Food Funnies

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(I've often joked that the temptation to do this kind of thing would make me the worst person in the world to own a fortune-cookie business...)

[DesertTinker]

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Since it's that time of the year when we all revisit the holiday classics...

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[Tropicalsenior]

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The marketing people were definitely "thinking outside the box" (or in this case, the bottle).

 

[Shel_B]

New Wine From Napa Valley

 

[Nancy in Pátzcuaro]

Ooh--good one!

[Pete Fred]

God-level punnery in the comments below a video about French toast...

 

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[gulfporter]

I find this funny.  Not a joke, it's true. 

 

In Mexico January 6th is Día de Los Tres Reyes Magos (Day of the Wise Men).  In much of the Christian world January 6th is The Epiphany.  It represents the day the Three Wise Men arrived in Bethlehem to bestow their gold, frankincense, and myrrh.  

 

Traditionally in Mexico it is Día de Los Reyes when families exchange gifts, especially it's when young children get their Christmas gifts; not from Santa, but from the Three Kings (Tres Reyes). It is a day of parties and family gatherings.  At these parties there is always a round cake, a Rosca de Reyes.  The Rosca is round in the shape of a wreath and is very similar to the Kings Cake popular elsewhere, New Orleans especially.  It's often iced with garishly colored icings; it's a yeast bread with a little dried green and red fruit both in it and on it.  It's ubiquitous in Mexico---you see it at gas stations, convenience stores, fine bakeries, drug stores, small tiendas.  Each cake has a plastic baby Jesus in it and if your slice has that, you have to bring the tamales for the next holiday get-together, Candelaria in early February.  

 

This year the Dominos franchise in Mexico is making and selling Roscas de Sartén.  Sartén mean a baking pan.  As in Pan Pizza.  Not sure if there's a baby Jesus in the pizza 😎

 

Here's the Dominos ad.

 

 

 

 

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@gulfporter

 

Ive lived in Spain for two yewars , my parents teaching there.

 

there was the same sort of gifting , and the same sort of ' cake // sweet bread ' sort of thing

 

and indeed a plastic Jesus .  if it was in your slice , good luck for the year .

 

would have been better had tamales been involved .

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