Q&A: Alicia Zobbe-Hogdal aka @MeatPit

August 17, 2012 at 9:44PM
Alicia Zobbe-Hogdal, aka @meatpit
Alicia Zobbe-Hogdal, aka @meatpit (Margaret Andrews/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Q: You're best known for your Twitter account, @meatpit. Comedic persona or reality?

A: It started out as being pretty true to my personality but I like to think I've grown up and become at least slightly less creepy than the Meatpit reputation makes me out to be. I'll let you in on a secret though: Whenever I have an uncredited "quote" it's usually just a super shallow or incriminating thought I don't want attributed to me.

Q: Biggest turn-on?

A: Nothing says "I'm a grown-ass man" quite like a nicely decorated house/apartment.

Q: Biggest turnoff?

A: Public sweatpants. The world is not your pajama party.

Q: Favorite place to people-watch?

A: I sat at the Hard Rock Cafe to watch the Juggalos at First Ave once, and that was fun. But then they ended up being kind of nice, so I felt bad for making fun of them. I'm pretty sure one was in straight-up blackface, though, so that was weird.

Q: What is the weirdest job you've had?

A: I used to drive the Paratransit van for the U of M, meaning I drove handicapped people to their classes. My favorite client was an old blind Romanian woman with gold teeth named Coco. She would call me a beautiful princess (which I totally am, but how did she know?!) and bring me progressively rotting apples or wheels of cheese as presents all the time, and say, "Ahh, yes, you like thisss!" It was a pretty sweet gig but my bosses finally realized I wasn't a student and had to fire me.

about the writer

about the writer

Jahna Peloquin

More from Minnesota Star Tribune

See More
card image
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The "winners" have all been Turkeys, no matter the honor's name.

In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece