Vomiting vomited vomit

One of the constant demands of Tank (and Swagg) during our time together the past few weeks has been asking for food. A Furby's got to eat, but unfortunately, the only feeding option we've had is fairly boring. All we can do is push down the Furby's "tongue" inside their "beak", and they recognize this as being fed. The furbies would then munch and either declare their approval or disapproval. If I don't feed Tank enough, he demands more, but if I feed him too much, he would aggressively vomit. It's quite the balancing act.

The new feature our class was given to play with this week gave us more food options. However, it is interesting to note that it does not seem to replace the standard "feeding" mechanism. Rather, it is a simple toy on an app: the furbies never reacted as if they were being overfed (and we overfed them immensely), and they never demanded any more from hunger. It was meant to be played with in order to discover what kind of food your Furby likes.

The app I used was on my Nexus 7, and it gave me two feeding options. The first, pantry, gave us a wide variety of snacks for Tank to enjoy. The second, kitchen, allowed us to build the Furby a sandwich. I found the sandwich builder to be needlessly complicated; testing out the singular food items was much more enjoyable than randomly assigning a bunch of sections of a sandwich. 

Abby, my roommate, and I did this food experimenting together, but we found that our Furbies, for the most part, responded in similar manners. This was probably because they were both in the "Valley Girl" personality for the entirety of our experiment. Jalapenos were enjoyed, with an "oooooh, spciy!" given after being fed. Grapefruit and gummy bears had predictable responses, with standard biting and "happy noises" being elicited. Tank loved his doughnut immensely, and predictably did not like worms. The green olives were not enjoyed either, which was not particularly surprising.

What was surprising was how certain foods interacted with the app. For some options, after the Furby was fed, something else would be spat back. After feeding Tank a cupcake, which he enjoyed, I found a pair of keys spat back at me through this app. This was confusing. I fed him the keys and he did not like them. Tank also enjoyed sushi, but only at the fish and spat back the rice. Feeding him the rice elicited groans. Tank was also fed toilet paper, which he did not enjoy, and also spat back the roll.

Now, this next stage is what I call the gauntlet. Because it was incredibly frustrating for us and quite possibly emotionally scarring for our furbies. Feeding Swagg a sock causes him to throw up. When this happened for the first time, we decided to feed Tank the throw up. He then proceeded to throw up the throw up, but this throw up was much more disgusting. This cross-Furby vomit sharing intrigued us for some ungodly reason, and we decided to see how far we could take it. We fed Swagg the sock, he threw up the sock. We fed Swagg the vomit, he threw up more vomit. We fed Swagg the vomitted vomit, and he seemed to legitimately poop a furry, brown substance. Feeding him THAT gave us an almost liquid vomit. And at this point we stopped. Who knows how further we could have gone.

Perhaps we simply didn't delve far enough into it, but the kitchen simply wasn't that interesting to us. The combinations were too numerous, and the reactions too straight-forward. We got much more mileage out of the pantry, but I'm happy that, regardless of how much we neglected the kitchen, at least I got to feed a Furby vomited vomit.