food – Pages of Fun https://robertgomez.org Robert Wm. Gomez's Website Thu, 08 Oct 2020 01:58:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://robertgomez.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-garland_logo-32x32.png food – Pages of Fun https://robertgomez.org 32 32 Mysteries of the Orient: Bizarre Product Labels https://robertgomez.org/blog/2009/06/24/mysteries-of-the-orient-bizarre-product-labels/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:12:20 +0000 https://robertgomez.org/?p=677 A little something gets lost in the translation when our friends across the Pacific try to write in English.

Here is a little sampling of the exotic flavor and grammar of the orient. This is the actual packaging from a Taiwanese brand of snack crackers.

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Banquet Pasta Marinara

Pictured to the right is the spectacular meal that I ate the other day. When I took the picture, I was going to have something hilarious to say about how different it looked from the image on the box. But, now that I look at it, it really isn’t that far off.

As quickie lunches go, it wasn’t all that bad. I found it a rather enjoyable forty seconds of eating. Now I know this will send the tongues of my foodie friends into a death spin (with their organic-fair-trade-free-range tomatoes, decimal place free menus and their fancy square plates), but when considering Italian food, I think the difference in quality between a five star dinner and a can of Chef Boyardee isn’t all that huge. You can take that as either a slap in the face of Italian cooking or praise for the awesomeness of all things Italiano. I’ll go with the latter.

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