Bacchus-D is a Korean Energy Drink, I see on wikipedia that you can use its sister drink Bacchus-F to make a drink called a “Bacchus Bomb”. Oh those crazy young people and their wacky concoctions!
When I saw Bacchus-D during a recent trip to my local Asian store, I did a double take because I distinctly remember my mother giving this to me as a child.
See on the corner, the light blue part? That says 2000mg of taurine. I am not sure what that is, but I’m almost positive that you shouldn’t give 2000mg of it to children.
See, most assuredly not for children. So, I called my mother to investigate.
“Hey Mom, Do you know that drink Bacchus-D?”
“What?”
“Bacchus-D”
“No, I never heard…”
“Bacchus-D! B-A-C-C”
“Oh, Bacchus-D! Yes, that’s what a lot of Korean people drink.”
“Yeah, yeah, did you used to give that to me when I was a little kid?”
“Oh, sure, of course, when you were a little kid, you’d eat anything. You were the human garbage disposal. Everything we give to you, you eat it.”
“Mom! You can’t give energy drinks to kids! I can’t believe you used to give me that!”
“Hey, listen, you’re still alive aren’t you?”
I couldn’t argue with that. My mom wanted to know why I wanted to know. I couldn’t tell her about this blog, so as far as she knows I have a part time job writing about Korean food for the local Pennysaver.
So, in case you were wondering, Bacchus-D tastes as good as I remember, like a very sweet version of Flintstones vitamins mixed with St. Joseph’s baby aspirin and grape juice. I know that doesn’t sound like it tastes very good, but it does. It didn’t give me too much energy, but I drink about a pot or two of coffee a day, so I figure I’m immune to a little taurine and guarana and whatever the heck else is in there.
Prepared cuttlefish shreds are another food from my childhood. That is a cuttlefish, not a penis with tentacles, btw.
Hehehe, that says LungFung.
As you can see, cuttlefish is a very low calorie, low fat food. I suspect the label is wrong, but I don’t want to think about it too closely.
You know, it’s a cliche but pretty much anything I’ve ever had that came packed with a bag of desiccant has been pretty darn tasty.
The cuttlefish has a chewy, sweet flavor, slightly salty and only very vaguely fishy. You probably wouldn’t like it, since it smells kind of funky and has an odd texture, kind of like beef jerky but just enough not like beef jerky to make you feel a bit suspicious. That’s fine, I’d hate to think what would happen to the world’s cuttlefish population if Americans started eating it like potato chips.
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