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Frog eye salad, made with vanilla pudding, is a perfect summer side dish to feed a crowd. Light and flavorful, this dessert dish is full of of pasta, pudding, and crushed fruits, making it not only a classic, but so easy to serve up at a BBQ or get together.

The only problem with this acini de pepe recipe isnt how you make it, but how you stop eating it once its made!

With summer holidays coming up like 4th of July and Fathers Day, get togethers are getting ready to be in full swing.

That means tons of party food, large salads and side dishes for a crowd and desserts aplenty. If you are looking for a side dish that can feed the whole table and then some, this frog eye fruit salad is a perfect way to make a ton and have left overs to boot.

People ask how much it makes? Well that always depends on how much you eat, but you can safely feed 1000.

Kidding.kidding.

This frog eye salad pudding recipe feeds probably closer to 20, but you can still feed quite a bit! Now if you have never had frog eye salad, its light with a tapioca-like consistency and pasta. It doesnt take too long to make, the longest party being boiling the pasta, and is a complementary dish for grilling.

Oh and I did want to mention that KIDS LOVE FROG EYE SALAD!

What is Frog Eye Salad??

Frog eye salad is a lovely combination of pasta, pudding, and crushed fruits, making it a perfect lightly sweet summer side dish. Also called a Acini Di Pepe Pasta Salad, its a super classic and homemade dessert side dish that keeps the spoonfuls coming.

Scroll to the bottom for a printable version of this post, including all measurements and instructions,so you can follow along in your kitchen without being on your phone.

Here is what you need to gather to get started:

Acini De Pepe pasta isnt always available in every store. Its a specialty item for some common groceries.

Your best bet is to check out the International aisles in places like Publix or head to a store like Fresh Market. That being said, there IS a substitution that works well if you cannot find Acini Di Pepe that is readily available and that is PASTINA.

Pastina is a small round pasta that is usually at more stores and are also balls of pasta. They are slightly smaller (and in the shapes of teeny tiny stars) but have the same texture and taste. If you make Pastina too far ahead of time, you have to follow the box instructions on how to unstick the pasta so you can use it in the salad.

There is an alternate recipe in the recipe card for working with Pastina.

To begin, you first mix your 2 cups of cold milk and 1 package Instant Vanilla pudding together

Refrigerate your pudding mixture for at least five minutes so it can firm up a bit.

Drain your mandarin orange juice, pineapple tidbits juice and crushed pineapple juice into a saucepan.

In the same saucepan as the juice, add 2 cups water.

Bring to a boil and stir in Acini Di Pepe Pasta.

This type of pasta is also used in Italian Wedding Soup and is a small ball of dough that is often referred to as a grape or peppercorn shape.

Heat your Acini Di Pepe Pasta according to package directions in the water and fruit juice, which is between 8-10 minutes.

Once the pasta is fully cooked, drain excess juice.

Note: I had to put a coffee filter into my colander so the pasta didnt fall through the holes. A fine mesh strainer would work best.

Now add your drained oranges, two pineapple kinds and pasta to a mixing bowl.

Stir in the chilled pudding and whipped topping.

Fold in your mini marshmallows.

Refrigerate the Frog Eye Salad with pudding for 4 hours before serving so it can firm up and thicken.

Optional: Add Shaved Coconut prior to serving

This version is also on the VIDEO in this post.

Need more side dish recipe options this summer season?

Try one of my favorites like Hawaiian Cheesecake Salad, Vegetarian Pasta Salad, or Pea Salad.

Plus Peanut Butter fudge is the perfect EASY dessert to grab and go!

Prep Time 25 mins

Total Time 4 hrs 25 mins

Frog eye salad is a lovely combination of pasta, pudding, and crushed fruits, making it a perfect lightly sweet summer side dish. Also called a Acini Di Pepe Pasta Salad, its a super classic and homemade dessert side dish that keeps the spoonfuls coming.

