, trimmed straw with the ends of each marshmallow dipped in warm caramel for "earwax."
Boogers on a stick are also a fiendish favorite at the library. These are pretzel sticks dunked into cheese dip mixed with green food coloring.
Cripps said chocolate-covered raisins or cookies also make good bugs.
“These things usually have a good icky factor,” she said.
To up the icky factor use names that include booger, puss or blood. Or bake cookies that look like fingers.
Just remember “gore”met food is only limited by the imagination.
Michelle Willard can be contacted at 615-869-0816 or mwillard@murfreesboropost.com.
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