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What food did Belushi spit out when he was a zit?


Has there ever been a definitive answer as to what he put in his mouth and spit out?

We were eating last week and I said something to my 9 year grandson about not pretending he was a zit with the mashed potatoes. He, of course, had no idea what I was talking about. But my son did and laughed. My husband then said that it was not potatoes, but a hard boiled egg that Belushi put in his mouth. We got into a big argument about what the food was.

I looked around the net and found many different ideas as to what it was. Mashed potatoes, hard boiled eggs, cream filled cup cake, etc. But all the ideas seemed to be just that - ideas - as to what the food was. We got out the movie and stopped it as he was holding the food before putting it in his mouth. But we still could not really tell what it was other than it was round, looked bigger than a golf ball and smaller than a tennis ball, was white and had enough body to it to enable him to pick it up without it falling apart.

Because he was able to hold it with his fingers seems to eliminate mashed potatoes, but we never could figure out what it was. Any answers here?.....

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I thought it was the cottage cheese you see him take in the food line. After watching the scene again, I have to agree it's the mashed potatoes. After sitting out for who knows how long, the scoop of potatoes would have been easy to pick up.

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Ripped from a DVD using Handbrake and viewed in stop motion with Quick Time, 4:3 ratio:

Scene: shows Belushi in profile at the table picking up a white ball of something that resembles a pet toy, but it's not a solid prop because it visibly distorts as he moves it toward his face.

Scene: Cut to POV John's face as he stuffs a falling apart clod of mashed potato in his mouth.

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Just to clarify, the POV is Greg's, or close to it in the second shot. And the "food" in the first shot could have been whatever was at hand that looked good on camera. This is a man who just ate a golf ball a minute or two before so they might have been trying to make some kind of point, maybe?

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It's a steamed dumpling.

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Yellow custard.

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yellow matter custard.

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So, nobody thinks it was cum?

Y’know: Belushi, drugs, NatLamp? He’d do anyone for a laugh!

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mashed potatoes and stuff like that.

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I remember in my youth the luch lady served sticky rice balls by ice cream scoop

You could pick up the rice ball because it sticks.

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