Mix 2 cups milk and 1 package pudding together and whisk well. Refrigerate for at least five minutes (the longer the better so do this step first)

Drain the juice of the oranges, tidbits and crushed pineapple (as best as you can for the crushed pineapple) into a large saucepan and set the fruit aside.

Add 2 cups water into the juice saucepan.

Bring pan to a boil and stir in Acini Di Pepe pasta. Heat according to Pasta package directions (about 10 minutes).

When Acini Di Pepe pasta is done, drain excess water and rinse pasta with cold water.

Note: I had to put a coffee filter into my colander so the pasta didn't' fall through the holes. A fine mesh strainer would work best.

Add oranges, pineapple and pasta to a large mixing bowl.

Stir in pudding and thawed whipped topping.

Fold in mini marshmallows.

Refrigerate for 4 hours before serving to allow mixture to thicken up a bit.

Alternate Frog Eye Salad using PASTINA Pasta

This step is best done first to give pudding time to thicken. Mix 2 cups milk and 1 package of INSTANT pudding together well. Put in fridge for a min of 5 minutes to thicken.

Cook 8 oz Pastina according to instructions on box. Pastina are teeny tiny pasta stars that are a great substitute for the texture of the recipe above. Once pasta is done, rinse with cold water to prevent sticking. Let drain. If Pasta sticks at all, you can use 1/2 tablespoon of vegetable oil to prevent sticking.

Drain oranges, pineapple tidbits and crushed pineapple juice. Fold in whipped topping.

Combine fruit, cooked Pastina, and Instant pudding in a bowl and mix gently with a spatula. Add 2 cups mini marshmallows.

At this point, your frog eye salad may still be a little "wet".

Fridge for 4 hours to thicken before serving

NOTE: Texture of Frog Eye Salad is quite like Tapioca pudding.

Serving: 1gCalories: 247kcalCarbohydrates: 54gProtein: 4gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 30mgFiber: 5gSugar: 38g

Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.

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Members of 4chan's /pol/ board, the hotbed of the alt-right, are pretty active in Britain, as the conspiracy theories around Grenfell Tower fire and the terror attack at Ariana Grande concert show.

But this time they have stepped up their game.

Hackers from /pol/ claimed responsibility on 4chan for breaking into a billboard in the heart of Cardiff's busy shopping district and using it to broadcast swastikas, images about Islam, a Big Brother message from George Orwell's 1984 and a photo of Donald Trump as alt-right meme Pepe the Frog.

Members of the channel boasted about the op in several posts, saying they'd be "broadcasting images of your choice" and inviting people to "post memes you want to be on the big screen in the thread".

As you can see, a fake declaration that the area was under Sharia Law ended up on the billboard:

South Wales Police said they received a number of calls related to the incident. "We alerted the city council and will investigate any crimes which may have been committed," a spokesman said.

The council then reached out to BlowUP Media, the company that runs the billboard, and it has since been turned off.

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With Bitcoin down 30% in the past week, some crypto traders have taken to Telegram to voice their feelings.

In the Bear Market Screaming Therapy Group on Telegram, members are only allowed to post voice notes of themselves screaming. Anything else will result in an instant ban from the group, which currently has about 75 members.

So far, more than a dozen different members have contributed to the group, posting voice notes of themselves screaming, yelling, groaning, and wailing in various pitches and rhythms.

Co-founder of NFT renting protocol Rentable World emiliano.eth shared the group Tuesday morning on Twitter, calling out the "degenerate" community, or crypto obsessives that engage in high-risk trading.

Hey degen, are you stressed? Just let it all out, he wrote, along with a link to join the group.

Matt Hussey, editorial director of NEAR Protocol (and former editor-in-chief of Decrypt) responded to the news of the Telegram group with #meIRL.

The groups featured image is of a Pepe frog yelling, often referred to as the REEEEEEE meme. Pepe the Frog was created back in 2005 by Matt Furie and has since become an internet symbol for meme culture and degen culture.

