Asian Junk Food Smorgasbord 3 & It’s Labor Day / Happy Birthday to Doctor Sis!
Junk Food Nation, a quick Happy Birthday to Doctor Sis! Love you very much and I hope it’s a good one 🙂
Second, it’s Labor Day, and you know what that means. Beers, BBQs, or in the case of DC, on and off rain and semi-overcast skies! Hurray! Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. Most people celebrate Labor Day by not working at all, so that’s what I’m gonna do today – not labor over this post. I hope you’re all enjoying sunshine where you are 🙂
Remember, today is your last day to enter the Brownie Brittle contest so keep those tweets and re-tweets going! Stalk those twitter feeds – I’ll announce the winner tomorrow.
Let’s take a look around my local Asian grocery store:
Such a happy potato
I love these V Cut chips, because the name of the chip celebrates the TYPE of potato chip it is, like Kettle Chips. Still, could you imagine this in other products; a soda called CARBONATED or an ice cream called FROZEN? Wait is this only funny to me? *crickets*
I’m going to avoid this roadhouse
I reviewed Piatto’s previously, and wasn’t a huge fan. With that in mind, Roadhouse Barbecue was not something that sounded appealing to me. Besides, when I think “Roadhouse,” I think of this:
Cue Family Guy: “Roadhouse.”
What the
This is, by far, one of the creepiest snacks I’ve ever seen in an Asian grocery store. “Want More?” Well, what IS it?
Corn Cheese Flavour?
These apparently are tube-shaped cheesy corn snacks that are…individually wrapped. I’m suspicious. And I don’t know why, but this creepy white cartoon character on the front is totally weirding me out. Is this the mascot? Was there no effort put into the design of this mascot, and they just stuck it up there anyway? What kind of backwards snack is this?
The Octagon…of Pasta!
So many things wrong with this product. First of all, is the UFC and Dana White getting into the food industry now? Next, why is this spaghetti sauce in a bag, and why is it Sweet Filipino Blend? What does that even MEAN? I didn’t find out.
Spaghetti sauce wasn’t the only product from the Octagon…
The UFC (Universal Food Company) also makes this product. Now, I’m sure banana sauce is really good, but…it doesn’t sound very good. Especially when it’s red. And hot and spicy. Even if it is a good source of Vitamin B6. No.
How many jokes can you make in a minute? GO!
My friend Joe sent me this photo, and the next one too, from his local Asian grocery. Between Wang Puffs and Pong Pong, I’m sure you can come up with enough offensive material in your head to keep you entertained 😉
I eat…wait, what?
I’m sure there was something lost in translation here, that there was no racial tones intended. But even if the original Korean slogan was something about eating food that was black in appearance and color…what does THAT even mean??? I eat black colored food? Um…so?
Back to normal reviews tomorrow. Enjoy your Labor Day, Junk Food Nation!
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Junk Food Guy
Discuss - 10 Comments
Your parents have a doctor and a lawyer as children?! I think they ought to donate their sperm and eggs to science to create an America of superhumans!
All my parents have is a much of salesman, analysts and marketers. Boring.
That should say “…bunch of salesman…”
@IE: HA! yes, my parents are proud.
@IE: That race of superhumans is already coming.
(ps. IT’S THE ASIANS!)
@Shorneys: good lordy
The “Want More” makes me think of that ’80s song with the lines “More! More! More!”
@Elisa: LOL
I really should start to hit up the asian supermarkets around me. These post always have me wondering what random stuff I’m missing out on.
@NickRovo: Dude, Asian frozen treats are either very boring or EXTREMELY different than our normal ice creams – you and Dubba should check it out!
Oooh, two things. Those round tubular corn things have a chalk-like texture that is just not good on anyyyy level. And the Pong pong is sold here as more of a savory snack and is made of puffed rice; they make it in grocery stores and each disk comes out with a super loud popping noise that used to scare the everlasting crap out of me before I knew what it was/learned to shop with headphones in because customer service here is also known as ‘we’re going to breathe down your neck even if we know you can’t understand us well.’
But yeah, it’s actually not bad at all 🙂