Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts

Monday, October 4, 2010

I'm A Small Potato

No mistake about this headline at all, that is the name of this snack pack.


I love it when manufacturers call a spade a spade, except when the "spade" also contains 17 other ingredients which presumably add something to the product and the packaging then needs to include the words "Potato Sticks" to ensure that consumers don't take legal action when they feel they've been mis-led.

I also have to ask, when there are so many alternate potato products out there, why package what are effectively potato chips in a can?!!

Having become more environmentally aware, part of me dislikes what I think of as excess packaging.  On top of the can is a small plastic cap - yes, it bears the Calbee label and provides a nice place to stick the importer's details and is obviously meant to provide the consumer with a means to re-seal the can, once the inner ring-pull is opened.
 
But given how the contents "settle"during transport giving the consumer only this much ...

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Chocolate (Pork) Crackles



This Fall......

The epic saga continues...


Of one man's fascination of matching pork with chocolate to make edible bliss...

From the creators of "A Chocolate Porking"...


Starring Lindt as the gingered flavoured hero, "Chocolate".