Ok, so it was just an excuse to pee into tupperware
Sunday, August 16, 2009 A couple posts ago, when Fury unleashed upon the Asparagus community, we received several comments about how asparagus makes your pee stink. I had heard that fact myself before, but I always thought it was an urban legend cooked up in some secret Produce Council meeting to create a veggie pariah that made all the other greens more desirable in comparison to gullible kids. Or Mr Lady.
I pretty much trust that my readers are intelligent and would never be duped by such propaganda, but at the same time I wondered if anyone has ever empirically proven that asparagus actually makes pee stink more than it already does.
The things I do for science. Watch, and discover the truth about asparagus.
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Mr. Lady was right! What's d'wife gonna say when she finds out y'all been peeing in her tupperware???
Best part = Da, da. don!
That was awesome. Fury rules, stinky pee and all.
I would totally rather watch the two of you than the real show. Thanks for confirming the myth, boys. This might be the only way I'll get my kids to eat asparagus!
I am not sure whether to be appalled or amused; both, I guess. At the same time, no less. And that, my friend, is a GREAT way to feel!
LMAO You are braver than I am because there is no way I would let my kid hold a cup of pee in front of my face while blindfolded. He'd spill it on me on purpose. Good job guys!
Jim, that was freakin' fabulous! Fury is so adorable! Thanks for confirming what I've yearned to know all my life!
There's NO WAY d'wife can complain - because you got the kid to eat some asparagus! Right? The vitamins outweigh the fact you put pee in the frig. (Although, I never once saw any hand-washing in that video. Ew.)
I'd like you to bust two myths for me....
1. That a man will never have to do solo parenting again if he lets his kid pee in his wife's good tupperware and
B. That a 7 year old made to sniff pee and choose which one he likes will or will not become an adult man with a urine fetish.
Can you bust B before we make Fury and 3of3 marry each other? That would be GREAT.
Man, your wife must be so proud to know you peed in her tupperware.
And that you coerced your son and WILLINGLY shoved your OWN nose into two cups of pee.
Man, you rock.
And I still covet your child.
Oh My GARAGE. I've actually proven this - erm - fact many a time personally and professionally. good times over there, boys. Good times.
Someone once told me that only 40% of people's urine smell after they eat aspargus.
And you are going DOWN when your wife finds out you peed in her Tupperware AND put it in the fridge "next to the beverages"!
Awesome post.
Are you gonna use this for the science fair?
Awesome! I'll be sure to pass on all my myths to you for now on...you know for scientific purposes!
Zdub is right, not everyone's pee stinks after eating asparagus. There is an enzyme involved that some people have and some don't. And um, MK, how does one prove this fact "professionally?" That just sounds wrong.
Oh boy! Hilarious! I saw the headline via Twitter and was like wth?
Father of the year... you got your kid to eat ASPARAGUS!
"Which one did you "like' better"... OMG you two are just killing me. I like all the witnesses to the mayhem too.
And I feel better having been one of the instigators of this experiment, having commented about the stinky pee...glad it was so not busted!
Did you notice that you stuck out your tongue after you smelled the first pee sample? You looked like you were tasting the fumage wafting off it!
Now you can make some extra cash for Fury's private school tuition by selling the unwashed Tupperware on eBay ;)
That would be wrong in so many ways! lol
Haha, thanks for testing that out for us. I actually just finished Mr. Lady's post before reading this one, so the curiosity was satisfied in a timely manner. If I didn't know better, I'd say it was planned. ;) Great video production.
OMG! Better you and the kid to do this experiment than me. Ewwwww....
This is the first BusyDad video I have ever NOT watched, but I just can't bear it. (Asparagus pee = disgusting, and I don't really need to watch you prove it to know that.) Going in, it tastes most excellent, and we in our house prefer the simple state of denial about anything thereafter.
But I love you for introducing Fury to the Scientific Method.
