Star Wars: Revenge of the Pringles & a "Damn Good Restauraunt Quality Dinner"

There are certain... Dark paths.. Within the Walmart that some consider to be... Unnatural.. We rarely travel down these scarcely beaten paths because, well. We don't really buy anything from them and I wouldn't be ingesting what was largely available in them if you held a gun to my head. Such dark paths however hide surprising secrets and on a trip down this dark path in search for the elusive treasure in the bowels of the snack aisle known as the discount gum pack! (Echoechoechoecho! & Thunder-roll) we happened upon the secret treasure trove of hidden Star Wars paraphernalia I had suspected to exist. Yes kids a few days ago you may remember me blogging about the Star Wars Pringles which strangely seemed to be some sort of promotional gig that I wasn't aware of, I'm not sure anything new per-say for Star Wars has been released worthy of a promotional offer but it's probably some re-release or something.. That'd explain why I haven't heard and don't care.. More DVD's that Lucas has needlessly edited no doubt because everyone knows that we can't just be happy with the Star Wars that was released a long time ago in a galaxy far-far away being just the way it was when it was released and we, y'know. Fell in love with that version and not the chopped up one with added CGI and shit but.. Whatever, I digress.

The first flavour I bring you is what I had suspected Yoda would have been, Skywalker Sour Cream & Onion, that's right. Taking a note from my allergies, Pringles has made a Skywalker themed Pringles that would kill me within five minutes or less if I tried to eat them! Wonderful! Aside from the disappointing fact that I can never taste these (and believe it or not in spite of their unhealthiness I kind of want to.) I do think it's very cool that they chose to associate green with Luke. Yoda would have been better of course but a little predictable and in the end in retrospective thinking, maybe this more creative approach to branding is something nicer and more noticeable? Either way, the little tube looks cool enough to keep afterwards if you're y'know.. Not deadly allergic to one of the main ingredients.

I'm pretty sure I can't eat these either due to the ingredients list but I have been wrong in the past. A quick check online to ascertain their ingredients list affirms that, no. These would kill me. These are Chewbacca Cheddar Cheese! Because nothing says Chewbacca like the idea of Wookiee fur mixed heartily into a big steaming pot of Cheddar Cheese which is the first mental image that comes to mind when thinking about these! Nevertheless, they actually sound kind of good.. Not only that but the little crisp on the front with the tiny cheddar bandolier? Adoraaable. I like the packaging, I'm just not sure that orange fits Chewbacca.

Now we come to the truly cool one, Boba Fett BBQ and while you know my first complaints are going to be that I really believe Darth Vader should have been given the BBQ flavour (poor humour aside, I mean come on.) I can somehow convince myself that under that helmet is a lively well-lived Southern U.S. man whose life has been made better somehow and some way by BBQ which otherwise wouldn't have been. Somehow I picture his face somewhat like the Colonels from KFC even though that's not a BBQ joint. Seriously, though. Why did Darth Vader get just original? What the fuck were you thinking, Pringles?

Again, I'm sure every one of these are delicious but sadly due to their ingredients I can't even consider buying them because they'd literally and honestly kill me, it's a little allergic reaction called anaphylactic shock which causes your throat and tongue to swell in response to an allergic reaction and can and will cause you to asphyxiate within a few minutes time! So it's a ton of fun and just a swell time all around if you fall prey to it.

Moving to dinner;

Tonight's dinner didn't receive quite as much enthusiasm as last night but I was still pretty happy with it, it did receive unique praise at least and that's better than normal praise. Tonight's praise was 'damn good', 'restaurant quality' and that James would like to have it again. Fuck it, I'll take it and I'll be damned happy with it. Leaves me another night to shoot for the stars once more and try to achieve something more enthusiastic out of him, I know it'll be rare but if it weren't rare it wouldn't be worth working for. Anything worth having is worth working for.

Tonight's dinner is Ahiru no shoyu supaishi de Hiroshi furaidochikin (Fried chicken with spicy soy duck-sauce) and was a bitch and a half to cook. This was a fucking tough meal to get right. The chicken itself was thick, dredged in flour, then egg-washed and added to that was a coating of cornmeal for crunch which cooked up nicely but the chicken itself was extremely temperamental. The sauce came out beautifully and flawlessly consisting of a very spicy duck-sauce mix with a few bell-peppers and a little bit of mushroom reduced into it and the Anpan (Sweet Roll), oh the Anpan.. It's inner Anko (Sweet Red Bean Paste) filling was lovingly melted with both cream-cheese as well as Velveeta while it's outer-layer was also gently glazed with a melted Velveeta 'frosting' which was baked onto the top mid-way through and became an ooey-gooey film. Of course added into the dish was plain white-rice meant to add as a foil with the Anpan for the spice of the chicken itself and Ume no raisu purin (Plum Rice Pudding) - What you can't see is the fact that I also cooked a Satsumaimo Korokke (Sweet Potato Croquette) which was lovingly placed below the chicken so that it rested upon it as if on a bed. I was very happy with dinner tonight because when I was cooking it I was originally not certain that it would come out properly when I was cooking it, like I said.. It was a bitch..

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