Individually Wrapped Cashew Is Full of Fail

Required Eating

Posted by Robyn Lee, May 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM

Culinary Abortions from Japan is a hilarious blog written by a Canadian documenting the food failures of Japan—"failures" including off-putting flavors, poorly named items, excessive packaging, or all of the above.

While the wrongness of these foods may mostly be culturally relative, I can't argue against individually wrapped cashews joining the list. It's not like the cashew is a giant mutant worthy of its own bag; the description reads, "Aside from a light gown of salt, it rests naked within its deplorable womb of plastic."

I suppose it's good if you have a major portion-control problem, though.

10 Comments | Tags: cashews, funny, Japanese, packaging, weirdness

10 Comments:

Haha... ok, that's just silly. :)

FastFoodCritic at 5:31PM on 05/10/08

Now i can read about weird Japanese food and get my daily fill of bashing America!

/snark.

Jayhawk at 7:08PM on 05/10/08

This blog is kinda needlessly venomous against a culture not his/her own, don't you think?

While some of the food items are amusement-worthy, the commentary is ouch inducing.

fuuchan at 9:05PM on 05/10/08

@fuuchan: I assumed that the excessively ouch-inducing writing style was tongue-in-cheek...buuut I could be wrong.

roboppy at 10:32PM on 05/10/08

oh man....why is this world so damn serious? You read it as 'ouch inducing' (what ever that means), it's called laughing at food & ourselves dammit. Read around this blog for awhile before you assume the participants lack of respect for other cultures.

Kim Nyland at 12:18AM on 05/11/08

Mitch Hedberg does a bit on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyIdcLu2B9g

palmsey at 1:13AM on 05/11/08

Turns out that "culinary abortions" are about as funny as surgical abortions.

Fail.

Tokyorosa at 10:23AM on 05/11/08

shit like this, individually wrapped cashew nuts and other examples of excessive packaging and industrial food, should be illegal. it son't find it funny at all, it's sad and enfuriating. it's shameful. don't give me any cultural relativisitc crap, it's just plain wrong, no matter where it's from, be it japan, the us, europe, or anywhere else.

simon at 11:14AM on 05/11/08

Turns out that "culinary abortions" are about as funny as surgical abortions.
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Ohhhh my.... now THAT was certainly "ouch inducing".

FastFoodCritic at 7:55PM on 05/11/08

I think individually-wrapped cashews are full of a very painful WIN. They're hilarious but, as simon wrote, very wasteful.

Christina at 11:11PM on 05/11/08

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