I stumbled on the title of this post... and I had to see it. Unbelievable! Is this something you do a lot of? You have the routine down pat. Awesome experiment by the way. Just at a loss on what to say.... gotta watch more!
I just about peed, myself!
And, for the record, I will pass on any invitations you may extend to eat at your house. No, no. Really. I'm good with a restaurant...
OH! And I cannot believe Fury didn't spill that pee on you!! Nice balance, kiddo!
Sugar Crisp cereal also makes your pee smell just like Sugar Crisp. Anyone else notice?
Way too funny. I was pretty sure refrigerating the samples might do the experiment in, but the old stinky asparagus rang true! BTW... do you know that beets can make your pee look like there's blood in it? (You have to eat a LOT of beets, though).
Is that your phone ringing? I'm pretty sure Discovery Channel is calling to offer you two your own show. That was awesome.
MidLifeMama - here's what went down. We totally found it necessary for our professional sanity:
Let's just leave it at a couple of public accounting auditors, away during busy season, and getting twitchy.
Yes.
We had spreadsheets of length of time for smell to appear, color associated, how many stems were needed...it was very scientific.
No you dih'int!
My boys watched this with me and are now begging to do the same. Well, but Jaden won't eat the asparagus.
Anyway. Fury is awesome. Raw talent.
If you ever try to give me something in mini-gladware, i'm tossing it.
one day when fury is a world reknown scientist he'll say it started off with smelling his own asparagus pee! :) Looking forward to his Nobel acceptance speech for advancements in urology.
I am so glad you did this.
One, because it was HILARIOUS.
Two, because ever since I left that comment for you? I have been waiting to say IN YOU FACE.
Now that you know I am wise, please let me also advise you that eating sweet/pleasant things like strawberries and pineapples... um... uh... ahem. Well. They... uh. Let's just say it's much more pleasant to... um.
All excretions are affected by what you eat.
Some flavors can be altered IN A GOOD WAY.
*cough*
Ok. Leaving now.
Dun, dun DUN! Fury wins at best video commentary EVER.
We'll go ahead and chalk up the uncombed hair/in desperate need of a hair cut to it being summer.
I'm going to have to get Mikey's brain going on thinking of a myth for you guys to bust. We gotta keep this video series going, it's classic.
I'm assuming that dWife sees weird cloudy liquid in the fridge in tupperware and at this point, just doesn't bother asking. Am I right?
*4 thumbs up BusyDad Co.*
I was horrified, and yet I couldn't stop watching. It was like a train wreck. A hilarious train wreck :-D
So it turns out the presence of aspartic acid in urine can be confirmed also by... ehm... out-of-lab means :-)
I still <3 asparagus!!
Seriously though?? You let your child stick his pee in your face to sniff!!!! omg ew!!!!!
You had me at "watch this". And Fury is awesome, just like his Dad.
next myth to bust?
that wives do not have a total breakdown when they find out their kid has peed in the tupperware.
What a great experiment. I bet he has great things to tell at school about his dad! I can imagine what his teachers think. I hope you all threw the tupperware away! :)
Hah, that was worth it.
I'm still confused. You refrigerated the pee, WHY? So it didn't go bad??
That was by far the best video ever. I was sooo expecting Fury to drop the pee in your lap though. LOL
Well you don't want your pee to go stale and ruing the experiment!
I was waiting for Fury to "accidentally" splill the samples in our lap...that would have been hillarious! :D
Awesome. Eating asparagus in the name of science. I think Ben Franklin did that too... but I'm too lazy to google it.
If you can smell asparagus pee, that means you were born with the gene to smell your pee. A lot of people are not born with the gene. All I can say that your own asparagus pee smells great but other asparagus pee smells gross. I guess that goes with other things.
And my favorite part of this entire post is Fury's insight to the "how Could I eat all my asparagus, but still have one left." Love kids' literalism.
KEEP BELIEVING
HILARIOUS! Oh I can't wait till my little one is old enough to pee in things, instead of on things.