As the broader market downturn continues, yelling online has become the crypto traders latest coping mechanism after the rise of Goblintown Ethereum NFTs at the end of May and beginning of June, where holders made incoherent groaning sounds and role-played as urine-loving goblin creatures in late-night Twitter Spaces.

While some crypto traders move toward screaming as a coping mechanism, many mental health experts have argued that scream therapy is pseudoscience. Scientific research or no, it obviously feels good.

Developing social channels based on exchanging a single message isnt exactly new, of course. Back in 2014, the Yo app was launched with the sole purpose of enabling users to send each other the greeting Yo.

For crypto enthusiasts, there was the gm app, a self-described meme app which only allowed users to greet each other with gm, or good morning, a common acronym thrown around on Crypto Twitter and Discord. But the gm app was shut down back in September after a hacker reportedly gained access to user data.

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Behind Nick Fuentes, the host of America First, follows a new group of far-right conservatives. They call themselves the Groypers. And theyve launched a war against the Republican party.

Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, and Donald Trump Jr. do not seem like likely targets for a rising right-wing faction. But much to their surprise recently, the Groyper army chose events hosted by Kirk and Trump to descend upon.

Groypers attended a Turning Point USA conference at Ohio State University to heckle speakers with loaded questions. Turning Point is a conservative nonprofit that mobilizes Republican students on college campuses.

Trump, meanwhile, was booed off the stage at a free speech event at the University of California Los Angeles. The Groypers are claiming these two events, along with seven others, as victories against the mainstream Republican party, which they now consider to be fake conservatism.

A Groyper is a member of Fuentes movement of his brand of alt-right white nationalism. The alt-right is a loose collection of conservatives that harbor white nationalists. Fuentes is currently one of its most public faces.

As their chosen mascot, Groypers took hold of an exploitable illustration of Pepe the Frog. While iterations of Pepe are commonly used within the far-right, this version is of Pepe resting a conspicuous face against his two hands.

The meme appears in different forms on Groypers Twitter pages to show their allegiance.

https://twitter.com/that_groyper/status/1203275552636973059

Fuentes Twitter bio declares himself as the Groyper leader. His image header illustrates Pepe soldiers holding up a flag that states Groyper War, Total Victory!

The header also has the names of the events, primarily on college campuses, and dates of when the Groypers heckled conservative events, all claiming victory.

The Groypers galvanize around the idea that the current Republican party is fake conservatism. Basically, they try to push each conservative position farther to the right by supporting a white, male, heterosexual America. They embrace white nationalism in support of policies that, although they have foundations in conservatism, even some Republicans find too far.

The group is extreme on immigration restrictionism, often calling for a total shutdown of immigrants into America, and pushes anti-LGTBQ propaganda to continue to fight a culture wore they believe the right gave in on.

Support of Israel is one major difference between the Groypers and what they call the traditional Conservative Inc. While the Republican party remains firm in supporting its Israeli ally, the Groypers extreme nationalism and anti-Semitism pushes them outside the bounds of normal right-wing discourse.

America is NOT a propositional nation. We have NO ALLEGIANCE to Israel, Fuentes posted on his Telegram according to Vox. We are CHRISTIANS and we dont promote degeneracy. Demographic replacement is REAL and it will be CATASTROPHIC.

Fuentes is also known for casting doubt on the number of Jews that died in the Holocaust, using crude analogies relating to cookies and baking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aco6o5WBE

He described the above cookie comparison as his hilarious and epic Holocaust joke on his Telegram channel.

The Groypers are loyal to Fuentes and share this anti-Semitic perspective. For example, one Groyper page posted a tweet with a photo of a blimp that says jews rape kids.

your uber driver has arrived, @ayyyetone tweeted with the photo.

Fuentes, an extremely online pundit, thinks he can shape youth conservatism because hes better at catering to the internet culture that many Gen Z or Zoomer college students are inclined to consume.

