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What's a stomach pounder?


During the scene when Andy is waking his mom up to show her the piece of wood, he asks if he can have a stomach pounder and a coke. What exactly is a stomach pounder? Perhaps I heard him incorrectly?

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There isn't really an answer to this. Basically just some made-up term. It isn't based on anything real, though you will see lots of theorizing on it. People have always wanted to know!

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Tommy Lee Wallace claims it is a gym exercise, not a food item. John Carpenter said it was a joke, but he's glad that people still talk about it.

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I always thought he said stomach powder as in a sachet for indigestion or something. I wondered why a kid that young would be asking for that and a coke. Now I know I heard wrong.

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In one of the Halloween sequels, a stomach pounder is a thick drink made of mixed ingredients like peanut butter and various other things that looks like a milkshake. It substitutes as one of the character's breakfast.

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Stomach pounder... A greasy burger.

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It's a generic name for a Quarter Pounder hamburger which is trademarked by McDonald's:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_Pounder


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That is how it was described in the novelization by Dennis Etchison.

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Here is the answer. From John Carpenter himself and from Tommy Wallace (via Bluray.com, via The Fog commentary).

https://twitter.com/thehorrormaster/status/261875038595190784?lang=en

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=7916265&postcount=1016

A stomach pounder is a type of exercise that JC thought sounded cool as lingo for some kind of food (which it may already have been used also to describe), so he used it to mean that.

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hello. andy is asking his mother if he can have a pickle and a coke.

a stomach pounder is a pickle. a rather large pickle.

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a pickle is a butt pounder, not a stomach pounder

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I can’t believe this is this user’s one and only post!

“a rather large pickle.”

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