Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Food that tastes like other food

I got the iMac last week and it is spectacular. (More to come on that!) But, in the mean time...

I have this compulsion to purchase and consume food that tastes like other food.

Witness Thanksgiving 2005. I purchased the Jones Soda Thanksgiving Gift pack for consumption at my brother-in-law's in St. Louis Missouri. Stuffing and Brussell Sprouts have no business going anywhere near beverage production. It seems like common sense now, but the taste still lingers.

Last week, I had a coupon for free "Pizza Soup" from Campbell's, in a sippy cup no less. Again, you'd think common sense would prevail. If you want pizza, you make it. You don't drink it. Well, I drank it today. And it tastes like pizza. Nothing in a cup form should have any business tasting like pizza. It was like Sbarro put through liquefy on the blender.

So, in the spirit of food that tastes like other food, yet it goes horribly wrong, here is my favorite comedian (Lewis Black) pontificating on a Halloween favorite:

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