Krabby Patty
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| Ingredients | List |
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A Krabby Patty is a fictional food from the SpongeBob SquarePants animated television series. Specifically,a Krabby Patty is a sandwich resembling a cheeseburger sold as the specialty of the Krusty Krab restaurant. The Krabby Patty recipe is kept completely secret. Sheldon J. Plankton repeatedly tries to steal the secret formula but has never succeeded until The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
The Krabby Patty formula seems to vary from episode to episode. The way in which the Krabby Patty is put together is mentioned in Plankton!, when Plankton almost succeeds stealing the formula. The format of the Krabby Patty is unknown because it is stated differently in the episodes. However, there is a secret sauce added, but its formula is kept a secret; very few sea creatures in the world know it.
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[edit] History
According to Stephen Hillenburg, the Krabby Patty was originally supposed to be called the "Barnacle Burger". The Krabby Patty was not invented by Eugene Krabs, but by King Krabs, sometime before the 12th century. It was shown that King Krabs was cooking them, and then he named them "Krabby Patties."[1] Mr. Krabs once stated that the Krabby Patty recipe is an "old Krabs' family recipe." His mother also knows the recipe according to the episode.[2]
Eugene Krabs decided to go into business selling it as Krabby Patties, and built his restaurant by renovating the local (failing) retirement home, "The Rusty Krab," the name to which he later renamed the Krusty Krab (the renovations consisted of painting a "K" next to the "R" in Rusty Krab). The Krusty Krab became Bikini Bottom's most popular restaurant, because of the Krabby Patty.[3]
The Krabby Patty formula has since been kept secret and is continually being pursued by arch-rival Sheldon J. Plankton. In the "SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", Sheldon J. Plankton acquired the secret formula to the Krabby Patty using his evil Plan Z. He successfully sold many Krabby Patties, and put the residents of Bikini Bottom under his control, until SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star foiled Plan Z.[4]
[edit] Price
The Krabby Patty's price varies in different episodes:
| Price | Episode(s) |
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| $0.99[5] | Imitation Krabs |
| $1.00 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie |
| $1.25 | Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V |
| $2.00 | Pickles Krusty Krab Training Video |
| $2.99 | Imitation Krabs Krabby Land |
| $101.00[6] | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie |
[edit] Side effects
Krabby Patties have an unfortunate side-effect: if too many are consumed, the fat and starch (and possibly other undersea nutrients) will go to the consumer's thighs and cause them to explode. Using cartoon physics, however, the consumer will be reduced to a (still-living) head. Such has happened to Squidward Tentacles, in Just One Bite when he broke into the patty vault and ate too many Krabby Patties at once.
[edit] Preparation
In order to make a Krabby Patty, the patty must be cooked at 298 degrees, according to SpongeBob.[7]The patties must be flipped over with a spatula. Then, the patty is placed on a bottom bun (which is not pre-sliced). The below ingredients are then added.
[edit] Ingredients
- 2 Seaweed Seed Buns
- Patty
- Sea Lettuce
- Sea Cheese
- Onions
- Tomatoes
- Mustard, Ketchup, and Mayonnaise
- Pickles
- Secret Sauce
[edit] Fake secret formula
The secret formula was never revealed on the show, this recipe is the one discovered by Sheldon J. Plankton in Plankton's Army, it was later revealed by Mr. Krabs as a diversion to Plankton. This is not the real recipe:
- A pinch of salt
- 3 Teaspoons of chopped onions
- A cup of love
- 4 heaping pounds of freshly ground plankton (Most Important)
In the same episode Mr. Krabs told Squidward that the formula shown above was not the actual one. Squidward however guessed where Mr. Krabs had hidden it at home under his mattress.
In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Plankton eventually stole it in as part of his evil Plan Z and it was sold at the Chum Bucket, along with free bucket helmets with every purchase.
[edit] Secret handshake
In order for the formula to be discussed, you must first do the secret handshake. It takes a little over six and a half hours to do so.[8]
- Stand on one foot, balance a glass of chocolate milk on your head and sing the Bikini Bottom National Anthem. Oh Bikini Bottom, we pledge our hearts to you! As faithful and deep and true and blue, Bikini Bottom we love you!
- (Unknown Part of Shake)
- Eat 105 black licorice jelly beans through a straw.
- (Unknown Part of Shake)
- Get shot out of a cannon, eat spaghetti, then burp and sing Meatball, meatball, spaghetti underneath! Ravioli, ravioli, Great Barrier Reef!! Then the Chef claps once.
[edit] Recipe
In a feature on the DVD release of "Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies", Tom Kenny (the voice of Spongebob) mentioned that there IS a real Krabby Patty recipe, and many fast-food entrepreneurs have tried to ask for it. When the actors who play the characters on the show first signed up, they (quoted by Tom Kenny) "had to sign reams and reams of disclaimers saying that, 'IF the true Krabby Patty recipe were to ever be revealed to anyone, then... there would be auditions for your character the next day.'" On the same DVD an interview with Bill Fagerbakke gave a clue to what the Krabby Patty recipe (quoted by Bill Fragerbakke) "All I know is that there's a lot of seahorses disappearing a lot lately and that's all I know."But in the Spongebob trivia book the Krabby Patty recipe is told.The recipe is also the same recipe told in the episode "Pickles"
However, in the November 2004 issue of Nickelodeon Magazine, there is an interview with Stephen Hillenburg (the creator of SpongeBob) who says that he does not know the Krabby Patty recipe.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ as seen in the episode, "Dunces and Dragons."
- ^ as seen in the episode, "Enemy In-Law."
- ^ as seen in the episode, "Krusty Krab Training Video."
- ^ as seen in "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie."
- ^ Only on Wednesdays in "Imitation Krabs."
- ^ Changed to $101.00 (with cheese) at the arrival of King Neptune.
- ^ as seen in the episode, "Bummer Vacation."
- ^ as seen in the episode, "Imitation Krabs."
[edit] External links
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| Cast and Crew: | Stephen Hillenburg • Tom Kenny • Bill Fagerbakke • Rodger Bumpass • Carolyn Lawrence • Mr. Lawrence • Clancy Brown |
| Characters: | SpongeBob • Patrick • Squidward • Mr. Krabs • Sandy • Gary • Plankton • Mrs. Puff • Pearl • The Flying Dutchman • Neptune & Mindy • Major characters |
| Bikini Bottom: | List of Places • Places Beyond • Chum Bucket • Goo Lagoon • Krusty Krab • Mrs. Puff's Boating School |
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