Howdy! It’s that time again!
Since quite a few of you have enrolled in Snack Boxes I will endevoUr to include more from what I get going forward. Ig you want to send me what you thought of certain ones please do, I will include them going forward.
Writing these makes me miss travel more due to the ‘Rona and not really going anywhere. I have found though Scenic Relaxation on the youtubez that flies drones around the world is very soothing and doesn’t involve 75 tuk-tuk drivers yelling for your attention.
If you missed the 1st installments then check the sidebar for the other ones!
Italy
Tarallini – Limone e Pepe
Lemon and Pepper bagel bites, hell yeah! As far as taste goes these are as advertised, they taste like they should and are great with a lager! They are like dry dough, like a bagel chip in consistency. They have the right amount of Pepper which gives them a bit of that kind of heat and a little citrus at the end. I will definitely look for these at the Italian market. My very first time visiting Italy I was there for 2 weeks and ate pizza every single dinner. I was on a strict budget and they were inexpensive with a glass a house wine and I was set. One of the happiest moments of my life was having a pizza in Verona looking at the relic of a coliseum.
Italy
Buondolce Orange – Carrot
It’s a wee piece of cake! It tastes like orange carrot cake although it’s quite dry. There really is nothing special about this treat. I mean it is no Twinkie or Ding Dong but if you needed a sugar rush then give er. I don’t see myself ever in a situation where I just need a slab of cake but if I did I would probably go for something like Sponch!! (will be reviewed another time)
Spain
Torta Polvoron – Shortbread with Powdered Sugar Topping
I love me some shortbread. First taste is all aniseed, fuck I hate black licorice. I quickly looked at the ingredients and they include pork fat and wine! How could you go wrong? You can folks, and every other style of shortbread is better than this. The aftertaste is like I have been doing Sambucca shots and that is not good. I once vomited ouzo in Santorini off a 2nd story restaurant as the proprietor brought over free post dinner ouzo. It was vile, and I waited for the owner to head to the back and threw my head out a window. I am classy.
Turkey
Clip Pizza-Sticks
Turkish Pocky! They are quite crunchy and not offensive at all compared to some of the things that I have eaten for these posts. They do taste like Pizza chips that were around these parts a few years ago. Weird thing is that I bought these at an Indian grocery store and they came in a 4 pack but are clearly meant for Germany as the writing on the bottom of the pack. I think that they are passable but not spectacular. When in Turkey kebaps are like two dollars a pop! I subsisted on a wrap of some nature 2 or 3 times a day for 3 weeks. The only time I got sick was when I had a meat pie at a British place in Antalya. (And a road side meat snack in Bulgaria)
Next week will include Kommentist participation! Thaks to all who have gotten back to me.
Have a great day!
I liked those lemon pepper things too. And the truffle chips in that box were really good too.
I’m with you for the most part, but I wouldn’t consider cake and sponch! To be interchangeable as the latter is far more in the marshmallow family. Well done on the Ouzo vom, and agree on black licorice in general. I do mild anise, but anything stronger I’ll pass on to my mother, who loves licorice (although even she draws the line at the salty Scandy licorice)
Who’s in for round 2 of Gamestop weirdness?
I’m not touching the stock again, but it’s fascinating to witness. I wonder what in the hell is happening that is causing this.
A butterfly farted somewhere….
The Quick Chek by me has a Haribo ‘All-Star Pack’ and with every 10 you buy they give a link for 20% off Hentai.
TONIGHT, WRECKX-N-EFFECT
Fisherman’s Wife 2?
Oh is that the animated one where Andy Reid voices a smooth-talking walrus who comforts the fisherman’s widow but later we find out he’s actually just trying to find out where the fisherman hid his stash?
I assume the reason she’s a widow is that Britt Reid smashed his boat into the fisherman’s?
Watching Shempions action on TUDN. It’s good Rush isn’t alive to see that US Army recruiting has a site en espanol.
/could have stopped that 2nd sentence after 5 words smh
If we weren’t already set for KOTW those five words would have sufficed nicely.
chuh chuh, I just wanted to ride and y’all’s wake and beat that ded horse…I mean, ded fat pig
Please not to be insulting pigs thankx
Indeed.
Yeah, pigs provide bacon. What did Rush Limbaugh ever provide other than noise?
He helped support local entrepreneurs. By which I mean drug dealers.
Don’t forget about child sex pimps!
To quote Steve Martin: He did “a lot of work with unwed mothers. Just helping them get their start.”
Is this the best line of 2021, or what?
I once vomited ouzo in Santorini off a 2nd story restaurant as the proprietor brought over free post dinner ouzo.
