The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin (Marzipanian: Bango) is an advanced level dish in Chowder. It was stated by Mung Daal that he had cooked this dish many times throughout his years of being a chef. This dish was the focus of the pilot episode of the same name.
Recipe and Preparation[]
The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin thumb
The process of making the Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin takes 68 steps total. It has only been shown in a montage, therefore not every step is shown. The known steps are:
- Step 1. Turn several no-fruits into apples by pulling off a leaf and hitting the fruit at the appropriate time. The apples must then be peeled, as Shnitzel is seen peeling them in the background during the next step.
- Step 2. Remove explosive stink-sack from a twelve-legged cave frog, then place the frog meat (sans stink-sack) into the chipper-chopper. In the case where Mung and Chowder cooked it, Chowder accidentally placed the meat into the chipper-chopper early without removing the sack but was able to shut the machine off before the sack could explode. However, he then licked it and released terrible smelling gases.
- Step 8. Add a certain juice. Mung Daal and Chowder did this by rolling a barrel of the juice down a ramp to collide with Shnitzel, who was wearing a harness with a pushpin attached, on a trapeze. The pushpin impaled the barrel, allowing the juice to pour out.
- Step 23. Shnitzel is seen opening a cupboard with sugar and Maple Bear Extract. He is attacked, once again, by the creature that was accidentally produced while turning the no-fruits into apples.
- Step 46. Shnitzel is jumping up and down to power a brick oven, presumably to cook a part of the recipe.
- Step 52. Mung, Chowder, and Shnitzel are sipping juice boxes, until Mung chokes and begins coughing. Besides possibly being a taste test, they could also have been waiting for the recipe to cook.
- Step 68. The dish has to be beaten at thumb wrestling. It turns into a giant hand on this step and the dish cannot be ready to serve unless it's beaten. Chowder was able to beat it by biting its thumb off.
Trivia[]
- The food gets its name from the fact it involves a twelve-legged cave frog, apples produced from no-fruits, and it has a crumbly texture when completed.
- Its name has a strange acronym, F.A.C.T.
- The food gets its name from the fact it involves a frog (12 legs, not 4), apples (From the No fruit transformation), and it looks all multicolored (Mostly green), hinting it crumbles. Thumpkin sounds like "thumb"-kin referring to the fact that the dish is a giant hand with a thumb.
- This dish is the namesake for the first episode of Chowder.