I think the generational style is so important, Fuentes posted on Telegram. Idk if its post modern or post ironic but the style and tone is very native to Zoomers which is i think why ppl like Shapiro or Kirk imagine theyre check mating me with some of these controversies but in reality its just turning young ppl onto my content.

Fuentes and the Groypers primarily target the bulk of the Republican party.

In the past, they have heckled speakers like right-wing talk show host Ben Shapiro, as well as Trump Jr. and Kirk.

Their goal is to expose high-profile Republicans by asking loaded questions, often about Israel and homosexuality, to prove their distance from the extreme or true right.

There were a number of trolls who sabotaged the Q&A portion of tonights @tpusa event, Turning Points Benny Johnson tweeted following an event at Ohio State University. Many of the questions were abhorrent and were not asked in good faith.

Fuentes responded to Johnson by calling out Turning Points moderate stance. Turning Point has been scrutinized in the past for its own racist biases.

Turning Point is now making a concerted effort to slander all critics of their bullshit fake conservatism as extremist trolls,' @NickJFuentes tweeted. We are America First and you are being exposed for the sellout frauds you are.

Fuentes has been promoting the Groypers next event on Dec. 20. White nationalists Patrick Casey and Jacob Lloyd will join Fuentes in West Palm Beach for the Groyper Leadership Summit. The Groypers will also be mobilizing against Republicans again, as the event is set to overlap with another Turning Point conference.

The GLS will feature speeches by myself, Patrick Casey, and Jacob Lloydwe invite all Groypers to join us for a celebration of our Total Victory over Charlie Kirk in the Groyper Wars! Fuentes posted on his Telegram board.

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In the Sothebys salesroom one evening in late February, fluorescent lights beamed down on the assembled crowd. A sea of spectators is not unusual for Sothebys the 278-year-old auction house typically hosts more than 600 sales per year but this sale was different. It was the auction houses first-ever evening sale dedicated solely to NFTs.

Sothebys described the event, titled Punk it!, as a truly historic sale for an undeniably historic NFT project. It consisted of a single lot 104 CryptoPunks sold as an all-or-nothing bundle. Sothebys estimated the bundle would go for $2030 million, on par with sales of paintings by David Hockney or Jean-Michel Basquiat.

To drum up interest, the auction house had thrown a series of events aimed at attracting prospective punk-buyers. There was a pre-auction dinner for VIP Punk holders and an afterparty with DJ Seedphrase, known for the enormous CryptoPunk headpiece he wears while playing sets. The campaign worked: the crowd on the day of the auction included Nicole Muniz, the CEO of Yuga Labs, as well as NFT influencer Andrew Wang and Nifty Gateway co-founders Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster.

Eli Tan, a writer at crypto news outlet CoinDesk, remembers a party atmosphere. The actual sale seemed like kind of a secondary thing, he explains.

Then, things got weird. The indicated start time of the sale, 7PM, came and went. Five minutes passed, then 20. Finally, a voice on the intercom announced that the lot had been withdrawn. Gasps could be heard in the salesroom. After weeks of preparation, the sale was canceled and no one was sure why.

Sothebys says the lot was pulled after discussions with the seller, but theres been little other explanation including whether the decision came from the auction house or the seller. Artnet reported that Sothebys pulled the lot due to lack of interest, while the seller tweeted simply that they had decided to hodl.

Its not uncommon for lots to be pulled ahead of sales, although its typically the result of legal concerns or fear of a flop, as The New York Times noted after the failed auction. But for anyone dealing with auction houses or NFTs, it was hard not to speculate on the mysterious no-show. Kenny Schachter, art world provocateur and NFT collector who attended the sale, believes the seller pulled the lot after being informed by the auction house that it was unlikely to sell for the low estimate. Schachter even heard rumors of a legitimate and significant offer that the seller declined in advance of the failed auction one that cleared $10 million but still fell short of the lower end of the estimate.

