Posts Tagged ‘food’

Fankenführer

Monday, October 6th, 2008

If a sentient mesohyll matrix in Dockers isn’t scary enough for you, try said sponge goose-stepping around a fruit snack box with an emphatic, double-armed salute.

Frikkin A. Doesn’t anyone step back and look at the design before sending millions of these boxes off to Target stores around the world? How could anyone with a 6th grade education not see this and instantly visualize classic scenes of a man who single-handedly caused a sharp decline in the number of babies named, “Adolf” during the late 1930’s?

Or maybe the schutzstaffel spongiform imagery is intentional? I always assumed that SpongeBob’s creators were sucking from the Ren & Stimpy crackpipe, but perhaps they were riding Walt Disney’s white horse all along. I’ll have to watch the program to see if they’ve been slipping in other anti-Semitic references.

Irrespective to the outcome of that viewing, we should probably protest this product. It’s bad to feed hydrogenated corn syrup (or whatever the hell is in these “fruit flavored snacks”) to children. But what’s really wrong is that these claim to be “trick or treat size”, which implies you’re supposed to give them to Trick-or-Treaters. You know they taste absolutely awful—just like all of the other cross-branded, fruit-flavored snacks out there. Handing these out for Halloween instead of proper candy is akin to handing out pennies or raisins or some other disappointing crap. Snickers Fun Size? Fun. SpongeDolf HitlerPants trick or treat sized fruit flavored snacks? Fascist.

Vegetarian Ham (Chicken Taste)

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Strange Asian food is too easy to make fun of—especially with poorly-translated packaging claims like, “most peanut enjoyment” and “such easy whiffle spatula corn pone horehound*“. However, judging by its appearance, I have no doubt that “Vegetarian Ham (Chicken Taste)” is exactly what it claims to be. As such, it deserves ridicule.

I refuse to buy it and do the math, but I think this is chicken-flavored, ham-textured vegetable log. I just don’t understand why it is chicken-flavored, ham-textured vegetable log. Who would eat this? Well—besides those wacky Asians, of course. Let’s go in close to check out that porkulent texture:

Huh. It kinda looks like a boiled skull. I found Vegetarian Ham (Chicken Taste) at the Marina Market Marina Market in San Mateo. There were a lot of Priuses there, which implies that there were a lot of Prius drivers there. I think Prius drivers must buy Vegetarian Ham (Chicken Taste). In fact, I’m sure of it. Vegetarian Ham (Chicken Taste) is vegetarian, but hypocritical—just like Prius Drivers. It’s pale, flaccid, and spongy—just like Prius Drivers. But mostly, it sucks—JUST LIKE PRIUS DRIVERS.

Whoo sorry. Off my meds. [*pops an Alka-Seltzer*] Actually, a Prius driver almost ran me over today and didn’t even notice. The hypocritical, pale guy was on a cell phone and flaccidly waved a spongy hand at me when I started squawking at him. He sucked. So, I’m a little mad. I’m sorry my cultural infotainment resulted in an atavism of Prius Driver Hate. Let’s enjoy some uncomfortable silence.

*K. Made that one up.