These snacks have been a favorite snack of mine for 20+ years; even though I’m not a big fan of the comic strip. The Hot Fries are my favorite flavor and I can polish of a bag easily, but I usually don’t. The MSG gives it a salty punch and the paprika and garlic powder give it a spicy kick. (So it’s like a one-two crunchy combo in your mouth.) When I used to go backpacking, I’d take a bag of these with me to snack on. File these under junk food since they’ve got no meaningful quantity of vitamins or important dietary minerals, but I like them and they sure are tasty.

This time around I went with something a little sweet - Rambutan fruit. I’ve had this before and it’s actually a favorite of mine. You can get this fruit with or without pineapple installed in each Rambutan fruit. I prefer mine with the pineapple. It has a sweetish white pulp and when it’s combined with the pineapple, it makes a great treat. (Click on these thumbnails for a larger picture.)

I like mine slightly chilled when I eat them. Go ahead and give it a try, it’s nothing too exotic and it’s a nice change from the regular fruit cocktail.

Here is a treat that I’ve had before and hadn’t posted about. This scrumptious food is called Pork Fu - cooked dried shredded pork. It is served with plain porridge for breakfast or late dinner. It is also good in making a sandwich, which is what I did. It is a little sweet and salty in taste. Ingredients: pork, sugar, soy flour, soy sauce, lard, salt, monosodium glutamate. Just think of a pulled pork BBQ sandwich without the BBQ and it’s been dehydrated like a jerky, but soft and fluffy. (It’s almost like what you’d expect to see in the lint trap of your clothes dryer, after drying a pork sweater.)

All silliness aside - give it a try, it’s a nice alternative to luncheon meats.

I just read an article about the possible helpful healthy properties that are in Cinnamon. Then I decided that it was time to post my sweet and tasty picture of my favorite spice girl- Cinnamom. Yes, this is a real bag of Cinnamom sticks made in China where they know how to make it right! Thankfully, it still tastes like Cinnamon.

(No, I’m not a Spice Girl fan.)

Fishskin Goobers by Treasure Flavour Food Co. Ltd.

I came across these bite sized morsels just recently and their cute and clever packaging caught my eye. It looks like Mr and Mrs Fishskin Goober were planning an outing to the beach, by just looking at their sunglasses and hats. Now, if I could read what Mr Goober was saying, I’d imagine he was just telling everyone to eat his many Fishskin Goober children. (Perhaps an amorous fish and a drunken peanut hooked up?)

  

I don’t know if this was an outdated package, but these things were so darn crunchy, I was afraid that I was going to break some teeth. It was like bitting down on rocks, with about as much flavor as a rock (that wasn’t covered in mud). Perhaps I’m missing some international taste buds and I need more practice eating rocks.

Ingredients: peanut (possibly one that is broken into many?), amylum (a starch), granulated sugar (it must have been burnt), refined salt (in limited quantity). It forgot to mention: pressed peanut sweepings and fishskin.

The manufacturer website is printed as: http://www.z-q-w.com but that site seems to have gone the way of the Dodo. So it seems Mr and Mrs Goober have the last (toothless) laugh.

Pizza Biscuits
While on a visit to the local market, I happened upon these interestingly packaged morsels. A large picture of a pizza dominates the space on the tube and my first thought was, pizza in a tube!?

I never had pizza in a tube before and I imagine you haven’t either. So in order to be ahead of the curve, I got some. Since these have probably been around for awhile, I decided to check the shelf for the one with the least amount of dust on it.

I’m not as well versed in much but English, but what few words I can read looked like some kind of fancy flavored cracker of imperials! With statements such as, “Italy Special Flavour”, “Imperial Super Pizza” and “Best Before: See Bottom of tin” how could I go wrong. I’d be crazy not to buy these and try them out for myself. In fact I owed it to my inner imperial-ness! (more…)