We’ve arrived at the time of year in SoCal where the sun reflects off my patio door and doubles or even triples up hot enough to melt shoes. So long, beloved flip flops.
Thoughts and prayers.
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70 in North Cakalaky, I even opened up the window by my bedroom recliner!
No need to panic, help is on the way
Hey! I have spent more time with these flip flops in the last three years than Andy Reid spent with his children.
So an hour or two?
It’s a problem
Btw, you lads know that there’s the
Mickey Mouse International CupEuropa League going on atm, right?Careful with atm. You might could use the laptop you looked up glory hole to research that.
Funny enough, I actually know what that means thanks to a certain someone in PR at work, who “accidentally misclicked while trying to google for an ATM near work”* and “somehow” ended in an iffy part of the internet** and absolutely didn’t know how she ended up with a borked OSX install and almost 2 terrabytes of the weirdest goddamn*** porn on her work laptop
*for context, we have a couple on campus, including the entrance to the admin building she works in
**which is amusing, given that the on-premises internet not only blocked access to basically anything fun .. and warns you why it’s not opening sites… so she tethered her (work!) iPhone to “accidentally” open those sites
***as in “we called our in-house counsel to confer whether or not the contents of that laptop are grounds to call the Gardai and should be preserved as evidence” levels of goddamn porn
Like anyone would watch that when there’s more curling on.
I’ll pass, because just like generic rom coms … I only care about curling when I’m coughing my lungs out / running at least 38.5C fever 😀
I had the Italian snack box and the little lemon pepper things were… interesting. They were exactly as advertised and did go well with a beer. A bit dry though.
Can confirm taralli is phenomenal. My nonna would make it all the time for my sister, cousins, and me.
“a road side meat snack in Bulgaria”
This sounds like the beginning of an Eli Roth movie.
Nah, he just made the equivalent mistake of a tourist eating at Taco Bell when in the States – you NEVER eat roadside kebab, because at the best of times it’s a coinflip (if it’s good or not), during the summer heats (which may start as early as April, lol) it’s like playing Russian Roullette with a fully loaded Glock (you can still… “not win”, but the shot at a misfire is .. “not ideal, Bob”) 😀
Edit: And that’s ignoring the fun little tidbit that this particular part of Europe gets literal second or third-rate foodstuffs (there was even some stink awhile back that food destined for Eastern Europe made in the same places as the stuff destined “for normal people” is markedly different, even though it carries the same label AND sticker price)… There’s a reason why betting US grunts that you could eat a vomelette MRE without stopping/complaining/praying for a quick death in a port-o-potty 😀
Edit 2 (Eclectic Boogaloo): For the record, this is/was the exception, not the norm – most of the shit never gets inspected or inpounded, because unchecked corruption is a thang in the old country (one of oh-so-many reasons why I sodded off as soon as bloody possible and never looking back 😀 )
A road side meat shack in Bulgaria would be interesting too. Especially if it was standing on chicken legs.
Depending on what he ate, a dog kennel may be a bit more appropriate 😀
If I ever have to go back into the food service industry, I’m thinking I’d open up Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack, though I’m sure I’d get visits from armed Qultists.
You see a little sign at the side of the road that says
“Fifteen miles to the meeeeeaaat shack!”
“Fifteen miles? FLOOR IT, BRITT!” — Andy Reid
Coincidentally, it also works as the *end* of an Eli Roth movie.
I second that sentiment, though I personally prefer 180 or 360 degree videos from museums or famous landmark tours instead (which is fun as hell to do even with stuff as cheap as Cardboard), though it REALLY makes me regret not buying and using one of those cams for myself ie I’d love to kick back, relax and slowly “retrace” my last visit to the Technical Museums in Speyer and Sinnsheim which are on my “revisit ASAP” list, preferably in slightly more inclement weather, because it should make for smaller crowds for the submarine or Tu-144/Concorde… plus the fewer the people, the more time I’d have raiding the gift shop in peace and quiet (last time around the tally was like 2 grand.. and my only regret is that I didn’t buy more mil surplus clothing, because it’s fucking fantastic)
Also, just in remembrance of the pre-rona times, a couple of photos from both museums 😀
My Ukraine Yum box arrived yesterday. The spicy veal chips are on point!
I hope for your sake that it’s Ukrainian cuisine, but sourced from elewhere, because…
Let’s just say that there’s a reason why I’d rather be eating old MREs when I’m there on work stuff (and the “worst” place I’m booked there is the Hyatt, so it’s not exactly “Hostel” :D)
Mine should be here this week.
Lol my niece and nephew liked everything in that box except the veal chips