Prop masters for the legendary horror film The Exorcist created the infamous projectile vomit by mixing a canned split pea soup with a touch of oatmeal.

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Prop masters for the legendary horror film The Exorcist created the infamous projectile vomit by mixing a canned split pea soup with a touch of oatmeal. The crew discovered that certain commercial soups simply did not have the correct chunky consistency to accurately replicate demonic regurgitation, which is arguably the worst product endorsement in culinary history. Actress Linda Blair's stand-in was outfitted with a hidden nozzle, blasting her co-stars with room-temperature lunch food while audiences in the nineteen seventies fainted in the theater aisles from sheer terror. It is beautiful to consider that one of the most viscerally horrifying moments in cinematic history, a scene that supposedly induced nightmares and religious panics across the globe, was entirely dependent on a discounted can of vegetable puree that you can still buy at your local grocery store for two dollars