It should have been a high point for CryptoPunks as a collection. Just a few months earlier, BAYC had sold a bundle of 101 tokens for $24 million, and CryptoPunks fans were primed for a similar victory. Instead, punk-holders left the auction feeling burned and for good reason. They were pretty devastated, Tan says. They were showing me their Punks and they were like, this is the end, probably.

They werent the only ones watching. Less than three weeks after the auction, Yuga Labs would acquire CryptoPunks, effectively ending the projects run as an independent NFT juggernaut. Tan suspects the Yuga Labs team, including CEO Muniz, could have been at the sale to scope out the Punks market.

But despite the risks, theres a real value to putting NFTs up for auction and the anonymous seller seems to have come away from the auction just fine. A few weeks after the sale, it was reported that the seller took out an $8 million loan against the Punks with the help of NFTfi and MetaStreet.

Stephen Young, co-founder of NFTfi, a platform that allows NFT collectors to use their NFTs as collateral on loans, explains that selling at a traditional auction house is a way to give a collection an institutional stamp of approval a precursor to this kind of loan. According to Young, if an NFT from a collection has sold once at Sothebys or Christies, its enough to inflate the price and legitimize the entire collection.

Thats the only reason they do it, Young said of NFT collectors selling at the big houses. You pay the 20% that gives you that [stamp of approval], but its made all of your other CryptoPunks worth 20 percent more, so its more than worth it.

Before Christies $69 million sale of Beeples opus put NFTs on the mainstream art worlds radar in March 2021, Sothebys and Christies were known, at least to those outside the art world, as places to buy expensive rare objects from the collections of the well-off (and often, the recently deceased). Now, the auction houses are selling NFTs of Pepe The Frog with the same pomp and circumstance.

But it didnt happen overnight. Both Sothebys and Christies have been forced to modernize to keep up with an increasingly young and international collector base. Both houses have expanded into selling sneakers and pop culture memorabilia. In the process, theyve elevated Nike SBs and T. rex skeletons into rarified cultural artifacts. It follows that the houses foray into crypto may look like an attempt to elevate NFTs to the status of Monet and Rembrandt, but its actually much simpler: Theres a market.

They would like a chunk of [the NFT] market, of course, says Schachter. They would like a chunk of selling dirty underwear, if there was a market for it. They dont care.

According to Tim Schneider, art business editor at Artnet News who has covered NFTs since before the CryptoKitties days, businesses like Christies and Sothebys have an interest in converting anyone with cash to spend into a power bidder.

Some corners of the crypto world clearly have cash to spend, and NFT sales last year allegedly brought in significant amounts of new bidders (according to Sothebys end-of-year report in 2021, about 80 percent of NFT bidders were new to the auction house). A high-level official at the auction house confirmed that part of their long-term goal is to make it easier for crypto-native collectors to transact, as well as establish NFTs as a new collecting category for the traditional art world.

And in brief flashes, it seems like Sothebys strategy may be working: Crypto billionaire Justin Sun spent more than $100 million on art last fall, including $78 million on a record-breaking Giacometti sculpture at Sothebys but that may be one of the only examples weve seen so far, at least publicly, where a crypto bro has shown a noted interest in fine art.

For all of the lip service being paid to the notion of cross-collecting and people who started off in NFTs getting interested in other traditional artworks, Schneider explains, were not seeing a tremendous amount of organic integration between NFTs and the art establishment. After we spoke, Schneider reported in Artnet that Sothebys has pulled back on the crypto-art-crossover: The auction house notably did not accept cryptocurrency as a payment for any lots during their most recent slate of evening sales, as they had done in 2021.

As embarrassing as the failed auction was in the short term, Schachter still thinks Sothebys and the other houses got back more than they put in. The auction houses are not going to weep, he says. One deal goes down, and then they just move on to the next.

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