Food Funnies

[Tropicalsenior]

26 minutes ago, Alex said:

 

If by some twist of fate you find yourself in Chicago, Kristoffer's makes the best tres leches cake in the known universe.

Just don't tell that to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, or Peru. They all claim to have invented it and each one claims to have the best. I've tried them in all three countries and they're all soggy bogs.

[Alex]

1 hour ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Just don't tell that to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, or Peru. They all claim to have invented it and each one claims to have the best. I've tried them in all three countries and they're all soggy bogs.

 

Ah, this one isn't soggy at all. 

 

[Tropicalsenior]

7 minutes ago, Alex said:

 

Ah, this one isn't soggy at all. 

 

It does look great but it really doesn't look like Tres leches cake.

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[liuzhou]

This is being advertised as vegan and gluten free. Very healthy.

 

 

It's Mongolian Canned Air! The equivalent of $6.62 USD per coke sized can. Bargain!

 

 

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A tip of my hat to the marketing team responsible for that one. 

 

 

[Wampa]

5 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

It's Mongolian Canned Air! The equivalent of $6.62 USD per coke sized can. Bargain!

 

 

My first thought...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0xULQIaSU

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Found by my GF on Facebook:

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This one speaks very directly to my own sense of humour.

 

At one point, when my kids were small, my then-wife and I were in the kitchen cooking or cleaning (I forget which). My wife, gesturing absently in my direction: "Pass me over a towel, please?" 

Me: (Drops towel on the floor, picks her up - eliciting a startled squawk - and passes her over the towel)

 

This is the place where I often say "I found it much funnier than she did," but in this particular case she also laughed pretty hard. 

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In the middle of an article about an entirely unrelated topic (90s alt-rock, as experienced via the lousy speakers at a workplace), I came across this absolute gem of a sentence: 
 

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As I get older, there are many signifiers of age, but few more painful than the memory of being excited at the prospect of a Subway.

 

The article itself, by Niko Stratis, is well worth a read for the way it captures the mood of small-town life and those dead-end jobs most of us take on in our teens. 

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-rock-dept/alt-rock-toadies-possum-kingdom

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(He's a well-known historian and author...)

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[Smithy]

Frank Bruni, of the New York Times, finished a recent column with a commentary on sandwiches and how out-of-control they are. The whole discussion is hilarious and difficult to summarize, but here are some choice quotes:

 

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....I started out eating the sandwich with my hands and ended up eating it with a knife and fork. Which nullifies the very point of a sandwich....

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To make sandwiches more memorable, their merchants often make them bigger or busier or both. Ambition runs roughshod over architecture; the quest for bounty ignores the laws of physics. The result is no longer holdable, no longer portable, a bounty of accouterments, a chaos of condiments, something more suited to admiration than to ingestion and all too likely to end up on your shirt or in your lap.

 

There's a lot more, and it's all good.

 

Cautionary note: the newsletter as a whole is NOT culinary. The first part is political; the second part ("For Love of Sentences") highlights some fine, often hilarious, writing selected from other news articles and opinion columns. The final section on sandwiches is what I'm highlighting here. If you're interested in reading any or all of it, here's a gift link to the essay:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/opinion/rahm-emanuel-2028.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.aTDA.2Rb88WgNeRhy&smid=url-share

 

To read the bit about sandwiches, skip down to the final section, titled "On a Personal Note" and marked by a photo of hamburgers.