yummy!
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Yong Fook has absolutely brilliant reviews of food that most of you are not likely to eat, anyway. You Japanophiles should take note, however. This site could save your lives, or at least your tastebuds.
I imagine the R&D department at Chinese confectionary firms to be a lot like the old infinite monkeys / typewriters paradigm except instead of typewriters they have a huge sack of sugar and an infinite amount of random objects strewn about the floor, like oompa loompa dolls and car exhausts, and given an infinite amount of time the staff occasionally stumble upon a combination of sugar and one of these items, and find that it doesn’t induce death as quickly as the others. These products are ones such as these ginger candies (the ingredients - as written on the packet verbatim - are ginger, sugar and starch), the very popular White Rabbit Candies (milk, sugar, starch) and the ubiquitous Haw Flakes (hawthorn, sugar, starch).
[snip]
Ginger is not merely the “flavour” here. No. In this candy’s case, ginger was the form that was chosen for Sunan Foods to unleash pure evil onto this world in. The taste is unforgiving, extremely strong, and you’ll probably be shitting steam for a week. I tip my cap at the man who can eat one of these whole and not cry for his mother whilst flailing his arms around and screaming like a howler monkey on fire.
BTW, I actually found this site while doing productive-ish work.
Yong Fook has absolutely brilliant reviews of food that most of you are not likely to eat, anyway. You Japanophiles should take note, however. This site could save your lives, or at least your tastebuds.
I imagine the R&D department at Chinese confectionary firms to be a lot like the old infinite monkeys / typewriters paradigm except instead of typewriters they have a huge sack of sugar and an infinite amount of random objects strewn about the floor, like oompa loompa dolls and car exhausts, and given an infinite amount of time the staff occasionally stumble upon a combination of sugar and one of these items, and find that it doesn’t induce death as quickly as the others. These products are ones such as these ginger candies (the ingredients - as written on the packet verbatim - are ginger, sugar and starch), the very popular White Rabbit Candies (milk, sugar, starch) and the ubiquitous Haw Flakes (hawthorn, sugar, starch).
[snip]
Ginger is not merely the “flavour” here. No. In this candy’s case, ginger was the form that was chosen for Sunan Foods to unleash pure evil onto this world in. The taste is unforgiving, extremely strong, and you’ll probably be shitting steam for a week. I tip my cap at the man who can eat one of these whole and not cry for his mother whilst flailing his arms around and screaming like a howler monkey on fire.
BTW, I actually found this site while doing productive-ish work.