How to Make Entrails

Mary Robinette Kowal shows you how. Because haven’t you always wanted to know?

There’s another way to make them, but it requires a willing partner plus nine months, and then there’s all this other stuff around the entrails called a “baby.” And, well. They don’t let you use those entrails. Because apparently the baby needs them. Stupid baby. Mary’s way is a heck of a lot easier.

Comments

  1. Tim Eisele says:

    I suppose it gives a very authentic effect, and I don’t really have a plausible substitute (except maybe Knox gelatin?), but man, that quantity of KY jelly must run into *money*.

  2. MasterThief says:

    Now I’m getting hungry for haggis.

    /not really

  3. McDevite says:

    No one’s ever really hungry for haggis, not even the Scots.

  4. Brett L says:

    While baby farming entrails might be the second best way of making entrails, you’d also have a ready supply of braains to throw to the zombies. You have to look at the synergistic leveraging opportunities before throwing away your options.

  5. Josh Jasper says:

    John if you keep stalking my LJ friends page before I’ve had my coffee, I’ll get so confused, I won’t know what tab I’m on for my morning read.

  6. mythago says:

    Rather than K-Y at grocery-store prices (or even Costco prices), I bet you could get water-based lube from a vet supply store. I, uh, hear that powdered J-Lube is pretty darn cheap on a unit price basis.

  7. allium says:

    I’m sure any nearby Feline-Americans could provide a steady supply during the exercise of their predatory instincts.

    On the other hand, coming from rodents they’d be size XS at best, so you’d have to set up a Fresnel lens for anyone to see them, and then the Mouse Guard would show up and start asking questions…

  8. mythago says:

    What do you care if the Mouse Guard shows up? You’ve got a Fresnel lens!

  9. rys says:

    allium, it is so refreshing to hear someone use the term “fresnel lens” — thank you. entrails, hmm. sounds like it might be a trail designation in a complex system (“take the N-trail to get to harlem”), or else a rapid transit option for ents…..

  10. ntsc says:
  11. M.A. says:

    Ent trails… that’s gonna be in my head all day, dang you!

  12. Eh, just throw a bunch of new Trekkies into a room with a bunch of old Trekkies and lock the door. That should provide you with all the entrails you need before long.

  13. Errol says:

    but man, that quantity of KY jelly must run into *money*.

    It’s much cheaper in industrial quantities. This from a man who was with Weta Workshops for LOTR:FOTR (at Weta Digital since T2Towers).

  14. bradwphilpot says:

    Being from the bayou country, I think I can offer up a much easier solution. Just go out and buy some Boudan, doctor it with some bar-b-que sauce, and after the play all the actors can celebrate with some good eating and beer.

  15. Yonatan Zunger says:

    Come to think of it… aren’t *entrails* cheaper in industrial quantities, too? I mean, not all of them can go into pet food.

    (But now I’m just imagining what the entrail delivery truck would look like, and that is just wrong)

  16. MarkHB says:

    There’s a lass with guts.

    Hey, what does a tumbleweed rimshot sound like, anyway?

  17. ytimynona says:

    @Errol Now I’m intrigued. What did you guys need a bunch of KY jelly for in LotR:FotR?

    And the making of entrails makes me think of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. And that makes me go EWWWWW. And never want to eat meat ever again.

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