Or, one day I am so going to get banned from every store in the tri-state area
Flab Steak
I actually bought some of this flab steak, thinking it was flank steak but it turned out to be skirt steak. It was pretty good with a bulgogi style marinade. And yes, I think it is turning to flab on me as we speak.
Yeah, yeah, yeah I know what they say about buying meat that you don’t rightly know what it is. Pah, I say, pah. I will continue to buy mystery meat and take my chances.
Assorted Oriental Delights
I am a complete sucker for anything that says “assorted” on the package. I don’t know if faux meat with carrots and crap is what most people think of when they hear the phrase “assorted Oriental delights”, though.
Spicy Peanut Cuttlefish Wheat Balls
I didn’t see these spicy peanut cuttlefish wheat balls when I bought the original flavor ones that I reviewed last week. Oh Dr. You, what other surprises do you have for me?
Dr Endorsed Crackers
Here are some doctor endorsed crackers or cookies. I’m not sure which, my stealth camera skills are still lacking.
Pineapple sandwhich cookies
I think this lady is a doctor, too. Mmmmm, pineapple Oreo-style cookies.
Flute Wafers
Not only do these look tasty, I like that his hat looks like a jalapeno pepper.
Lye Water
Lye water: Not for drink gives me the giggles. You know like it’s a lie of a water because you can’t drink it.
Shut up, it is too funny.
Rambutan chom chom
Does anyone know what sort of fruit this is because I have no idea. I am, however, intrigued. I might have to buy this next time. It looks like a sea anemone swallowed a huge water chestnut.
Sealife Crackers
Why have boring single-species goldfish crackers when you can have these? I wonder if they really have eyeballs or if that is just an artist’s rendition.
Tako chips, octopus flavored
Speaking of Goldfish crackers, don’t these octopus flavored chips look like ruffled Goldfish rather than octopi? Okay, I’ll grant you that it’s probably very difficult, more difficult than those of us not in the snack food industry could imagine even, to make a chip with 8 slender arms. Probably making them isn’t so much a problem, but making them so that you don’t wind up with a bunch of bodies at the top of the bag and broken off bits of arm at the bottom is not a simple matter. Not by half.
Squid brand fish sauce
Can you imagine a factory owned by squid with squid workers? They would be super efficient at screwing on the bottle caps, much better than those two-armed fools Laverne and Shirley.
Yogurt Yan Yan
I don’t know why I didn’t just buy these, because you know I want them. Oh fake yogurt flavor, I am your captive.
And that’s my shopping done until we make our way through this 20 lb bag of rice I bought, which takes far less time than you’d think. A ridiculously, embarrassingly short amount of time, really. Like, it seems like entire small villages in some parts of the world could make a bag of rice that size last for longer than we can.
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Hehe… pretty cool post. Great idea. Thanks for the chuckles.
And stealth photos are supposed to be blurry. How do you think all those bank robbers get away with it?
I was going to reply to your comment then got distracted by your blog of hot sauce.
A whole blog of hot sauce!
I remember this one time I was in this German store. Kind of like Walmart, you know groceries, household stuff. They had a sample table set up with various kinds of hot sauce, including habanero. I had the best time just standing there waiting for people to come by and putting a good bit of the habanero on a chip and just popping it in my mouth (I have a huge tolerance for spicy food) – and then watching them do the same. Hehehehe. Good thing they had tons of milk at the table for folks to chug and get the burn out.
Now that I write that out, damn, I’m not a very nice person.
I thought of you yesterday when my sister-in-law came over with groceries. One of the things she picked up was this package of beef balls, and the English name for them was great–but I can’t remember it now. It was three words–started with an adjective, ended with “cow balls.” Oh man, I wish I could recall that adjective. I should’ve taken a photo.
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Ooooh! I smell a research trip coming up. How could my husband deny me the quest to find the missing adjective in front of cow balls?I hope it’s spongy. Or springy.
Did you eat them? Were they good?
Spongy or springy would have been awesome! Alas, I don’t think it was either of these.
Wow, this is gonna bug me. I’ll try to get in touch with my sister-in-law to see if she remembers what the package said. (It was a vacuum-sealed package, with about 15 (?) balls in it, and it came from the frozen food section. I think the label was mostly in Vietnamese.)
I didn’t eat the cow balls yesterday, but I’ve had them before–they’re suspiciously good. My mother-in-law typically puts them in noodle soup, though yesterday I think the s-i-l was going to chop them up and use them in egg rolls.
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Rambutans are kinda like less sweet versions of lychees, with that crazy hairy red outer covering. I like that it says ‘chom chom’ on the label – almost like the advertising guys were thinking ‘Mmm, tasty, hairy fruits, chom chom *drool*…
Oh, cool, I was thinking that the rambutan looked like lychee! Glad someone had the info.
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FLAB steak? Bwah! What is Dr. You going to say to THAT?
Those whale crackers look mighty tasty. But then, I am pretty hungry right now.
Hungry enough to eat some FLAB steak!!!!
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Weird stuff!!!
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and, now I need to go buy some rambutan at the local Asian market so I can make martinis with them! Heh. ;D
Maybe for a special party.
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